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by penagwin 2629 days ago
To add on to this, the only available api is the same for bots as it is for users, the only difference is that bots have less api access and are labeled as such.

It's against the terms to use the user api (although it will work until you get caught), I'm not sure if they explicitly ban 3rd party clients (they very well may) but this effectively does the same thing.