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App devs - Would you use something like this if it were available?
Update:
So it was written, so it is done.
Go see the real deal!
var questionWithStuff =
ctx // soapi context
.Official // convenience properties for known sites
.StackOverflow
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Should we adjust the format of the dev-tip questions early on?
Update:
I've 'averaged' the few answers and comments and included the respective result below each question (all results are executed accordingly for some time already in most dev-tip posts). The ...
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How to order /sites result in a user friendly way to use it in our apps.
Since ordering of /sites is not guaranteed, how do i effectively order sites in a user-friendly way?
General requirements:
Trilogy must stay on the top of the list
[stackoverflow.com,meta....
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Can we add a creation_date to the /sites method?
I think we really need a way to determine when one of the new sites went live so that they can be ordered by date.
Something like:
{
"name": "Gaming Meta",
"logo_url": "http://sstatic.net/...
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Accepted answer on questions/id/answers method sorted by votes
Looking at this stackoverflow question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3012488?tab=votes#tab-top
when sort is by votes, the accepted_answer is always on top regardless of answer's upvotes.
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What is the Errors endpoint used for?
I am trying to figure out what the errors endpoint is used for, so I can I can implement it in my API.
I have been trying things like:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/errors/404
http://api....
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Timeline for v2.0 of the API?
Since v1.0 is now finalized, I thought I'd inquire about v2.0.
I'm guessing it will be a few weeks before you even start planning it.
Can you give us a long term estimate of when the private beta ...
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Version 1.0 of the API seems to be here!
It looks like v1.0 of the API is here now!
I waited a few minutes for an official announcement, but none came - so here it is!
Thanks a million to the team for putting this together!
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What does min and max mean when sort is "activity" or "hot"?
Does they mean anything actually? There was an "issue" when you needed to add min=0 to queries to actually get the answers instead of nothing. Just checked that this is not the case anymore, but was ...
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How to use min/max with sort
While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.
Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.
Aggregated sort ...
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What to do with API keys if our project is open-source?
Is it OK to share the key in our source? Someone could just pick it up and use it for other purposes.
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Why does the API lack any POST methods?
Why aren't any POST methods available?
Being able to post new questions and answers would be very interesting.
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Does an access using the API count towards the user's consecutive days total?
Supposing I knock up a quick Python script that uses Py-StackExchange (or similar) to visit stackoverflow, retrieve a recent question, etc.; and then run a cron job to do this a couple of times a day.....
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How the apps-libraries will be judged for the contest?
Do you know how the apps-library will be judged in term of awesomeness? Is there something more official than Jeff Atwood's contest post on the blog?
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I was building an irc bot with the stackapps api and...
So I was building an irc bot from scratch. I had named it sobot. Did the first test run and guess what? There's already an irc bot by that name. So what I am asking is: Am i paddling in the wrong ...
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What happens if an app becomes super popular?
Will there be provisions for apps to become "sponsored" by SO wherein the limits are removed? Say somebody writes the de-facto iPhone app and it gets 500,000 users, the 10K cap will be hit pretty ...
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Getting started: What kind of thing can we do with the SE-API that we can't do with the SE Data Explorer?
I want to know if my slender grasp of the latter will help me learn about the former.
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How to monitor questions for answers?
I am really struggling with this one...
Given a user ID, how can I monitor questions that that user has asked for new answers?
I'm worried the solution will look something like this:
Get all ...
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In question/timeline api all votes have the same timestamp... is it intentional?
In question/timeline api all votes actions have the same timestamp in creation_date... is it intentional?
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Observe a private beta in StackAuth
See here.
WebApps and Meta.WebApps are listed, as WebApps has entered the private beta phase.
Note that the state property for those two are private_beta and linked_meta respectively, values nobody ...
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API V2 Musings: What would you like to see
Answers should take the form of feature requests/modifications that are either obviously beyond the scope of v1 and or have been status-declined or status-deferred
They will be indexed here in the Q.
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Should we add a "this site is not affiliated to Stack Overflow.." disclaimer to our website app?
I've checked legal section but it does not say anything specific of this aspect apart from:
Do feel free to explain that your product is built on the Stack Exchange platform so people understand your ...
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Date that the contest ends
I hoped I wouldn't have to ask this, but after the sudden 0.9 release, it might be good to confirm...
Will there be at least a week's notice (preferably 2) given of the contest ending?
The ...
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Area 51 site proposal: StackExchange API Application Development [closed]
The question was closed instead of migrated so I have opened a new question on meta
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55163
Currently intended role of StackApps.com is not entirely clear.
