Questions tagged [feature-request]
This tag indicates a proposal for a new feature for the Stack Exchange API, or a change to an existing feature.
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How do we connect an app data to server using api?
I am new to api. I have made some apk apps using mit app inventor. Is it possible to save the user entries to some place online using API. Basically I don't understand how API works. Is it possible to ...
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Are these images really necessary?
In the homepage (mobile phone) there's a huge image on the left side of each question:
But are they really necessary? Should we remove them? The images seem unrelated to the questions themselves. ...
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Provide a "latest" version for apps that want to keep up
By pointing my application at
http://api.stackoverflow.com/n.n/...
or possibly http://api.stackoverflow.com/latest/...
I could keep up with all the version changes released.
Alternate forms to stay ...
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Getting global information (Stack Exchange) about a list of users
I'm working with the API for several weeks (see my app here) and I'm trying to get the username of a particular user from its Stack Exchange ID.
It's possible by querying /users/{ids} but it returns ...
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Add is_moderator to the /me endpoint
There's an endpoint for getting information about a user - called /me. I can get a number of fields from it, including is_staff, which, presumably, indicates if a user is an SE staff member.
Could ...
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Get the Site Display Name from the API
Is there a way to get the Site Name, like StackOverflow or ServerFault, etc.? In my app I let the user enter a url with a api for a Site and I will be great If I can tell him something like: "You Are ...
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Improve design of the Documentation's 404 page
The 404 page of the documentation has a rather awkward design; for example, a different header than other pages, and no footer. Can it be updated?
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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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please expose stackauth via a url that is consistent with the api
Most libraries and apps need to version themselves by adding the version number to the url and subsequently most of the http request code includes this information in the url building process.
the ...
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How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?
I checked docs , there are no endpoints to get total visited days and consecutive days. Is there any way to get them?
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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 there an API to upload images to SE's imgur installation?
Is there an API for uploading images to the StackExchange-specific imgur installation? I could use the main imgur site, but they don't keep the images indefinitely.
Use case: It would be ...
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Main Stack Exchange network site API
The original Stack Exchange app has this cool feature where you can browse hot question from the entire network.
But at the current state I am not able to see a “Stack Exchange” site listed in the ...
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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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Remove meta badges
Currently, we have the Quorum and Convention badges even though Stack apps is its own meta so they are unobtainable. I think they should be removed to make it so only obtainable badges are on the ...
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Can we change the Stack Apps homepage tabs to not show questions tagged "obsolete" and "placeholder"?
Following What should we do about dead listings?, we've started to add obsolete to questions that are 'deprecated, no longer available/supported, or no longer relevant'.
However, on the front page, ...
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Remove users' accept rates from the API
The accept rate of users isn't shown on the site since more than 6-8 years. Nevertheless, it's still returned by default on most calls returning user details. It doesn't serve any purpose anymore, and ...
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Get reputation changes across all sites without querying each one individually
I'm looking to make an app that shows your reputation changes throughout the network. /me/reputation-history/full almost accomplishes this, but it's on a per-site basis. I only want one query to get ...
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Add API to get posts of one collection
We are Teams users and want to get all the articles and questions added into one collection.
I did not find it in the documentation.
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Return suggested edits for tag wikis and excerpts from the API
It's time we put the venerable tradition of haunting Kevin Montrose's answer with comments on when the API will start returning suggested edits for tag wikis and excerpts to rest. This is an official ...
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Add API method for network-wide search
Just like stackexchange.com has a networkwide search, it would be nice to have an equivalent of excerpt-search which searches the entire network at once. That would save me 360 calls (per-site metas ...
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Improve error message when attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation
When attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation, like happened here: API to submit a Suggested Edit, the API returns the following:
{
"error_id": 407,
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"is_edited": false or "is_edited": true as an option in the API response
When working with the Stack Exchange API I noticed that there is important data (at least for what I thought to do) not available, whether the question, answer or comment was edited or not:
{
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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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Update Teams API documentation to reflect dependency on tier
The documentation 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 Teams.
This is slightly ...
