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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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Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API
I see the Stack Exchange API but I'm unable to understand it. I don't think there is any fundamental tutorial showing how to use Stack Overflow fully in the API documentation.
I want some fundamental ...
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Can the redirect_uri contain port number?
Is it possible to have the redirect_uri contain a specific port?
For example: example.com:8080
Assuming that example.com is my registered domain, is the 8080 allowed? I have tried to put it as part ...
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List of Votes by Authenticated users
In the API documentation for the question type, it says that you can access, for a specific question, whether or not the authenticated user (in the private_info scope) upvoted/downvoted the question.
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Please provide a way to download SEDE data via an API
Following on from this answer, I have a data extraction requirement that is not presently catered for in the API, so I've raised a feature request for that.
It has also been suggested that it would ...
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Tell us that POST is required to write
While troubleshooting /posts/{id}/comments/add in order to answer Why am I getting a 404 when trying to post a comment?, it was noticed that the API path in question only responded to POST requests. ...
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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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The answer object returns an empty array for tags
Since version 2.1, the answer object has a field called tags. However, sometimes, an empty array or even nothing is returned in this field:
Example with the filter !-*f(6t0Vk01e.
Am I doing ...
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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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How to increase app request quota from 300 to 10,000?
In the app management page for a little app I made, the following statement is presented below this key Pw9D)judG8FE4tJR3qjUTA((:
Pass this as key when making requests against the Stack Exchange ...
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Natty - Bringing 10k moderation to All
Background and History
The New Answers to Old Questions tool helps us to find all the answers added to questions which are more than 30 days old. However the issue with the tool is that it is not ...
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Accessing Authenticated User's Close/Delete History
I'm working on the PHP chatroom's cv-pls backlog UI. Many users and myself would like the ability to track which questions we have already handled though close/delete votes. To be able to do that I ...
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After successfully retrieving 180 pages, the API gracelessly, semi-silently, fails
I'm trying to synchronize tags using the Stack Exchange API and this works for about 180 pages, but around 180 pages it always ends with an exception that seems to indicate that there is no HTTP ...
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Does a closed and/or deleted Stack Apps post still provide access to the API?
Registering your application as a Stack Apps app is necessary in order to obtain a higher request quota, authentication and write access to the API.
What happens if the question is closed because of ...
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Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3
I was playing around a bit with Fiddler to capture traffic from the Stack Exchange iOS app. To my surprise, it uses version 2.3 of the Stack Exchange API:
I noticed here that it has some extra ...
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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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How do I parse the dates from the API?
I see that JSON returned by the API contains dates in the following format:
"creation_date":1364546475
^^^^^^^^^^
What's the meaning of it? How can I parse it to get the date in the ...
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How to search answers like is:answer
How can I use the API to search for answers containing particular text or with particular properties? For example, this link allows me to search for is:answer foo, that is, answers containing foo. Can ...
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Marking inbox items as read in api v2.2
I'm aware of this question, but it applied to an older (readonly) api version.
Given that API 2.2 is read/write, I figured this might be possible now.
Is there any way for an application using the ...
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How the /sites method is meant to be used
The /sites method is used to enumerate all sites in the network. If your [app] is meant to run against more than a single site (and many are) this method is how you should be discovering new sites in ...
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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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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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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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Reputation changes from accepting answers to questions are not included in reputation results
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, the results don't include the +2 reputation changes from accepting answers.
None of the reputation results from my own reputation history have a ...
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My filter is not returning any results. How to create a minimal filter?
I'm having trouble getting the SO API Filters to cooperate. I've gone over the documentation as well as similar questions like this and this.
I'll use this call as an example since it successfully ...
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AND searching for tags?
I am using the search api to search for questions that are tagged with "tags" and not with "tags". However I have noticed that searching for tags is an OR search.
The questions search for tags is an ...
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags using the Stack Overflow API?
The advanced search (/search/advanced) API can search for questions by tags.
But /users/{ids}/answers API doesn't take tags.
I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is ...
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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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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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Question up-voting is not working from my code?
I am trying to upvote a question using the Stack Exchange API in android, via the /2.2/questions/{questionID}/upvote route.
But in the log, it's just showing something like:
org.apache.http....
