A question about the built-in API help pages at http://api.site.stackexchange.com/{version}/usage
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How the /sites method is meant to be used
The /sites method is used to enumerate all sites in the network. If your [app] is meant to run against more than a single site (and many are) this method is how you should be discovering new sites in ...
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Where is the usage documentation?
I know this is probably a dumb question, but there's a bunch of documentation and I don't know what to do with this stuff. How do you use the API?
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How to see which users upvoted a question?
I assume this information is tracked, since StackOverflow shows me the questions I have upvoted (when going to their question page, I can undo the upvote). I couldn't find any api call that gives this ...
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Odd String Format Result from API Call
I'm just getting started messing around with the SO api, I haven't worked with JSON before, and I am getting a strange result from a basic call (No API Key).
WebClient stackClient = new WebClient();
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How to get a post title for a given post ID, even if that post ID is an answer and not a question?
I'm trying to beautify the reputation audit. If I want to show the post title for a reputation change event, however, I have a problem -- I don't know if the post ID is relative to a question or an ...
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Is it possible to authenticate a user through Stackoverflow API?
Is it possible to use the Stackoverflow API to authenticate a given user identity such as with Facebook, Twitter or OpenID?
If it's possible: Can you tell me the method(s) that make this happen?
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API Help's CSS is missing
The API Help page's CSS file, located at http://sstatic.net/so/all.css, is current returning 404 for me:
<div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
<div id="content">
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HTTP 400 “Bad Request” while using “access_token” in request Url
I registered an app, obtained a key and I have implemented the implicit OAuth 2.0 flow in a Windows 8 desktop app (as per the documentation available here). After receiving and storing the access ...
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API Time zone difference problem
I am writing a .NET application with the Stack Exchange API (using the Stacky library) and I am using it to ask the server for some questions that occured in the last hour. However, I and the server ...
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Getting Question body/title with Answers?
I am trying to build an RSS feed that includes any/all questions that I have answered, and been accepted as the correct answer.
I am running into an issue where I'm sending too many requests and ...
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Typo in the docs for /me
The doc says:
Returns the user associated with the passed auth_token.
This method returns a user.
It should say "access_token" instead of "auth_token".
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API documentation console unsuccessfully tries to load MiniProfiler results
All of the documentation pages (example) with the test console currently attempt to load MiniProfiler result data, which fails with a 404:
POST ...
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/search method, returning the body of the questions
Probably this is a documentation fault.
For the search method, the parameter list doesn't say anything about an optional body, but looking at the Returns description shows:
"body": {
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AND searching for tags?
I am using the search api to search for questions that are tagged with "tags" and not with "tags". However I have noticed that searching for tags is an OR search.
The questions search for tags is an ...
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Always show console on API docs
This script stops you having to click the "show console" button to test an API call.
Install - View Source
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Error Code when API Key Limit exceeds
What will the error code be generated when API Key Limit exceeds? I need that because I have to handle this error in my application.
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Is it really worth to (implicitly) discourage documentation of API/library usage nowadays already?
Update:
Kevin provided an answer, which, while adding something of value to the three related questions together (by naming the originating concern eventually), actually does not apply to the ...
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help page suggestion: indication of integral values vs real numbers
number is an very ambiguous term.
It would be helpful if there was an indication of values that can return as non-integral.
In a javascript context this is not an issue, but most devs, myself ...
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questions/{id} help page sort parameter description is inconsistence with others
The description of the Sort parameter in questions/{id} help page is inconsistent with those of other pages.
On the questions/{id} help page:
sort (optional):
How a collection
should ...
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Query Tag followers?
I was hoping to use the APIs to discover the number of questions for a given Tag as well as the number of followers. I found how to get the number of questions, but not the number of followers. On ...
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API Help Suggestion: include range [1, 100] on pagesize
I see that range is being used to indicate valid range on most numeric parameters
e.g.
32-bit integer, range [0, 2,147,483,647]
32-bit integer, range [1, 2,147,483,647]
The valid range for ...
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API Help Suggestion: /search - can we make tagged,nottagged description consistent with other list params
on most other params that accept a semi-colon delimited list we see
list of tags questions must have, semicolon delimited
A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, semicolon-delimited list of ...
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What license is the Stack Exchange API released under? MIT?
Are there any license requirements the Stack Exchange API? Which license is it released under? If I were to develop an app, would I have to credit Stack Exchange API?
Thanks in advance.
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Can you identify a user from the access_token?
I have the access_token after authentication from the user. At this point I don't know with which sites this user has registered. Is it possible to get user information like the display name or ...
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user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small
the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000.
it is apparent that this is the server-side field length.
the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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API Help Suggestion: /users/{id}/badges id parameter clarification
On /users/{id}/badges, the description of id parameter diverges from the inferred standard.
e.g.
a semicolon delimited list of user ids
vs
A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, ...
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help page suggestion: json results for help pages
it would simplify machine reading if we could apply type=jsontext to api-help pages, including the index.
update
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help page suggestion: position required parameters at top
in the case of id, it is now placed at the bottom of the page.
It makes sense to place required parameters at the top of the page with a slight separation, perhaps an <hr> or an icon.
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Can we have all possible closed reasons in help page?
Can we have all possible closed_reasons in help page and if possible, closed_reason_id, too?
For example
closed_reason_id=1, closed_reason="exact duplicate",
closed_reason_id=2, ...
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How do I find a user by their `display_name`?
I am using Serel (the Ruby wrapper) and would like to be able to find a user by their display_name.
As it stands right now, I can only find them via an ID - like Serel::User.find(1,2,3).
I tried ...
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help page suggestion: exemplars - working example urls for each route
It would take a lot of the guess work out of sussing the api if each route's page provided a small handful of working urls.
This would also serve to provide an authoritative result exemplar.
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help page format issue: missing parameter
/users/{id}/tags is missing id parameter
fixing this will remove one more special case from my parser.
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Definitive on timeline_type?
Hi all,
I am trying to get a definitive on what timeline_type actually means...
I've looked at: http://stackapps.com/search?q=timeline_type but to no avail.
The new documentation doesn't list ...
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Ajax get questions by tags ERROR
i'm trying getting questions by tags.
this is my simple code and i'm running this from my http://localhost:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$.ajax({
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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Make API query to only one Stack Exchange site
Is there a way to limit a /search or a /similar query to a specific site or sites?
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API console always queries Stack Overflow
On any Stack Exchange site (well, I tried Super User (trilogy), Unix (SE-2.0 launched) and SFF (SE-2.0 beta)), the console (“Show Console” button) in the 1.1 API queries ...
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help page suggestion: /questions/tagged/{tags} - tags param clarification
Method removed
it is not clear what a 'list' of tags looks like.
does this parameter follow the semicolon seperated list format of the id param?
is it a comma separated list?
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help page issue: revisions by revisionguid example needed
/revisions/{id}/{revisionguid} - usage of this route is not clear to me.
can someone provide a working url and perhaps a simple use case.
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help page format issue: revisionGuid
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=revisions/{id}/{revisionguid}
revisionGuid is inconsistent.
revisionguid seems appropriate (and will remove one special case from my api parser).
