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SymbolHound: Search Stack Overflow for special characters
About
http://symbolhound.com/
SymbolHound is a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. I was always frustrated that I couldn't search for symbols like >> and && using ...
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Can we have some debug endpoints for testing corner cases?
After encountering a throttle violation today (which I posted in another question), it occurred to me that although I've put together code to handle "backoff" conditions, and potentially throttle ...
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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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API Inconsistencies
In my opinion, one of the hallmarks of a good API is that it is self-consistent. It establishes easy-to-remember conventions and then follows them.
As I'm trying to adopt the 2.0 API, I'm finding ...
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Certain users aren't showing up in /users when filter is applied
NB: The filter parameter in v1.x of the API had a different meaning to the filter parameter in v2.0
Consider the following query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users?filter=jon%20skeet
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WordPress Widget to display a Stack Overflow profile
What?
Background: A WordPress widget is a re-usable and configurable set of code that renders something visually, into a WordPress blog. The blog administrator typically configures the set of widgets ...
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Guidance on usage thresholds - specifically throttling
I am running a lot of tests and have started to get 403 errors.
I am using a key and certainly have not exceeded my quota.
Am I running foul of some yet unmentioned throttling threshold and if so, ...
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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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Are there any API's to get details from careers stack exchange site?
Planning to create a blog widget which shows data from careers page.
This can be done using an iframe but was looking at other avenues as well.
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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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No award_count field on any badges
The docs say the default filter includes award_count, and I've made a filter with it in. But no award_count is returned on any badge route.
The exception being when a badge item is returned in ...
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Helping people is 'noise or pointless'?
How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]
closed as noise or pointless by Kevin Montrose♦ Aug 16 at 23:15
This question does not add ...
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Inbox item not marked as read after viewing
Accessing inbox items using the following url:
/me/inbox
Unread inbox items remain unread (is_unread = true) even after that specific item has been read using the API (v2.1).
The items are marked ...
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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 can I tell if a revision GUID is going to return a NULL body?
I'm trying to use the GUID returned by the revisions object to create links to raw markdown pages on a given SE site. For instance, if I wanted to see the last revision of:
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Careers 2.0 - Member profile button / overview
I've been going around Stackapps, stackoverflow and all throughout Google to find a widget such as this, or a tool such as this for the Careers 2.0 page. Would like to inlude it on my personal site. ...
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help with good way to perform SQL queries programatically (and my failed attempt to use OData)
I'll give you the context of what I was doing in case anyone wants to offer suggestions for the best route I might take to achieve my goal, which is to have easy access to do queries on the newish ...
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is there an api call to request all valid access tokens?
is there an api call to request all valid access tokens? Especially no_expiry ones. It seems like if you lose track of a no_expiry access token there's no way to invalidate it. Is that the case?
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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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App to hide StackExchange notifications, all sites and hot questions (only show inbox)
Please make a app that would hide StackExchange notifications, all sites and hot questions (only show inbox).
I prefer using Tampermonkey (Chrome)
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Get current inbox item types and notification types
The pages for inbox_item and notification contain the following:
Be aware that the types of items returned by this method are subject
to change at any time. In particular, new types may be ...
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Information visible only to high-rep users
Can the API return information that would otherwise be visible only to high-rep users, regardless of which user is using the API?
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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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Is there any way to access the SE Site Advertisement backgrounds?
I really like the background images for inter site advertisement:
etc,.
Is there a way to have easy access to these? I'm hoping to use them within my application.
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The 1.0/sites API call is not returning all stackexchange sites
Version 1 of the /sites API call does not appear to be returning all sites currently in the StackExchange network.
Compared to calling version 2 of the API with a large page size, the list of sites ...
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QuickStack - A Simple Browser Extension
About QuickStack
QuickStack allows you to quickly view StackOverflow questions without visiting the question page. This was inspired by the Reddit Enhancement Suite and it's feature that allows quick ...
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WordPress Plugin to Display SE Activity?
Is there a WordPress plugin that will display a users activity from any of the StackExchange sites (i.e. display their answers and questions, etc.)?
If there isn't a WordPress plugin for this, is ...
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How to add stackoverflow api to ruby on rails app
I created ruby on rails app. And i want to crawl data form stackoverflow, i know to use stackoverflow api but i don't know to add it to my app. Please help me, add it to ruby on rails app.
I user ...
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Could we add “has_tag_wiki” and “has_tag_wiki_excerpt” flags to the tag info API?
Currently the only way to check for existence of tags wikis and tag wiki excerpts is to fetch their actual contents using the tags wikis API
/tags/{tags}/wikis
But this returns the entire text ...
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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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How can I auth app to a browser extension?
I've registered a client ID, but all samples is for online usage.
How can I complete the authentication flow in a browser plugin?
Such as chrome extension, it has a self domain like ...
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Find the recently added tag or find the tags that are new to Stack Overflow
I was looking into the Stack Overflow API, to find the tags that are newly added to Stack Overflow.
But I could not form a URL to meet my requirement.
I found this URL, but the author has not listed ...
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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
Summary
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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An associated query is returning a partial record for Area 51
This issue has recurred (and is ongoing) as of a couple of weeks ago.
Most notably, as before, the on_site attribute is missing from Area 51.
This is API 1.0, by the way.
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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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How to delete an OAuth (2.0) API key?
I created a couple of extra keys I don't need. Can I delete them? I don't see an option anywhere in the list or on the page for the key itself.
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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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Using Stack API for a Forum?
I don't know if this is the right stack site to ask this...
Would it be possible to build a forum using the stack API? Would it even make sense?
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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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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 ...
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Possible bug in /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers
If I search for a non existing tag I get some results. I expect simply nothing, because I have no such tagged questions.
