Questions tagged [api-v2]
This tag is for questions about the Stack Exchange API version 2. First released Feb 2012.
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Error when requesting the last page of results.
When I try to view the following URL:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/questions?page=93781&site=stackoverflow
I get the error:
{
"error_id": 500,
"error_name": "internal_error",
"...
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Security certificate error when logging in with myOpenID
I have written an application that embeds the WebKit rendering engine (the same rendering engine used in Safari and Chrome). This application makes use of the /inbox route and therefore requires the ...
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Site_Type returns "main_site" for meta.stackoverflow.com
For Meta Stack Overflow, the 2.0/sites endpoint returns "main_site" rather than "meta_site". All other site_type for other stackexchange sites return correctly.
URL: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/...
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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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Is there a meta api?
Is there a meta API for StackExchange? I don't mean an API for accessing meta sites, but rather an API to get information about the API itself. What I'm looking for is something that I can call that ...
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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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BridgeStack — .NET client library with full 2.0 support
BridgeStack
This is a StackExchange API v2.0 consumer library written under C#. It is heavily documented and designed to make it as easy as possible to interact with the API.
Example Usage
To get ...
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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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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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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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Is data retrieved from /events dependent on the access token used to retrieve it?
This may seem like a bit of an unusual question at first but I'll try to explain where it's coming from. My PHP wrapper (Stack.PHP) offers a caching class that follows the guidelines in the API docs ...
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Events: field request
The "Event" object doesn't have an easy way for getting at the object relating to the event. There's a link field, but I don't fancy having to parse the information out of that (although I could).
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Get a list of required tags for site
How can I get the tags which are required, (fulfills_required = true) for each site?
Like order/filter the tags route to show the fulfills_required tags first?
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Suggested Edits Queue for Mere Mortals
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This Java command-line app gives you access to the Suggested
Edits queue using the
Stack Exchange 2.0 API. It is ideally
suited for users in the 2000 <= reputation < 5000 range....
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integer and decimal are used to describe fields in return types but not in method parameters
Integer and Decimal designations are useful in creating an accurate model of API methods and types.
These specific 'number' subtypes are used when describing types but the method parameter lists all ...
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In API 2.0, what happened to questions sorted by "featured?"
I was looking for a way to grab the list of "featured" questions via the API, and I stumbled across several answers that all point to the same solution:
Shouldn't there be a separate call for ...
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Site categories in API?
Would it be possible to have a category field added to the site object. Eg Technology, Culture, etc. The sites seem to already have categories, as you can see on this page: https://stackexchange.com/...
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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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Can I get more results/options from /users/{ids}/top-answer-tags?
/users/{ids}/top-answer-tags returns the top 30 tags for a given user. It's also the only endpoint that returns the user's tag scores along with the rest of the tag info. I'd like to use this data ...
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Is the display name meant to be escaped HTML in the 2.0 version of the API?
The display_name field of a user is HTML escaped. See here for example.
Is this expected behavior or a bug? The documentation doesn't mention it.
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Quota remaining is negative
I think I must be doing something very stupid, that I just can't see
I just registered an app, in the last ~10 minutes.
I have just been going to the /info route, no authentication or anything else.
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Increase the pagesize limit from 100
Can we increase this limit to something more reasonable (other than 100).
The cap of 100 for posts seems reasonable, however I cannot return the entire site list in one request. Due to the rapid ...
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API endpoints do not set Access-Control-Allow-Origin, so CORS requests fail
This looks like it might have been requested before:
Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
In order for CORS to work, the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header (and related headers) must be set. With ...
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Name changes for a few methods
The following method names have been changed for reasons of consistency.
/access-tokens/{accessTokens}/read is now /access-tokens/{accessTokens}
/filter/create is now /filters/create
/filter/{filters}/...
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How do I get a filter to let through the fields I specify?
I've created a filter based on the "none" filter with include fields for all those I will need for my application. While the filter I created looks fine to me, it doesn't appear to return any results ...
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