A tip for developers working with the Stack Exchange API.
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How to get the count of a query efficiently
To get the count of a query without returning results, simply specify pagesize=0.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/users?filter=mike&sort=name&pagesize=0
{
"total": 1161,
"page": 1,
...
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How to use min/max with sort
While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.
Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.
Aggregated sort ...
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Announcement: StackExchange API Development Wiki
RIP August 24, 2010 - April 26, 2013
Due to lack of interest and the increasing burden of maintenance, I have decided to close down this wiki. Most of the information that it contains is ...
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How to call the API via JSONP in Plain Old JavaScript
This tips demonstrates how to call the API in JavaScript without the need of jQuery or other frameworks.
In a lot of cases you will find that the JSONP implementations provided in various frameworks ...
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recommended buffer size for markdown fields is conservative
I ran into a truncation error while inserting user data into a database using the documented field length (buffer size) of 3000.
So I redefined to nvarchar(max), pulled all users in the stack ...
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Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight
This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api.
With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in ...
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How to retrieve paged API results in C# and Silverlight
In this tip we are going to leverage the SimpleRequestFactory and gather a multipage response.
Lets pull the first 5 pages of 100 users on stackapps.com.
NOTE: for Silverlight, substitute ...
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api domain object unique keys
For those who wish to maintain object graphs or to persist api domain objects authoritative documentation of the field(s) that define a unique key for the object would be of value.
Some are obvious ...
