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Please provide a way to get Post Edits, filtered by user
I recently discovered from this question that the API does not support filtering revisions by user. I am interested in looking at a user's edit history programmatically (with their permission) and at ...
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link in post_id in /me/notifications/unread is wrong
I have run /me/notifications/unread. The response contains post_id and there is a link to it.
This link is wrong. The post is on Stack Apps but the link directs to Stack Overflow:
I have ...
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API returns implausibly low questions per minute rate for Stack Overflow
Yesterday, I tried using the /info method of the API to predict the time left until 10M questions on Stack Overflow. In the process, I found that the returned "questions per minute" value was always 2....
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How to calculate users, who have posted (question/answer) using specific tag?
For example, if I want to know the number of users who asked and answered about PHP.
Currently, I can just get the list of questions and its total number, but it's not enough, because one user could ...
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Please add the `tagged` parameter to /answers, /users, etc
The /questions endpoint supports a tagged parameter which I find quite useful. However, it's the only route that appears to support this parameter.
If, say, I want to get questions asked by a given ...
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`body` of `inbox_item` returning only excerpt, not full body
I have run /inbox/unread function. It returns a list of inbox_items.
The body of inbox_item gives excerpt, not the full body. This is with all the functions that return inbox_item.
According to ...
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What does `total` in the /notifications route represent?
What does total in /notifications represent?
I ran it.
The result was items in Common Wrapper Object was array of 24 items where as total was 4.
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How to find questions that were posted or edited recently?
The api function documented at http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions lets me list questions on a site. How do I sort this so that I see questions that are recently posted, edited, including ...
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/me/inbox is not returning most recent items
Looks like /me/inbox is either a bit behind or it's not supposed to be realtime.
Explanation: for a comment that I received 4 hours ago
It's not returned in the API:
https://api.stackexchange.com/...
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Clickable link in "Try It" section of some doc pages
In the "Try It" section of some doc pages, the link is not present.
It is present in the below image
Its not present in the below image
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Where is "items" & "badge_counts" documentation?
Where is the items & badge_counts documentation?
This is returned as JSON. I am using the /me/associated query function.
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Please make the site search on the API alphabetical
When I search, I want the sites to be alphabetical:
Please can they be?
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What's the proper way to fetch the score of all answers of SO?
I wrote a small program querying the SE API to grab the public scoring data of all SO answers (excluding the last 3 days).
Basically the request I do gets me this:
Questions[]:
Id
Title
...
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Search function in the API doesn't work as expected
This looks like an error in the search part of the API.
This search URL:
/2.2/search?tagged=javascript&intitle=get%20column%20array&site=stackoverflow
doesn't return any answers.
I'm ...
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How can I access a user's ID on another site (eg. SU) if I have their ID from another site (eg. SO)?
If I have the ID of a user from any site, how can I get that's user's ID for a site I specify?
Eg. If someone's ID was 10349 on Super User, how could I get 10349's id on Stack Overflow?
I know I'd ...
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How to get the "People reached" stat of a user, using the API? [duplicate]
I checked the user ids and advanced search API docs, but I could not get this stat. Does Stack Exchange provide this info in the API?
/2.2/users/{ID}?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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Help with javascript SDK configuration
The following problem is REAL! All names have been changed to protect the innocent.
I have a site at "http://Something.github.io/MyRepository/Directory/index.html"
And I have my app configured like ...
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API returns delete vote count for questions, but not for answers
The questions method of the API returns the number of delete votes among other kinds of votes: sample query.
But the answers method does not have a delete_vote_count field available in the filter:
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Resurfacing bug: "could not parse proxy url" error message
According to this question, the "could not parse proxy url" bug was solved more than 2 years ago.
However, when using the client-side OAuth flow, the aforementioned error message appears when ...
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API throws improper error when "date" parameters are the same
When using the Stack Exchange /questions API using the same date for fromdate and todate I get a 500 internal server error.
Using different dates appears to work OK but specifying the same value ...
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Why is the API giving a different response for preview true/false with POST requests?
Update
This expression will evaluate to show the cause. The only requirement is an emacs with url. As you can see, the result from using curl and that from using the url package is different. ...
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Obtain JSON equivalent of a full Q&A HTML page?
I want to write an application for which, after some logic to select a set of questions, it would be most convenient to get the whole set of stuff at once that is normally shown on a Stack Exchange Q&...
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Getting questions that have a specific tag or tags?
In the current API (2.1 and 2.2), how do you get questions that have a specific tag or tags?
EG:
All Stack Overflow questions asked in the past 2 months tagged 'ruby'?
All Stack Overflow questions ...
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Max score with tagged works incorrectly for /questions, correctly for /search
When I look for questions tagged java from the first week of September 2014 with a minimum score of 10 like this:
/2.2/questions?fromdate=1409529600&todate=1410134400&min=10&sort=votes&...
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Which reputation events are private?
I've been reading the API documentation on retrieving a user's reputation history (docs/types/reputation-history)
and Stack Overflow's description of how reputation is calculated.
