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Get users based on location? [duplicate]
I want to get site users by their location but I don't see any method for that.
And it's not possible with a filter either.
Is there any way to get users based on location or is it not possible?
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Is there a script to make Stack Exchange sites use the full width of the browser?
All the Stack Exchange sites are designed to take up a width of 1000px or less. Can this be expanded to have the content always try to take up all available horizontal space?
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The `top_questions` field shows outdated information?
I am using Stack Exchange API. I posted question from the doc page /questions/add to Stack Overflow. This was my first question. As that question was to check the function /questions/add, means it was ...
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Posting question using StackExchange API [duplicate]
I created one app to post questions to Stack Exchange Websites. While checking in doc page of my application, i.e., https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-question, the question is posted. If I do ...
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Obtain JSON equivalent of a full Q&A HTML page?
I want to write an application for which, after some logic to select a set of questions, it would be most convenient to get the whole set of stuff at once that is normally shown on a Stack Exchange Q&...
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"client_id rejected" error when retrieving the access_token
I'm developing an application in C# and I to post questions, so I need an access token.
I registered my application and I have received a client ID. Then I get the following query-string to get the ...
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C# Stackexchange Questions API [duplicate]
I need to build an web application C# and below is what I'm stuck with
Can I use Stack Exchange's API with Key? Do they have a "hello world" key can be used for learning purpose.
I wish to get the ...
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Differences between versions 1.x and 2.x of the Stack Exchange API?
I had written a Java Wrapper for the Stack Exchange API, version 1.x, Which was working perfectly.
But, since 12 May 2014, services for version 1.x have been shutdown and my Wrapper stopped working.
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How to set the width of an image in the body of a question?
I used the questions/{ids}/edit to add a hyperlinked image at the end of a question. It works if I use the default dimensions of the image. However, if I specify the width using width="320" or style="...
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Message Notification App for AskUbuntu and/or StackExchange
I was wondering if there is any way to get notified in due time when someone replies to my posts/comments on AskUbuntu.com or StackExchange.com, other than via email notifications.
What I have in ...
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Is there support for Unicoins in the StackExchange API?
I would like to integrate Unicoins into my StackExchange Palm OS app. I'm using API v2 but I don't see any documentation. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/02/stack-exchange-api-v2-0-no-longer-beta/...
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AttributeError with Py-StackExchange
i'm trying to execute this python script :
#! /usr/bin/python
import stackexchange
so = stackexchange.Site(stackexchange.StackOverflow)
my_favourite_guy = so.user(41981)
print my_favourite_guy....
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Advanced search API not returning data for "phonegap" tag
I am trying to gather results from the API for the tag phonegap but the API is not returning any data.
I am using /search/advanced and get nothing back for November:
{
"items": [],
"...
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V2.1 API body HTML has unclosed li tags
The Stack Exchange API (with a safe filter) is returning question body content with malformed HTML, specifically <li> elements that do not have closing tags (and no valid parent).
I've seen ...
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Tags missing when fetching from API filtered by dates
I'm experimenting with the API, trying to get the tags used in the last month on Stack Overflow, and it seems like some tags are missing. For example, I don't get anything for "jquery":
http:...
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Can the API support per-item questions?
What I'm seeing so far is that the API is for a site-wide collection of questions.
Can someone use the API to decorate a website's products or articles with questions and answers (on a per-item ...
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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:
/2.1/search?pagesize=100&page=1&order=desc&sort=creation&tagged=linux,ubuntu,bash,linux-mint,mint,linux-distributions,linux-distro,archlinux,&site=...
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Not possible to login to approve or reject access to application on Windows Phone 7 device
I'm making an app for Windows Phone using the Stack Exchange API but I'm having a bit of trouble when I try to let the user approve the application (using client side flow).
I open a web browser at ...
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How do you list you stack exchange apps
I wanted to know how you're supposed to get a list of apps you've registered on the stack exchange api.
I finally managed to find this url: https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth
My question is this: How ...
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Wrapper implementation method to get user notifications in Stack Exchange?
I'm trying to build an app that requires me to get the user notifications for a particular Stack Exchange user.
Now, I'm trying to use Java to accomplish this and I came across this wrapper library: ...
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Downloading data en masse
I'm currently in the early stages of developing an Emacs major mode for the Stack Exchange Network.
I'm a little torn on how to set up the use of the API within the mode.
Is there a way to download ...
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Get my profile information after authentication
I am coding for a mobile application and using stack exchange API 2.1. I am able to implement oauth and I have access token also.
Now I am trying to retrieve my profile information, like user_id, ...
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How do you trigger the search/advanced 'q' parameter to search all words?
