Questions tagged [sort]
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Sort Best First
Inspired by the Fastest Gun question on the central Meta, this script implements answer sorting based on a modified Wilson score. Installing the script adds a ‘Modified Wilson score’ sort option on ...
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Answerable, a recommender of unanswered questions
About
Answerable is a Python program that finds unanswered questions on Stack Overflow that you could be able to answer.
Background
At first I didn't know about the StackExchange API, so I planned to ...
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Wrong sorting parameter in documentation for question/{ids}/answers
It looks like that in the question/{ids}/answers documentation, there is a mistake:
votes – score
Shouldn't this be
votes – votes
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
I want to fetch some questions from the API and I would like to sort them. However, I don't want to sort by the default options (activity, votes, creations, hot, week, month), but instead, for example,...
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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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/synonyms sorting is majorly broken
I'm requesting /tags/synonyms data in descending order by creation date, but the order is jumbled up:
The first date is 2017-08-22 where as the second one is 2018-03-16. The same can be observed for ...
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How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date
The API documentation describes tthe usage of /questions/featured. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to sort the result by bounty_closes_date, which is IMO the sort option making most ...
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Absence of `order` and `sort` in rest calls?
Will absence of order and sort give the same result as order=desc and sort=activity always in every call (it is default in every call)?
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User sort by last_modified_date always return errors
I am using this API to get users info sorting by last_modified date, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/users#page=1&pagesize=100&order=asc&sort=modified&filter=!9YdnSBVWs&site=...
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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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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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How do I sort the /2.2/notifications endpoint?
I do not find information on the notifications api page. I am looking at this: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/notifications I would like to be able to sort by creations date and other fields. 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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Ability to sort answers by number of revisions via StackExchange API v2?
I was curious whether there was a way to easily find which StackOverflow answer has the highest number of revisions and/or to sort by that metric.
I see mention of a sort function in the ...
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Sorting the event stream
It seems like the data returned from the /events endpoint is flawed by being returned in descending order. For example:
{
"items": [
{
"event_type": "comment_posted",
"event_id": ...
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Can I get the FAQ ordering via the API?
StackExchange sites have a feature to order by FAQ, e.g.:
Screenshot
This is in fact an ordering by the number of related questions and often produces very nice results.
Can you get that ordering ...
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How do you retrieve list of users sorted by reputation?
I am failing in my attempt to retrieve results sorted by reputation. For example, the following query sorts the results by ID. Is there an error in the URI?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/...
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sorting ascending vs descending
I don't understand the difference between ascending and descending?
Surely ascending means the most active/recent/popular/A first, and descending means the least active/recent/popular/Z first?
But it ...
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Sorting comments by votes doesn't return 0 score comments
I have a query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/16822/comments?sort=votes
This doesn't return comments with no votes, setting min to 0 doesn't work. This query includes them all, but isn't ...
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Paging /users by rep is on sites with low user count unpredictable
Resolution
Fix confirmed:
Tests.SortDupBug
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Total 11066 api.serverfault.com /users?max=2147483647&min=99&page=1&pagesize=100&key=qgAq_KfDu0KYzlNG-qaTuw
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What does min and max mean when sort is "activity" or "hot"?
Does they mean anything actually? There was an "issue" when you needed to add min=0 to queries to actually get the answers instead of nothing. Just checked that this is not the case anymore, but was ...
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Inconsistent sort ordering on users?
I'm trying to get a list of the 10 oldest users. This is the endpoint I'm using:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?key=(key)&order=asc&sort=creation&pagesize=10&page=0
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Question sort: change active to activity?
I noticed the sort newest for /questions, /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/unanswered was changed to creation recently, making it more consistent with other methods. Could the sort active for /...
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Is there a difference between "newest" and "creation"?
When I look at some API endpoints, say /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/{id}, I see that the former can be sorted by newest, and the latter can be sorted by creation, both ascending or ...
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How to sort answers to question?
If I retrieve a question like so:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes
I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not.
How can I do this?
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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?
It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
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Confirmation on sort, order and min/max
I'd like confirmation, if possible, that the following chart of sort types is correct:
sort |orderable|min/max |min/max type
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activity | yes | ...
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