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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Can we have subdomains under stackapps.com with application or library names?
For example,
http://stackmobile.stackapps.com (George Edison)
http://stackdeck.stackapps.com (iconiK)
http://stackapplet.stackapps.com (George Edison)
for application or library owners?
I think ...
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When API site goes offline, please return a JSON , instead of Stack Overflow alike offline HTML page
I've just noticed that my api queries are failing in JSON parsing, because of API Site shows offline HTML Page.
I wish it would return a valid JSON response, instead of HTML Page.
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Prevent that posts tagged with app or library enter Community Wiki mode when the owner edits it 8 times
I've edited my App 8 times and my question has switched automatically to Community Wiki (I'm aware that it's reported in the faq).
The main reason of these many edits is my shaky english, but I can ...
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Deleting an application key?
Hi. Shouldn't there be delete buttons on http://stackapps.com/apps so we can delete API-keys? Or at least de-activate them? I mean, cancelled projects, etc... A deletion button would be real handy.
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Creation of an API 'about' method for the application key being passed
Hi there!
Because the API uses a key, I'd like to ask if a request can be created so that, on application start (and, during runtime), you can ask whether your key is valid, and get back information ...
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Don't allow requests with No Key to use existing session with valid API Key
Once I did a request with a valid API key
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY
Every requests (from that IP) later on without key will use existing session with API key, limit ...
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Could there be a way to check stats on a key?
I think it would be very helpful if there was a way to get statistics about your own API keys.
That way, you could find out which IP addresses were using your app the most. (And if one was abusing ...
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Document fields that may be not be included in responses
I'd like to see documentation on what fields may not be included in responses or, alternatively, which fields are guaranteed to be included. Currently it's a little confusing because some fields may ...
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Can we not limit requests based on the first one?
According to the answer given to this question, it seems like the API limits requests based on the first one. (Regardless of the presence of a key.)
Can this please be changed? It really hinders ...
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Provide a “latest” version for apps that want to keep up
By pointing my application at
http://api.stackoverflow.com/n.n/...
or possibly http://api.stackoverflow.com/latest/...
I could keep up with all the version changes released.
Alternate forms to ...
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Is there a way to discover what versions are available?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help works.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help does not.
Is there something that returns 0.8 as the most recent version? And/or is there something that lists every ...
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Featured questions API
Can we get an API to get the list of featured questions (/questions/featured)?
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Exclude help requests and redirects from the API limit
Help API requests probably should not count towards the no-key API limit. The most likely usage scenario of the API without a key is when people are trying to learn it, which means reading the help a ...
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Can the server side of the API be open sourced?
I would like to see the open source Stack Exchange clones (OSQA/Shapado) to implement the same API, and this would help considerably.
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Feature Request to Include Gravatar URL for Users API
The result set for the users API does not return the URL for the user's Gravatar.
For reference: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users
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Support - Another thing from Meta
We really need to have the support tag as a required tag.
Why? Well...
http://stackapps.com/questions/87/what-is-the-syntax-for-specifying-parameters
...
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Official Status Site/Page/Banner
It would be useful to have an official status displayed somewhere.
A banner on all stackapps.com pages, or a specific page that we could view to see the status of the API.
Just now I tried to view ...
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Verifying and linking SE users from external sites.
It would be great if you could allow your sites user base to link too their SE userId and this could then be verified.
Not sure if there are privacy issues here, but one way would be too include the ...
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API key limit increase support
One of the things that came up in the discussion on this question was the fact that the 10K limits might not be enough for websites that want to use the SE API.
It might be a good idea to add a ...
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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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Should there be a discovery API?
It would seem to me that a simple API that return an array of the API base URL and perhaps the common name of the sites that support the API would be valuable. Is this sensible?
EDIT:
This is what I ...
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What category does a website fit under?
I developed a mobile front end to StackOverflow... and I was wondering what category it fit under...
I mean, is it an app? Something else?
I think we need an additional category: services.
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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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Shared app ownership between multiple StackApps users
It would be nice to have the ability to allow multiple SA users to share ownership over one application. Is this something coming down the line?
