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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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 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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Does the API have a method to get the total favorite count of a question?
Like it says in the title, is the total favorite count of a question exposed anywhere via the API? I know about the favorites method, but that looks like it will give you the specific favorites of a ...
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Posting answers via Stack Exchange API
Can I post answers via an app using the API, is it possible? And if so, what are the limitations; linked with the reputation of users?
So if someone has 1 reputation he can also post answers, like a ...
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Overwhelmed by unorganized information [duplicate]
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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Please differentiate between meta sites for beta versus normal sites, in the /sites method
Currently, in the /sites method, a site can have a site_state of: normal, open_beta, closed_beta, or linked_meta.
This makes it easy to tell if a main site is in beta or not. But it becomes a 2 or 3 ...
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How to access my App info
I've registered for an app yesterday, but I'm not finding where should I go to see/edit its info again.
I've search through profile, at stackexchange.com but couldn't find it.
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How about linking Stack Exchange to IFTTT?
Why is there no channel for Stack Overflow on IFTTT?
It would be great if I can mash up the Stack Exchange website with other web-based services like Google Reader or GMail, receive a SMS or ...
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Questions returned by /questions/{ids}/related do not contain link properties
The API docs claim that /questions/{ids}/related return question objects, but I can't find a link property on the returned questions at all.
Is there some sort of workaround to find the link for a ...
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How to access global stackexchange user favourites in a feed?
I was looking for a way to IFTTT my questions, and found this recipe, that automaqically saves your favourited questions to Evernote. Nice. It uses stack2rss (thus the SE API) to provide a feed with ...
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Clarification on related tags for a tag returned by API
I was assuming that the related tags API call, returns all the tags that co-occur with the input tag. But a closer look at the API documentation indicate the following:
Returns the tags that are ...
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How to get Question/Answer body in the API response using filters?
I am specifically looking to get the question/answer body back. Is it possible?
I am looking through the API documentation and I'm confused about how to make a call with filters.
Sample call I'm ...
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API v1.1 users call returns association_id for which the Stack Exchange web site has no profile
For a particular user, the users API v1.1 call returns an association_id that gives a "Page Not Found" error where the Stack Exchange profile should be, though their Stack Exchange profile can be ...
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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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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 get the site name from document to pass to API?
Most APIs take a parameter site which must be set to the name of the site your queries are about.
For meta.travel or travel.
But of course sites have various names, for example gaming.stackexchange....
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Querying "standard meta tags" for their tag wikis wrongly says they have none
I'm checking which tags have tag wiki excerpts in my code. It looks like /tags/{tags}/wikis is the right API since the tag info API doesn't even give a boolean for tag wiki excerpt presence.
But ...
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Best strategies for calling the API with full throttling support?
I know this would be subjective on a normal SE site but as the relevant chat rooms are mostly dormant, we have no meta site, and nobody noticed when I asked if this kind of question is OK here, I'm ...
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Bug in the StackExchange Api ? getting "could not parse proxy url" when user not logged in
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in the Stack Exchange JS API
I'm having a problem getting its authentication to work properly, and I just discovered that the same problem exist in the official ...
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Why does the web service fail sometimes for the Stack API?
It seems to have happened all of the sudden. My calls to the web service fails. What is the limit of calls per day with a registered app? I can't seem to remember where it says that, I can't seem to ...
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Stack Exchange API not realtime?
I was testing the inbox/unread API but noticed that there is a big delay between one gets a message, and this message gets included in the API response. Like one minute or more.
Is this API not real-...
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All updates (answers, comments etc) using stack exchange API
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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Can you access a user's tag reputation/score via the API?
Is it possible to retrieve a user's tag specific reputation/score via the API? If not, is it possible to make an API call that returns enough information that you can calculate the value?
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Why can I access the API from a browser but not wget?
If I try to access the following from firefox everything works even if I'm not logged in
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users/19068?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
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/me API endpoint returning 500 error
I'm making an authenticated call to /me:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/me?access_token=[redacted]&site=stackoverflow&key=[redacted]
But it's returning:
{"error_id":500,"error_name":"...
