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How to provide a logout button for authentication?
How would you provide a logout button for an app that uses authentication. (Not so that the user has to choose to accept or reject the app, that's deleting the app from their tab)
Basically force the ...
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API V2.0 Public Beta Begins
As has been announced, we're starting the public beta and spinning up a contest (as we did with V1.0).
As such, some of the guidelines for the private beta no longer apply.
The api-v2-beta tag no ...
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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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API V2 Private Beta Begins
It's about time this thing got under way. If you're participating in the private beta, you should receive an email to that effect.
If you were also a member of the V1.0 private beta, you'll notice ...
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Register for the Stack Exchange V2.0 API Private Beta
It's getting to be that time (actually, it's about a month later than I'd hoped but still!), API V2.0 is shaping up and we're spending more and more time on UI polish rather than functionality.
So let'...
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How to search my threads based on some key words?
As I have already many threads in some StackExchange sites, sometime I would like to be able to search among them, for instance, based on some key words.
Does anyone know how to do that? Thank you!
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API Endpoint Changes Coming In Version 2.0
As work has progressed on the upcoming second version of our API, we've come to a bit of an impasse that's going to force a semi-radical change.
Here's the root of the issue:
once you've gotten an ...
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How to find libraries that are compatible with a certain API release on Stack Apps?
This has become a bit of a concern for me with the upcoming beta for v2.0 of the API. The problem is simple: if someone wants to know what version of the API a library is compatible with (or at least ...
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How to get "inbox" items
Is there an API function to get the contents of the user's inbox? For example, my inbox looks kind of like this:
2 comments on Bash Prompt keeps disappearing
What does that PS1 accomplish that PS1='\...
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Draft Specification for API v2.0
We've started working on the next version of the Stack Exchange API.
The current draft specification is available, and we'd like to hear your feedback!
The headlining feature for this release is ...
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Has anyone *implemented* the Stack Exchange API on top of a public database dump?
It seems that the public database dumps contain nearly all of the data required to respond to API queries.
Has anyone implemented the API, backed by a copy of the public database dump?
It would be ...
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Why does api.stackoverflow.com allow resource calls that accept vectorized or multiple IDs?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/questions-by-ids
What is the motivation for building api.stackoverflow.com in a manner that accepts multiple IDs in a resource call?
For example, I can ...
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Do I need permission to use the SE API for a commercial app?
I recently developed a mobile app using the publicly available API of one of the Stack Exchange sites.
Do I need to obtain permission from Stack Exchange before releasing the app to the public? Can I ...
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Has anyone made a wordpress plugin for stack api?
Just wondering if as it would be nice to put a widget on a wordpress post that allows people to add new questions and answer them right there in the blog.
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Which of the Ruby libraries/wrappers for the Stack Exchange API is most complete?
There seem to be a number of Ruby libraries: Pilha or Rubyoverflow. Has anyone used either of these? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Which is more actively maintained?
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Using Stack API for a Forum?
I don't know if this is the right stack site to ask this...
Would it be possible to build a forum using the stack API? Would it even make sense?
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Stackoverflow API - get “received” upvote count of a user.
I'm currently using the Stackoverflow API to get a list of detailed user information (via http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/users-by-ids). There is an attribute called "up_vote_count" ...
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User "authentication" (validation?) in V1 of the StackExchange API
In a previous question, it was asked whether it is possible to authenticate a user through the Stackoverflow API? The short answer was no, not until version 2. Now I would like to know: is there any ...
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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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Filtering tags should provide exact matches at top
Take this query for example: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/tags?pagesize=25&filter=ip
No where is there the valid tag [ip]. It is further down the page. This is quite annoying when searching ...
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Area 51 sites api [duplicate]
Why does http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/stackauth-methods/sites not list Area 51 (http://area51.stackexchange.com/)
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Small user scripts, one-liners, prototypes?
The script tag is to be used for complete userscripts. It would also feel kind of pollutive to swamp it with lots of smallish submissions.
Hencewhy I'm making this proposal as reference question to ...
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Is there documentation on how to install scripts?
Is there documentation, or at least links, on how to how to install JavaScript scripts for your web browser of choice? Most of the FAQ seems to be about how to create StackApps, rather than how to use ...
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Is there an app to monitor reputation and new answers/comments?
Is there a desktop app that will alert me when my reputation changes, and when I have a new answer or comment on any of my questions?
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OR operator for StackOverflow API
I'm trying to get a list of questions from the SO API for a number of tags,
At the moment I am using the ; operator to separate the tags in the URL but the thing is this only brings up questions that ...
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Timeline results contain redundant information?
