A question about how the API returns questions.
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Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes
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Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes is a UserScript for any Stack Exchange site that makes it extremely simple to check for duplicate questions for a post. In the left side ...
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Are apps created from the CC data dump ok to add?
I've created a few apps in the past using the CC data dumps that I can't move over to the API at this point. It seems like the stackapps site is meant to be the place to find apps for Stack Exchange ...
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List of example questions
Since it's hard to find examples of questions with various attributes, maybe we can turn this into a reference?
Here's the problem: I want to try out the locked_date attribute in one of my apps, but ...
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Why these questions do not have a title?
Hitting the following /questions route:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/74?pagesize=1&page=1
the endpoint returns this JSON data:
{
"total": 1,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 1,
...
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Getting questions with multiple tags
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/tagged/gwt,google-app-engine returns nothing, but http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gwt+google-app-engine does have plenty of entries. And ...
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The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags
Take these two API calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?tagged=php;rant
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/tagged/php;rant
A couple of problems:
Shouldn't they return the ...
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Format a list of questions
The following quickie command line application formats a list of questions obtained from search results.
Requirements:
Perl, JSON
Usage:
Retrieve a list of questions from the API (from the ...
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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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Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I'm having a problem returning a list of users questions within a given timespan. I understand that the documentation ( http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/questions ) that ...
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Elections nominations posts not showing up in API
I know that it's probably unintended that the Primary voting scores were leaked by the API, but I think if you're going to remove it, then at least make it official, so I won't have to wonder if it's ...
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Newest unaswered by tags
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Often, when I was looking for questions to answer on StackOverflow, I would go through newest unanswered questions and look for those that had one of my favorite tags. The “my ...
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Retrieving list of c# questions
I am trying to retrieve list of c# questions using http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions?title=true&tagged="c#".
But I get JSON response related to c questions.
Response :
{
"total": ...
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Error retrieving question using a filter that includes question.notice
I have created a filter to include the question.notice field. It seems to be OK as returned by
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/filters/-9xc1l%2Au-JEsf_Q
Then if I want to fetch this question using ...
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How to check if a given question is changed
What is the fastest way to check if a question is changed using the API calls?
For my purpose (a cache), a question is considered changed if:
A new comment is added to the question or to any of its ...
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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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Oddity with migration data from questions
Take a look at this question on SuperUser. Apparently, it was migrated from ServerFault, and was originally asked by user 3d1l. However, now look at the API result: ...
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Ideas for dealing with this pagination problem?
Okay, here is the problem:
Certain questions contain more than one page's worth of answers. Given a sort method and an answer id, how can we figure out which page the answer is on?
Any suggestions ...
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How should I understand “timeline_type”: “votes” record in question timeline?
Take a look at the partial results of this query:
{
"timeline_type": "votes",
"post_id": 2544061,
"creation_date": 1269993600,
"owner": {
// omitted for brevity
},
"action": "7 ...
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I can't get a response for /questions/{id} in Chrome Extension
I'm writing a Chrome Extension that queries the API. Using jQuery, I have the following code called from my background page:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/' + id
...
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Question's title attribute is not HTML encoded
Question's title attribute is not HTML encoded.
Examples:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/456815?body=true&answers=true
title: "Problems with HTML <marquee> tag"
...
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Non-verbatim search strings in py-stackexchange
Hello,
I am writing a python program with py-stackexchange that takes a query and returns a list of urls to questions with that query in the title. Here's the code:
#!c:/Python27/python.exe -u
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How to control vote count for individual user?
How do I find if user has already voted for a particular question/answer?
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Unanswered questions API does not work
The /questions/unanswered API returns the full list of questions (same as /questions).
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Get questions content from StackOverflow API
I need to get the question content from StackOverflow site.
I already built the functions that parse the HTML for a question, and return me the question content.
But, I found that there is an API, ...
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Questions returned by /questions/{ids}/related do not contain link properties
The API docs claim that /questions/{ids}/related return question objects, but I can't find a link property on the returned questions at all.
Is there some sort of workaround to find the link for a ...
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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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Can I get the FAQ ordering via the API?
StackExchange sites have a feature to order by FAQ, e.g.:
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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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questions/id is sometimes missing an owner?
Every once in a while when I query: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/id I get a question back that is missing the owner field. Is this expected? I haven't seen anything about owner being ...
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Sort ranges on /questions/unanswered is broken
The following API request should return all unanswered questions with a score of at least 30:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/questions/unanswered?sort=votes&min=30
However, the response ...
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Questions with accepted answers
I know that you could technically loop through the answers returned when you ask for /questions/{id} to see if an answer has been accepted, but it would be AWESOME if there was a top level boolean ...
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Ajax get questions by tags ERROR
i'm trying getting questions by tags.
this is my simple code and i'm running this from my http://localhost:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$.ajax({
...
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JSON parsing, won't work
Hi i'm using the stackapps api, retrieving questions by tags the code works well, and the json is returned, now i need to parse the json and i think there is somenthing wrong with my code:
$.ajax({
...
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Bug - Getting partial results for questions
When processing http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/1156985 I only get partial results. Many of the missing fields are mandatory fields, including the owner of the question.
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The /questions/{id}/timeline route isn't working.
I'm getting a response code 500 for the /questions/{id}/timeline route. I've tried it in Firefox and by fetching a response in Java.
Example URL: ...
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Stackoverflow app that can popup question with certain tag as they asked in realtime
I am in search of kind of app that can notify about new question in real time as they are posted.
I can create such app with the api provided but i don't want to do that if that is already being done ...