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Typo in API docs: "temporarility_unavailable"
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication
"temporarility" should probably be "temporarily"
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API returning character entities in JSON
I noticed display names in the JSON contain HTML character entities; e.g.
/2.0/users/718618?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
Gives me:
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": ...
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Add a special page where developers can reset throttle timeouts
As George Edison noted, it would be useful to have a special page where developers can reset the throttle timeout when we accidentally trigger it.
This happened to me this morning — I got banned for ...
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Typo in throttle violation error message
I was just playing around with the API locally and got throttled for the questions and answers methods (the only two I was using).
Anyway, I noticed there’s a small typo in the error message that’s ...
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400 Error when attempting to retrieve authenticated user data
I am attempting to use the /me API to retrieve an authenticated user's details but I am receiving a 400 error.
I am able to complete the OAuth2 dance and have been able to capture the access token ...
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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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Stack Tunnel - WebGL Visualization for Stack Exchange
Stack Tunnel
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StackTunnel is a WebGL visualization which displays the latest questions from any Stack Exchange site interactively within your web browser. You can click on the ...
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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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Are there any plans to add Inbox functionality to SO API?
So, 3rd party applications will be able to notify users about new answers and comments.
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Pagination of users ordered by reputation
I know I can retrieve a page of users ordered by reputation using these apis:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/?sort=reputation&order=desc&page=1
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/...
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Possible to return newest questions with a certain tag?
I am not finding a way to return a list of new questions by tag with the new Stack Exchange API.
Am I missing something or is this not available? If this is not available, I most certainly request ...
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Do calls on the 1.1 API and the 2.0 count against each other's limits?
Do the old 1.1 API and new 2.0 share limits?
Or do my Stack Apps running on 1.1 calls not affect my limits for apps running on 2.0 calls?
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Can we have some debug endpoints for testing corner cases?
After encountering a throttle violation today (which I posted in another question), it occurred to me that although I've put together code to handle "backoff" conditions, and potentially throttle ...
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Provide a streaming API instead of forcing API users to poll
I've written an IRC bot that can notify channels when new questions with a certain tag are posted. However, currently I'm polling the URL #{APIURL}questions?pagesize=100&fromdate=#{@...
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How to register application for API implicit authentication?
I am working on an applet to for Cairo-Dock, to check the user's StackExchange inbox. Right now I've worked around this by using the genuwine json feed, but that's not stable since posts are marked as ...
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Why don't the tags APIs expose the tag IDs?
It seems that all tags have an internal ID, for instance here on stackapps, the api-v2 tag has ID 2442 which you can only see if you edit the api-v2 tag.
As far as I can see none of the APIs expose ...
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Is there an API to fetch tags related to a given tag?
I'm interested in making a tool that explores the tags of a site for tags which should be merged or mention each other in tag wikis etc.
On the page of any given tag there is a column on the right of ...
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Apigee API Console for the Stack Exchange API
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Apigee API Consoles make it easier to learn, explore and test APIs by letting you browse all methods, send and view request/response pairs and share what you are ...
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How many simultaneous queries may I make of the same Stack Exchange API?
I've been playing with some of the APIs that have paged results.
I've been doing a first call with pagesize=0 to determine how many pages there are then running a loop querying each page.
In my case ...
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Answers without owners
Is it valid for Stack Overflow data to have an answer that does not have an owner?
For example if you hit the following API url http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/answers/18, it does not bring back an ...
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List of possible values for user_type on API for users
I'm starting to work with the API and I see on the call to retrieve a user or multiple users one of the fields that is returned is user_type.
So far I have only seen a value of "registered" ...
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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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Is there a maximum on the number of search results returned (using the SO API)?
I was trying to do statistics on post from some not-too-popular tags like matlab, using the search method. It appears that it will never return a total larger than 2000. Is this a hard limit that ...
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How to get a User's picture (Avatar)
I've seen a couple of Stack Apps that have the actual picture for the user profile. Is that coming from the API, and if so how? If not I'm assuming they are using some screen-scrapping to get that ...
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The /users/{id}/timeline route is reporting incorrect totals
It seems that the /users/{id}/timeline route is returning an incorrect total. For example, the following URL is reporting a total of 1607 items:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/users/7789/timeline
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