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Can I search over SE using SE API if I have only a username?
How do I can find someone's userid if I have only their username?
For example, my real username is: Zagorulkin Dmitry
My Stack Overflow userid is: 1321404
Are there any API methods for this kind ...
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what should be the duration between each call to stackoverflow api for getting new questions?
I have a desktop app which pings stackoverflow api after every 2 mins to get the new questions.?
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Is there an app that shows rep as points/week etc?
I'm interested in seeing my reputation graphed as points earned per day/week/month rather than the cumulative graph you get on your profile.
Is there an existing app for that or is it something I'd ...
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Are these fields redundant?
Why do we have total_upvotes + total_downvotes as well as score?
Doesn't
score = total_upvotes - total_downvotes
Is this always true? If so, isn't it redundant?
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Can I register for an API key for an “alpha” site?
I appreciate that you'll want to limit users of the no-key API, however I fear that on a daily basis I might exceed the 300 limit in testing alone.
I certainly don't want to hammer the API, but my ...
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What is an oAuth domain
What is the oAuth domain that is mentioned in the StackApps app registration form? I googled it but couldn't find a good description.
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Java wrapper for the Stack Exchange API 2.0?
I've checked out StackWrap4J, but it looks like it doesn't support some of the new methods provided in the v2.0 API (specifically the ones having to do with user authentication). Does anyone know if ...
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Do I need permission to use the SE API for a commercial app?
I recently developed a mobile app using the publicly available API of one of the Stack Exchange sites.
Do I need to obtain permission from Stack Exchange before releasing the app to the public? Can I ...
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Retrieving comments received by a user
I want to retrieve all comments directed to a particular user (rather than comments posted by that user) within a particular time period (e.g. last 24 hours). I don't want just "mentions", which are ...
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?
I have a site that will offer technical help and assistance for a certain niche of computer users. I can either host my own forums, or tie in with stack... but I want to be able to make money off it ...
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What does min and max mean when sort is “activity” or “hot”?
Does they mean anything actually? There was an "issue" when you needed to add min=0 to queries to actually get the answers instead of nothing. Just checked that this is not the case anymore, but was ...
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Access to /users/recent/ (Recent Activity) through the API
Would it be possible to have access to a user Recent Activity?
I know that this is not a public information on the website, but I think that most part is public. I only see one Activity that should ...
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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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Area 51 site proposal: StackExchange API Application Development [closed]
The question was closed instead of migrated so I have opened a new question on meta
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55163
Currently intended role of StackApps.com is not entirely clear.
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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 format reputation numbers similar to Stack Exchange sites.
UPDATE
For JavaScript, see CMS's implementation below. It is much more elegant than the one i provide in the body of this Q.
// formats a number similar to the way stack exchange sites
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What are the best tools to use for inspecting JSON?
I am curious which tools people use for inspecting the JSON results when calling API methods from their browser. I am using Google Chrome, and it displays results such as this for the stats method:
{ ...
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iStack (iPhone app for Stackoverflow sites) - suggestions for UI
Well there's a much better and complete iphone app called six to eight by Adam Wright here: http://stackapps.com/questions/623/six-to-eight-an-iphone-client
(NB: this post did have an app but well, ...
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Timeline for v2.0 of the API?
Since v1.0 is now finalized, I thought I'd inquire about v2.0.
I'm guessing it will be a few weeks before you even start planning it.
Can you give us a long term estimate of when the private beta ...
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What real world application does the Stack API have?
This is such a noob question, but its simple, so hopefully someone can answer for me please:
If you skill up in the Stack API, what purpose does it serve? What can you do with the API, how can you ...
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What will be rate-limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from same IP?
What will be rate-limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from same IP?
Will it be only one of the Key will use? so maximum 10k?
Will rate-limit be 20k?
When one key API key ...
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Key Limit is 10k or 100k?
Getting Started FAQ Question says 10k
http://stackapps.com/questions/2/getting-started-with-the-api
But I see 100k on Response Header
X-RateLimit-Max 100000
X-RateLimit-Current 99993
Just typo in ...
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User “authentication” (validation?) in V1 of the StackExchange API
In a previous question, it was asked whether it is possible to authenticate a user through the Stackoverflow API? The short answer was no, not until version 2. Now I would like to know: is there any ...
