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I’m experimenting with an integration project where I mashup a user’s LinkedIn connections and StackOverflow activity. Are there any relevant APIs on StackOverflow that could be used to integrate StackOverflow data with a user's network?

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I don't really care as long as it supports OpenID as a login method :) – George Edison♦ Jun 16 '10 at 22:42
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http://stackapps.com/faq

http://stackapps.com/questions/2/getting-started-with-the-api

http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help

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+ for stating the obvious. I forget, is there a 'first time here? read the FAQ' banner here that introduces the API? – Sky Sanders Jun 17 '10 at 0:06
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@code: Just log out and you'll find out. – George Edison♦ Jun 17 '10 at 0:20
Thanks! Those api docs help quite a bit. One thing I couldn't find was how I might connect users on one site (with email addresses and names) with the equivalent user on StackOverflow. Is there a quick way to search for users by email on the APIs? – pufferfish Jun 17 '10 at 1:10
@geo - again, +1 for stating the obvious. – Sky Sanders Jun 17 '10 at 1:52
@puffer - you are going to have to somehow get the user_id of at least one of the user's stack exchange accounts, pull that user and get the associated_id and then hit the stackauth users/{id}/associated path. if you had a complete list of users you could search for the email hash. I say if because keeping a complete current list is something you want to be careful with so that you don't piss off the api abuse gods. I am putting the final touches on a cacheing strategy that makes keeping an updated list tolerable. Watch for the post. – Sky Sanders Jun 17 '10 at 1:56
@code - yes, the ability to look up a user's ID from a list of cached email hashes would be perfect. Thanks for the tip, and I look forward to your upcoming post. – pufferfish Jun 17 '10 at 16:51
@code what's the stackauth path if my associated_id is 1234-5678? api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/1234-5678/associated doesn't seem to be working. error: { code: 404 message: "The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI." } – porkeypop Jun 17 '10 at 18:03
@porkeypop the path should look like this example: stackauth.com/0.8/users/6c21dcdc-0b55-440f-a378-9871074a5350/… I added the type=json to make it return pretty-print instead of standard json. – Greg Bray Jun 17 '10 at 20:53
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