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I am trying to get a count of unanswered questions by tag. Basically if there was an 'unanswered-count' in addition to the 'count' property of the /tags response that would be perfect.

It has been suggested that I use /questions/unanswered with the tag filter. However I would have to query the API thousands of times every time I wanted to update the unanswered count. I just want the list of tags like it is on the right side of SO when you click on 'Unanswered'.

What I want to do is every five or 10 minutes get the top 10 tags by unanswered questions count, but to get the top 10 I have to know the count of all the others (so I know which ones are the top 10). Perhaps there is an algorithm that does not require one to go through the entire list of items to determine the top 10?

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You can get that by using the questions/unanswered route with the tagged parameter.

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  • True, however with SO there are over 4,000 tags. I would burn through the daily limit sometime during the third time I tried to get the unanswered count for all the tags. Really I just want the top 10 or so, but I need to know the vast majority in order to determine the top 10 or so.
    – David
    Commented Jul 3, 2010 at 19:39

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