The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Once authorized, is there a way to auto-login with a browser?
Assuming I've created an app that authenticates the user against api-v2, is there a method to get a token or cookie that I can pass to a browser instance set to load a stack exchange site that will ...
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How to provide a logout button for authentication?
How would you provide a logout button for an app that uses authentication. (Not so that the user has to choose to accept or reject the app, that's deleting the app from their tab)
Basically force the ...
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Small user scripts, one-liners, prototypes?
The script tag is to be used for complete userscripts. It would also feel kind of pollutive to swamp it with lots of smallish submissions.
Hencewhy I'm making this proposal as reference question to ...
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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?
Going over the API, there seems to be some overlap when it comes to expressing a predicate in a URL.
For example, let's say I want to fetch some questions from stackoverflow.com that have the tag ...
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I want to receive email alerts if a question is asked with a specific tag. Is there an app for that?
The title says it all. Does this exist?
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App to monitor a beta site for all questions
The only notification app I could find that lets you monitor all questions on a site is soapi-notify, but it doesn't let you monitor beta sites. Is there an application that will let me monitor all ...
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How to monitor answers/comments on all of my multiple Stack Exchange accounts?
I am active on 5 Stack Exchange websites, and I would like to be notified when there is a new comment/answer on any of them, rather than discovering it a few days late.
Is there such a tool?
If it ...
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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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Should /badges/{id} returns users that have been awarded all badges or any badge in the list?
The current behavior of the list version of /badges/{id} is to return the users that have been awarded any of the badges in the list.
An alternative is to have the API to return the list of the users ...
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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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Using the API for data analysis?
I am creating an R wrapper for the API. The use case for this is for doing data analysis on the SO data.
As I am building it, it seems like I would need to iterate over many pages in order to get ...
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How to access the text of the page returned using curl?
This is what curl http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/113124/favorites returns
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How to get “inbox” items
Is there an API function to get the contents of the user's inbox? For example, my inbox looks kind of like this:
2 comments on Bash Prompt keeps disappearing
What does that PS1 accomplish ...
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Can I Drive the Area51 Process via the SO API?
I am planning a new webapp. I want to use an SE instance to power the community feature of the new webapp.
Since all SE sites must pass through the Area51 process, I would like to know if I could ...
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App that tracks a specific tag
I'm looking for a software like StackTracker that allows to track a specific tag on StackExchange sites. Do you know somes?
Thanks!
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Python library for the StackExchange v2 API?
So I'm aware of Py-StackExchange and pyso.py, but neither covers the v2.0 API. Does anyone know of a Python library for the 2.0 API?
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stackoverflow offline
Hello! I am looking for an application to download all the questions I asked (and the answers) on stack sites and all the questions that I labeled with the favourite label (that start what appears ...
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API methods that return a single Item by id: unnecessary parameters to remove?
On methods that return a single item by id like the following:
/badges/{id}
/answers/{id}
/questions/{id}
/comments/{id}
/users/{id}
is it correct to have these parameters on ...
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Is there an equivalent to SOStatus app for any Stack Exchange site?
Before I reinvent a wheel, is there an equivalent to the SOStatus app that can show reputation on any Stack Exchange site?
SOStatus gives the status of a user on Stack Overflow.
It would also be ...
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App devs - Would you use something like this if it were available?
Update:
So it was written, so it is done.
Go see the real deal!
var questionWithStuff =
ctx // soapi context
.Official // convenience properties for known sites
.StackOverflow
...
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redundant data in users
this is an example of truly redundant data. the paths are documented. they don't need to be included in the results.
"user_questions_url": "/users/22656/questions",
"user_answers_url": ...
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Can No Key request limit increased to 1000 for a certain amount of time?
Can No Key request limit to 1000 for a certain amount of time?
Temporarily, May be 1 week or 2 weeks?
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1answer
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Best strategies for calling the API with full throttling support?
I know this would be subjective on a normal SE site but as the relevant chat rooms are mostly dormant, we have no meta site, and nobody noticed when I asked if this kind of question is OK here, I'm ...
