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How to get questions, under a tag, which have at least one answer with 10+ votes?
I want to get all the questions under a tag which has at least one answer with 10 or more votes.
I searched the Advanced Search documentation and searched Py-StackExchange's documentation, but I ...
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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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How to Create a Multi-tag URI Request to /questions
Just want to confirm if I'm doing this right. The /questions guide doesn't mention this.
Let's say I want to ask for multiple tags in one request, am I doing this right?
https://api.stackexchange....
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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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How do I get the number of views in the past day on a question?
How do I get the number of views in the past day (or within a specific time-range) on a question with the Stack Exchange API?
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A step by step approach for posting questions and answers?
I am trying to learn a step by step approach for posting questions and answers on stackoverflow.com using the Stack Exchange API.
Could someone help me with this?
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Do my users need to be logged in, for quota?
I am building an application and want to showcase relevant Stack Overflow questions. I have made the request and getting a response, but its responding with a quota value:
"quota_max": 300,
"...
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StackBot - Making it easy to post StackExchange questions to Twitter
About
StackBot is a small C# application that is designed to post interesting questions to a Twitter account at specified intervals.
License
StackBot is released under the Ms-PL license.
Download
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Receive latest questions with certain tag
I'm creating a simple notification application to inform me about latest questions with defined tags. For example, my tags are python and django.
I want to see the latest asked question with those.
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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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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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"users" link lands on the answer page
On the /users/moderators documentation site, the following link is wrong:
This method returns a list of users.
The users link mistakenly points to the answers object instead of to the users object....
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
I have run into some confusion over the presence of the body attribute in an inbox-item returned by the /inbox method.
When item_type is set to "careers_invitations", the body attribute appears to be ...
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Hide the tag-info popup
This script hides the tag info popup. In response to Why are there popups over tags in the question page?.
Install
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Stack Search - Chrome extension
Stack Search is the chrome extension you’ve always dreamed of!
Stack Search adds to your Google Search results a filtered set of the most relevant answers from your top trusted coding sources: ...
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Authorization dialog shows wrong API version
If you go on this doc page and click on Get Token, you'll see this:
Minor bug, but still, I thought it would be nice to fix this inconsistency :)
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Bounty Notice Viewer - View the notice from Home page
Inspired by my own meta question: Show the bounty notice/reason on hover instead of “this question has an open bounty worth x reputation”,
I created a userscript which helps to view the bounty notice ...
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New line missing between 'notice' and 'related_site' member types
At the bottom of http://api.stackexchange.com/docs?tab=type#docs under the Member Types section, notice and related_site are on the same line. A <br> is missing between the items.
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
On API doc pages, the “link” link at the top-right of the “Try It” sections presents a URL with the wrong domain name:
For example, on docs/similar, the URL displayed will be:
https://api....
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StackWatch - Glitch app to send Web Push Notifications on new questions
I made a very simple node app to give me chrome push notifications when new questions are posted in tags I am interested in:
I have tested it working in Chrome and Firefox.
Demo Site
This is a ...
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Stack Overflow as Web Component
Background
This project was developed to address the following issues:
Simplify the process of using Stack Exchange API in a websites, for starter we simplify the process of displaying the most ...
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Can you identify a user from the access_token?
I have the access_token after authentication from the user. At this point I don't know with which sites this user has registered. Is it possible to get user information like the display name or ...
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How to get new questions continuously?
I am a beginner with the Stack Exchange API. I would like to get a continuous stream of new questions on Stack Overflow so that I can do some number crunching with it.
Do I have to periodically ...
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Get a great many counts of questions, by select tags for a date range?
I am trying to get the number of questions associated with a specific tag for a particular date range. I initially assumed the fromdate and todate parameters would do this. However, it appears that ...
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'answer' type has "unchanged in unsafe filters" listed for the wrong field
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/answer says the can_flag field is unchanged in unsafe filters. It's probably meant for the field above it: body_markdown.
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'search_excerpt' type issues
On the search_excerpt page:
community_owned_date should be marked as may be absent
locked_date should be marked as may be absent
search/excerpts should be listed in the Methods That Return This Type ...