Can I get a confirmation that the response /users/{id}/timeline contains redundant information, namely:
If the action is: | Then the timeline_type is always:
-------------------+---------------------...
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StackO: A Windows Phone 7 StackExchange App
EDIT
STACKO is now available for download from the Marketplace.
For features/suggestions please visit http://stacko.uservoice.com/
StackO is a StackExchange browser allowing you to search the whole ...
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Any guarantees on JSON string encoding?
According to the JSON specification, JSON can be returned in one of five string encodings:
UTF-8 (the default encoding)
UTF-16 Little Endian
UTF-16 Big Endian
UTF-32 Little Endian
UTF-32 Big Endian
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api 2.0 - any plans to bring SE sites closer together?
I've been re-reading api 2.0 roadmap and thinking what might be useful to have there.
I don't care much about authentification, and even less about write access. But what would really reduce amount ...
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Clarification on StackApps "App" vs "Script"
Pursuant to a chat conversation there's some clarification needed on what it means for a stackapp to be an app or a script. I'm posting this for the community and for future searchers and as a bit of ...
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Retrieving comments received by a user
I want to retrieve all comments directed to a particular user (rather than comments posted by that user) within a particular time period (e.g. last 24 hours). I don't want just "mentions", which are ...
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Enumerated types documentation in 1.1 API
I'm starting to implement requesting question and user activity in my framework, but the new 1.1 API documentation doesn't seem to indicate what the possible return values are for the fields any more.
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Guidelines on app and library thumbnails
We now have better, user-friendlier display for apps and libraries and scripts:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/stack-exchange-api-1-1-and-improved-app-gallery/
We infer a number of things ...
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Changing the display of the apps tab
We're looking at changing the front page of Stack Apps to look more like a proper app "marketplace" and less like a run of the mill Stack Exchange site.
Proposal (third draft)
This would ...
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Drafting users for testing in Alpha/Beta stage?
I finally stopped stagnating long enough to start working on an application for Stack Apps using the API. Development is going well and within the next 6 to 8 weeks there will be enough functionality ...
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Overflow7 - Stack Exchange sites on Windows Phone 7
Video of 1.0
On YouTube - http://bit.ly/stackoverflowforwp7
About
This is a Stack Overflow app for Windows Phone 7 - it allows you to browse, read and bookmark Stack Exchange sites
Screenshot
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Can i make an internal Q&A site like StackExchange?
I'm looking forward to develop a Q&A site that was requested to be private for my company, and as my boss talked it looked like he was describing StackOverflow, what i want to know is, is it ...
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I am planning to build a Windows 7 gadget for Stack Exchange.
Hello,
I am planning to start development of a windows 7 gadget for stack exchange.Specifically stack overflow.
I would like some guidance, on where to get good designs, HCI patterns, etc for the ...
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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?
Going over the API, there seems to be some overlap when it comes to expressing a predicate in a URL.
For example, let's say I want to fetch some questions from stackoverflow.com that have the tag "...
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Anyone build a "Outlook Social Connector" for SO? (perhaps integrated Soapi.CS/C#)
I'd like to see an Outlook Social plugin that shows the reputation of everyone on a given email message.
Update: Here is a sample project to get started. 80% of the work is now complete...
It would ...
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How your app[s] is going?
Do you mind to share your current experience with your live app[s]?
Are you still working/updating it?
Are you getting traffic/popularity?
Got some good review/link from some big fish?
In ...
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Does a registered stack apps application have to be a website?
If I've created an application that is not a website, can I still register it and get a key?
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Where is the usage documentation?
I know this is probably a dumb question, but there's a bunch of documentation and I don't know what to do with this stuff. How do you use the API?
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Looking for app to support offline access to my posts?
I am looking for an application to download all the questions I asked (and the answers) on Stack sites and all the questions that I labeled with the favorite label (that start what appears under the ...
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Let's delete the off topic questions?
There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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Application to read stackoverflow off-line
I'm now going on vacation and I won't be having internet connection there, I was thinking it would be a good time to browse throught the stackoverflow data dump. However its all in XML and I'd have to ...
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Can I download the executable for any developed or listed application that developed using SO API?
I saw the StackList and the apps. May I know How can I use those applications?
Can I use it ? Are they opensource?
Can I download the executable for any developed or listed application that ...
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Android app for Stack Overflow
Is there any android app for Stack Overflow available?
Which basic features must I include if I develop this app? Ideas are appreciated.
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is there an api to access a list of tags on super user?
As above, is there an api function to access a list of tags on super user?
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Are there any webhooks for detecting changes/updates? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can we have some sort of notification system?
Have you looked at adding any webhooks so applications don't need to continually poll for changes?
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