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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Write access (post answers, comments etc. on behalf of users)
From what I can tell, there's currently no way to write to StackExchange sites using the API. Are there any plans to support this? This would mean some implementation headaches, such as providing a ...
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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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please add a key fields to stackauth results
While it is a step in the right direction, the /sites return is missing a vital component: a key field.
All of the data currently in /sites is the arbitrary data that can change.
We need a constant ...
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Can we have some sort of notification system?
It seems like the only way to get notified of certain events is to poll the site continuously. And as per the current policy, it seems like there should be at least a 2 minute delay between requests.
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all api endpoints except api.stackoverflow.com are failing paged requests with HTML 503
UPDATE:
I am being told that this is by design.
I could not disagree more.
The inconsistent 503 throttling issue aside, the API is JSON based. HTML errors serve no purpose in response to an API ...
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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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Don't include answers in question lists by default
Right now, question list API queries (such as /questions, /questions/unanswered, /user/{id}/questions and so on) also return at most 30 answers (apparently) for each question. While this might be ...
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Can there be a way to find a user given his email hash?
Given a user's email, it would be great if we could hash it and search for that user with it.
The reason for this is suppose:
Someone has a website
On that website, they invite SO users to enter ...
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Why does the API lack (proper) HTTP cache control headers?
I've just read Kevins answer to Do I need API key to use StackAuth API? and been quite surprised that the API doesn't seem to facilitate proper HTTP caching already:
You really shouldn't be ...
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API Suggestion: suppress http error code when jsonp is specified
Conclusion: fast response by Kevin enables the JSONP functionality of the API to assume it's rightful description of awesome.
http://soapi.info/Code/JS/Stable/ErrorTest.htm
The JSONP functionality ...
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Finding a user given their (exact) display name
For my app, I allow people to "register" themselves on my site by typing in their Stack Overflow (etc) name. Now it does allow you to use your ID if you know it, but I find that typing in usernames is ...
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Why I think Area51 needs an API.
Okay, I have to admit that I never dreamed I would be advocating an API for Area51. But here I am doing it :)
I think we need an API for Area51. Granted, the whole concept of questions and answers is ...
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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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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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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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Global Inbox uses the API?
Just wondering if the GI uses the APIto work, it could but it would require a lot of requests (though it won't take up [internet] bandwidth because it's done inside the server cluster (that is ...
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
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display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
usually in the owner dictionary there is a display_name value to give the username. But in a few questions it simply doesn't exist and I can't see why only those questions: eg, this excerpt from the ...
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Is there a way to determine total number of upvotes and downvotes (etc) for a user (regardless of reputation cap)?
For example, if you use the /users/<id>/reputation call, you get a list of reputation changes for the user, but it takes the daily reputation cap into account. What I would like is an API call ...
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Filter support for regex or wildcards
Filter would be significantly more useful it it supported Regex or wildcards. Ideally under a different parameter. Wildcard could be with the * or the %. This would allow for "starts-with" or ...
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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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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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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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AND searching for tags?
I am using the search api to search for questions that are tagged with "tags" and not with "tags". However I have noticed that searching for tags is an OR search.
The questions search for tags is an ...
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Will the API support the chat system?
Having read through come of the questions on here it's my understanding that v 1.0 of the API is for read-only access to real-time data, pretty much what's available in the data dump. Write support is ...
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Link to SVG logo on stackauth
Could you host SVG version of logo and put a link on stackauth in http://stackauth.com/sites ?
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please expose stackauth via a url that is consistent with the api
Most libraries and apps need to version themselves by adding the version number to the url and subsequently most of the http request code includes this information in the url building process.
the ...
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Get Site Icon or Icon Url
Is there a way to get the icon or the IconUrl of the site so I can put it in my app like the DisplayName?
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Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
I know you wanted to reduce the amount of data returned, but hasn't it gone a little far?
Especially as there are no numerical site IDs. For example the Apple site is now called AskDifferent, however ...
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/tags fromdate and todate does nothing
Altough the help/documentation lists 'todate' and 'fromdate' parameters for tags they do not work. This may be related to tags not having a creation_date. It would be great if we could filter tags by ...
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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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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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Answers information with tags
I am trying to chart the up votes on answers received by a user by tags. Something like:
I am running into the same situation as this question: How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag?.
If the ...
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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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Add 'linked' question data to the API
SE sites show linked questions on the right column.
It would be great to add an array of ids to the question response called 'linked'.
Example Linked Question
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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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Make site icons have transparent backgrounds
This is a request to make the site's icons have transparent backgrounds. They are already PNGs, so they support that. This would make applications such as Droidstack look much better.
Although ...
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Add List of Libraries to “Get Started” sidebar
I suggest that a link to the List of libraries be added to the "Get Started" sidebar to provide a clear and obvious discovery path.
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In the timeline the ability to know what events belong to what question
Take this example:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/questions/3165492;3182016/timeline
Would it not make sense to have the question_id as a parameter on each timeline object? It makes the timeline ...
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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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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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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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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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Merging/migration should be reflected by the API
Now that we have a new merging/migration system that keeps records of all merges, I think that this information should be visible through the API:
Questions that are merged into other questions ...
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Get a user's “interesting tags”
The current implementation of the API does not provide a way for us to fetch a user's "interesting tags". The /users/{id}/tags unfortunately returns all tags a user has participated in, which I'm not ...
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Can we get a sandbox please?
I think that we should have some sort of a sandbox site where we can posted questions, answers and mentions in a control environment.
Currently I'm wokring with StackOverflow but I can post "test" ...
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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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Is there going to be an API for the Careers site?
Is there going to be an API for access to the careers site? I could understand that it would be different to the rest of the Stack Exchange APIs, but I could see that it could be useful for use cases ...
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Can I get more results/options from /users/{ids}/top-answer-tags?
/users/{ids}/top-answer-tags returns the top 30 tags for a given user. It's also the only endpoint that returns the user's tag scores along with the rest of the tag info. I'd like to use this data ...
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Add information to badges/{id} method.
Currently, there is no practical way to retrieve badge information given its ID. I would like to see title and description added at the very least.
Current method for retrieving the data:
call the ...