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The “Get Started” section in the sidebar only mentions API 2.0 and API 1.1
Now that API 2.1 is "public, frozen, and out the door" shouldn't we update the "Get Started" section in the sidebar on the right side of the screen.
It talks about API 2.0 and API 1.1 but doesn't ...
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Is there a word-processor plugin for stackoverflow's markdown
I have started to grow accustomed to using SE's markdown system, and I love the way it looks. I was wondering, if there was a word-processor, or word processor plugin that uses the same markdown ...
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Stackoverflow API - get “received” upvote count of a user.
I'm currently using the Stackoverflow API to get a list of detailed user information (via http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/users-by-ids). There is an attribute called "up_vote_count" ...
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Any guarantees on JSON string encoding?
According to the JSON specification, JSON can be returned in one of five string encodings:
UTF-8 (the default encoding)
UTF-16 Little Endian
UTF-16 Big Endian
UTF-32 Little Endian
UTF-32 Big Endian
...
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Is it possible to restrict the pool of answerers to users meeting certain criteria?
I'm expecting the answer to this is an unfortunate "no," but I've been unable to find it discussed anywhere, so here I go asking:
I'd love to use this API, but the site I'm considering would need the ...
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Is there an app which graphs arbitrary tag volume over time?
Has anyone made an app which displays a graph of question volume for any arbitrary tag? I know that "analytics overflow" reports some of this info for popular (top 70 or something?) tags, but I think ...
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Seamless authentication between my site and StackOverflow
I'm planning on using WS-Trust and SAML to authenticate users to my site and haven't really explored other options.
What should I learn (or do) to enable a mostly seamless end user transition from my ...
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Can we add a creation_date to the /sites method?
I think we really need a way to determine when one of the new sites went live so that they can be ordered by date.
Something like:
{
"name": "Gaming Meta",
"logo_url": ...
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Accepted answer on questions/id/answers method sorted by votes
Looking at this stackoverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3012488?tab=votes#tab-top
when sort is by votes, the accepted_answer is always on top regardless of answer's upvotes.
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API Suggestion: Abstract paged results to enable cleaner libraries
It would make great sense for paged results array property to have a common name, items perhaps.
For those writing in languages that support 'generic' constructs, this would simplify the code ...
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Is there a difference between “newest” and “creation”?
When I look at some API endpoints, say /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/{id}, I see that the former can be sorted by newest, and the latter can be sorted by creation, both ascending or ...
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Where to Host applications installer
Hi, Any one knows a place to host my app installer? any recommendation, I am creating my website and will put it there but before I have my site i need to put it some where so you guys can test it.
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App/Script to track answers/comments for specific questions?
Is there any app that tracks answers or comments to a specific question and provides an rss feed (or email digest or similar)? I'm only interested in keeping track of certain questions. Can I use ...
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1answer
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What's the best way to get all available data related to a user's reputation?
I'm looking for the best way to get a full list of every event which has caused a user's reputation to change, It could look like:
timestamp,reputation_change,object_uri
2011-01-25 ...
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Is there an app that will let me see aggregate stats on questions associated with a tag?
In particular, I'd like to see/graph views for all questions tagged 'foo'. Seems like something someone must already have done, but search didn't help me find it easily.
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Pagination of users ordered by reputation
I know I can retrieve a page of users ordered by reputation using these apis:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/?sort=reputation&order=desc&page=1
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Why don't the tags APIs expose the tag IDs?
It seems that all tags have an internal ID, for instance here on stackapps, the api-v2 tag has ID 2442 which you can only see if you edit the api-v2 tag.
As far as I can see none of the APIs expose ...
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How many simultaneous queries may I make of the same Stack Exchange API?
I've been playing with some of the APIs that have paged results.
I've been doing a first call with pagesize=0 to determine how many pages there are then running a loop querying each page.
In my case ...
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Timeline results contain redundant information?
Can I get a confirmation that the response /users/{id}/timeline contains redundant information, namely:
If the action is: | Then the timeline_type is always:
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Can i make an internal Q&A site like StackExchange?
I'm looking forward to develop a Q&A site that was requested to be private for my company, and as my boss talked it looked like he was describing StackOverflow, what i want to know is, is it ...
