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It is impossible to fetch all of Stack Overflow's users in a single API call, or even in a single day (using just the API and one IP address).
There are currently 1,995,355 users on Stack Overflow. Which means that you would need 19,954 API calls to get them all, but your maximum API quota is 10,000 calls per day.
The smart thing to do is to have your app ...
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Actually, the API does this already, and I'd prefer this method over using my email address. In fact, the reason for the Stack Exchange API is so that our apps don't have to rely on third parties that may break, change their APIs, misuse our data, or go away. Additionally, if your app doesn't need access to sending me emails, then I'd just prefer you not ...
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