You need help with the use of the Stack Exchange API, apps built on the API, or assistance building scripts that work on Stack Exchange websites.
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How do I find a user by their `display_name`?
I am using Serel (the Ruby wrapper) and would like to be able to find a user by their display_name.
As it stands right now, I can only find them via an ID - like Serel::User.find(1,2,3).
I tried ...
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Ruby wrapper for stackoverflow api - Serel, Pilha
Serel and pilha are good ruby wrappers for stackexchange api. But i am not able to access the body method for question and answers. The body method returns nil. I want the content of questions and ...
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How to search my threads based on some key words?
As I have already many threads in some StackExchange sites, sometime I would like to be able to search among them, for instance, based on some key words.
Does anyone know how to do that? Thank you!
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stackapplet and Google account
I am trying to use Stack-Applet for Ubuntu (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/stackapplet-1-4-released-ubuntu-indicator/) and I have registered on Stack Overflow using my Google account. I guess ...
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How to get technical skills tags using API
I have a requirement in my application to show the skills in auto-complete format like the stack overflow has. is there any example to get the tags from stack overflow using JavaScript + JSON.
kindly ...
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How to login programmatically
I'm building an app for personal use. The app simply screen-scrapes the StackExchange homepage and checks whether I am currently logged in to StackExchange. This works fine.
However, if the app ...
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How to tell if a given tag name is a synonym?
I've found in one of my projects that I sometimes have a string that I need to check as to whether it's a tag or a tag synonym.
To check if it's a tag synonym is easy using /tags/{tags}/info
I can ...
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Is my application's page here on stackapps good enough to use on the app registration page?
I've decided to get my first app key for one of my Stack API projects.
It's for my browser userscript: Script to add a “Related Tags” module for search on all Stack Exchange sites
On the ...
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Better understanding processing flow around authentication for multiple StackExchange sites
I'm looking at creating a new site that will allow users to interact with multiple Stack Exchange sites and to use their Stack Exchange credentials to join and login to my site. I've been reading the ...
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Correct user behaviour when /me returns no items
So if a user has a StackExchange account but not an account for the specific Site, /me will return an empty items list.
Ideally in this case, my application would send them off to 'the' URL where ...
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Is Stackusers.com gone or just down?
Stackusers.com has been down for a few days. Is it down for good?
(Hope this is an appropriate question... seems OK per FAQ).
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Receiving “redirect_uri does not match the uri used to create the passed code”, when it does match
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Using Oauth2, when I go to pick up the access_token, I get the following error from the server: access_denied: redirect_uri does not match the uri used to create the passed code. From what I ...
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How to resolve a client_id rejected error
So I am digging into the API and trying to learn it by creating my own application. I have registered for a key and currently hosting the application locally (http://localhost). On login, I receive an ...
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Name changes for a few methods
The following method names have been changed for reasons of consistency.
/access-tokens/{accessTokens}/read is now /access-tokens/{accessTokens}
/filter/create is now /filters/create
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Stackoverflow user/id to get data to a website
I am trying to get users stackoverflow info on to my website using the ids of their stackoverflow account they provide us. I am trying to get the JSON content that is available from this link: ...
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Maximum requests
I know officially that identical requests cant be done in more than one minute. But would it be a problem if I had a server which had a list of question IDs (say 10 per user, so reasonable max 10,000 ...
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api domain object unique keys
For those who wish to maintain object graphs or to persist api domain objects authoritative documentation of the field(s) that define a unique key for the object would be of value.
Some are obvious ...
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Issue with using Fiddler as a Proxy
I'm starting to add built-in support for StackOver to the OWASP O2 Platform, and just noticed that there is an issue with using the C# API with Fiddler.
It seems that the problem happens when Fiddler ...
