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Questions with specific tag and specific text inside questions
So I am able to get questions with specific tags, but still not able to get questions which have specific text and a specific tag.
For example if I want to get all the questions with text "api" in ...
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QuestionPacker - Packs Question in a Webpage
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It is my version of StackTack, which seems to be discontinued.
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Inbox Reader is released under the Apache License 2.0.
Download
You can get QuestionPacker here:
http://...
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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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Auto-Add A Comment When Closing
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Automatically adds a comment when closing a question, with the text taken directly from the close reason you chose, so that the OP can see why their question may be being downvoted, and improve ...
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Hide sites from Hot Network Questions section
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The 'Hot Network Questions' section has questions from websites which are not very interesting for me so with this script you can:
Hide questions from those websites
Stop hiding ...
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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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How can I introduce my Stack Overflow app to other users?
Recently, I created a project to manage and extract questions from Stack Overflow and convert those to PDF docs. I put it on GitHub.
I think this project could be improved and could be very helpful ...
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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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Unanswered Questions Recommender
Put in your user id, get a list of recent unanswered questions that you'll be able to answer:
https://lateral.io/demos/stackoverflow-unanswered/
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How to get Question/Answer body in the API response using filters?
I am specifically looking to get the question/answer body back. Is it possible?
I am looking through the API documentation and I'm confused about how to make a call with filters.
Sample call I'm ...
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Devlookup : A Search tool designed for developers
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Devlookup is a search tool designed for developers.
It aggregates results from the most important development websites, using Bing as the backend engine.
The main goal is to improve resource ...
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JSON parsing, won't work
I'm using the Stack Apps API. Retrieving questions by tags works well, and the JSON is returned. Now I need to parse the JSON and there is something wrong with my code:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api....
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Is there any app that could extract and manage questions from Stack Overflow?
I'm looking for help with a Stack Overflow application that could do the following things for me:
Extract the top voted questions at a given date and tag
Extract the answered questions of some given ...
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Stackopedia - all the answers to the questions you never asked
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An Android app that shows a random high voted question and its best answer each time you launch it. A really different way to learn new ...
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Invalid HTML characters in questions bodies
While writing an Android App that shows questions from the SE network, I've noticed that the SE REST API returns invalid HTML characters; after a bit more of researching I've found it's not the API ...
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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 can I show recently answered questions and answers in my blog site?
I would like to showcase some of my Stack Exchange answers in my blog site. I couldn't find a relevant post on how to implement this.
Also, from what I can see, in order to use the API a user needs ...
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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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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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`last_editor` is missing but `last_edit_date` is present?
Some posts (questions or answers) have a last_edit_date but no last_editor. Does this always mean that the post was last edited by the post owner?
Example: stackapps.com/a/3891/
PS: This issue came ...
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How can I access all questions asked by an arbitrary user?
Within the web app for courses I organize, I'd like students to be able to provide their Stack Overflow username, so that we can pull in their most recent and unanswered questions. This information is ...
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How to sort by the newest question?
I'm trying to retrieve the latest questions posted in a particular tag.
What's the equivalent for:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php?sort=newest&pagesize=15
I see that v1.1 API is ...
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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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OverflowMonthly
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OverflowMonthly is a monthly collection of the most popular questions on the Stack Exchange Network,published as ebooks(pdf and kindle format).
People can now also ...
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Real time questions for any Stack Exchange site
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This script provides real time updates and filtering of active questions for all SE sites.
Shows active questions in real time
Filter by favorite tags
Filter by ...
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Getting display name of the site on which question is located
When using the /questions method to retrieve a particular question, I'd like to also get the display name of the site on which the question is located (e.g., User Experience). At present, the API does ...
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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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C# Stackexchange Questions API [duplicate]
I need to build an web application C# and below is what I'm stuck with
Can I use Stack Exchange's API with Key? Do they have a "hello world" key can be used for learning purpose.
I wish to get the ...
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List of example questions
Since it's hard to find examples of questions with various attributes, maybe we can turn this into a reference?
Here's the problem: I want to try out the locked_date attribute in one of my apps, but ...
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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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Sorting and filtering is broken on /questions
Sorting error
When querying /questions and sort them by creation in descending order, the creation_date drops very rapidly.
I was looking for questions in the [php] tag on Stack Overflow. There 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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How to set the width of an image in the body of a question?
I used the questions/{ids}/edit to add a hyperlinked image at the end of a question. It works if I use the default dimensions of the image. However, if I specify the width using width="320" or style="...
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API response doesn't indicate the nature of a rejected question POST
I have a question, which I post to Stack Overflow. The addition of the answer gets rejected and I know that it is due to the fact that I used the tag coredata rather than core-data.
When I do this on ...
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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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Using OR with featured questions
My question is similar to: Getting questions that have a specific tag or tags?
What I am trying to do is get a list of Featured questions within a list of tags. I have tried using the following:
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400 when posting a question to the Stackexchange API
I am adding a question via the API and I manage to create a preview of my question (See JSON extract below).
{
"has_more" = 0;
items = (
{
"creation_date" = ...
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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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