Does the stackapps API allow queries of question to get answers?

Question

All of the API docs I've seen are just for getting metadata, stuff like "how many comments".

Is there an API to ask questions?

eg here: I can't see a way to add a query string: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers

there is some q param:

q - a free form text parameter, will match all question properties based on an undocumented algorithm.

/2.2/search/advanced?order=desc&sort=activity&q=is bitcoin anonymous&site=stackoverflow

I did try a test question using that, but the results are all over the place and don't even mention the search terms in many places.

Update: possibly it's just the API uses an old search algorithm, different from the site.

How do you trigger the search/advanced 'q' parameter to search all words?

Then I need to combine with these fields, and add ++ to terms to force a boolean include.

• q - a free form text parameter, will match all question properties based on an undocumented algorithm.
• body - text which must appear in returned questions' bodies.
• title - text which must appear in returned questions' titles.

Answer 1

Is there an API to ask questions?

If you mean creating a new question, yes: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-question. You do need an access token with write access.

Does the stackapps API allow queries of question to get answers?

That looks more like you're searching for the answers to a single question: this is possible as well, either with https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers-on-questions or (with the appropriate filter) with https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions-by-ids.