I am trying to use the Stack Exchange API to see the trends on different topics.
Looking at the API documentation, I see that I could do this using the /search path (it's documented that this method is limited, although it doesn't mention if meaning to results limits or other kind of limitations).
I also tried /advanced-search.
There is no mention to any kind of limitation for this one. However, I don't get the same results that I get when searching on the website.
For example:
/2.2/search/advanced?order=desc&sort=activity&q=raml rest&site=stackoverflow
(no page size, no limit, no nothing) yields:
{
"items": [
{
"tags": [
"rest",
"azure",
"code-generation"
],
"owner": {
"reputation": 16,
"user_id": 1224349,
"user_type": "registered",
"profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/76aaf9ca0eb0910b440909a2faa1dd9a?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG",
"display_name": "Paul Topping",
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1224349/paul-topping"
},
"is_answered": true,
"view_count": 24,
"answer_count": 1,
"score": 1,
"last_activity_date": 1399090892,
"creation_date": 1399052046,
"question_id": 23433836,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23433836/azure-generating-rest-sdks-from-idl",
"title": "Azure - generating REST SDKs from IDL"
},
{
"tags": [
"angularjs",
"rest",
"raml"
],
"owner": {
"reputation": 1117,
"user_id": 1339087,
"user_type": "registered",
"accept_rate": 80,
"profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7b72123a28e4d5567e9d5f7f2b9b56ee?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG",
"display_name": "Nikos",
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1339087/nikos"
},
"is_answered": true,
"view_count": 98,
"answer_count": 1,
"score": 0,
"last_activity_date": 1396016921,
"creation_date": 1396016533,
"question_id": 22715481,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22715481/angular-js-integration-with-the-in-browser-raml-parser",
"title": "Angular.js integration with the in-browser RAML parser"
},
{
"tags": [
"rest",
"swagger",
"apiblueprint",
"raml"
],
"owner": {
"reputation": 803,
"user_id": 557869,
"user_type": "registered",
"accept_rate": 79,
"profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd75fa8d754b882a16dbddb5bb1cad9f?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG",
"display_name": "DeBuGGeR",
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/557869/debugger"
},
"is_answered": true,
"view_count": 993,
"accepted_answer_id": 22563014,
"answer_count": 2,
"score": 2,
"last_activity_date": 1395415971,
"creation_date": 1395322866,
"question_id": 22534792,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22534792/good-rest-code-generation-and-documentation-tool",
"title": "Good rest code generation and documentation tool"
},
{
"tags": [
"api",
"rest",
"oauth-2.0",
"raml"
],
"owner": {
"reputation": 1117,
"user_id": 1339087,
"user_type": "registered",
"accept_rate": 80,
"profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7b72123a28e4d5567e9d5f7f2b9b56ee?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG",
"display_name": "Nikos",
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1339087/nikos"
},
"is_answered": true,
"view_count": 792,
"closed_date": 1389895734,
"accepted_answer_id": 21143805,
"answer_count": 2,
"score": 4,
"last_activity_date": 1394125765,
"creation_date": 1389783299,
"last_edit_date": 1394125765,
"question_id": 21135492,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21135492/how-to-use-raml-to-describe-an-api-using-oauth2",
"closed_reason": "off-topic",
"title": "How to use RAML to describe an API using OAuth2"
},
{
"tags": [
"rest",
"mule",
"synchronous"
],
"owner": {
"reputation": 24,
"user_id": 2292162,
"user_type": "registered",
"accept_rate": 57,
"profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b489ce0d53f928c09f419ee994cdc562?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG",
"display_name": "Nathan Weddle",
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/2292162/nathan-weddle"
},
"is_answered": true,
"view_count": 472,
"accepted_answer_id": 21512926,
"answer_count": 1,
"score": 1,
"last_activity_date": 1391620741,
"creation_date": 1390862344,
"last_edit_date": 1391620741,
"question_id": 21393192,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21393192/mule-rest-apikit-my-flow-isnt-returning-a-messge-body",
"title": "Mule REST APIKit- My flow isn't returning a messge body"
},
{
"tags": [
"rest",
"delete",
"mule",
"raml"
],
"owner": {
"reputation": 24,
"user_id": 2292162,
"user_type": "registered",
"accept_rate": 57,
"profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b489ce0d53f928c09f419ee994cdc562?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG",
"display_name": "Nathan Weddle",
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/2292162/nathan-weddle"
},
"is_answered": true,
"view_count": 128,
"accepted_answer_id": 21392361,
"answer_count": 1,
"score": 1,
"last_activity_date": 1390859175,
"creation_date": 1390856069,
"last_edit_date": 1390859175,
"question_id": 21391464,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21391464/mule-esb-apikit-rest-delete-method-can-i-force-mule-to-use-the-json-body-instea",
"title": "Mule ESB APIKit REST DELETE Method- Can I force Mule to use the JSON body instead of the URI?"
}
],
"has_more": false,
"quota_max": 10000,
"quota_remaining": 9950
}
(only 6 items and has_more property is false).
If I use Stack Overflow search: stackoverflow.com/search?q=raml%20rest
I'm currently getting 18 results.
Am I missing something? Is this API method limited somehow?
(I tried to find something similar on these forums but wasn't able too).
