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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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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Provide a method to search for sites
Due to the new pagination of the /sites method in v1.1 of the API, we have to go through all the pages of sites to check whether a site exists, or allow the user to search for a site.
Would it be ...
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What is the best way to provide support for an unknowable number of StackExchange sites?
I just wrote an app for Chrome extensions and received a request to make it cross-StackExchange compatible. If there's eventually going to be more sites than just the few listed and I don't really ...
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Last activity date
It would be useful if the API allowed you to return items based on their last activity date. Let's take a question for example.
/questions/fromlastactivitydate=XYZ&tolastactivitydate=XYZ
All ...
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How about a regex filter in the tags API?
The tags API has a "filter" parameter but it only matches the exact substring in the parameter in the tags.
On Travel we have one kind of tags, IATA airport codes (SYD for Sydney, SFO for San ...
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Global Inbox **Unviewed Count** API
Ok so some of the messages in the GI are private, those could be filtered out of the API return, or replaced by a type = private so that apps can let the user that if they want to see it they have to ...
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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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Featured questions API
Can we get an API to get the list of featured questions (/questions/featured)?
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"is_edited": false or "is_edited": true as an option in the API response
When working with the Stack Exchange API I noticed that there is important data (at least for what I thought to do) not available, whether the question, answer or comment was edited or not:
{
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How can I filter events by event_type?
I am using the /events route in the API and it returns all events from Stack Overflow.
But I want to filter based on event_type. Is there any way to do that?
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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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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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Remove [app] questions from active
Now we have a special app tab, shouldn't the [app] questions at least be given lower priority on the active tab, which is now for development?
Ideally it would be to have the ability to sort the app ...
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Complete question timeline including votes
Is there any chance to get more information in questions timeline such as when it has been upvoted, when it has been downvoted, same for all answers, including comments, and other actions such as vote ...
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Rather than remove site from /sites set status close, at least temporarily
I noticed today, due to some exceptions, that sites that do not perform in beta can be closed and thus removed from /sites.
If you persist data, you will need to check your data every time you pull /...
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How to use the stackapps API from JavaScript with XMLHttpRequest or XDomainRequest?
I had an idea for an app that required calling the stackapps API from JavaScript, but when I started prototyping it I quickly found out that the API does not allow cross origin requests. This means ...
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How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date
The API documentation describes tthe usage of /questions/featured. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to sort the result by bounty_closes_date, which is IMO the sort option making most ...
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Can I get the FAQ ordering via the API?
StackExchange sites have a feature to order by FAQ, e.g.:
Screenshot
This is in fact an ordering by the number of related questions and often produces very nice results.
Can you get that ordering ...
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Add revision diffs to API?
This may be a bit of a stretch, but I was wondering if it could be possible for the API to return the diff between two revisions? Or the next best option, to have the API return the markdown value of ...
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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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associated_users does not have a root level key
in order to uniquely identify a associated_users on must traverse the object graph into the onsite object and construct an artificial key.
it makes more sense to either flatten the structure or, more ...
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stackapps data corpus
Hi all,
This may be kinda naive, but is there a way to get a snapshot of StackApps' entire corpus of data? I wish to be able to query things like: "All questions, of all users"...
Thanks
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added_date in users/{id}/favorites method result
Is it possibile to include an "added_date" parameter on users/{id}/favorites method result?
It would be helpful when method is called with "added" sort parameter.
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Can we have all possible closed reasons in help page?
Can we have all possible closed_reasons in help page and if possible, closed_reason_id, too?
For example
closed_reason_id=1, closed_reason="exact duplicate",
closed_reason_id=2, closed_reason="off-...
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Return URL of the non-API question URL
I would find it very useful, if the API response for question (and answer etc.) contained a URL to the question page itself (preferably absolute).
E.g. the response for question 305 here would ...
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Do tags have "Id" field?
According to help page, there is no "Id" field.
But I am just wondering if there id "Id" field for tags, can we get it through API too?
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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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Get tags from question through an answer [duplicate]
I'd like to use this function: /users/{ids}/answers 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 a possibility of having ...
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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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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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Is there any way we could have more information about tags in /questions?
In the /tags route, the following information is returned for a specific tag:
{
"name": "c#",
"count": 262613,
"is_required": false,
"is_moderator_only": false,
"has_synonyms": true
}
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Add last_access_date field to the shallow_user object
Would it be possible to add the last_access_date field to the shallow_user object? I presume this corresponds to the seen field when visiting someone's profile.
My reasoning is that it saves the ...
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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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ID number for sites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
please add a key fields to stackauth results
It would be easier if sites each had an ID, it help with keeping track of them, not only in a numerical way (which is generally ...
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Provide a unique ID for each site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
please add a key fields to stackauth results
Would it be possible to return an Id for each site in this method that won't change and so can be used in URIs? It would be more ...
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Add last_awarded_date to users/{id}/badges
I'm working on an activity notification app. It would be helpful to know the date of the last award for each badge, so the app can notify of changes since the last query.
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Support longer url paths [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
URL Length Limit For For Requests Taking Vectorised Ids (/answers/{id}, /questions/{id}, etc)
update
bp's comment makes it clear that it is a url length issue. And now that I ...
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