This tag indicates a proposal for a new feature for the Stack Exchange API, or a change to an existing feature.
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Please differentiate between meta sites for beta versus normal sites, in the /sites method
Currently, in the /sites method, a site can have a site_state of: normal, open_beta, closed_beta, or linked_meta.
This makes it easy to tell if a main site is in beta or not. But it becomes a 2 or 3 ...
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How about linking Stack Exchange to IFTTT?
Why is there no channel for Stack Overflow on IFTTT?
It would be great if I can mash up the Stack Exchange website with other web-based services like Google Reader or GMail, receive a SMS or ...
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Are there any API's to get details from careers stack exchange site?
Planning to create a blog widget which shows data from careers page.
This can be done using an iframe but was looking at other avenues as well.
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Can we have some debug endpoints for testing corner cases?
After encountering a throttle violation today (which I posted in another question), it occurred to me that although I've put together code to handle "backoff" conditions, and potentially throttle ...
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Where are my comments [migrated]
I do get notified on Answers and comments (if addressed to me), but since I am quite active over multiple sites, how about been notified on all follow up comments in the OP or Answers where I gave a ...
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Attribute error while using the stackoverflow api wrapper for python on IDLE
This is the code that I use to access Stack Overflow:
from stackexchange import Site, StackOverflow
so = stackexchange.StackOverflow()
for q in so.questions(pagesize=50):
print q.title
It runs ...
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How do I get the no. of upvotes a person has received for a particular tag?
I need the list of users who have more than 10K reputation and then among those users I need to see which user has how many up-votes for each tag. I don't there is a direct query that will give me ...
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Get favorited tags of user
This was requested in 1 and declined because of a missing authentication method.
Now that authentication is in place, is there a way to retrieve the favorited tags of a user (myself)?
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Include Full Post Details In /users/{id}/timeline
I have a feature request. I'm trying to pull the recent activity about a user from the API. So I'm parsing /users/{id}/timeline. But that only gives me meta-information about the activity. So ...
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Get current inbox item types and notification types
The pages for inbox_item and notification contain the following:
Be aware that the types of items returned by this method are subject
to change at any time. In particular, new types may be ...
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Allow post type to optionally return title field
Currently, it's possible to get the title field from the question type returned by /questions/{ids} and from the answer type returned by /answers/{ids}, using the appropriate filters.
Unfortunately, ...
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Create a question Bookmarket
I want to build a small bookmarklet which can take the selected text and send in to stackoverflow to create a new post containing the selected text.
Also get a unique id or something that helps to ...
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How do I search for a specific question whose url I know?
I was wondering if there is a feature in the API that I could use to retrieve various features of a question on the Stack Exchange network when I know the actual URL of the question.
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Is there a way (or app) to get realtime updates of new questions with a given tag?
According to StackExchange API not realtime?, the API does not return results in realtime, but has 1 minute delay for the same query.
Is there a system or an app that delivers new questions in ...
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How to tell if a given tag name is a synonym?
I've found in one of my projects that I sometimes have a string that I need to check as to whether it's a tag or a tag synonym.
To check if it's a tag synonym is easy using /tags/{tags}/info
I can ...
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Is there any way to access the SE Site Advertisement backgrounds?
I really like the background images for inter site advertisement:
etc,.
Is there a way to have easy access to these? I'm hoping to use them within my application.
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Get tags from question through an answer
I'd like to use this function: http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers-on-users to get a list of answers from a user.
The key element that I need though is what the question was tagged as, is there ...
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WordPress Plugin to Display SE Activity?
Is there a WordPress plugin that will display a users activity from any of the StackExchange sites (i.e. display their answers and questions, etc.)?
If there isn't a WordPress plugin for this, is ...
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More Global Methods?
Consider the following scenario: I need to retrieve a list of the latest questions asked on three different Stack Exchange sites. I throw together an application that hits up the following routes:
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Can 'api_site_parameter' be added to related_site?
It would be great if the related_site type contained api_site_parameter. I realize that you probably don't want to clutter up related_site with a lot of unnecessary fields, but I think it makes sense ...
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Is there an API to fetch tags related to a given tag?
I'm interested in making a tool that explores the tags of a site for tags which should be merged or mention each other in tag wikis etc.
On the page of any given tag there is a column on the right of ...
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Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Currently, the only way to call the API from javascript is to use JSONP, but this can be cumbersome and has security issues. If the following header was included in all API responses, the API could be ...
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Could we add “has_tag_wiki” and “has_tag_wiki_excerpt” flags to the tag info API?
Currently the only way to check for existence of tags wikis and tag wiki excerpts is to fetch their actual contents using the tags wikis API
/tags/{tags}/wikis
But this returns the entire text ...
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MetaStackApps: “Library” Tab
Not sure if this is appropriate here (no Meta site yet), but here goes...
