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Could the /tags API return minimal information about synonyms?
It would be very helpful if the /tags API could provide at least a bare minimum of information about tag synonyms. Either:
Number of synonyms the tag has, if any.
Or a true/false flag for tags which ...
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What are the possible errors returned from authentication?
The title pretty much says it all,
I couldn't find in the Authentication doc much about the errors (other than the HTTP code will be 400)?
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Will there be another contest when Stack API 2.0 is close to release?
Considering Stack API 2.0 will probably focus a lot on administration and write features, I think it would be a good idea to have another contest.
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Permission request form is broken, approve button is hidden, css variables are missing
You can check that form doesn't work with this link https://stackoverflow.com/oauth?client_id=17581&scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri=http://functional.localdomain:3449/login/github
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Localhost test Stack App authentication: error 'redirect_uri' does not match
I tried the answer at "Can the redirect_uri contain port number"?
But I am getting the following error:
Provided redirect_uri does not match the redirect_uri this code was created with
My access ...
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Is developing, with the Stack Exchange API, possible on my local machine?
I'm sorry if this question seems trivial for the most of you but I'm not very familiar with OAuth and the Stack Exchange API.
Is it possible to use this API in local environment for the development ...
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API returns the last activity date even if asked not to
Using the /questions method, I tried to get upvote and downvote counts, along with question Ids. This is the request I sent:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/857455%3B857454?site=math&...
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OAuth redirect not completing
This is the URL that I'm entering (in Safari, cleared website data and cache; my app, uses own Cookie jar; and incognito chrome)
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=23&scope=...
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What happens when sites or the whole network go offline
Now that the API is all done on stackexchange.com. What happens if say just certain sites go offline (eg just Stackoverflow). Will the API continue to return results or will it return the HTML offline ...
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What's the simplest way to detect if a question was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
What's the minimum filter and simplest way to detect if a question (by its ID) was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
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Can we get write access to user favorites?
I'd like users of my app to be able to add questions to their favourites.
Will this be added to the API as an authenticated call?
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Is it possible to get daily reputation change for a user via the API?
I'm trying to fetch a user's daily reputation change history for a project that's still early in the planning stages. I've been trying to use the "reputation" endpoint, but it seems like I can query ...
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Redirect URI for a chrome extension using StackExchange API Oauth
I'm working on a developing a browser extension which uses StackExchange API authentication. I was able to successfully implement the authentication for Microsoft edge/Chrome when I added chromiumapp....
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PLACEHOLDER - VosMottor's Bot
Just creating a bot for Stack Exchange. I just started so far.
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Login screen without web browser
I'm playing around with the Stack Exchange API, and have just received my first response from the server using the "Hello World" example.
The next step is to allow the user to log in somehow. From ...
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Why is there a difference between "questions" and "search" in API?
I have a query to find the number of questions tagged java from 2012-08-01 to 2013-08-01. Running this using both /questions and /search produces different results:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2....
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Is it safe to change the OAuth Domain?
I'm about to develop a small application that will use the Stack Exchange API. I understand that I have to provide an OAuth Domain when I register the application with Stack Exchange. Right now, I am ...
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How to get network profile username?
I was thinking I could just get the username from the response of /users/{ids}/associated (where {ids} is the not-site-specific id). But then realised that it returns only network_user (even though we ...
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OAuth Dialog rendering problems in iPad
I'm using the implicit OAuth flow for our native iPad app. We're calling the standard URLs in a UIWebView. The Stack Exchange login renders with several UI glitches.
The first screen looks correct:
(...
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Example responses
I think I may have asked this before. Would it be possible to have example responses for the inbox route. Eg I have no idea what a careers_invite would be like.
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Example of inbox items?
Would it be possible to get an example of each type returned by the inbox, Eg careers messages, and whatever meta questions are.
Do careers invites/chat messages/etc have ids? And what is their site?
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How do I get a user's bio with the SE API?
Am I just missing something here or is there not a way to retrieve a user's bio with the SE API? I looked at the documentation under the "Users" section, but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions?
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Is there a way (or app) to get realtime updates of new questions with a given tag?
According to Stack Exchange API not realtime?, the API does not return results in realtime, but has 1 minute delay for the same query.
Is there a system or an app that delivers new questions in ...
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Sorting the event stream
It seems like the data returned from the /events endpoint is flawed by being returned in descending order. For example:
{
"items": [
{
"event_type": "comment_posted",
"event_id": ...
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What is the "inname" parameter to the /tags 2.0 API?
I'm just playing with the new 2.0 API and in /tags there is a field inname that I can't find any description or documentation for.
What does it do? Is it like the old filter parameter on the old API?
