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Why does the API lack any POST methods?
Why aren't any POST methods available?
Being able to post new questions and answers would be very interesting.
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Does an access using the API count towards the user's consecutive days total?
Supposing I knock up a quick Python script that uses Py-StackExchange (or similar) to visit stackoverflow, retrieve a recent question, etc.; and then run a cron job to do this a couple of times a ...
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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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I was building an irc bot with the stackapps api and…
So I was building an irc bot from scratch. I had named it sobot. Did the first test run and guess what? There's already an irc bot by that name. So what I am asking is: Am i paddling in the wrong ...
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What happens if an app becomes super popular?
Will there be provisions for apps to become "sponsored" by SO wherein the limits are removed? Say somebody writes the de-facto iPhone app and it gets 500,000 users, the 10K cap will be hit pretty ...
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Is Stack Apps the place to suggest applications?
Is StackApps.com the place to suggest applications you would like to see created?
I sometimes receive suggestions along the lines of "Is it possible add [feature-suggestion] to Stack Exchange?" I ...
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Getting started: What kind of thing can we do with the SE-API that we can't do with the SE Data Explorer?
I want to know if my slender grasp of the latter will help me learn about the former.
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How to monitor questions for answers?
I am really struggling with this one...
Given a user ID, how can I monitor questions that that user has asked for new answers?
I'm worried the solution will look something like this:
Get all ...
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Creating plug-ins with StackApps which can be used on a per-user basis.
Facebook developers can create applications which run inside Facebook. For example, the Graffiti app adds a button to the New wall item popup, and has its own pages inside Facebook.
What if we could ...
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Are there any restrictions on using icons/look-and-feel from the site(s)?
Can I haz non-logo icons from the site(s)?
I'm designing an app and my plan, assuming it pleases the court, is to use some of the icons/look-and-feel from the site.
For example:
The green and red ...
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In question/timeline api all votes have the same timestamp… is it intentional?
In question/timeline api all votes actions have the same timestamp in creation_date... is it intentional?
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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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API V2 Musings: What would you like to see
Answers should take the form of feature requests/modifications that are either obviously beyond the scope of v1 and or have been status-declined or status-deferred
They will be indexed here in the Q.
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Are there any high resolution/scalable (SVG) icons or images available?
It would be nice to give our community apps a familiar look and feel.
With that in mind, does SO (and the trilogy sites) have any high resolution or scalable icons and images that we can use?
I'm not ...
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Should we add a “this site is not affiliated to Stack Overflow..” disclaimer to our website app?
I've checked legal section but it does not say anything specific of this aspect apart from:
Do feel free to explain that your product is built on the Stack Exchange platform so people understand your ...
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Date that the contest ends
I hoped I wouldn't have to ask this, but after the sudden 0.9 release, it might be good to confirm...
Will there be at least a week's notice (preferably 2) given of the contest ending?
The ...
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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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when/if/how/why do non-trilogy Stack Exchange sites aquire/provide API access
So I am looking at http://mathoverflow.net, trying to blow some cobwebs out of the dark corners of my brain that used to house some not-insignificant abilities and found myself wondering about API ...
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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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Explain http://stackauth.com/0.9/help/method?method=users/{id}/associated
Any One knows what this does?
What Id should I use?
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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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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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why is badge counts a nested structure?
conclusion
a very short dialog with systempunotout showed me that I could look at this another way that makes a nested structure make perfect sense.
the q remains for reference.
This should be ...
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redundant question fields
These are simply pointing to known endpoints. This is truly 100% redundant data.
"question_timeline_url": "/questions/3078600/timeline",
"question_comments_url": "/questions/3078600/comments",
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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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Scratch Pad Wiki Question
This q is for use by anyone who needs to modify, add or delete an answer or to modify the q to update the last_activity field.
Leave this description, but otherwise have at it.
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Are the Open Data Protocol (OData) endpoints considered to be part of the API? [closed]
The official introduction of the phantastic Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) made me wonder how the implied Open Data Protocol (OData) endpoints relate to the API?
Obviously there is great overlap ...
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r.e. /stats fields.
I see we are getting some meta data in stats now. This is good.
I see the api path in there, but I have to assume that it is simply part of the record that is being output and is not intended as a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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API having more rights than a 0 rep user.
The fact that the API has total_upvotes and total_downvotes makes the fact that you need 1000 rep on the sites a bit weird. Are there more things that the API knows by default, which you can only ...
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Is it safe to assume the API will be at api.<DOMAIN>?
I'm writing an application that will eventually allow you to use it for any StackExchange site. Thus, I'm allowing users to input the domains of the sites they want to use (e.g. stackoverflow.com). ...
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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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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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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 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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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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Will there be a “last call” when the API is about to be released?
I understand the contest ends when version 1.0 of the API will be released, but will there be any indication when this time comes? So that you know you can allocate one last weekend for final fixes?
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Are wrappers considered applications?
I went to get an API key for my StackOverflow C++ wrapper, and discovered that this involves registering an "application".
Does the wrapper count as an app?
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1answer
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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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Acceptable Use of Copyrighted Logos/Names?
Are any/some/all of the following considered acceptable use of the site names and logos?
I know that there is no "official policy" yet regarding this, but I figured I would show some examples of what ...
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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 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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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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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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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 ...