When you search for “playa parents not working” on http://expressionengine.stackexchange.com, you’re brought to this URL:
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/search?q=playa+parents+not+working
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Looking for Bookmarklet to Create a Question
I want to build a small bookmarklet which can take the selected text and send it to Stack Overflow to create a new post containing the selected text.
Also get a unique id or something that helps to ...
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Are there any APIs for Careers 2.0?
I am planning to create a blog widget which shows data from a page on Careers. For this, I'll need some way to get that data. This could be done using an iframe, but I'm hoping for other avenues as ...
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No token field in the docs test page for /me/reputation-history
There is no form field for an access token at:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-reputation-history
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-full-reputation-history
After attempting to Run the API ...
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View count restriction isn't working for /search/advanced.
I have constructed the following URL, but the questions returned don't contain anywhere near 50k views, despite the query string parameter:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/search/advanced?site=...
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/suggested-edits "Try it": Link for "suggested_edit_id" is broken
When using the "Try it" feature on /suggested-edits, the link for the suggested_edit_id points towards stackexchange.com and not towards the respective site.
For example, retrieve data ...
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/answers endpoint is error-500-ing against many sites
Just calling the "/answers" endpoint, no specific arguments, and I'm getting 500 errors:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=gaming
{"error_id":500,"...
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API returning character entities in JSON
I noticed display names in the JSON contain HTML character entities; e.g.
/2.0/users/718618?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
Gives me:
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": ...
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108
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Reputation API to display a reputation history
I'm building something similar to the reputation graph / summary on the SO user page.
The answer explains that the /users/{ids}/reputation API method gives a sum of reputation for the period. So ...
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Mistake in API 2.0 Documentation - Wrong item type for Careers Message
On https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/inbox-item the Careers Message example shows the wrong item type.
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/users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers returning answers by other users
According to the description, /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers should return answers by the user on that particular tag.
Returns the top 30 answers a user has posted in response to questions ...
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Dead link in documentation
On the docs for question timelines the link for "Question" points to /docs/type/question when it should point to /docs/types/question
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Answer vote counts are not correct
I was trying to figure out the total number of answers I have that have been downvoted, and at first everything seemed awesome since the total was zero.
However, I knew this wasn't correct. For ...
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link attribute is missing from questions in /tags/{tags}/faq
Check the following requests, the link attribute is missing from questions objects in responses. I checked with the default filter and also with custom filters (both safe and unsafe).
https://api....
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type related_site not listed in 'by type' tab list
The type "related_site" is not listed in the 'by type' tab in documentation.
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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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User to de-authorise app?
The API makes use of OAuth to allow queries such as /inbox/unread. In the documentation however, I cannot seem to find a way for the user to control actively the authentication:
Is there a place for ...
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TLS security warnings from api.stackexchange.com
Each time an API request is made over HTTPS, Firefox generates the following message in the error console:
Curious, I looked up RFC 5746 and the document covers the following:
Transport Layer ...
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No views_per_day in /info route?
I'm not particularly crying over it, just curious why the views_per_day field was dropped?
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Once authorized, is there a way to auto-login with a browser?
Assuming I've created an app that authenticates the user against api-v2, is there a method to get a token or cookie that I can pass to a browser instance set to load a stack exchange site that will ...
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Am I out of luck if my http client doesn't support gzip decoding?
I'm playing with the oauth2 support in v2-beta with an http client that doesn't support gzip decoding. (My client is http spec compliant but can't deal with the non-compliance of the api on this issue)...
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What is the unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799] in the API docs?
The type of the fromdate or todate in several methods is set to
unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799]
I don't know what that is and I can't find any information -- can someone explain it or ...
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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 consists ...
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Better way to find activity changes in terms of API Usage
I am coding an application that notifies events in Stack Exchange accounts. I want to notify about badges/reputation changes, and also I would like to notify whenever a new answer or comment is posted ...
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Reputation losses aren't reflected in the API
This includes reputation recalculations (e.g., the latest) and (speculative) when people take upvote back.
First case you can see on standard stackauth/users query: it displays meta reputation before ...
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Small user scripts, one-liners, prototypes?
The script tag is to be used for complete userscripts. It would also feel kind of pollutive to swamp it with lots of smallish submissions.
Hencewhy I'm making this proposal as reference question to ...
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The 'total' field of /comments result is showing up as 0.
Running the following query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/comments
Yields:
{
"total": 0,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,
"comments": [
...
Notice that the total entry indicates there are ...
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?
Visiting the page: http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites yields the following headers:
Notably absent are the X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current headers that show up in API queries to the sites ...