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List of example questions
Since it's hard to find examples of questions with various attributes, maybe we can turn this into a reference?
Here's the problem: I want to try out the locked_date attribute in one of my apps, but ...
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API Inconsistencies
In my opinion, one of the hallmarks of a good API is that it is self-consistent. It establishes easy-to-remember conventions and then follows them.
As I'm trying to adopt the 2.0 API, I'm finding ...
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Guidance on usage thresholds - specifically throttling
I am running a lot of tests and have started to get 403 errors.
I am using a key and certainly have not exceeded my quota.
Am I running foul of some yet unmentioned throttling threshold and if so, ...
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SVG Versions of the Logos
Legal guidelines for using these trademarked Icons
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Packages
If you want to ...
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How API Keys Work
What are the API request limits?
A single IP address can only make a certain number of API requests per day, depending on the presence of a valid API key.
Default API daily limits:
Key: 10,000
No ...
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List of API client libraries grouped by programming language
This question serves as an organized reference of client libraries available for the Stack Exchange API. This is intended to be an all-inclusive list of libraries, so if you develop a library, feel ...
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Why I think Area51 needs an API.
Okay, I have to admit that I never dreamed I would be advocating an API for Area51. But here I am doing it :)
I think we need an API for Area51. Granted, the whole concept of questions and answers is ...
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Register for the Stack Exchange V2.0 API Private Beta
It's getting to be that time (actually, it's about a month later than I'd hoped but still!), API V2.0 is shaping up and we're spending more and more time on UI polish rather than functionality.
So ...
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What is SOAPI and why should I care?
Let me answer the last question first:
Why should you care?
You shouldn't care unless
you are a .NET or JavaScript coder who can leverage robust client access libraries for the Stack Exchange API ...
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API V2.0 Public Beta Begins
As has been announced, we're starting the public beta and spinning up a contest (as we did with V1.0).
As such, some of the guidelines for the private beta no longer apply.
The api-v2-beta tag no ...
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Reputation Tracker now covers SOFU, Meta SO and Programmers SE
I don't know if anyone's actually using my Reputation Tracker tool, but it now lets you select which sites you want to see reputation for.
For example, the URL for me to find out how I've done today ...
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Separate Request Quotas for Authorized [app]s
Imagine, if you will, you have a popular [app] hosted on a cloud computing service which is also used by a number of other [app]s. If this service forces clients to share IPs (and they all do, in ...
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api 2.0 - any plans to bring SE sites closer together?
I've been re-reading api 2.0 roadmap and thinking what might be useful to have there.
I don't care much about authentification, and even less about write access. But what would really reduce amount ...
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VS2008 and 2010 Plugin
I'm working on a vs2008 and 2010 addin for the API.
If you have idea's on what you'd want from such an addin let me know!
I will put version 0.1 up online on one of the common sourcecontrol hubs ...
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Promoting your [app]s - advertising contest proposal
I've proposed on Meta a contest for promoting StackApps applications developed with the API.
Please consider to leave your comments over there. (Bounty +250)
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Version 1.0 of the API seems to be here!
It looks like v1.0 of the API is here now!
I waited a few minutes for an official announcement, but none came - so here it is!
Thanks a million to the team for putting this together!
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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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Guidelines on app and library thumbnails
We now have better, user-friendlier display for apps and libraries and scripts:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/stack-exchange-api-1-1-and-improved-app-gallery/
We infer a number of things ...
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Selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs Code Camp Video Interview.
This is a very selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs Code Camp Video Interview:
Purpose
Please note that this transcript fragment is mainly a supporting post to decrease the length of ...
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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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Should feature-requests, for third party apps, be flagged as “not an answer”?
I spotted this "answer" as a first-time post:
Feature Request
Please add support for proxies.... It would be helpful to people behind proxies.
Like "ME"
I was going to flag it as "Not ...
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Filtering tags should provide exact matches at top
Take this query for example: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/tags?pagesize=25&filter=ip
No where is there the valid tag [ip]. It is further down the page. This is quite annoying when searching ...
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Observe a private beta in StackAuth
See here.
WebApps and Meta.WebApps are listed, as WebApps has entered the private beta phase.
Note that the state property for those two are private_beta and linked_meta respectively, values nobody ...
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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 should we announce updates to our apps, scripts, libraries, etc?
Is there a recommended best way to let the stackapps community know that we've released an updated version of one of our projects?
We can edit the project's page and bump the version number, but this ...
