Can you bypass Robinhood’s buy restrictions via API? Let’s find out…

Author’s note: this piece is not investment advice; it is provided for entertainment and educational purposes only.

I’m sure you made the same assumption as me — no modern application would be so disjoint to allow different functionality from UI vs APi, that no major player would restrict functionality by simply disabling a button or throwing up an error BEFORE the underlying buy functionality (API) was triggered.