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The API allows you to get question data based on ID, so since all forms of question URLs for Stack Exchange sites have an ID in them, you can pull that value out and pass it to the /questions/{ids} route.
Likewise, if you don't know the specific site in advance, you can pull out the hostname and pass that in dynamically.
As an example, I parse out similar ...
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There is an /events route that:
"Returns a stream of events that have occurred on the site."
Greg Hewgill has created a firehose JSON streaming event service which closely mimics the Twitter Streaming API.
He has also created a page to demo the service here: StackHose: live real-time event stream in your browser
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Actually this can be done with using the rss feed channel on ifttt. together with the rss feed from the Stack2rss app that transforms stackoverflow api queries to an rss feed.
like:
http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/users/{{your user id}}/questions?body=true
you should check the api for the specific query you like (respone, specific ...
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No, the current API does not allow you to create new posts (questions or answers). If you scroll through the documentation looking for [auth required] you'll notice that only comments can be posted at this time.
Having said that, there are a couple of issues with your bookmarklet idea. What would the title of the post be (assuming the selected text would ...
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The problem with this isn't so much the security (though that's a concern), it's that we don't want the backwards compatibility constraints such blessed installations imply on our HTML and javascript.
As such we're unlikely to ever do something like this, so I'm status-declined-ing it.
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