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While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.

Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.

Aggregated sort values and corresponding min/max datatype

  • activity : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
  • creation : unix timestamp - creation date range
  • added : unix timestamp - added date range
  • reputation : integer - reputation count range
  • views : integer - view count range
  • votes : integer - vote count range
  • popular : integer - tag count range
  • name : string - case insensitive range. e.g. to find exact match for users with display_name 'joey' you can send min=joey&max=joey
  • featured : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
  • hot : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
  • month : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
  • week : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)

Special Sorts:

These sorts return the questions that are displayed on the front page of the site under the tab of the same name. min/max will further limit those sets to questions with a last_activity date that falls within that range.

  • featured : Questions with an active bounty
  • hot : Questions with the most interest/activity in the last few day
  • week : Questions with the most interest/activity in the last week
  • month : Questions with the most interest/activity in the last month

You can follow the comment trail on min/max parameters are incorrectly documented as date - confusion and crippled libraries ensue for some more info that may be edifying.

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    Added is a date and featured is also a date i believe. Commented Jun 28, 2010 at 18:40
  • Also is it not a unix timestamp rather than a date? Commented Jun 28, 2010 at 18:57
  • @john - yes, but outside of the context of the json transport we deal with these values as dates, do we not? that is the spirit in which the question is offered. Commented Jun 28, 2010 at 19:08
  • @code Phew that's okay then. I thought the api had changed again. ;-) Commented Jun 28, 2010 at 19:55
  • @john, you do bring up a good point. i know what i mean, assuming that others will is a mistake. remedy now. thanks for the head check. Commented Jun 28, 2010 at 20:00
  • @john - you can follow twitter.com/soapiwatch on twitter and be notified whenever the api changes. see stackapps.com/questions/534 for more info Commented Jun 29, 2010 at 0:36

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