Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
Now that we have a Community Bulletin, we use it to highlight questions (more precisely scripts/apps/libraries) which deserve to be highlighted. All we ♦ moderators need to do is slap a featured tag ...
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Request for user script to remove mask from posts deleted as spam or offensive
As a contributor to Charcoal, I often find that the spam and offensive mask (i.e. "this post was deleted as spam or offensive and is therefore not shown, see the revision history") just gets in my way ...
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API Inconsistencies
In my opinion, one of the hallmarks of a good API is that it is self-consistent. It establishes easy-to-remember conventions and then follows them.
As I'm trying to adopt the 2.0 API, I'm finding ...
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Convert your Stack Exchange Posts to your own Website
Using the tools in this website you can take all your Stack Exchange Posts in SE Markdown Format and convert them to GitHub Pages Jekyll Kramdown format.
The website is targeted to high-rep Stack ...
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Why are Stack Exchange API methods named like this
I'm curious about https://api.stackexchange.com/docs .
I looked up and studied the naming convention to make a REST api.
I've seen that in the naming convention, don't use verbs and in the case of the ...
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Is there a difference between the API search and the search from within the site?
I'm curious if the search results from the API is calculated the same way as the searches from within the sites themselves?
Is there a difference between the two? If so, what are the differences?
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Adjusting the question templates to better accommodate placeholders
From time to time, we see users posting placeholder questions using one of the templates. They have no useful information to add, so they just leave the template as is, which is very logical behaviour....
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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RSS security in general and StackEye security specifically
Surely (or at least hopefully) I'm not the first to wonder about this (but a search on "StackEye security" gets me nothing).
All I really want to do is follow users on StackExchange and so I ...
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Using scripts on iOS with the Userscripts app never seem to work?
I'm using the Userscripts app for mobile Safari. My phone is an iPhone 13 running 15.6.1 operating system. I use this app for other scripts. So it does, at least for some things, work as expected.
I ...
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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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The /questions endpoint only returns around 30,000 items where 400,000 are expected
I use stackr library and I registered an api key as the library mentions "since it increases your daily quota of queries from 300 to 10,000." So I use the following code, which worked fine ...
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Can I use the Stack Exchange API to build a "GH Archive" like project?
I'm not sure if I can use Stack Exchange API to build a https://www.gharchive.org like project?
I studied the API throttling documentation but I am not sure.
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Why can I not authenticate my application? Application is not allowed to request implicit grants
I created a placeholder. PLACEHOLDER - Disco Application I created an application and added placeholder. I followed https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=19204&redirect_uri=https://...
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Top questions/answers
Is there a way to get a list of X questions/answers with the highest votes up, visits, etc?
Say I want to get the list of most voted questions in .NET category (tag) or Java.
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Where is it acceptable to store an access_token?
Obviously it isn't safe to broadcast any access_token to the public, especially those which are defined with no expiry date. It would also be considered a security issue if a list of registered access ...
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What's the etiquette for answers/comments on an app "question"?
Since everything I list below could be acceptable when there is so much to discuss, is there an accepted etiquette to what "answers" should address in relation to app "questions"? ...
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Why is no_expiry "strongly advised against"?
In the docs on user auth, it says
This request is responded to with either an error (HTTP status code 400) or an access token of the form access_token=...&expires=1234. expires will only be set ...
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(Should we) add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs?
This answer is posted by a staff member, but you have to go to the user's profile to actually see that.
Can we add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs like on all meta sites? [♦ Mod] labels aren't ...
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How to retrieve paged API results in C# and Silverlight
In this tip we are going to leverage the SimpleRequestFactory and gather a multipage response.
Let's pull the first 5 pages of 100 users on stackapps.com.
NOTE: for Silverlight, substitute Newtonsoft....
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How do I get notified of events in SE chat?
I'm writing userscripts to interact with Stack Exchange Chat. I'd like to be notified when things happen (e.g. messages added, removed, edited, users joining, etc.). I know that I could use a ...
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Does the [ruby-on-rails] tag add relevant context on top of [ruby]
We have the tag ruby-on-rails (7 questions) which is
... an open source full-stack web application framework written in Ruby. It follows the popular MVC framework model and is known for its "...
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How to convert unix timestamp to .NET DateTime
What is the format of the "creation_date" that is returned from a search of questions? I've been looking all over here and can't figure it out. I want to convert it to a regular DateTime ...
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How to format an url-friendly slug for question urls
I would like to construct a slug starting from the question title.
