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I am a Stack Overflow for Teams app developer, and given this recent announcement that API v3 is being extended to the public platform, I am hoping we can start asking API v3 questions here. Given a ...
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In last few days I have noticed that questions API returns questions that where deleted hours before the API call. This is a short example, if more logs are need to pin point the problem, please ...
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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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Does Stack Overflow have an MCP (model context protocol) server?
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MCP Bundles is a cloud-hosted platform that connects your tools to AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Perplexity) via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). We provide 4,000+ tools in MCP-ready ...
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App Name: MyStackBot Client ID: 34374 API Key: rl_eaYQSUfy93Eei7G5Z8R8E8t9d This app allows a user to: Fetch their answers from Stack Overflow Post new answers to questions using the Stack Exchange ...
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I’ve built a tool that allows programmatically posting answers to Stack Overflow using the StackExchange API. 🛠 What it does: Uses the /answers/add method to post HTML-formatted answers under ...
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Note: this library is not compatible with v3 of the API, and will not be updated to v3 until body_markdown is reintroduced into every kind of post and comment endpoint. This has been requested since ...
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For the SE API, the endpoints dealing with flags (e.g. /questions/{id}/flags/options) return the flag_option type. However, the option_id values are explicitly stated as being unstable, but it's ...
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I am a Stack Overflow for Teams app developer, and given this recent announcement that API v3 is being extended to the public platform, I am hoping we can start asking API v3 questions here. Given a ...
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Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I'm just trying the SO API, and have run into a basic problem. If I enter the following URL in a web browser... https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions?...
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I know that you could technically loop through the answers returned when you ask for /questions/{id} to see if an answer has been accepted, but it would be AWESOME if there was a top level boolean ...
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Version 2.3 of the SE API does not clearly distinguish between questions that are on Stack Overflow's Staging Ground and questions on its main site. This comment on a SmokeDetector GH issue details it ...
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I used the following request link to extract data from the Stack Exchange API. But I have no idea how to create "filter" as used in the request line. Please help me understand the creation of such ...
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This request is responded to with either an error (HTTP status code 400) or an access token of the form access_token=...&expires=1234. expires will only be set if scope does not include no_expiry, ...
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From this MSO answer: stackexchange.com/sites was just updated today to use a new formula for traffic. Area 51 is still using the old formula, but will be updated soon to use the new formula. ...
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Could you please provide a way to retrieve deleted questions/answers? Your database contains that data, until you hard delete it, so it would be useful for us to have the chance to play with it. I'm ...
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I was playing around a bit with Fiddler to capture traffic from the Stack Exchange iOS app. To my surprise, it uses version 2.3 of the Stack Exchange API: I noticed here that it has some extra ...
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I am developing an image generation bot for chat (for example, chat.stackexchange.com). I can generate the image correctly, but when it comes to posting the image, I have no idea how to upload the ...
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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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According to this question (and its answer), questions and answers are using the same index to determine their ID. In other words: Question with ID #1 Answer with ID #2 Answer with ID #3 Answer with ...
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I want to show an animation of: Questions being asked and answered in the most popular tag Comments being posted New users joining All in real time. Is there access to real-time data?
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According to How API Keys Work, the default daily API limit -- which is per site, per day -- is 300. I started with 300, as expected, but over a period of days, I've noticed that the remaining quota ...
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I would like to access a list of all Collective Articles on SO. I tried https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/articles?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow which is the sample from here. ...
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I'm writing JavaScript (Node.js) code that calls the Stack Exchange API. One part of the API is that it may return a non-zero value for backoff, which essentially means "wait n seconds before ...
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I'm trying to get only questions and answers. I filtered the fields, to get also the body of answers, but I don't get an answers JSON object. What am I missing? I know about this question, but I don'...
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The Stack Exchange API allows users to programmatically query and connect to the Stack Exchange Network of sites. The API is currently in version 2.3. We’re collecting feedback from users of the API, ...
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I am new to Python. I want to extract a user bio, answers, questions they made in Stack Overflow. Can I do that using the API? For example, can I extract the user: name bio and number of questions ...
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Used for (meta.)puzzling.stackexchange - Creates & edits the corresponding meta posts with information from the main and meta site. E.g. creating a post for the new challenge every 2 weeks and ...
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I generated an access token for my application and shared it with some people. Now, I wish to revoke the access token and generate a new one. I don't find any way to revoke that token.
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I'm curious about https://api.stackexchange.com/docs . I looked up and studied the naming convention to make a REST api. I've seen that in the naming convention, don't use verbs and in the case of the ...
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Does anyone know why some answers are shown with a date before the question was asked? Here are a couple of examples: Why doesn't Java have compound assignment versions of the conditional-and and ...
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I had written a Java Wrapper for the Stack Exchange API, version 1.x, Which was working perfectly. But, since 12 May 2014, services for version 1.x have been shutdown and my Wrapper stopped working. ...
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Registering your application or script gets you a higher daily quota and is fairly simply; a step by step guide is documented here: I only need a key, what do I do? However, what if I do want an ...
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As you can see I am a newbie, and trying to use Stack Exchange API for a school project. I spent 3 hours just trying to understand How to get started. Is there an example for me to follow? or A ...
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I am brand new to StackApps, so please bear with me for a question that is hopefully obvious to most regular users. As far as I can tell, there is no charge for accessing the StackExchange API. ...
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I am reading this documentation https://stackoverflow.help/en/articles/4385859-stack-overflow-for-teams-api where they mention the need to create a PAT to access StackOverflow for Teams API (https://...
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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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I checked docs , there are no endpoints to get total visited days and consecutive days. Is there any way to get them?
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I'm not sure if I can use Stack Exchange API to build a https://www.gharchive.org like project? I studied the API throttling documentation but I am not sure.
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Is there an API for uploading images to the StackExchange-specific imgur installation? I could use the main imgur site, but they don't keep the images indefinitely. Use case: It would be ...
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The api docs: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=posts/{id}/comments The test request. You can see comment itself here, it's four months old, while cutoff date in request is less than ...
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Is there a way to get a list of X questions/answers with the highest votes up, visits, etc? Say I want to get the list of most voted questions in .NET category (tag) or Java.
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I'm trying to implement this simple request in Drupal 7 on my local machine: $request = drupal_http_request('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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I'm trying to use https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/add method payload = { 'site': 'stackoverflow', 'title': title, 'body': body, 'tags': tags, 'key': key, '...
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What is the latest version of the Stack Exchange API and its release date? The document which I referred is for v2.3.
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Is there anyway to get information about any change using the stack exchange API's? i.e. if someone leaves a comment or votes on an answer/question? checking for answer changes is easy cause its a top ...
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I started to love the Python black formatter and I want all my code on Stack Overflow to be formatted like that. So I wanted to go over the answers and apply black / blacken-docs, check if anything ...
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I see that tags are present only for questions. How can I get the answers to these questions given in last week (if any) having specific tags?
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I am trying the following simple code to get JSON from the Stack Exchange API and it gives me the following error: JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 3) Here is my script: ...
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