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Retrieving a post with a specific ID
According to this question (and its answer), questions and answers are using the same index to determine their ID. In other words:
Question with ID #1
Answer with ID #2
Answer with ID #3
Answer ...
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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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Tangoverflow - StackApps API using D with Tango
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Not yet available.
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So far, in commit #2, can successfully parse the statistics API into an object. I'll update more as I get more of the API done (but for now, I ...
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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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StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa
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StackKit is a library for accessing the Stack Exchange API from within Cocoa/Cocoa Touch applications. It is under active development, but the major core functionality is present.
Code ...
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StacksGuru: a near realtime bot for all Stack Exchange sites
UPDATE
Stacksguru address is now stacksguru@appspot.com (in the plural form) remove the old contact (stackguru@appspot.com) and use the new one.
StacksGuru is a Jabber/XMPP bot which gives you a ...
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I need Testers, anyone want to be the First?
I will be needing testers for my app "Stack Bridge". If anyone want to be the first to destroy, I mean test my app, let me know.
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Questions method does not return answers
I think questions method also return answers too and the help page says so
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=questions
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"answers": [
{
"answer_id": {
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List of Stack Sites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should there be a discovery API?
I will be great if we have a way to ask for all sites with API and get a list of apis url, names and description of the sites so I can ...
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Get the Site Display Name from the API
Is there a way to get the Site Name, like StackOverflow or ServerFault, etc.? In my app I let the user enter a url with a api for a Site and I will be great If I can tell him something like: "You Are ...
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StackBerry application for BlackBerry
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I created this app because I always wanted to create an open source application. But I never had an idea on what to do. So I used my skill in BlackBerry development ...
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The search method is returning an extra result.
By default the /search method is supposed to return 30 results per page, but it's returning 31. I only tested a few other values for pagesize but it looks like it always returns one extra result.
In ...
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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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PHPstack - A PHP wrapper to the SE API
PHPstack
PHPstack is meant to be an easy to use PHP wrapper for the Stack Exchange API.
<?php
require_once('lib/requestcore.class.php');
require_once('phpstack.class.php');
$so = new ...
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Pilha - Ruby Wrapper to the Stack Exchange API
Warning: there's still a lot of work to be done.
Edit: Pilha has been updated and now it supports most of the stack exchange api. There's still work to be done and the gem should be completely ...
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Swatch: A Firefox plugin for monitoring Stack Exchange sites for interesting changes
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A Firefox extension that lets you monitor your account activity on any Stack Exchange site that support the Stack Apps API. Automatically refreshes on a set interval to ...
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Can API stats return real revision number instead of 1234.5678?
Currently it returns like this
"revision": "1.0.1234.5678"
And looks like that number never changed.
So, Can API return real revision number whenever there is an update?
It will be very useful ...
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Flack Overstow - Generate spam from Stack Exchange posts
Online demo courtesy of George Edison:
http://quickmediasolutions.com/flack
Note: this tool now works with all Stack Exchange sites. Just paste the URL of your profile and the app will ...
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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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Is the question_id monotonically increasing?
Just wondering:
Does the question_id monotonically increase for every new question?
Is the question_id unique globally for a deployed app or is it unique in some sub-domain?
Is there any relation ...
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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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StackTracker - Cross-platform desktop notification app
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Current Version: Beta build v1.0
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StackTracker, a cross-platform desktop notifier for the StackExchange API built with PyQt4
The application displays a task ...
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List of API client libraries grouped by programming language
This question serves as an organized reference of client libraries available for the Stack Exchange API. This is intended to be an all-inclusive list of libraries, so if you develop a library, feel ...
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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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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 ...
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How to monitor questions for answers?
I am really struggling with this one...
Given a user ID, how can I monitor questions that that user has asked for new answers?
I'm worried the solution will look something like this:
Get all ...
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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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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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Help page for search is missing
It looks like search is available in the current API but there is no help page for it.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/search?intitle=test
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Building an app using a wrapper
To be considered for the contest must our app use 100% self made code or can we use someones wrapper.
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Can we have subdomains under stackapps.com with application or library names?
For example,
http://stackmobile.stackapps.com (George Edison)
http://stackdeck.stackapps.com (iconiK)
http://stackapplet.stackapps.com (George Edison)
for application or library owners?
I think ...
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When API site goes offline, please return a JSON , instead of Stack Overflow alike offline HTML page
I've just noticed that my api queries are failing in JSON parsing, because of API Site shows offline HTML Page.
I wish it would return a valid JSON response, instead of HTML Page.
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Users timeline help claims to be pageable but isn't
The help page for the users timeline call claims that the timeline can handle paging but it doesn't seem to be able to. The output doesn't have the total count of pages, etc and the page attribute ...
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Stack Exchange Java client library
Sample Code
/**
* The following will print out the current stats for the
* Stack Overflow site (stackoverflow.com).
*/
public class Example
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
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Revision help URL contains wrong header
There are two revision urls listed on the help page but they both seem to contain the same detailed information. The header for the non-guid version contains the url for the one that takes a guid. ...
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What is the correct way to get the stackoverflow.com URL for an answer via the API?
A while ago I made a little "Recently answered on Stackoverflow" sidebar widget for my homepage. Currently this works by filtering answers out of the user feed however I thought I'd update it to make ...
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analyticsoverflow - tracking question and answer counts over time
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Question, answer and comment counts for stackoverflow. The individual tag pages show a graph of the question counts over the last fortnight.
Update: Now gathers and displays data for all ...
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stackoverflow-java-sdk: a Java wrapper for the Stack Exchange API
I have released a beta snapshot version of a Java wrapper for the Stack Overflow API at http://code.google.com/p/stackoverflow-java-sdk/. Please try it and provide your feedback.
Screenshot / Code ...
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Java wrapper for Stack Exchange
I am interested in building an Android or Java ME application. Is there a Java wrapper?
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StackDeck - desktop application written in Qt
About
This handy application is your real-time desktop browser for the Stack Overflow network, allowing you to easily search for questions, answers, users, comments, and more!
License
GNU General ...
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webStack - A Stack Overflow Application for webOS
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About
webStack is my humble attempt to create an application for webOS users that enables them to browse Stack Overflow questions, answers, users, etc.
License
webStack is released ...
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/users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline - filter parameter?
Both /users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline say they take a filter parameter for users' names, but it seems to do nothing. Are they not supposed to be there?
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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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Methods that return comments document body and comments parameters but they do nothing
Methods that return comments document the "body" and "comments" parameters, but they have no effect on the results, which cannot include comments and always include the body.
Specific methods:
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Inconsistency in the handling of multiple IDs with a duplicate
There appears to be some inconsistency in the way multiple ids are being handled, especially when a duplicate exists.
Duplicate ID is significant
For example, when requesting a timeline of multiple ...
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Confirmation on sort, order and min/max
I'd like confirmation, if possible, that the following chart of sort types is correct:
sort |orderable|min/max |min/max type
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activity | yes | ...
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Deleting an application key?
Hi. Shouldn't there be delete buttons on http://stackapps.com/apps so we can delete API-keys? Or at least de-activate them? I mean, cancelled projects, etc... A deletion button would be real handy.
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Odd String Format Result from API Call
I'm just getting started messing around with the SO api, I haven't worked with JSON before, and I am getting a strange result from a basic call (No API Key).
WebClient stackClient = new WebClient();
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