Ask HN: Does the Hacker News API have auth documentation?

2 points by murph37 6y ago ↗ HN

I created a Hacker News iOS app using the Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API). I'd really like to add login, commenting, upvoting, etc. but I haven't found any great documentation. Is there any resource or project available that outlines the undocumented endpoints of the Hacker News API?

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zzo38computer 6y ago ↗

Yes, another problem I think with the API is that it returns HTML code for comments, rather than the raw code that the user entered, which would be better I think; have the client to convert it to whatever format you need instead.

murph37 6y ago ↗

Yeah for sure. I've been able to tackle the html comments now just wanting to implement auth. Any recommended resources?

krapp 6y ago ↗

Email the mods. I'm 99.9% certain there is no auth API, though.