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It is something of a historical accident that this method returns markdown, however it has become too dangerous to change it.
Consider it status-bydesign for 1.0 and 1.1.
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You shouldn't be making more than 4 requests in this case.
fetch a page of /users/{ids}/timeline
group the ids by type (question, answers, comments)
since the max pagesize fo users/{ids}/timeline is 100, we know there are < 100 of each id*
make 1 query each with the appropriate ids to /questions/{ids}, /answers/{ids}, and /comments/{ids}
This is the ...
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It is more or less redundant.
I'd have to dig back into source control to find exactly why, but I vaguely remember action and timeline_type diverging late in 1.0 beta.
Expect that route to get some tweaks (more-so perhaps than the typical method) in the 2.0 time frame.
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Voting data will never be exposed (as a stream anyway) with great accuracy, as its too easy to correlate it with user activity*.
Easier streaming of site updates (questions, answers, comments, edits, etc.) is something I'm considering for the next version, though.
*Provided some minimum amount of traffic to the site, anonymity is more or less ...
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