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How can I extract user information on Stack Overflow using Python and the Stack Overflow API?

The API presents individual features behind individual URLs. The information on the profile page is combined from several sources; to get the details you requested, you will have to submit multiple ...
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StackPrinter: The Stack Exchange Printer Suite

The default bookmarklet javascript has problems when used with mathoverflow. Because annoyingly mathoverflow ends with a .net instead of a .com. I made some changes so that it could also work with ...
Jose Capco's user avatar
4 votes

Stackathlon 2.5: Leader board for users active on multiple sites

Great design and great idea. I don't know whether many people still look at this, but I discovered it today and if it was advertized and used more. Some suggestions for Stackathlons: Quantitive ...
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3 votes

Fetch all questions of a particular tag from the Stack Exchange API in Python

The first thing to point out is that you should understand that fetching all posts with a tag is going to result in huge quota usage for any relatively popular tag , as well as take a significant ...
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3 votes

Flack Overstow - Generate spam from Stack Exchange posts

These all come from my mechanics.stackexchange profile. There's a post here: whatconsumer.co.uk whose top post seems to be burning an over-rich fuel mixture. Hmm, I wonder what they're running their ...
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2 votes
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Is my script's API usage okay?

This isn't really a place to code-review your script, even if it uses the API. Here is were you would publish your script1. However, after a quick glance at the code, I don't see any glaring ...
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Stackdump, an offline browser for StackExchange sites

supportstatus-resolved I've been searching for a Stack Exchange offline version, for research purposes at my University, then I found this. I have been trying to figure out how to exactly run the ...
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JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 3)

That URL is the URL of the documentation page, so you'll get HTML back and not JSON. You'll need to replace it with the URL next to the 'Run' button (right-click and choose Copy Link, it should start ...
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1 vote
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Stack API doesn't return json with encoding of UTF-8

That data is stored as HTML in the database, as are more fields (e.g. the about_me field right above the location). Presumably, this is done for performance reasons. ü is the HTML entity ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python

I can't figure out how to fetch the text body of the answers and comments to a question given the question id. Also I can't figure out what are the supported sites(variable Name) in the method name ...
Robinson Crusoe's user avatar
1 vote

Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python

Seems very unreliable to me. Using the GitHub number of answers example results in a NeedsAwoken error, while the scrolling list of questions makes a StackExchangeError. List of errors (community can ...
1 vote

Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python

support How can I access the q in the questions method? In the Stack Exchange API, Usage of /search/advanced: q - a free form text parameter, will match all question properties based on an ...
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