But, I can't find ...
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/answers API request returns no tags if body_markdown is included [duplicate]
This API request to /answers has the filter set to return the tags field for the corresponding question. It works fine:
api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers#filter=!9YdnSPElz
But, when the filter is ...
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Request: Mark inbox items as read, now that API 2.2 is here [duplicate]
Now we have write API, can we get a method for the inbox to mark inbox items as read?
Previously I believe the reason for not having this was the risk of apps marking items as read without the user ...
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How do I sort the /2.2/notifications endpoint?
I do not find information on the notifications api page. I am looking at this: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/notifications I would like to be able to sort by creations date and other fields. is ...
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Procedure for posting questions using the API, v2.2?
I want use one of the Stack Exchange V2.2 API (e.g. /questions/add) to post Stack Overflow questions from my website. I didn't find any app which is currently using the API for posting questions.
As ...
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How can I filter events by event_type?
I am using the /events route in the API and it returns all events from Stack Overflow.
But I want to filter based on event_type. Is there any way to do that?
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Encoding type of display_name
I am using the v2.2 api. There is a small issue I have come across.
For the display_name I do not understand the encoding. For example for this user, the name comes as Mike Sherrill 'Cat ...
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Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?
Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? :
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens
(This is the most promising API call I found for verifying the validity of ...
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Filter doesn't consistently return comment bodies
I've been trying to set up a filter I can use with /questions/{id}/answers/ (using the UI at this link), which returns the following fields:
answer:
answer_id
body_markdown
comments
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How do I find a user by their `display_name`?
I am using Serel (the Ruby wrapper) and would like to be able to find a user by their display_name.
As it stands right now, I can only find them via an ID - like Serel::User.find(1,2,3).
I tried ...
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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?
Back in version 1.1 of the API, we used to be able to do:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?help
...which would return information about the method in JSON format. However, attempting to ...
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Is it really worth to (implicitly) discourage documentation of API/library usage nowadays already?
Update:
Kevin provided an answer, which, while adding something of value to the three related questions together (by naming the originating concern eventually), actually does not apply to the ...
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Possible to get a user's flag history?
Is it possible to retrieve a signed-in user's flagging history, preferably with the status of the flag?
I looked at the /me/timeline docs, and noticed it doesn't return flags. Is this type of ...
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Byte Order Mark suddenly appearing in query results
Query results seem to have started including BOMs sometime today. I had to add code to handle it.
I don't see this documented anywhere.
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What is the "inname" parameter to the /tags 2.0 API?
I'm just playing with the new 2.0 API and in /tags there is a field inname that I can't find any description or documentation for.
What does it do? Is it like the old filter parameter on the old API?
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Are the "body", "comments" and "answers" parameters supported in the API version 2.x?
Earlier with version 1.x, the parameters: body, comments and answers etc. were available. But these don't seem to be supported with API version 2.x.
Are these parameters not supported in new API? Are ...
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`type=jsontext` JSON results for help pages
It would greatly simplify machine reading if we could apply type=jsontext to API help pages, including the index.
Update: Here's an unofficial JSON schema for v1.x.
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Include range [1, 100] on pagesize
I see that "range" is being used to indicate valid range on most numeric parameters, e.g.
32-bit integer, range [0, 2,147,483,647]
32-bit integer, range [1, 2,147,483,647]
The smaller valid range ...
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Indicate in documentation whether "numbers" can be non-integral
"number" is an very ambiguous term. Integral or non-integral?
For developers in more dynamically-typed languages like JavaScript, this is not an issue; but when using more statically-typed languages ...
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/questions/tagged/{tags} - tags param clarification
This API method has been removed as of Jul 16 '10. The original question is preserved below for posterity.
It is not clear what a "list" of {tags} looks like.
Does this parameter follow the ...
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Position required parameters at the top of help pages
The required id parameter for ...a lot of API routes... is now placed at the bottom of the page.
It makes more sense to place required parameters at the top of the page with a slight separation, like ...
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API documentation pages match some site names incorrectly
The bug is not in the API itself, but in the pages documenting its methods. To reproduce, follow the link http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/info#filter=default&site=math and observe that the page ...
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Version used by StackExchange API if version is not specified in api calls
I have used some StackExchange API calls in my chrome extension - StackEye. With the release of API 2.0, I want to update the api calls so I wanted to know
New things available in 2.0+ which were ...
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Is there an API for adding a user to a site?
With 2.2, I've begun implementing some write features in my app. I've started with voting. When you vote on a question on a site that isn't in a users associated accounts, you get the error "The ...
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I could POST a question but it does not have a `question_id` and it does not show up in my account
I could successfully create a question for my StackApp and I got this response (NSDictionary output):
{
"has_more" = 0;
items = (
{
"creation_date" = ...
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Get Token button in "Try it" doesn't give me a key in IE11
When I visit for example the timeline docs to try that api I need to get a token first by clicking 'Get Token'.
In IE11 (win 7/x64) this is broken. A window does pop-up but there is never a key ...
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