Questions tagged [api]
Questions about the Stack Exchange API *only*. If your question concerns any other API, do not use this tag. For bugs, please (also) use the version tag, EG [api-v2.2], that the bug applies to.
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Creating personal applications using Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange API
I want to create an application to read Stack Overflow notifications on my device.
My question: what should I provide in the OAuth Domain and Application website fields while registering the ...
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How to get statistic data for specific tags which belong to a specific team?
I just want to get statistic data for specific tags which belong to a specific team.
For example, for tags: "abc", I want to know how many users viewed the questions which have the "abc&...
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Is there an API to upload images to SE's imgur installation?
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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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?
I'm starting to write a native Android client for Stack Overflow, and wondering what exactly is a valid OAuth domain name?
Is it the package name of my app?
Or do I have to point it to a server ...
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Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API
I see the Stack Exchange API but I'm unable to understand it. I don't think there is any fundamental tutorial showing how to use Stack Overflow fully in the API documentation.
I want some fundamental ...
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Add API method for network-wide search
Just like stackexchange.com has a networkwide search, it would be nice to have an equivalent of excerpt-search which searches the entire network at once. That would save me 360 calls (per-site metas ...
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Should we add review queues to the API?
Review queues are unsupported on the Stack Exchange API, and it could be useful to write an app that would review. Should we add it to the API?
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API stopped allowing CORS requests
I'm currently using the API via JavaScript AJAX calls and it all of a sudden stopped allowing CORS requests.
I'm on localhost and I tried uploading my code to live and am still getting:
Access to ...
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Get total question views via API
I can currently get the total number of questions for a tag by using the total filter. This works well, but I'd like to get a total views count for the questions in that tag. I could iterate over each ...
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How can I extract user information on Stack Overflow using Python and the Stack Overflow API?
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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How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?
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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Missing total when tag is not URL-encoded
When trying to get a list of questions for the C# tag, the total field was missing. Tried with Python tag and the total was included.
/2.2/questions?order=ASC&sort=creation&site=stackoverflow....
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Is there a way to fetch my flag quota?
I would like to stop flagging when I start running low on flags. Is there any way the API can tell me not only the flag options, but also whether I have any flags left and if so how many?
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
I want to fetch some questions from the API and I would like to sort them. However, I don't want to sort by the default options (activity, votes, creations, hot, week, month), but instead, for example,...
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high_resolution_icon_url points to a non-existing image for Area 51 Discuss
In 2013 this bug was reported: Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
Since then a lot has improved. Most urls found in high_resolution_icon_url on the site type as returned by the /sites endpoint ...
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Take the right filter for favourite count
I try to take the favourite count filter for a question.
I use api through R
library(stackr)
stack_questions(11227809, site = "stackoverflow", filter = "!GeD4JB*YQqe2L")
and I ...
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Improve error message when attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation
When attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation, like happened here: API to submit a Suggested Edit, the API returns the following:
{
"error_id": 407,
"...
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Is there an API call that can get me a user's access_token?
I'm trying to create a connector between Microsoft's Power Platform and the Stack API. Since the server ↔ server auth flow is happening outside of code I control, I can't grab the access_token from ...
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How are API changes announced?
How are API changes announced? Are emails sent out to developers, or is there someplace I can subscribe to?
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Unable to get access token
I am trying to get a non-expiry access token, like so:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth?scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri={{some_uri}}&client_id={{some_value}}
I am repeatedly getting the error:
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Documentation or API method for `option_id` information, for the `/flags/options` API calls?
The Stack Exchange API has a couple of calls that return a list of flag_option objects.
These objects contain a couple of properties that can be used to identify the flag you need.
For example, when ...
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Version 1.0 released 9th of July
For a lot of us, that would be next Friday.
At some point - most likely after noon PST - version 0.9 of the API will be replaced with the final 1.0 release.
There are no expected interface changes ...
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Wrong sorting parameter in documentation for question/{ids}/answers
It looks like that in the question/{ids}/answers documentation, there is a mistake:
votes – score
Shouldn't this be
votes – votes
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Call to search/advanced is treating tagged as an AND search, not OR [duplicate]
The docs for search/advanced (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search) have this to state about the tagged attribute:
"tagged - a semicolon delimited list of tags, of which at least ...
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Can the redirect_uri contain port number?