It would be useful to apps that want to show the original link to the question in a human readable way.
On StackPrinter i have this ...
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
Our site is a bit special and different in some places compared to "regular" sites in the Stack Exchange network.
For example:
We are are both a Meta and a Main site.
We have a special API ...
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Obtain the list of questions associated to answer_ids without losing the information of which question comes from which answer_id
This is a follow up to a previous question of mine, and the starting point is that, given a list of reputation objects retrieved via /users/{ids}/reputation, I can easily retain only the entries with ...
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Request Throttling Limits
What are permissible requests "speeds?"
The API will cut you off if you make more than 30 requests over 5 seconds to any single endpoint (currently 30 requests per second, https://api....
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Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Using StackEx as a prefix for the name of my app?
According to trademark guidance:
[...] Including one of the terms, "Stack" or "Exchange" or "Overflow" in your product name is generally okay.
I'd like to use "...
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?
I have a site that will offer technical help and assistance for a certain niche of computer users. I can either host my own forums, or tie in with stack... but I want to be able to make money off it ...
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Load answers to a question with review-like wrapper HTML
I'm trying to implement this feature request in SOUP, but I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to actually load the answers.
I can just load the full question page (like this one, for example) ...
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API Documentation and Help
Method List
All API methods can be found at https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
Global Method Parameters
All methods accept the following parameters:
type=jsontext: responds with mime-type text/json.
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Does Stack Apps have some special rep and Community Wiki modifications?
I have posted a "question" (actually an app) on Stack Apps, and received two upvotes on it. Each gave me 10 reputation. This runs counter to every other Stack Exchange site - and, indeed, the Stack ...
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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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Script to keep mobile-view active
As you probably know SE is moving to the responsive view on there website meaning everything will look like the desktop kinda. Same with mobile devices. I’m new to SE for about 20 days, and I like the ...
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What's the best way to get all available data related to a user's reputation?
I'm looking for the best way to get a full list of every event which has caused a user's reputation to change, It could look like:
timestamp,reputation_change,object_uri
2011-01-25 14:58:27Z,10,/ajax/...
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App/Script to track answers/comments for specific questions?
Is there any app that tracks answers or comments to a specific question and provides an rss feed (or email digest or similar)? I'm only interested in keeping track of certain questions.
Can I use ...
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Site in closed beta but api working
Webapps has been added yesterday, website is in closed beta and it's not possible to see something on the website when you are not logged.
But if you use the API you can get information.
http://api....
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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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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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I don't think this tag was [release]d properly
The release tag seems redundant. Let's review it for burnination:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
No, it doesn't. We already have tags ...
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StackApps for Windows Phone 8
Can anyone suggest a good app for Windows Phone 8 or let me know Where an I find API to build my own?
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Has someone implemented code(in javascript) to get last seven days consolidated reputation thorough API?
I am trying to get user's reputation for last seven days. I want to get total reputation user has earned on specific day. Has someone implemented a way to do this in javascript?
I know I can do this ...
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Request for user script to show/estimate moderator candidate scores from the time the user nominated in the election
I'd like a user script that, on moderator election pages, queries the API for user's candidate scores at the time they nominated in the election in question. Election pages, including historical ...
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Why was Not a Real Question deleted?
I posted an answer on Not a Real Question's Stack Apps post and shortly after, the entire post was deleted by animuson. I'm not sure why it was deleted, it seems on-topic because it is related to the ...
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Should feature-requests, for third party apps, be flagged as "not an answer"?
I spotted this "answer" as a first-time post:
Feature Request
Please add support for proxies.... It would be helpful to people behind proxies.
Like "ME"
I was going to flag it as "Not an ...
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Where can I find login api for logging in stackexchange?
I need my bot (me) to login without myself involved in it. I've set up my node server, but now I can't figure out how to login. I'll need fkey to connect to socket, and for that I feel I'll need to ...
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What will be rate-limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from same IP?
What will be the effective rate limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from the same IP address?
Will it be whatever only one of the keys can use? So maximum 10k?
Will rate-limit ...
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App that tracks a specific tag
I'm looking for a software like StackTracker that allows to track a specific tag on StackExchange sites.
Do you know some?
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The 'should be closed' description in the flag dialog is missing a word
The 'should be closed...' reason has this description (emphasis mine):
This question is completely unclear, incomplete, overly-broad, primarily opinion-based or is not about Stack Exchange API, app,...
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