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You can use StackAPI which is an interactive way to explore the API of the Stack family of sites.

You can use StackAPI - stackapi.com - Stack API Explorer which is an interactive way to explore the API of the Stack family of sites.

You can find the documentation here or there's a Get Started section at the right of this page.

For example if you want to see a list of users you could send a web request to http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users and parse then JSON response.

Now if you want to find out details about a particular user lets say your details https://stackoverflow.com/users/566610/jared

Do you see the number 566610 thats the id. Every question, answer, comment  ,or user has a id.

So here you need to send your web request to http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/566610

{
  "total": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "pagesize": 30,
  "users": [
    {
      "user_id": 566610,
      "user_type": "registered",
      "creation_date": 1294388578,
      "display_name": "Jared",
      "reputation": 28,
      "email_hash": "e51f7fdd3c09fc9246278abf89f1881e",
      "age": 19,
      "last_access_date": 1294538702,
      "website_url": "http://wphax.com",
      "location": "Wisconsin, US",
      "about_me": "<p>Freelance WordPress Expert</p>\n",
      "question_count": 2,
      "answer_count": 2,
      "view_count": 1,
      "up_vote_count": 0,
      "down_vote_count": 0,
      "association_id": "d0249d62-3c97-4b50-9df1-8c7f377846f6",
      "user_questions_url": "/users/566610/questions",
      "user_answers_url": "/users/566610/answers",
      "user_favorites_url": "/users/566610/favorites",
      "user_tags_url": "/users/566610/tags",
      "user_badges_url": "/users/566610/badges",
      "user_timeline_url": "/users/566610/timeline",
      "user_mentioned_url": "/users/566610/mentioned",
      "user_comments_url": "/users/566610/comments",
      "user_reputation_url": "/users/566610/reputation",
      "badge_counts": {
        "gold": 0,
        "silver": 0,
        "bronze": 4
      }
    }
  ]
}

Take one more example. Lets assume we want to find out list of questions for this you should send your web request to http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions

and if you want questions related to a particular tag for example wordpress

your url will be http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions?tagged=wordpress

And once you have finished with your application you can register for an API key.

Read How API Keys Work for more details.

You can use StackAPI which is an interactive way to explore the API of the stack family of sites.

You can find list of libraries here.

I hope this helps.

You can find the documentation here or there is a "Getting started" section on the right of this page.

For example if you want to see a list of users you could send a web request to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/users and parse then JSON response.

Now if you want to find out details about a particular user, let's say your details https://stackoverflow.com/users/566610/jared.

Do you see the number 566610 that's the ID. Every question, answer, comment, or user has an ID.

So, here you need to send your web request to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/users/566610.

{
  "total": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "pagesize": 30,
  "users": [
    {
      "user_id": 566610,
      "user_type": "registered",
      "creation_date": 1294388578,
      "display_name": "Jared",
      "reputation": 28,
      "email_hash": "e51f7fdd3c09fc9246278abf89f1881e",
      "age": 19,
      "last_access_date": 1294538702,
      "website_url": "http://wphax.com",
      "location": "Wisconsin, US",
      "about_me": "<p>Freelance WordPress Expert</p>\n",
      "question_count": 2,
      "answer_count": 2,
      "view_count": 1,
      "up_vote_count": 0,
      "down_vote_count": 0,
      "association_id": "d0249d62-3c97-4b50-9df1-8c7f377846f6",
      "user_questions_url": "/users/566610/questions",
      "user_answers_url": "/users/566610/answers",
      "user_favorites_url": "/users/566610/favorites",
      "user_tags_url": "/users/566610/tags",
      "user_badges_url": "/users/566610/badges",
      "user_timeline_url": "/users/566610/timeline",
      "user_mentioned_url": "/users/566610/mentioned",
      "user_comments_url": "/users/566610/comments",
      "user_reputation_url": "/users/566610/reputation",
      "badge_counts": {
        "gold": 0,
        "silver": 0,
        "bronze": 4
      }
    }
  ]
}

Take one more example. Let's assume we want to find out list of questions for this you should send your web request to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions.

And if you want questions related to a particular tag for example WordPress.

Your URL will be https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions?tagged=wordpress.

And once you have finished with your application, you can register an API key.

Read How API Keys Work for more details.

You can use StackAPI which is an interactive way to explore the API of the Stack family of sites.

You can find list of libraries here.

Now if you want to find out details about a particular user lets say your details http://stackoverflow.com/users/566610/jared

Now if you want to find out details about a particular user lets say your details https://stackoverflow.com/users/566610/jared