>   I'm currently writing a bot to try to help me keep a personal
> subreddit in order.  Its job is to post a self post, and then put
> 'next' links in the previous entries, so they're all linked together.
> Like the subject says, I can't post a story via the API.  I can log in
> okay, but when I attempt to POST to /api/submit with all the required
> information I don't get a reply that looks like any of the replies
> documented on the API page.  Instead, I get:

> {"jquery":[
> [0, 1, "call", ["body"]],
> [1, 2, "attr", "find"],
> [2, 3, "call", [".status"]],
> [3, 4, "attr", "hide"],
> [4, 5, "call", []],
> [5, 6, "attr", "html"],
> [6, 7, "call", [""]],
> [7, 8, "attr", "end"],
> [8, 9, "call", []],
> [1, 10, "attr", "captcha"],
> [10, 11, "call", ["IXHVetHj5nUk4JCbPkZOfHZZxvt0hbPJ"]],
> [1, 12, "attr", "find"],
> [12, 13, "call", [".error.BAD_CAPTCHA.field-captcha"]],
> [13, 14, "attr", "show"],
> [14, 15, "call", []],
> [15, 16, "attr", "text"],
> [16, 17, "call", ["care to try these again?"]],
> [17, 18, "attr", "end"],
> [18, 19, "call", []]
> ]}

> I'm guessing from this it's expecting a CAPTCHA and, as that's
> designed explicitly to catch bots, that's exactly what it did.  I've
> done everything I can think of to try to convince reddit that the
> bot's allowed to post in the subreddit - I put it on the list of
> 'approved submitters', I verified its e-mail, I even made it a mod,
> but I keep getting this response.  Is there any way to fix this?

> Perhaps offtopic:  I recognize the format of the return message as
> JSON, but what the heck is it trying to tell me?  Those fields mean
> nothing to me, unlike (for example) the kind of JSON response I get
> after logging in, which is very straightforward.

> Thanks,

> --
> Roger