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Types missing from the "Member Types" section
The following types are not listed on http://api.stackexchange.com/docs?tab=category#docs under the Member Types section:
network_post
closed_details
original_question
Note that it's a nonexhaustive ...
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Parameter `tagged` in `search/advanced` seems to use `AND` instead of `OR`
It seems that search/advanced has the same problem as in "The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags" question.
When I select c#; .net I only get results tagged both c# and .net:
http://...
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Application Key and AccessToken are not working for Stack Exchange API? [duplicate]
I have followed the documentation and used explicit OAuth 2.0 flow for access_token generation.
And I have gone through all 4 steps defined under explicit OAuth 2.0 flow with scope=no_expiry. Then I ...
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Looking for Bookmarklet to Create a Question
I want to build a small bookmarklet which can take the selected text and send it to Stack Overflow to create a new post containing the selected text.
Also get a unique id or something that helps to ...
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Notice field on questions may be absent?
The notice type, that is a field of a question, appears to be optional, yet it is not marked as "may be absent"?
For example, when I request questions with a filter that has the notice field checked, ...
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Field "comment_count" is not always returned by API
I am making a request with a custom filter that includes the "comment_count" field of the question type. My custom filter is !RtdMEtslKF6Z()NqpDUFZ58R6twu-.4V48gn0furqA*7_BL1.
However, when I'm ...
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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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Get all questions of a particular tag in API 2.2 in PHP
I'm trying to get all the questions for documentation on Meta Stack Overflow in PHP.
The code I'm using is as follows:
<?php
$feed = file_get_contents('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/...
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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 API Version 2.2 returns null always while getting questions list?
The below 2 codes returns null always. How to get the list of questions using API Version 2.2?
Question thisPost = context.Official
.StackApps
.Questions.ById(1)
.WithComments(true)
.First();
var ...
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Why is the `site` parameter required in `/me` call?
I want to query information about the logged-in user using me, and this site parameter is creating some small problems.
I am developing a visual studio extension where upon logging in a user will get ...
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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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`fromdate` and `todate` parameter in `/me` call
What if we don't give the fromdate and/or todate parameters in a /me call?
Will it give result of user of all times? It's not mentioned explicitly in documentation.
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API access to the /10m ("Thank you") web page?
https://stackoverflow.com/10m would be very interesting if you ask me: logging values periodically, and such.
However, a recent issue I had showed that I can't just access it.
Since I've found no ...
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How to get question body (markdown) in the API response using filters? [duplicate]
Using withbody filter as suggested in this thread (How to get Question/Answer body in the API response using filters?) returns body as HTML. How do I get the original markdown?
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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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The /tags query is not giving me the correct results between two dates?
I'm trying to get the yearly total number of questions that have the tag browserify.
I can see that there are questions tagged from this year like this one and that one.
The site reports that there ...
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YouAskOverflow - StackOverflow For SMS (placeholder) [closed]
About
SMS for receiving/posting questions on Stack Overflow
Platform
What platform or browser is your app for?
Web based
Contact
Who created this app? Who are the key contributors?
How do we get ...
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stackanswers.vim - View answers from Stack Overflow within Vim
Introduction
stackanswers.vim is a Vim plugin that allows a user to ask a question, and receive answers from Stack Overflow right into Vim.
Usage
You can ask the question by running :StackAnswers <...
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How to get all questions with a specific tag between certain dates
I would like to get all questions created and tagged with tag "R" between 2 dates.
I'm using parameters: tagged = R, sort = creation, fromdate and todate set to appropriate dates and site = ...
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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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How to get the 10 most recent questions with accepted answers based on a given tag?
I am trying to figure out how to get the 10 most recent questions from the Stack Overflow site, that have been answered, based on a given tag (such as 'Java').
I looked at the documentation but I ...
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How to include answers when fetching questions?
I made a small cron job which crawls questions and answers from Stack Overflow.
Here is my request URL:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?order=desc&tagged=php&site=stackoverflow&...
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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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