> Now do some PoW or wait until we're ready :)

Speaking of which, if you're really determined to use GraphQL as your API, please be ready to charge a few sats per API call.  Because if not some moronic idiot is going to think it's funny to flood the site with compute-expensive calls.

*Every* site I know of that exposes a GraphQL API is eventually forced to either (a) put users through CAPTCHA-hell (b) do browser fingerprinting, usually via cloudflare, (c) some kind of real-world identity linkage like SMS verification, or (d) some combination of the above.

I would hate to see that happen to SN.

I probably can't convince you that exposing GraphQL to anonymous callers is a bad idea, so hopefully I can convince you to be ready with something less awful than (a)(b)(c)(d) when the inevitable result occurs.

Thanks again for creating this awesome site.

>  You don't need a browser

I sure looks like you *do*:

> SN_AUTH_COOKIE must be set with a valid session cookie.

> Some functions need authentication. Right now this is handled by pasting you session cookie into a .env file under SN_AUTH_COOKIE.  How to Retrieve a Cookie from a Web Request: Open Developer Tools ...



It's GraphQL. **You don't need a browser.** I said you can _even_ use it from your browser.

The playground is there to make it easy to get into. **To just play around initially.**

If you want the GraphQL API schema in plaintext, it's [here](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/tree/master/api/typeDefs).

Now do some PoW or wait until we're ready :)

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

anon

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

[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