The whole point is to *not need a browser*.

[two](https://github.com/ekzyis/sn-goapi) [people](https://github.com/Leon-Sander/stacker.news_python_library) already started

Also, I just remembered that @elvismercury was playing around with the [GraphQL playground](https://stacker.news/api/graphql) [here](https://stacker.news/items/324720) 

Isn't this already like a public, documented API? 

You can even use it from your browser, lol

So at least the argument that you have to reverse-engineer it no longer holds

> bootleg reverse-engineered API that can be vanished at any time **with no reputational consequences for the site.**

I think you just answered your own question:

> Why doesn't Stacker News have one?

Yes but nobody's going to put serious effort into writing software for a bootleg reverse-engineered API that can be vanished at any time with no reputational consequences for the site.

Come on guys.  Man up.  Free the WOT!

anon

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I'll let this be my reply :) 

k00b must have given you a raise, you’re throwing around sats like they’re fiat lol

WeAreAllSatoshi

That is a weird way of coping but I'm strangely drawn to it...

The [GraphQL playground](https://stacker.news/api/graphql) might actually already be all that you want :)

I hope you haven't already closed this site and will never read this now lol ...

> I'm sure you'll be able to guess

Actually i'm not.  I guess I'm dumb.  But I've suspected that for a long time.

I think I'll just go mope now and be depressed and shove jalepeno peppers under my fingernails.

(oh yeah, and find a lnurl-auth client)

When did I... Ohh, right, hahaha, I forgot!

Must. Tell. Everyone. What. I. Think. In. Real. Time.

^ these weren't edits

This, lol

This site has no _documented_ public API because... I'm sure you'll be able to guess :)

Or should I say no API that is documented in the form one might expect when they hear "documented API" :) 

wen HN parity?  i was told there would be a lambo API.

You can use the api if you’re clever enough 