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Getting required upvotes for apps tab is too dependant on release date
I have recently released a chrome extension and it is at present getting about 3 upvotes a week. Not as many as hoped, but still not bad. However, this may not be enough to get it into the apps tab ...
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Logging out so another user can log in
Just in the process of final testing for an iPad SE browser, and uncovered some odd behaviour.
I'm using Google for authentication. If I deploy a clean version of the app, and authenticate, I get the ...
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Why does api.stackoverflow.com allow resource calls that accept vectorized or multiple IDs?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/questions-by-ids
What is the motivation for building api.stackoverflow.com in a manner that accepts multiple IDs in a resource call?
For example, I can ...
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How to order /sites result in a user friendly way to use it in our apps.
Since ordering of /sites is not guaranteed, how do i effectively order sites in a user-friendly way?
General requirements:
Trilogy must stay on the top of the list
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Get a list of required tags for site
How can I get the tags which are required, (fulfills_required = true) for each site?
Like order/filter the tags route to show the fulfills_required tags first?
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is there an api to access a list of tags on super user?
As above, is there an api function to access a list of tags on super user?
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How can I see the next page of favorites using the SO API?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/113124/favorites
only shows me 30 favourites. How can I see the rest?
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Do we have a C++ wrapper library for SO API?
I wanted to develop a SO app, and I have no prior web programming experience.
I know C, C++ and a bit of Perl.
Is there an wrapper for the API in one of these languages?
If not, what do you ...
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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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What happened to the recent API contest?
I am curious to know the results of recent stackoverflow contest
It has been removed from the api.stackoverflow page and no updates were seen. I believe that the deadline for the results ...
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Are there any plans to add Inbox functionality to SO API?
So, 3rd party applications will be able to notify users about new answers and comments.
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Has anyone *implemented* the Stack Exchange API on top of a public database dump?
It seems that the public database dumps contain nearly all of the data required to respond to API queries.
Has anyone implemented the API, backed by a copy of the public database dump?
It would ...
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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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What to do with API keys if our project is open-source?
Is it OK to share the key in our source? Someone could just pick it up and use it for other purposes.
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How to register a wordpress plugin
I am about to implement a wordpress plugin to include some of your information in a wordpress blog. In the first version this plugin will display a very limited set of profile information, in further ...
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Given that stackapps has no “meta” is it OK to ask “discussion questions” with no “one right answer” here?
Sometimes I want to ask questions about using the API that don't necessarily have "one right answer" or might be subjective.
I've looked in the chat room but it's not very active.
I've looked for a ...
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Clarification on StackApps “App” vs “Script”
Pursuant to a chat conversation there's some clarification needed on what it means for a stackapp to be an app or a script. I'm posting this for the community and for future searchers and as a bit of ...
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Why is there no /answers route?
As I was answering this question, http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66403/find-answers-with-max-upvotes, I found myself wondering, quite late in the game, why there is not an /answers route that ...
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Provide a way to discover associated meta sites
Currently, the API doesn't specify what the associated Meta site is for a certain site (I'm talking about the stackauth.com/1.0/sites route). Sure, we could just prepend "meta." to the domain name, ...
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Abuse potential in API write-access?
I understand some of the use-cases for write-access in v2 of the API -- primarily to enable full access to StackExchange sites without a web browser. And I'm sure it will be a hit for people who want ...
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Best way of structuring a library?
I am busy building an app using the API and I am about to start to work with the API.
I have looked at the one other PHP library, and it is one object with method calls which return back a ...
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Top questions/answers
Is there a way to get a list of X questions/answers with the highest votes up, visits, etc?
Say I want to get the list of most voted questions in .NET category (tag) or Java.
Thank you.
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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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Is question_id unique across all stackexchange sites?
The standard structure of a question URL is:
http://site.com/questions/question-id/title
Example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457927/git-workflow-and-rebase-vs-merge-questions
It is ...
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Creating a home brew Push Server for Stack Exchange
I'm looking to create a home brew push notification server for Stack Exchange. This is mainly due to the fact that Toast Notifications within Windows Store applications are done using Windows ...
