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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Overwhelmed by unorganized information
As you can see I am a newbie, and trying to use stackexchange 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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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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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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Would it be a problem if my server polls the API every minute or so about 1 of my questions on my list?
I know that officially identical requests cannot be done in more than one minute.
But would it be a problem if I had a server which had a list of question IDs (say 10 per user, so reasonable max 10,...
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Wrong API response?
Well, if you look here, you'll see i have
"down_vote_count": 94,
But if you look here on my Stackoverflow profile, you see that my down vote count is 64.
For those who would ask if I'm sure ...
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Post to Stackoverflow
Is it possible to post a question to Stack Overflow using PHP in the same way that it's possible to post content to Facebook?
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Searching answers with API
I'm very new to the API and I was looking for a way to get answers of a user. E.g. something like if you click on a tag in your tags section of your profile.
For questions this seems to be quiet easy ...
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r.e. /stats fields.
I see we are getting some meta data in stats now. This is good.
I see the api path in there, but I have to assume that it is simply part of the record that is being output and is not intended as a ...
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Specific Response attributes [duplicate]
I want to get questions related to a specific tag with the body of those questions. I have figure out this API request:
https://api.stackexchange.com/questions?site=stackoverflow&sort=votes&...
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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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Coding error at open URL
Hi,
I have the following method to open a URL API
String c="";
URL direccionURL;
try {
direccionURL = new URL("http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/523725");
BufferedReader in = new ...
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API responses are sometimes missing fields
conclusion
never mind. the fields are marked as optional in the spec. it was late. sue me.
the q is left for reference
What is coming out:
{
"tags": [
"cakephp",
&...
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/questions/unanswered and /tags allow id parameter, but it does nothing
The /questions/unanswered and /tags queries both document (as required) and allow an "id" parameter. You can use it as /questions/unanswered?id=1;2;3, but it does nothing (that I can tell) and doesn't ...
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JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 3)
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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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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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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How to search ALL sites with the advanced API?
I can make a request to Stack Overflow as follows, which searches with keywords in titles:
/2.2/search/advanced?title=vlookup%20index%20match&site=stackoverflow
My question is ...
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How to use date parameters in the /questions API? [duplicate]
When using /questions (e.g. like this)), dates are represented by a number.
I'd like to know how I can convert a number to a date. For example if I have 1293840000, what date does it represent?
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Get a great many counts of questions, by select tags for a date range?
I am trying to get the number of questions associated with a specific tag for a particular date range. I initially assumed the fromdate and todate parameters would do this. However, it appears that ...
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Get UserId by passing email ID in the Stack Exchange API? [duplicate]
The Stack Exchange API is mostly based on 'ids'. IE
/2.2/users/{ids}/top-tags?site=stackoverflow
How can we get {ids} for a particular user using his email id or name? Is there any method available ...
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How to use the API to show the user reputation? [duplicate]
How do I use the Stack Exchange API to let my users enter their Stack Overflow URL and then extract their reputation and show it in a profile controller in Rails?
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What about actually identical requests?
Now, it says here that I should not make lots of semantically equivalent requests. It also says that there is a lot of caching. So I was wondering, what about exactly identical requests. Should I wait ...
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Support for OR constraint when querying questions based on tags [duplicate]
Right now, there is no way (as far as I know) to query for questions based on multiple tags using an OR constraint.
You can query for questions tagged with multiple of these tags, but not with one or ...
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Sort options explained
I have read the doc here but I'm quite confusing because I still don't understand the semantic behind each options. Would you like to detail the different options ?
activity (default)
votes
creation
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What's the best way to mashup a social network with StackOverflow?
I’m experimenting with an integration project where I mashup a user’s LinkedIn connections and StackOverflow activity. Are there any relevant APIs on StackOverflow that could be used to integrate ...
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Scratch Pad Wiki Question
This q is for use by anyone who needs to modify, add or delete an answer or to modify the q to update the last_activity field.
Leave this description, but otherwise have at it.
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How does 1 request every 5 seconds exceed the 30 requests per second limit?
I'm doing a run every 5 seconds for this API call:
url = "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/no-answers?pagesize=30&fromdate={date_today}&order=desc&sort=creation&site=...
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How to pass multiple tags (OR between the tags) to the Stack Exchange Questions/Unanswered API
I am using the /questions/unanswered API to try and get all unanswered questions, sorted by upvotes, and with the tags specified.
How can I pass multiple tags to the /unanswered route(s) using OR-...
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OAuth domain with a custom port in a dev environment? [duplicate]
I have an app for which the OAuth domain is example.com
However, the domain for dev environment is example.com:8000
When trying to authorize the website, Stack Exchange replies with an error ...
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How to get all posts that a user voted on? [duplicate]
I know how to get all questions that I favorited using /docs/me-favorites.
But, how can I get all answers (or questions) that I voted on? Like those in the upvote history.
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How to get my StackOverFlow API Key [duplicate]
I used to login in StackOverFlow site using my Gmail Id/password.How I will get my StackOverFlow API key? I require that key to fire a StackExchage API which requires authentication.
Also, could ...
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"error_id":500,"error_message":"this error has been logged","error_name":"internal_error"
I developed an application, user can give vote down or up to question or comments but when I send the request to the API of the stackexchenge the response it is not true and this back to me error ...
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Total number of superuser users...
Hi all,
I am probably doing something wrong but there seems to be a discrepancy between the data-explorer and the API. For instance,
This query has a total of 48048.
http://api.superuser.com/1.0/...
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Are the inbox routes (`inbox_item`) missing some item types?
Should there be more options for item_type in the "inbox" routes (they return inbox_item)?
Shouldn't they return answer and edit suggested like the site's global inbox does? As shown in this ...
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How do I make sure my access_token gets passed?
I am authenticating via the explicit method, but I still get a 502 throttling error. Is my key not getting passed?
Do I need to pass the access_token with the request? if so. How do I do that.
I am ...
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I Cannot Perform Oauth [closed]
My Clientn id = 4784
and Key = cB0l6XiaOW5l5vsBnBeIUg((.
What do I do for Oauth and to get an access token?
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/tags search multiple words ("or") inname
Is there any way to search for tags... but for ex "aa bb" so I want back the tag "aa-cc" and tag "aa-ccbb". at the moment the inname searches for "aa bb" so only a tag called "aa bbcc" will be a ...
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