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Brock Adams
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags by StackOverflowusing the Stack Overflow API?

The advanced search APIThe advanced search (/search/advanced) API can search for questions by tags. https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search

But answers/users/{ids}/answers API doesn't take tags. https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers

I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is there an API which can search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags? 

If not, I'll have to use the above answers API to grab all answers within a given time range. Then check if an answer's parent question has certain tags. But it doesn't look very efficient.

Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags by StackOverflow API?

The advanced search API can search for questions by tags. https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search

But answers API doesn't take tags. https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers

I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is there an API which can search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags? If not, I'll have to use the above answers API to grab all answers within a given time range. Then check if an answer's parent question has certain tags. But it doesn't look very efficient.

Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags using the Stack Overflow API?

The advanced search (/search/advanced) API can search for questions by tags.

But /users/{ids}/answers API doesn't take tags.

I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is there an API which can search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags? 

If not, I'll have to use the above answers API to grab all answers within a given time range. Then check if an answer's parent question has certain tags. But it doesn't look very efficient.

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Jason Li
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags by StackOverflow API?

The advanced search API can search for questions by tags. https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search

But answers API doesn't take tags. https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers

I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is there an API which can search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags? If not, I'll have to use the above answers API to grab all answers within a given time range. Then check if an answer's parent question has certain tags. But it doesn't look very efficient.