Is it possible to have the redirect_uri contain a specific port?
For example: example.com:8080
Assuming that example.com is my registered domain, is the 8080 allowed? I have tried to put it as part ...
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Why is my API quota not resetting after UTC reset?
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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What does it mean when a revision number is missing?
I've noticed in the API docs for revisions that revision_number may be absent. Yet all examples, e.g. /posts/{ids}/revisions include a revision number for all responses.
I have a colleague who swears ...
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Stack Exchange thinks that Shog is a elected moderator
I was browsing the API for the list of elected moderators, The API URL is
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/elected-moderators#pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow&...
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Refresh expired acess token basics
I'm trying to learn how to implement an OAuth flow in an Android app using a simple app with the Stack Exchange API.
Using WebView, I'm able to retrieve an access token and store it in my shared ...
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How to get (unread) achievements?
Is there an API call where you can get all achievements and all unread achievements?
Like this:
Update
Thanks to the answer of Glorfindel, I use the following methods to calculate the unread ...
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Making use of the *"has_more": true* json attribute in the Json response from stackoverflow
When issuing requests to the stackoverflow-api, I set the pagesize to a 100 (which is the maximum possible). However, some json responses contain this attribute (normally at the very bottom):
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Is it possible to access data in real-time using the Stack Exchange API?
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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When does API quota reset?
I had a program consuming Stack Overflow API quota (10,000 per day) last night across midnight. This morning I checked, and my quota has not been set back to 10,000. Is this normal? If yes, when does ...
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Getting the ID of the question-asker when fetching new answers from the API
I am fetching a list of all new answers posted on Stack Overflow using the /answers API call. This returns the owner of the answer, but I would like to know if the answerer is the same person as the ...
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API to submit a Suggested Edit
Is there a way of using the API to submit a suggested edit?
This would allow users without the edit privilege to at least submit their suggestion.
There is no create/add endpoint listed in the docs ...
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Can I get information about a user with their network ID?
My network profile's ID is 4337810.
Is there any way to get information about users with their network ID from the API? So stuff like username, location, profile image, etc...?
There doesn't seem ...
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Can I fetch Stack Overflow users by location in Stack Exchange API
I read the documentation and I know that I can get users' locations but I have not seen anywhere about querying by location. Does that mean that it is not possible? If it is possible, how?
As an ...
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How to get the user's pinned sites?
I have been trying to find the API for getting all the pinned/favorite sites of the user, but I can't.
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Is there a SQL-like query for the API?
I've looked at the API docs.
However, I haven't found a way to do complex queries through the API such as I can do in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer query editor (select, joins etc).
Example: data....
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503 errors on batch get questions endpoint
I receive a lot of "socket hung up" and 503 Service Unavailable on the /questions/{ids} endpoint. I make requests in batches: 10 parallel requests with 15 question ids, interval between each 10-size ...
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Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted
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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How to delete apps in StackApps?
I have registered an app in Stack Apps. I am trying to delete it, but unable to find the solution. Is there a way to delete it?
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Is there any way to get questions by tag with excerpt?
I'm checking how I can embed the search for one project. Basically I want something like this page.
With the search I can get the list of questions with all meta data from the search, however the ...
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How to increase app request quota from 300 to 10,000?
In the app management page for a little app I made, the following statement is presented below this key Pw9D)judG8FE4tJR3qjUTA((:
Pass this as key when making requests against the Stack Exchange API
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Get questions with body and answers
How can I get the latest 30 questions with body and answers using the api?
And then, I want to get only first most voted 3 answers for each question. Is this possible with only one request?
To get ...
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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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My registered apps are not showing in my profile; where can I find them?
I registered two apps in Stack Apps, but when I access my account, it shows no registered apps.
How can I mark them as my apps and how can access app settings (client id, key), etc?
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Please provide an API "flair"-data call (`/associated` route is inadequate)
So today I decided to continue refining my JavaScript skills (different post over on Code Review SE if you'd like to review the results) and utilized the Stack Exchange API (v2.2) to write a "user ...
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StackExchange API's request data is blank in Drupal 7
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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Hidden page tracks Read/Unread Inbox items better than API or Inbox?
How does this hidden page (stackexchange.com/topbar/inbox) know which Inbox notifications I have/haven't opened?
Both the drop-down inbox and the API (ie, api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-inbox) seem ...