I think it'd be a good idea to have a "Library" navigation tab (next to the "Apps tab"), so that people can easily see ...
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Is it OK to have a test account for a developing client?
I'm currently trying to implement an agorava component for Stackoverflow, and for testing purpose, i would like to create a test account, which would have one question asked, and would maybe send ...
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/users/tags should contain scores
I am implementing some simple JavaScript/bookmarklet based apps that show some reputation info, including the score in the User's top tags (roughly based on this previous bookmarklet of mine).
Now I ...
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Does Zend_Rest_Client support traditional object API work e.g. PUT an object, GET and object, POST an object [closed]
I need to know if we can use Zend Framework to power a REST API?
Does Zend_Rest_Client support traditional object API work e.g.
PUT an object,
GET and object,
POST an object
Most REST API's ...
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Installing user scripts on site?
I was thinking the other day, if it would be possible to allow users to install scripts to the website, so that they can be used on browsers that don't support user scripts, or don't have the ability ...
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The applications listed on a user's apps tab are a little crowded.
As you can see, there is a very small amount of space between each of the applications in the "apps" tab of my user profile. This makes it a little bit more difficult to read because the space between ...
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Can we have the display_name field in the /me/associated route?
I'm reading the Authentication documentation and I've noticed that the /me/associated route returns fields like user_id, badges, reputation but not the display_name, even specifying a custom Filter.
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Add message ID to inbox items
Feature request: The inbox item object should include a message_id field. The ID should identify inbox messages uniquely within StackExchange.
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WebSockets in API
Now that the actual sites have updates for Questions and Inbox with WebSockets. Can we get access to these via the API? If they are stable enough for the sits, then surely they for the API?
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How to get network profile username?
I was thinking I could just get the username from the response of /users/{ids}/associated (where {ids} is the not-site-specific id). But then realised that it returns only network_user (even though we ...
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Detecting StackExchanges with non-standard “plugins” (e.g. MathJax)
Some recent StackExchanges are starting to include site specific 3rd party JavaScripts - for example, cstheory.stackexchange.com (and math.stackexchange.com) both use what I think is MathJax to render ...
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Firehose JSON streaming event service
Code Snippet
Using curl:
$ curl http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow
or, in a browser, http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow.
About
This ...
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Why are Meta sites' “site_state” = “linked_meta”?
In 2.0 there are the site_type and site_state fields. On Meta sites these fields give the same information, site_type = meta_site and site_state = linked_meta
Instead it would be more useful if ...
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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?
Back in version 1.1 of the API, we used to be able to do:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?help
...which would return information about the method in JSON format. However, attempting ...
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Relevance value on /similar route
Given that the /similar method can be sorted by relevance there must be a numeric rank for each question.
Would it be possible to have access to the value? Off by default, but can be enabled by using ...
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Request to support “tagged” on more endpoints
(I realize this is likely to be status-deferred for now, but I'm quite likely to forget if I don't ask it now :)
The /questions endpoint supports a "tagged" parameter which I find quite useful. ...
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Add a special page where developers can reset throttle timeouts
As George Edison noted, it would be useful to have a special page where developers can reset the throttle timeout when we accidentally trigger it.
This happened to me this morning — I got banned for ...
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Where can I request an API key in the docs?
Can you mention the possibility of requesting an API key in the docs? It was displayed for the 1.0 API.
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Provide a streaming API instead of forcing API users to poll
I've written an IRC bot that can notify channels when new questions with a certain tag are posted. However, currently I'm polling the URL ...
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Add close-vote information to the questions object
Would it be possible to add close/reopen vote information to the questions object?
For example, you usually see something along the lines of:
close (3)
when a question has three (current) ...
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Can we get write access to user favorites?
I'd like users of my app to be able to add questions to their favourites.
Will this be added to the API as an authenticated call?
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Greatest Hit questions data/route in API
Can we get access to the greatest hits functionality of the websites?
Something like /questions/hits, and with an id (as in user ID) parameter to match the website.
Maybe in version 2.1? This data ...
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Is there a way to get the edit URL for a tag wiki from the API?
I've been playing with a little webapp for tags of a certain kind for travel.SE (current pre-alpha version gist on github).
One thing I would like to do is add links for the various tag-related ...
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Is there a meta api?
Is there a meta API for StackExchange? I don't mean an API for accessing meta sites, but rather an API to get information about the API itself. What I'm looking for is something that I can call that ...
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Sorting the event stream
It seems like the data returned from the /events endpoint is flawed by being returned in descending order. For example:
{
"items": [
{
"event_type": "comment_posted",
"event_id": ...
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Hot questons (network)
Would it be possible to get an API method for the stackexchange hot questions list?
Something like an official version of this: http://stackexchange.com/genuwine
Second to this would be knowing how ...
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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?