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when/if/how/why do non-trilogy Stack Exchange sites aquire/provide API access
So I am looking at http://mathoverflow.net, trying to blow some cobwebs out of the dark corners of my brain that used to house some not-insignificant abilities and found myself wondering about API ...
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Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight
This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api.
With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in ...
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Explain http://stackauth.com/0.9/help/method?method=users/{id}/associated
Any One knows what this does?
What Id should I use?
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Access to /users/recent/ (Recent Activity) through the API
Would it be possible to have access to a user Recent Activity?
I know that this is not a public information on the website, but I think that most part is public. I only see one Activity that should ...
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What real world application does the Stack API have?
This is such a noob question, but its simple, so hopefully someone can answer for me please:
If you skill up in the Stack API, what purpose does it serve? What can you do with the API, how can you ...
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redundant question fields
These are simply pointing to known endpoints. This is truly 100% redundant data.
"question_timeline_url": "/questions/3078600/timeline",
"question_comments_url": "/questions/3078600/comments",
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redundant data in users
this is an example of truly redundant data. the paths are documented. they don't need to be included in the results.
"user_questions_url": "/users/22656/questions",
"user_answers_url": "/users/...
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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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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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Best way of structuring a library?
I am busy building an app using the API and I am about to start to work with the API.
I have looked at the one other PHP library, and it is one object with method calls which return back a ...
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API having more rights than a 0 rep user.
The fact that the API has total_upvotes and total_downvotes makes the fact that you need 1000 rep on the sites a bit weird. Are there more things that the API knows by default, which you can only ...
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Is it safe to assume the API will be at api.<DOMAIN>?
I'm writing an application that will eventually allow you to use it for any StackExchange site. Thus, I'm allowing users to input the domains of the sites they want to use (e.g. stackoverflow.com). I'...
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Abuse potential in API write-access?
I understand some of the use-cases for write-access in v2 of the API -- primarily to enable full access to StackExchange sites without a web browser. And I'm sure it will be a hit for people who want ...
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Is there a difference between "newest" and "creation"?
When I look at some API endpoints, say /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/{id}, I see that the former can be sorted by newest, and the latter can be sorted by creation, both ascending or ...
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Should /badges/{id} returns users that have been awarded all badges or any badge in the list?
The current behavior of the list version of /badges/{id} is to return the users that have been awarded any of the badges in the list.
An alternative is to have the API to return the list of the users ...
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Will there be a "last call" when the API is about to be released?
I understand the contest ends when version 1.0 of the API will be released, but will there be any indication when this time comes? So that you know you can allocate one last weekend for final fixes?
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Are wrappers considered applications?
I went to get an API key for my StackOverflow C++ wrapper, and discovered that this involves registering an "application".
Does the wrapper count as an app?
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help page issue: revisions by revisionguid example needed
/revisions/{id}/{revisionguid} - usage of this route is not clear to me.
can someone provide a working url and perhaps a simple use case.
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Where to Host applications installer
Hi, Any one knows a place to host my app installer? any recommendation, I am creating my website and will put it there but before I have my site i need to put it some where so you guys can test it.
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I need Testers, anyone want to be the First?
I will be needing testers for my app "Stack Bridge". If anyone want to be the first to destroy, I mean test my app, let me know.
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Do tags have "Id" field?
According to help page, there is no "Id" field.
But I am just wondering if there id "Id" field for tags, can we get it through API too?
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Can I use "StackOverflow" in the title of my website?
According to the little tooltip I get when registering an app,
Do not: Use any of the full names for our websites in the name of your website or application.
By full name, do you mean "...
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Building an app using a wrapper
To be considered for the contest must our app use 100% self made code or can we use someones wrapper.
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Can we have subdomains under stackapps.com with application or library names?
For example,
http://stackmobile.stackapps.com (George Edison)
http://stackdeck.stackapps.com (iconiK)
http://stackapplet.stackapps.com (George Edison)
for application or library owners?
I think ...
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API methods that return a single Item by id: unnecessary parameters to remove?
On methods that return a single item by id like the following:
/badges/{id}
/answers/{id}
/questions/{id}
/comments/{id}
/users/{id}
is it correct to have these parameters on Documentation?...
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What's with the reputation here on Stack Apps?
This site is only a couple of hours old, yet there are 33 users with over 2000 rep and 9 with over 4000. Are these values holdovers from dev.meta.stackoverflow.com, where everyone started out with ...
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