Re: Emacs for forums?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

>> Hmm, maybe. I tried a login, and account creation and login are possible
>> already with EWW on Hacker News, though I don't know if posting can be
>> done. Paul Graham sure saw me comin'.
>
> I tried with w3m and posting is no problem. The site seems completely
> usable. But of course using w3m or eww doesn't begin to address the
> question of a unified interface through, say, gnus.
>
> Now, it would be possible to write site-specific code to scrape HN,
> interface to gnus, and later write back any comments to HN. I'm just
> stating the obvious here. But that would be fragile to say the least,
> and it would be different for each and every forum. Not a solution,
> either.

HN has an API:

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

I can't tell if they ever implemented OAuth or not...