Questions tagged [answers]
Tools (scripts/apps/libraries) that help with answers, or issues with the API handling of answers
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Please add the `tagged` parameter to /answers, /users, etc
The /questions endpoint supports a tagged parameter which I find quite useful. However, it's the only route that appears to support this parameter.
If, say, I want to get questions asked by a given ...
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The /search route is ignoring the answers parameter.
The answers parameter was recently added to most of the requests that return a list of questions. See: Don’t include answers in question lists by default
It looks like the /search request got left ...
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Top answers for a tag is returning user details?
I am expecting top answers for a particular tag here. But it returns user details.
Is anything wrong here?
Using:
/2.2/tags/java/top-answerers/all_time?site=stackoverflow
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QuestionPacker - Packs Question in a Webpage
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About
It is my version of StackTack, which seems to be discontinued.
License
Inbox Reader is released under the Apache License 2.0.
Download
You can get QuestionPacker here:
http://...
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SkeetNotifier: A Tray Notifier Application for Jon Skeet's answers
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A tray application for Windows that notifies you about the newest answers from Jon Skeet.
Icon approved by Jon Skeet!
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License
http://unlicense.org/
Source
http://github.com/...
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Please add tags to answers
Update: This was completed as of API version 2.1.
When querying any API method which returns answers (/users/ids/answers, /answers/ids, etc.) the result does not include the tag information for the ...
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`last_editor` is missing but `last_edit_date` is present?
Some posts (questions or answers) have a last_edit_date but no last_editor. Does this always mean that the post was last edited by the post owner?
Example: stackapps.com/a/3891/
PS: This issue came ...
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Why answers don't have a "locked" attribute?
When looking at an answer, I can see that there is no locked_date attribute, like there is for questions. IIRC, answers can be locked by moderators.
Also, if a post is unlocked, is that field ...
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How can I show recently answered questions and answers in my blog site?
I would like to showcase some of my Stack Exchange answers in my blog site. I couldn't find a relevant post on how to implement this.
Also, from what I can see, in order to use the API a user needs ...
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Unhide Downvoted Answers
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This simple userscript allows you to hover over an answer that has been greyed-out because of its low score to remove the styling. After you move away from the post, it will return to its ...
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API returns delete vote count for questions, but not for answers
The questions method of the API returns the number of delete votes among other kinds of votes: sample query.
But the answers method does not have a delete_vote_count field available in the filter:
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/answers API request returns no tags if body_markdown is included [duplicate]
This API request to /answers has the filter set to return the tags field for the corresponding question. It works fine:
api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers#filter=!9YdnSPElz
But, when the filter is ...
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Please add a "self answer" flag to the answer results/object
Is there an easy way to tell if an answer is from the question poster?
I'm working on Blaze, and I'm grabbing answers from the /answers method. I'd like to indicate if the answer is from the question ...
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No Answering: prevent answering questions
Do you answer too many questions on stack sites? Does answering questions put you into a cycle of debating with people you'd rather not be spending time on? Then this app is for you.
It does one ...
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Why these questions do not have a title?
Hitting the following /questions route:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/74?pagesize=1&page=1
the endpoint returns this JSON data:
{
"total": 1,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 1,
"...
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/users/{id}/answers - broken
Have not checked other routes, as I am busy with other things, but a failing test pointed this out...
GOOD: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/242897/answers?min=4&sort=votes
{
"total": 37,...
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Ideas for dealing with this pagination problem?
Okay, here is the problem:
Certain questions contain more than one page's worth of answers. Given a sort method and an answer id, how can we figure out which page the answer is on?
Any suggestions ...
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Get tags from question through an answer [duplicate]
I'd like to use this function: /users/{ids}/answers to get a list of answers from a user.
The key element that I need though is what the question was tagged as, is there a possibility of having ...
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How to sort answers to question?
If I retrieve a question like so:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes
I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not.
How can I do this?
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Problem getting a users answers within a date range
This issue is similar to Problem getting a users questions within a date range. Only this time I'm calling a different api and getting unexpected results.
I'm calling
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/...
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Answers parameter not functional
For example the following:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?answers=true
doesn't return answers.
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Answer up/down vote count not being returned in filter
As the picture shows, the up_vote_count and down_vote_count answer properties are selected but not returned. What gives?
