The only data about votes that I can currently get from the user object via the API is the user's up_vote_count and down_vote_count.
I am creating a dashboard that displays a range of stats about a Stack Overflow user’s badges (number of badges, recent badges, rarest badge, time since awarded last badge, etc.). In one of the widgets on this dashboard I am attempting to display the user’s progress towards unearned badges, and I have found that the voting-related data that is available via the API is very limited.
I would like to have access to:
- Total votes by type (question, answer)
- Total votes by time (day, week, month)
- Total score for answers in tags the user has participated in (the count of questions & answers is available from /users/{ids}/tags, but not the score)
With this data exposed, I could:
- Track the progress of badges like Suffrage (Used 30 votes in a day), Vox Populi (Used the maximum 40 votes in a day) and Electorate (Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions)
- Track the progress of tag-based badges
There seems to be some interest in getting more vote-related data exposed by the API:
- API for user next achievement/badge requirement?
- Please add “total votes on questions” and “total votes on answers” into /user/{id} API
- How do I get the no. of upvotes a person has received for a particular tag?
- /users/tags should contain scores
...but none of these requests have been implemented so far. Are there any plans to expose more vote-related data in the near future?