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Is there an app for searching Stack Overflow?
I was thinking about how I often use the Stack Overflow "ask a question" area as a search engine, rather than searching Google first. I know I'm more likely to find my answer by doing this. I was ...
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Social network apps for SO
Is there any app for Social networks such as LinkedIn, facebook, twitter etc., where I can show off my reputation on them or just tag favorite questions on them?
Anyone??
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Let's delete the off topic questions?
There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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How the apps-libraries will be judged for the contest?
Do you know how the apps-library will be judged in term of awesomeness? Is there something more official than Jeff Atwood's contest post on the blog?
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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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Stack Overflow KDE Plasma widget
Is a Plasma widget being developed for Stack Overflow in KDE 4?
I tried StackTray, but I'm thinking of something more complete to use as a widget on my desktop. I'd like to see this done, or ...
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Stack over flow stack graph?
What is the most popular language on the last 100 stackoverflow's questions ?
This page provide you a visualization of stackoverflow's last questions sort by the 10 most popular tags.
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On Personal Keys and Limits
I'm currently in the early stages of developing an Emacs major mode for the Stack Exchange Network (see this question if you're interested in helping at the moment).
I'm a little torn on how to set ...
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Is there a difference between the API search and the search from within the site?
I'm curious if the search results from the API is calculated the same way as the searches from within the sites themselves? Is there a difference between the two? If so, what are the difference?
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Anybody up for terminal frontends
Would anyone like to program some sort of terminal app which would be connected to a SE site?
You could query with it questions, and get notified when someone answers. Likewise one could browse ...
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Has anyone made a wordpress plugin for stack api?
Just wondering if as it would be nice to put a widget on a wordpress post that allows people to add new questions and answer them right there in the blog.
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I am planning to build a Windows 7 gadget for Stack Exchange.
Hello,
I am planning to start development of a windows 7 gadget for stack exchange.Specifically stack overflow.
I would like some guidance, on where to get good designs, HCI patterns, etc for the ...
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Anyone build a “Outlook Social Connector” for SO? (perhaps integrated Soapi.CS/C#)
I'd like to see an Outlook Social plugin that shows the reputation of everyone on a given email message.
Update: Here is a sample project to get started. 80% of the work is now complete...
It would ...
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Maximum tags for a question on any SE site
Is the maximum tags for all SE sites (and those in the future) 5?
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Any CSS ninjas want to help me style my sample app?
I really am horrible at CSS. I am making a SO clone example application that will eventually consume as much of the StackOverflow.Net API as possible. Although it is a clone, I am not expecting it to ...
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Does any one remember an app that runs test cases against stackoverflow answer to find the right kind of code snippet?
I remembered to see an web application that allows people to create input and output of programs, then the app searches stackoverflow answers that satisfy the input and output pairs. I'm not sure if ...
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Stackoverflow app that can popup question with certain tag as they asked in realtime
I am in search of kind of app that can notify about new question in real time as they are posted.
I can create such app with the api provided but i don't want to do that if that is already being done ...
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Universal Stack Widget
I'm thinking about creating a gadget as opensource project for everyone to use which would enable developers to add feature they're web apps user profiles where user can simply add to his/her profile ...
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App to hide StackExchange notifications, all sites and hot questions (only show inbox)
Please make a app that would hide StackExchange notifications, all sites and hot questions (only show inbox).
I prefer using Tampermonkey (Chrome)
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Information visible only to high-rep users
Can the API return information that would otherwise be visible only to high-rep users, regardless of which user is using the API?
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How to add stackoverflow api to ruby on rails app
I created ruby on rails app. And i want to crawl data form stackoverflow, i know to use stackoverflow api but i don't know to add it to my app. Please help me, add it to ruby on rails app.
I user ...
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Find the recently added tag or find the tags that are new to Stack Overflow
I was looking into the Stack Overflow API, to find the tags that are newly added to Stack Overflow.
But I could not form a URL to meet my requirement.
I found this URL, but the author has not listed ...
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Stackoverflow user/id to get data to a website
I am trying to get users stackoverflow info on to my website using the ids of their stackoverflow account they provide us. I am trying to get the JSON content that is available from this link: ...
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Using Stack API for a Forum?
I don't know if this is the right stack site to ask this...
Would it be possible to build a forum using the stack API? Would it even make sense?
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Possible bug in /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers
If I search for a non existing tag I get some results. I expect simply nothing, because I have no such tagged questions.