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Are the revisions returned by /posts/{ids}/revisions guaranteed to be returned in descending order?
The /posts/{ids}/revisions method returns all revisions to a post, but it doesn't have the sort and order parameters most methods have. From some quick tests, e.g. this one, I think it always returns ...
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`types=main_site` in `/me/associated` gives `meta_site` accounts also
When I run /me/associated with main_site as a parameter in types, its gives meta_site accounts also (Meta Stack Exchange profile).
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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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Heat Detector - analysing comments to find heat
General
Heat detector is a StackApp whose goal is to catch offensive, rude, snarky comments, and comments that leads to abusive content (offensive, spam posts, or previous offensive comments). It is ...
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Guttenberg - A bot searching for plagiarism on Stack Overflow
What is Guttenberg?
Guttenberg is a bot that searches for plagiarism or duplicated answers on Stack Overflow. It's currently running in SOBotics under the user Guttenberg.
Implementation
Every 60 ...
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Burnaki: tracking progress and helping burnination efforts on Stack Exchange
Burnaki
The purpose of this project is to monitor burnination efforts on the Stack Exchange network. The goals are threefold:
tracking the progress by watching for close votes / reopen votes / ...
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Documentation or API method for `option_id` information, for the `/flags/options` API calls?
The Stack Exchange API has a couple of calls that return a list of flag_option objects.
These objects contain a couple of properties that can be used to identify the flag you need.
For example, when ...
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NAABot - Bot which finds and flags problematic answers on Stack Overflow
Description
The aim of this project is to write a simple bot which will monitor all new answers posted on Stack Overflow and flag the ones which are not answers in accordance to the guidelines ...
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Why is /questions API returning deleted questions?
In last few days I have noticed that questions API returns questions that where deleted hours before the API call.
This is a short example, if more logs are need to pin point the problem, please ...
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Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?
We're seeing that, when a particular filter we've created is used, the API will return "comment_count": 1 for questions with no comments.
For a search for questions with no answers, ordered by ...
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StackExchange API Java wrapper
Screenshot / Code Snippet
StackExchangeApi api = new StackExchangeApi(key);
api.authorize(authToken);
StackExchangeSite siteService = api.getSiteService(StackExchangeSite.STACK_OVERFLOW);
Response&...
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Incomplete information in API documentation
I am struggling a little bit with the Stack Exchange API since there seems to be no formal specification for the individual endpoints of the API.
Example:
Endpoint: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/...
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JavaScript SDK-based workflow never pushes message back from OAuth login_success page on Stack Exchange side
I'm using the JavaScript SDK by Stack Exchange provided with the latest API, and despite following the official instructions & examples it doesn't work - it seems there is a bug which breaks the ...
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StackExchange API Java SDK
This project aims to provide a Java wrapper to the Stack Exchange API.
SDK supports Stack Exchange API V2.2
Getting Started
There are two interfaces to the library.
Query Interface
Facade ...
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Badge numbers are wildly erroneous for meta accounts returned by the /associated query
There is a serious problem with badge counts on meta sites as returned by
the /users/{ids}/associated route.
Consider this user (chosen for high volume of meta activity).
On Meta Stack Overflow, ...
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Typos on api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib
Under the Authentication section on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib, there are a few typos (emphasis mine):
scope (optional) – an array of scopes to request during authentication, valid ...
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Cannot authenticate with OAuth2
I was testing an app and suddenly I can't login any more.
Neither my app or the Stack App configuration hasn't changed, so I'm thinking this might be a bug on the API side.
The OAuth error seems a ...
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StackAPI - A(nother) Python wrapper
This is a(nother) Python wrapper for the Stack Exchange API. I wrote this to assist with a couple of my projects that needed to do a lot of API interactions. After using it and polishing it up for as ...
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Is it possible to have no sorting - to just show results in order of inputted IDs?
I'm trying to send multiple IDs at once (up to a max of 100), but need to use the data in the same order I send the request with.
So, if I send IDs in an arbitary order like 4;1;3;2, I would like to ...
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Is it possible to authenticate a user through Stack Overflow API?
Is it possible to use the Stack Overflow API to authenticate a given user identity such as with Facebook, Twitter, or OpenID?
If it's possible: Can you tell me the method (s) that make this happen?
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