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
Our site is a bit special and different in some places compared to "regular" sites in the Stack Exchange network.
For example:
We are are both a Meta and a Main site.
We have a special API ...
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Is there a way to increase the contrast of the special highlighting that is applied to the OP of a question?
EDIT: as you can see, the OP is now highlighted a bit more clearly, in 2021! But this may change, or someone might want a more striking contrast.
When the Original Poster of a question comments ...
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
A couple of days ago I answered a question about the Stack API.
As my answer could be illustrated with a working code example I went ahead to create a Stack Snippet. To my surprise that feature isn'...
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Possible to return newest questions with a certain tag?
I am not finding a way to return a list of new questions by tag with the new Stack Exchange API.
Am I missing something or is this not available? If this is not available, I most certainly request ...
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Stack Exchange OAuth2, explicit access-token response format does not adhere to RFC6749 standard
I'm using the Stack Exchange v2.1 API. I'm using the explicit OAuth 2.0 flow, but it seems that the access token response step does not adhere to the RFC 6749 standard. Specifically, the Stack ...
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Can we get a sandbox please?
I think that we should have some sort of a sandbox site where we can post questions, answers and comments in a controlled environment.
Currently I'm working with Stack Overflow but I can't post "...
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How do I get the no. of upvotes a person has received for a particular tag?
I need the list of users who have more than 10K reputation and then among those users I need to see which user has how many up-votes for each tag. I don't think there is a direct query that will give ...
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
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Should we add review queues to the API?
Review queues are unsupported on the Stack Exchange API, and it could be useful to write an app that would review. Should we add it to the API?
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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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Should status-review be made a mod tag?
On most other meta sites, status-review is a moderator tag, however on stack apps (which is it’s own meta) it is not a moderator tag. Since there is no status-review moderator tag on stack apps, ...
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Can I ask the API to tell me to back off? [duplicate]
I'm creating a bot that collects all tags from a given site (and over all sites in the network). I would obviously like to run this bot in as little time as possible, but I also do not want to overly ...
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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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API support for close actions
Background
I would like to create an app for general Stack Overflow browsing to improve upon the UI. One of the things that I am targeting is the lack of certain options in the close dialog. I ...
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Creating plug-ins with StackApps which can be used on a per-user basis.
Facebook developers can create applications which run inside Facebook. For example, the Graffiti app adds a button to the New wall item popup, and has its own pages inside Facebook.
What if we could ...
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API for user next achievement/badge requirement?
If you look at your user profile you can see:
visited x days, x consecutive
So for the achievement/badge "Fanatic - Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive day" I can calculate the number of ...
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Add close-vote information to the questions object
Would it be possible to add close/reopen vote information to the questions object?
For example, you usually see something along the lines of:
close (3)
when a question has three (current) close-...
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Can I have more than one OAuth Domain?
I tried to set more than one OAuth Domain, but seems to it's not working. I tried to set them separated by comma or space, but got redirect_uri - must be under an apps registered domain error message.
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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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Add Area 51 Discussions to site list and account list
While Area 51 Discussions is accessible via the API (proof), it is neither in the list of sites nor in the list of associated accounts. I'm not sure how much work this would be to add? I understand ...
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API to submit a Suggested Edit
Is there a way of using the API to submit a suggested edit?
This would allow users without the edit privilege to at least submit their suggestion.
There is no create/add endpoint listed in the docs ...
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Stack Exchange API - Get Watched Tags for a User
Is there a way to get a list of tags that the user has set up as "Watched Tags"? If not, is it on the roadmap?
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OAuth implicit login dialog layout on Mobile Safari needs improvement
On mobile safari (iOS 13.3.1) the layout of the dialog page could be improved.
On opening the page look like this on an iPhone11:
The reasoning being this request is that the login dialog in the ...
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Is the way to search answers by who I voted for? [duplicate]
I found few similar questions: first, second. But answers is too old (2014 year). It's actual now — no way to get this info by using API?
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Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted
Could you please provide a way to retrieve deleted questions/answers?
Your database contains that data, until you hard delete it, so it would be useful for us to have the chance to play with it.
I'm ...
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