But it specifically says "We hope to improve it over time, and may later enable access to private per-user data using OAuth." So I'm assuming that login, votes, comments, submission is for a future release of the API. That might be why the apps you use resort to scraping HN.
But it specifically says "We hope to improve it over time, and may later enable access to private per-user data using OAuth." So I'm assuming that login, votes, comments, submission is for a future release of the API. That might be why the apps you use resort to scraping HN.
For reference, here's the blog post talking about the release of the API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api