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Yeah... These are kind of complicated, but very flexible. They're also getting better docs soon-ish.
Basically, min & max are the range of the sorted results to return.
So, if you order a list of questions (pick your API method of choice) by votes, you can set min to 5 and max to 10 to only return questions that have a score of at least 5 and no more ...
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You are getting the GZipped stream of the response content. Use DownloadData instead of DownloadString and uncompress the stream before passing it to the JSON deserializer (or whatever you plan to use).
Alternatively, you can use the StackOverflow.Net library.
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Thanks for the help, S.Mark. Here's the answer:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html
You must register the API in your manifest.json file under permissions:
...
"permissions": ["http://api.stackoverflow.com/"],
...
}
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Transfer-Encoding is hop-by-hop, while Content-Encoding is end-to-end.
This means that if there is a proxy involved, anywhere, the proxy will see the TE gzip, unzip it, and not necessarily forward the request as TE gzip.
So, the choices are
CE gzip and always know what you will be getting, requiring logic to decompress the response.
TE gzip and never ...
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If you look on that password page, it says:
Thank you for participating in the
private API beta! We're now starting
the public beta - you can find more
information on http://stackapps.com.
The dev.meta.stackoverflow.com site is no longer active. This is the new location for API related subjects.
You should have goten an email notifying you of ...
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This isn't an answer, just an agreement with the original poster (though I might have couched my feelings in slightly less confrontational language). The API is beginning to feel rather like abandonware. My reasoning…
Since the competition winners were announced, the API's not even been mentioned on the blog
We've had no official word on updates and ...
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You don't need an API key until your app goes live. For small traffic amounts (under 300 requests/day) you can use the API without the key to test your app:
Do I need an API key?
A single IP can only make a limited number of requests per day to the API. This limit is determined at first request time, and is dependent upon the presence of an API key.
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It is supposed to include answers (probably first page only), and documented (look for "answers" in return json), but there was a bug, and it has been fixed recently.
But yes, I also think answer=true option would be nice.
5
Soapi.CS/C#
NOTE: this code has been quickly evolving into the functionality presented here. Eventually I will break it out into a simple exe such as listed below, but for now......
Currently the only way to find a user by the MD5 hash of a lowercased email address (user.email_hash as well as gravatar key) is to maintain a local datastore containing the ...
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Update
Ok, I see from comments that you are using phone7 - the story is slightly different than mainstream silverlight as there is ONLY ClientHttp stack and you will need to manually decompress, as you have found out.
I use Silverlight.SharpZipLib for this purpose.
Good luck.
Here is a method that will work in Silverlight and Phone 7. You can use it for ...
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The proposed "solutions" to this are all terrible*.
Ip+Key
Trivially forged.
IP+AppId
Trivially forged.
IP+User-Agent
Trivially forged.
KeyOnly
Surprise surprise, trivially forged.
Now, authentication would give us a non-trivially forged token to throttle on. This is a planned improvement in a future API version, however this workaround would ...
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Since the competition winners were announced, the API's not even been mentioned on the blog
There is an entire site dedicated to applications on our API -- and you are on it! I refer people here all the time when they are looking for functionality we don't offer.
Apps and wrappers have had no publicity or support from the SE team
See above.
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5
I believe that's a correct approach.
There's a way to optimize it saving one request but it's a little bit unsafe for this bug:
call /questions/{id};
If you get a result with a title parameter it's a question
If you get a result without a title parameter it's an answer, thus you should call /answers/{id} for the title
EDIT:
I've just realized that ...
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The X-RateLimit-Current header contains the requests you have left that particular day. The X-RateLimit-Max dictates the total amount of requests your app can make in total through that day.
See the bottom two response headers in the screenshot.
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As long as has_more is set to true there is more data available. You can get this data by increasing the page parameter in your request subsequently and running new request with that changed page parameter.
The next url for your example would then be
...
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Every response from the API can be cached for up to a minute, so making the same request multiple times in that time-frame typically won't return different results.
We make note of this in the throttle documentation:
While not strictly a throttle, the Stack Exchange employs heavy
caching and as such no application should make semantically identical
...
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All responses from the API are compressed. You can specify the compression scheme (gzip or deflate) in the Accept-Encoding header. If you don't specify, one will be chosen for you.
We used to throw up an error when a non-compressed request was received, but a frustrating number of proxies don't pass Accept-Encoding through properly; so instead we silently ...
4
Did you make any requests earlier today without a key?
The API only checks your key and sets a limit on the first request.
A single IP address can only make a limited number of requests per day to the API. This limit is determined at first request time, and is dependent upon the presence of an API key.
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You can use filter by names as you already mentioned, and it is the correct way because user names are not unique.
You can sort it by reputation, name, creation date with ordering asc or desc
In the response json, there is email hash, you can compare it with md5 hexdigest if you already have email addresses of users.
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This is one of the fun, annoying quirks of the API.
Currently there is no pragmatic way to find a user based on their name instead of ID. Furthermore, there is a better chance that Jon Skeet will be banned from the site for misuse than the dev's deciding to reveal people's OpenID.
For now, you should direct users to go to their profile page and look at the ...
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No.
[app]s are not owned, or operated by Stack Overflow Internet Services, Inc.
meta.stackoverflow is for support, discussion, etc. focused on stackoverflow.com and the StackExchange family of sites.
Not for support of third-party products, like [app]s
Providing a means of reporting problems using an [app] is the responsibility of the [app] developer.
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There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.
I fiddled with the FireFox plugin I created to see if I could add the ability to post directly to the site to add an answer to a question or a comment if someone was already logged in. If I remember correctly there is some key ...
4
Here it is!
SVG version here
Note: the same restrictions on this trademarked icon that apply here, also apply to the icon above.
4
Skys answer already denotes the reason and principle solution via curl library functions - regarding your specific question How can I see it as text using commandline? the curl shell command offers a built in solution as well, you'll need to add a parameter like so:
curl --compressed http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/113124/favorites
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There sure is.
From the application page:
StackTracker
StackTracker, a cross-platform desktop notifier for the StackExchange API built with PyQt4
According to the page, Windows is a supported platform.
4
Quoting Kevin comment here:
/sites basically snuck in when we
froze 1.0. There are enough people
using it that we can't track down (at
least, not without alot of log parsing
pain) that I didn't want to just tear
it out. The correct way to use the 1.0
API is to hit /1.0/sites directly, we
make no guarantees about the lifetime
of the raw ...
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We're fixing this, shouldn't be too much longer (may even have been done by the time you read this).
Basically, this is another consequence of using a cloud computing service.
We've got a bunch of crummy (and technically illegal, due to attribute violations) sites out there that like to scrape us. Now, we realize its a fools errand to try and prevent ...
4
You're talking about a number of things here, so let me see if I can explain them all:
The code powering the API is (presumably) written in C# and is closed-source.
The content provided by the API is licensed under a Creative Commons (w/ attribution) license.
The applications / libraries that use the API can be under any license you choose.
The logos, ...
4
Thank you!
All of the new changes are welcome and I can't wait to start implementing some of them in my apps.
I do have one question though: what happened to all of my apps? I had a thumbnail image set for all of them and it doesn't look like any of them are being displayed despite matching the requirements (144x119 in PNG format).
Edit: This doesn't ...
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