Question about any of the API methods that return, in some form, information about tags.
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Parameter `tagged` in `search/advanced` seems to use `AND` instead of `OR`
It seems that search/advanced has the same problem as in "The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags" question.
When I select c#; .net I only get results tagged both c# and .net:
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Possible to get more than 5 tags for /search? Or to use or-logic, for tags, in /questions?
This is the query I want to run:
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How can I use the Stack Exchange API to get the total number of upvotes on answers to questions with a specific tag?
I want to use the API to get the sum of all scores of my answers to questions having a specific tag.
I started using top-user-answers-in-tags method, but it only returns the top 30, whereas I want ...
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Stack Overflow Tag Manager
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About
Stack Overflow Tag Manager is a Greasemonkey script for expressing your tag preferences, which partly inspired Stack Overflow's own tag preferences feature.
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Getting questions that have a specific tag or tags?
In the current api (2.1) how do you get questions that have a specific tag or tags?
e.g.:
1) All stackoverflow questions asked in the past 2 months tagged 'ruby'?
2) All stackoverflow questions asked ...
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How do I get the no. of upvotes a person has received for a particular tag?
I need the list of users who have more than 10K reputation and then among those users I need to see which user has how many up-votes for each tag. I don't there is a direct query that will give me ...
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Can you access a user's tag reputation/score via the API?
Is it possible to retrieve a user's tag specific reputation/score via the API? If not, is it possible to make an API call that returns enough information that you can calculate the value?
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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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Are “api-key” and “app-key” the same thing?
When tagging my last couple of questions about registering for a key I noticed there are two similar-looking tags:
api-key - 17 uses and a tag wiki
app-key - 8 uses, no tag wiki
Do they ...
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how to use tags/{tags}/related
I am new to stackapps. I am wondering how to apply /tags/{tags}/related to more than one tags. The documentation does not give an example. I tried
/2.0/tags/c,java/related?site=stackoverflow, ...
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Can we merge the 'library' and 'wrapper' tags?
There seems to be some fragmentation amongst the tags assigned to wrappers/libraries. Some have library, some have wrapper, and some have both.
If I'm not mistaken, they are the same thing. Can we ...
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Is there an API to fetch tags related to a given tag?
I'm interested in making a tool that explores the tags of a site for tags which should be merged or mention each other in tag wikis etc.
On the page of any given tag there is a column on the right of ...
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Getting error 4002 when calling tags method without a sort parameter
According to the documentation, calling the tags method without a sort parameter should return the recently used tags, since the default sort is by activity.
Instead, I get an error 4002 with the ...
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The inname parameter does not work with multiple parameters
I am trying to get details by passing semicolon delimited list in inname paramter but it is not working.
I tried below API call:
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/users/tags should contain scores
I am implementing some simple JavaScript/bookmarklet based apps that show some reputation info, including the score in the User's top tags (roughly based on this previous bookmarklet of mine).
Now I ...
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Get a list of required tags for site
How can I get the tags which are required, (fulfills_required = true) for each site?
Like order/filter the tags route to show the fulfills_required tags first?
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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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Documentation of /users/{id}/top-answer-tags conflicts with implementation.
According to the documentation:
/users/{id}/top-answer-tags or /me/top-answer-tags – Get the top 30 tags (by score) a single user has posted answers in.
However in practice, when retrieving data ...
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The “/tags/{tags}/wikis” API does not return the proffered “body_last_edit_date” or “excerpt_last_edit_date” fields
The API for /tags/{tags}/wikis offers body_last_edit_date and excerpt_last_edit_date fields.
Both are selected in the default filter. But neither are actually returned even for tags I'm 100% sure ...
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Could the /tags API return minimal information about synonyms?
It would be very helpful if the /tags API could provide at least a bare minimum of information about tag synonyms. Either:
Number of synonyms the tag has, if any.
Or a true/false flag for tags which ...
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Why don't the tags APIs expose the tag IDs?
It seems that all tags have an internal ID, for instance here on stackapps, the api-v2 tag has ID 2442 which you can only see if you edit the api-v2 tag.
As far as I can see none of the APIs expose ...
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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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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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Bold and colorful area tags
About:
This script is written for cstheory.SE and MathOverflow. It modifies the way the area tags (tags having . in their names) are displayed.
The script is based on Hexadecimal user rep.
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API to get the small tag info displayed in the popup
I do not know if this is possible, or if this is even prohibited, but here goes.
I am creating a website where I talk a lot about the web and different programming languages. Now I want to create ...
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Greasemonkey Script: Show all results from a search, even if they would be hidden by your ignored tags
greasemonkey script to make it so no questions are hidden based on their tags when you are searching
I'm currently ignoring the Perl tag because I don't know anything about it, but occasional I want ...
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Collapse interesting and ignored tags sections!
Are you annoyed by to large interesting/ignored tags sections?
I've created a user script to collapsing it!
Stack Ignore Collapse .user.js
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List all tags in use on stackoverflow
I am trying to list all tags used on stackoverflow here: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/tags and I cannot seem to list all.
How do I do it?.
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I want to receive email alerts if a question is asked with a specific tag. Is there an app for that?
The title says it all. Does this exist?
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Method /users/{id}/top-answer-tags is returning wrong results
I'm trying the following request:
(555004 happens to be my user id)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/555004/top-answer-tags
and I'm a bit confused by the result:
{
top_tags: [
{
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Hide tag info popup
This script hides the tag info popup. In response to this post.
Install - View Source
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Query Tag followers?
I was hoping to use the APIs to discover the number of questions for a given Tag as well as the number of followers. I found how to get the number of questions, but not the number of followers. On ...
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You can gain reputation from edits to tag wikis, although they are not accessible through the API.
Reputation gain from edits to tag wikis appear through the API; the API reports them as answers, but fetching them via the /answers route does not work.
Case in point:
My accepted edit (+2 rep)
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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API request to query all tags / taxonomy of languages based on filter param?
Looking through the api docs it would seem that pretty much everything is there except something I wanted to investigate if it would be possible to do. Which is to query the stackoverflow taxonomy ( ...
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Include tag “objects” in questions
getting a question returns among other things an array of tag names, it would be better if it return a whole tag "object" in other words: the count and fulfills_required (okay maybe not the fulfills ...
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Maximum tags for a question on any SE site
Is the maximum tags for all SE sites (and those in the future) 5?
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Maximum tag name length?
Does this exist? Or it is again just the "suggested size" with no hard limits? Im trying to figure out how to best store them in a database.
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What's the difference between tags soapi.cs and soapi.js to get a bug triggered by the former?
Right now questions tagged soapi.cs returns a HTTP status code 404 (for various HTTP clients) while questions tagged soapi.js does not.
Interestingly though, soapi.cs seems to work just fine in other ...
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Any way for /tags to provide unanswered count?
I am trying to get a count of unanswered questions by tag. Basically if there was an 'unanswered-count' in addition to the 'count' property of the /tags response that would be perfect.
It has been ...
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How to mimic search behavior of Stack sites?
I want to mimic the behavior of the search field that can be found on all Stack sites. How should I do this?
Filter by tags if all words (how exactly is this detected?) in the query are tags.
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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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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?
It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
