Questions tagged [feature-request]
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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API Help Suggestion: /search - can we make tagged,nottagged description consistent with other list params
on most other params that accept a semi-colon delimited list we see
list of tags questions must have, semicolon delimited
A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, semicolon-delimited list of ...
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Get the Time of the Stats and if Possible the new time it will be updated
From here I learned that the stats are cache. I understand the reason for this, so I ask if possible to have the timestamp of the stats return in the api and if possible to have the next time there ...
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Api-specific tags
It might be useful to have auto-generated tags for each API and add a link to the tag feed to the help page for that API. This would link directly the API documentation with the relevant discussions ...
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Improve design of the Documentation's 404 page
The 404 page of the documentation has a rather awkward design; for example, a different header than other pages, and no footer. Can it be updated?
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Improve error message when attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation
When attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation, like happened here: API to submit a Suggested Edit, the API returns the following:
{
"error_id": 407,
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Why does the 'Apps' tab show hot questions and the 'Scripts' tab high scoring questions?
The Stack Apps homepage has two unique tabs which are not present on other sites: Apps and Scripts. There is a slight difference between the two, which is visible upon hovering:
That's right, the '...
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Update Teams API documentation to reflect dependency on tier
The documentation says (emphasis mine):
Starting with the release of Stack Overflow For Teams, the Stack Exchange API exposes read-only access to data stored in private Teams.
This is slightly ...
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Can I have more than one OAuth Domain?
I tried to set more than one OAuth Domain, but seems to it's not working. I tried to set them separated by comma or space, but got redirect_uri - must be under an apps registered domain error message.
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Add Area 51 Discussions to site list and account list
While Area 51 Discussions is accessible via the API (proof), it is neither in the list of sites nor in the list of associated accounts. I'm not sure how much work this would be to add? I understand ...
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List /network-activity methods under Network Methods in the documentation
The API methods /users/{id}/network-activity and /me/network-activity, both return a summary of a user's activity across the Stack Exchange network and do not take a site parameter.
They are ...
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Apply required tag CSS class to the required tags in the "how to ask" side bar
When we ask a question, in the "How To Ask" side bar there is some information about the usage of the tags, such as support, bug and feature-request.
Since those are the required tags (with different ...
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Provide a way to get display name via access token
Please include a new (network) method with the ability to gather display name and profile image directly via access token.
Right now to retrieve this information you have to first authenticate a ...
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API to Emulate Notifications
Is there a API End Point that will emulate Test Notifications? When I say Notifications, I Mean both Inbox and Achievements.
Right now i am using below for the data
Unread Notification : https://...
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Add privilege_type to the privilege API results
The /me/privileges, /users/{id}/privileges and /privileges APIs are currently returning the fields of reputation, description and short_description.
Sample result as:
{
"reputation": 1,
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How to get more details flags from questions?
Short question:
How to get the flags that led up to a question being closed?
When we are going to flag a question, we have to look at /questions/{id}/flags/options first, and I can see
The option ...
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DatePicker in StackExchange API document page should have year next & previous button also
While picking for dates as shown in this snapshot, there should be one more next and previous button for year. It will be easy to navigate 1 year backward and forward on one click. Better option would ...
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Official support for SE apps
Is SE a company, or to put it another way, is it possible to develop apps for SE itself, rather than as a 3rd party?
I find it frustrating to get to a complete list of my sites, you have to go to ...
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Can I see my past upvoted questions in handset APP?
It's not hard to dig out questions upvoted by myself through the PC website. But I cannot find any access to them in the ios app. I guess neither does android app. Did I miss something or is it a ...
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Is there an API for adding a user to a site?
With 2.2, I've begun implementing some write features in my app. I've started with voting. When you vote on a question on a site that isn't in a users associated accounts, you get the error "The ...
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Can you please return the reputation scores in addition to the reputation changes?
As by far and large (one of) the (two) largest consumer of /users/*/reputation1 , I humbly request an addition to this route.
What I'd love to see is getting the reputation score in addition to the ...
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Would it be possible (in a future API release) to combine queries?
I've been doing a lot of work on StackMobile lately and I made the following observation:
Many of the pages (especially the ones that display a user's profile) make a number of requests to display ...
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Endpoints in associated accounts call
Slightly related:
Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
Currently, the only way to identify a site from the associated accounts route is by its name. This is pretty error-prone and ...
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UI Improvements when editing your Application Registration
I went to update my application's profile and I got confused by some of the labels, titles, etc.
Here are some suggestions:
Applications page
http://imgur.com/lV424.png
Edit application page
https:/...
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Add is_moderator to the /me endpoint
There's an endpoint for getting information about a user - called /me. I can get a number of fields from it, including is_staff, which, presumably, indicates if a user is an SE staff member.
Could ...
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Remove users' accept rates from the API
The accept rate of users isn't shown on the site since more than 6-8 years. Nevertheless, it's still returned by default on most calls returning user details. It doesn't serve any purpose anymore, and ...
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Add API to get posts of one collection
We are Teams users and want to get all the articles and questions added into one collection.
I did not find it in the documentation.
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Return suggested edits for tag wikis and excerpts from the API
It's time we put the venerable tradition of haunting Kevin Montrose's answer with comments on when the API will start returning suggested edits for tag wikis and excerpts to rest. This is an official ...
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Add API method for network-wide search
Just like stackexchange.com has a networkwide search, it would be nice to have an equivalent of excerpt-search which searches the entire network at once. That would save me 360 calls (per-site metas ...
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Could you please return tags pertaining to the question when the api's "answers on user" endpoint is called?
When I call "answers on users", I see that I can select a filter named "tags".
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers-on-users#page=1&pagesize=5&order=desc&sort=votes&ids=303685&...
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Please add gallery thumbnails to this site's search results
I would like to link to a list of all my stuff, but I'd like it to display with thumbnails and excerpts (like it does on tag searches).
Is this possible? It seems like a reasonable use case, but for ...
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Stack Exchange App for Windows 7
I was just wondering If anyone had made a Stack Exchange app for Windows 7 like can be accomplished in Chrome but without needing to have any software like Chrome installed.
If such an app does not ...
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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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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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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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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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Auth dialog improvements (who's logged in, etc)
The auth dialog (client side) could do with a bit of improvement.
Specifically, showing the currently logged in user, and a link saying "not you?". Facebook does this and allows you log in as someone ...
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Can UserScripts in the "scripts" tab be sorted in a similar manner as applications are in the "apps" tab?
If you bring up the Stack Apps home page (the apps tab), you will notice that the items are sorted according to their score and recent activity.
Can we please sort the UserScripts (the scripts tab) ...
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Removing StackExchange dropdown and mobile version of auth dialog
Would it be possible to remove the StackExchange drop down (hot questions, sites, inbox) from the Auth dialog?
Typically when displaying dialog, you don't want the user to start browsing questions ...
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Can we have the usage pages linked to the side bar?
The usage page for the API used in the blog is a very good reference of the current API methods, and slightly better then the current documentation link in the FAQ.
Would it at all be possible to ...
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OAuth implicit login dialog layout on Mobile Safari needs improvement
On mobile safari (iOS 13.3.1) the layout of the dialog page could be improved.
On opening the page look like this on an iPhone11:
The reasoning being this request is that the login dialog in the ...