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The /questions endpoint only returns around 30,000 items where 400,000 are expected
I use stackr library and I registered an api key as the library mentions "since it increases your daily quota of queries from 300 to 10,000." So I use the following code, which worked fine ...
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What is the difference between accepted and is_accepted?
I saw there are two fields in answer type.
One is accepted, introduced in v2.2 and needs private_info access.
While another one is is_accepted without these limits.
Can somebody give an explanation?
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How to get up_vote_count and down_vote_count for a user?
I'm testing the following command:
$ curl -s "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/55075?&site=stackoverflow" | gunzip -d | python -m json.tool
However it doesn't return up_vote_count and ...
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Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?
Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? :
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens
(This is the most promising API call I found for verifying the validity of ...
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Maximum length of "about me" in the Stack Exchange API?
What is the Maximum length of "about me" in the Stack Exchange API?
The one from the /me path.
And in general, where are the length limits published? If anywhere?
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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Is there a way to get the edit URL for a tag wiki from the API?
I've been playing with a little webapp for tags of a certain kind for travel.SE (current pre-alpha version gist on github).
One thing I would like to do is add links for the various tag-related ...
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the stack exchange javascript library is 404
the library listed on the doc page for Authentication
https://api.stackexchange.com/js/2.0/all.js
ultimately redirects to
https://api-v2cdn.sstatic.net/js/all.js
which results in varying degrees ...
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I have created a lot of access_token with no_expiry scope while experimenting. How do I delete them?
While learning how to work with the StackApps APIs, I created quite a few (more than 10) access_token with no_expiry scope. Finally I have got my applicaiton working but I am worried that all those ...
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"access_denied" error in the write answer at stackoverflow [duplicate]
I am providing an application (windows application), This application can search in the stackoverflow and show results. Then User can write answer for that Question or write comment for that, Now my ...
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Stack Exchange API is returning non-existant/incorrect notices for questions
When you view this question you do not see any notices other than the protected notice at bottom. Also, you are able to edit the answers and question (provided you have the privilege).
However, when ...
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Top questions by tag and period
I want to get via API the most voted questions from the latest week (for example) from a specified tag (php, for example).
How can I do this?
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How can I get a list of favorite/ignored tags?
I can not find an API method method that would provide me with a set of favorite/ignored tags for a given user. Is there such a method? If not, is there a recommended way to get this information?
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Can you identify a user from the access_token?
I have the access_token after authentication from the user. At this point I don't know with which sites this user has registered. Is it possible to get user information like the display name or ...
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How can I re-authenticate StackAlert Addon
Recently I removed StackAlert Firefox addon from my apps list in StackExchange. Now when I reinstall it, it is not authenticating and giving message
key is not valid for passed access_token..
How ...
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Is question_id unique across all stackexchange sites?
The standard structure of a question URL is:
http://site.com/questions/question-id/title
Example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457927/git-workflow-and-rebase-vs-merge-questions
It is ...
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Using an existing Java oAuth implementation to access the Stack Exchange 2 Api?
I found the Scribe oAuth api and I was wondering how a call would work with the Stack Exchange API, since that uses oAuth. I'm sorta green when it comes to oAuth but I'm planning on writing an ...
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how to get the number of profile views
according to the documentation, a User object has an attribute view_count, indicating the number of views of the user's profile. An example is also given there. However, when I sent a request
/2.0/...
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API v2.0 Developing desktop app
If I am developing a client side application, what kind of domain should I provide to 0Auth callback? Can it be a custom application-centric scheme (like myapp://oauthcallback/)?
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Is there a way to use the API without using localhost or a web domain?
I'm developing an SO chrome extension in React with TypeScript.
I've been reading the guide on how to use the API with OAuth and it looks fantastic for what I'm trying to do.
The problem is that the ...
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Main Stack Exchange network site API
The original Stack Exchange app has this cool feature where you can browse hot question from the entire network.
But at the current state I am not able to see a “Stack Exchange” site listed in the ...
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After which time span can my vote no longer change?
I came across a toast that appears when I try to change my vote that I made a few days ago.
Is it documented somewhere after which time span you can no longer change your vote? Or does the API ...
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How to get access token from the hash?
I am trying to implement OAuth Stack Exchange API via Android app as client.
After a successful login from out I get the below URL how do I get or decode the access_token from the hash?
https://...
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The new implicit authentication dialog doesn't handle comma-delimited scopes
The authentication docs state that the scopes parameter of the URL to which a user should be directed to, for implicit authentication, should be a list of scopes that are delimited by either commas or ...
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Stack Exchange login hangs on Windows 10 Mobile?
I am working on a Stack Exchange App (Stack App for Windows 10 PC/Mobile and Windows 8.1 Mobile).
I have a user login set up and using the WebAuthenticationBroker in Universal Windows Platform, to ...
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