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		shapeshed on March 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: The new HN comment system – agree, disagree,... Why prioritise this over an API for HN? 2014 and we are still screen scraping.

e15ctr0n on March 22, 2014 [–]

I believe an API already exists[1] and a number of people have already built some cool apps[2] on top of it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.io/api

[2] https://hn.algolia.io/cool_apps

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