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Every website effectively has an API to comment (or do any other action that's available through the site). You can just use HTTP requests.

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That really depends. What if they require a login that uses a cookie based session? What about CSRF tokens? What if they put in a captcha cause your requests look funny. At some point it quickly goes from API to BOT.

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