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Clarify read-only vs. write operations for Teams in documentation
The API page about Stack Overflow for Teams says (emphasis mine):
Starting with the release of Stack Overflow For Teams, the Stack Exchange API exposes read-only access to data stored in private ...
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Why does the 'Apps' tab show hot questions and the 'Scripts' tab high scoring questions?
The Stack Apps homepage has two unique tabs which are not present on other sites: Apps and Scripts. There is a slight difference between the two, which is visible upon hovering:
That's right, the '...
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WebSockets in API
Now that the actual sites have updates for Questions and Inbox with WebSockets. Can we get access to these via the API? If they are stable enough for the sits, then surely they for the API?
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Greatest Hit questions data/route in API
Can we get access to the greatest hits functionality of the websites?
Something like /questions/hits, and with an id (as in user ID) parameter to match the website.
Maybe in version 2.1? This data ...
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Can we get write access to user favorites?
I'd like users of my app to be able to add questions to their favourites.
Will this be added to the API as an authenticated call?
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Is it possible to get daily reputation change for a user via the API?
I'm trying to fetch a user's daily reputation change history for a project that's still early in the planning stages. I've been trying to use the "reputation" endpoint, but it seems like I can query ...
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Provide a streaming API instead of forcing API users to poll
I've written an IRC bot that can notify channels when new questions with a certain tag are posted. However, currently I'm polling the URL #{APIURL}questions?pagesize=100&fromdate=#{@...
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Please include Flag Weight in User API
Flag Weight is visible to everyone.
It would be great if that info included in API /users/{ID} result.
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Complete question timeline including votes
Is there any chance to get more information in questions timeline such as when it has been upvoted, when it has been downvoted, same for all answers, including comments, and other actions such as vote ...
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Will the API support the chat system?
Having read through come of the questions on here it's my understanding that v 1.0 of the API is for read-only access to real-time data, pretty much what's available in the data dump. Write support is ...
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Global Inbox uses the API?
Just wondering if the GI uses the APIto work, it could but it would require a lot of requests (though it won't take up [internet] bandwidth because it's done inside the server cluster (that is ...
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Implement Simple Update Protocol (SUP) endpoint
http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/
The basic concept is that instead of polling individual API calls for changes, you make a single call to a 'SUP endpoint' which indicates any changes ...
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Markdown versus HTML
Does the API always return question and answer bodies in HTML format?
Is there any provided way to get them in Markdown format, for easier local editing?
If not, please consider this a feature ...
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Why is edit_count exposed on Comments but not Questions or Answers
Comments have an edit_count field, why is this field not included with Question and Answer responses?
Further, the edit_count field has limited utility on a comment where, lacking revisions and a ...
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Can we have an Owner Name value in Question, Answer, and Comment?
If a post has no owner for whatever reason, we don't get the owner object in the response.
Thus, it is impossible to display the username of the missing owner. The site is able to do this, so we ...
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Why does the API lack (proper) HTTP cache control headers?
I've just read Kevin's answer to Do I need API key to use StackAuth API? and been quite surprised that the API doesn't seem to facilitate proper HTTP caching already:
You really shouldn't be ...
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Please add accepted_date to answers/{id}
The reputation timeline aggregates activity so that only one instance of each answer or question is returned for a given timeframe. This makes it difficult to tease out reputation awarded for ...
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reduce api calls - please add last_modified to user structure
When updating a cached list of questions, I can query min last_activity_date, drastically reducing traffic.
using creation_date, one can efficiently maintain a cached list of users with minimal ...
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Write access (post answers, comments etc. on behalf of users)
From what I can tell, there's currently no way to write to StackExchange sites using the API. Are there any plans to support this? This would mean some implementation headaches, such as providing a ...
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