Linked Questions

6 votes
1 answer
693 views

OBSOLETE - Soapi.Explore (silverlight) - The entire API at your command

OBSOLETE: soapi.info has been down since at least 2012. Soapi.Explore SL About Soapi.Explore SL is a Silverlight based annotated test harness for the Stack Exchange API. All API methods and ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
17 votes
0 answers
2k views

What is SOAPI and why should I care?

Let me answer the last question first: Why should you care? You shouldn't care unless you are a .NET or JavaScript coder who can leverage robust client access libraries for the Stack Exchange API ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
4 votes
1 answer
248 views

OBSOLETE - Soapi.FindUser - Quickly find a any Stack Exchange user

OBSOLETE: soapi.info has been down since at least 2012. Soapi.FindUser About Soapi.FindUser is a tiny .NET 3.5 application that searches all Stack Exchange sites for users by name with the provided ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
4 votes
0 answers
71 views

recommended buffer size for markdown fields is conservative

I ran into a truncation error while inserting user data into a database using the documented field length (buffer size) of 3000. So I redefined to nvarchar(max), pulled all users in the stack ...
4 votes
2 answers
148 views

Can I filter Users by reputation or up_vote_count using the API?

Howdy, Is it possible to do API calls that pull back all users with, say, > 10,000 reputation? Or up_vote_count, etc. The advanced search page implies that we should use third-party search engines. ...
Matt Culbreth's user avatar
5 votes
2 answers
2k views

API compliant request throttle implementations

Balancing compliance with Request Throttling Limits with maximum allowable throughput in our applications and libraries with any reliability requires self-throttling. This post is meant to be a repo ...
1 vote
2 answers
245 views

App devs - Would you use something like this if it were available?

Update: So it was written, so it is done. Go see the real deal! var questionWithStuff = ctx // soapi context .Official // convenience properties for known sites .StackOverflow ....
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
15 votes
2 answers
13k views

How to convert unix timestamp to .NET DateTime

What is the format of the "creation_date" that is returned from a search of questions? I've been looking all over here and can't figure it out. I want to convert it to a regular DateTime ...
James Johnson's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
1k views

Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight

This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api. With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
8 votes
1 answer
521 views

How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]

Update: All of our grumblings and the unbearable beauty of our workarounds resulted in this issue being fixed last week. You can now send 100 id in one request and receive 100 responses. See Url ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
15 votes
1 answer
396 views

OBSOLETE - SOREP: Trilogy Site Ranking - For those who need to know

Note, all of the app links, below, are dead. And the domain is parked. SOREP is a service that does a nightly index of all users ordered by reputation and makes that information available via REST. ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
25 votes
15 answers
3k views

OBSOLETE - Soapi.JS : fluent JavaScript client library for the Stack Exchange API

OBSOLETE This library uses the old API, and the soapi.info domain doesn't work anymore. There's still an archive on CodePlex. Soapi.js If you are looking for a full featured, compact JavaScript ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
  • 12.1k
2 votes
3 answers
306 views

Can there be a way to find a user given his email hash?

Given a user's email, it would be great if we could hash it and search for that user with it. The reason for this is suppose: Someone has a website On that website, they invite SO users to enter ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
  • 23.3k
3 votes
0 answers
226 views

Tangoverflow - StackApps API using D with Tango

Screenshot / Code Snippet Not yet available. About So far, in commit #2, can successfully parse the statistics API into an object. I'll update more as I get more of the API done (but for now, I need ...
Mark Rushakoff's user avatar

15 30 50 per page
1
2