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getting answer body and question body in same request [duplicate]
I'm trying to get only questions and answers.
I filtered the fields, to get also the body of answers, but I don't get an answers JSON object.
What am I missing?
I know about this question, but I don'...
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How do I search answer bodies for Markdown links?
The /search/excerpt query enables searching answers for specific text, but searching for Markdown links returns results that don't seem to match the query at all. For instance, the following query ...
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Obtain the list of questions associated to answer_ids without losing the information of which question comes from which answer_id
This is a follow up to a previous question of mine, and the starting point is that, given a list of reputation objects retrieved via /users/{ids}/reputation, I can easily retain only the entries with ...
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How can I fetch the answers posted in last week based on tags of the question?
I see that tags are present only for questions. How can I get the answers to these questions given in last week (if any) having specific tags?
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Getting the ID of the question-asker when fetching new answers from the API
I am fetching a list of all new answers posted on Stack Overflow using the /answers API call. This returns the owner of the answer, but I would like to know if the answerer is the same person as the ...
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Get everything touched by a user?
I'm trying to figure out the best way to compile all "post threads" (Questions and all related Answers and Comments) where a specific user owns any of the {Question, Answer or [a comment on either the ...
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Default Stack Exchange behavior interferes with my "Mark answers as favorites" code?
I'm developing a browser extension that lets users mark answers as favorites. The default Stack Exchange behavior when the favorite button is clicked messes everything up, though. Even if I set my own ...
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Top answers for a tag is returning user details?
I am expecting top answers for a particular tag here. But it returns user details.
Is anything wrong here?
Using:
/2.2/tags/java/top-answerers/all_time?site=stackoverflow
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How to monitor (for new) accepted answers by certain tags?
In practice, I don't know the IDs of the questions, but I can search for answers by given tag(s).
The problem is how to find (newly) accepted answers. The "activity time" does not work for this.
For ...
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags using the Stack Overflow API?
The advanced search (/search/advanced) API can search for questions by tags.
But /users/{ids}/answers API doesn't take tags.
I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is ...
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Get total answers count for a specified: Tag, Userid and Date-range?
I would like to get the total number of answers provided by userid 1068142 between
01/07/2015-31/07/2015 with tag = paypal.
I have looked into this question but it does not help!
I have been trying ...
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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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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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What is the difference between accepted and is_accepted?
I saw there are two fields in answer type.
One is accepted, introduced in v2.2 and needs private_info access.
While another one is is_accepted without these limits.
Can somebody give an explanation?
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How do I get the body of an answer, as well as the author? [duplicate]
I am using this call to get the body of an answer :
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/5877753/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
But this only gives the author of ...
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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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Total Number Of Answers
I need to find the total number of answers submitted by a user on stackoverflow. I tried the following:
I got my json from the following:
https://api.stackexchange.com/users/2440312/answers?site=...
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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 to search answers like is:answer
How can I use the API to search for answers containing particular text or with particular properties? For example, this link allows me to search for is:answer foo, that is, answers containing foo. Can ...
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Load answers to a question with review-like wrapper HTML
I'm trying to implement this feature request in SOUP, but I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to actually load the answers.
I can just load the full question page (like this one, for example) ...
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How can I use the Stack Exchange API to get the total score on answers to questions with a specific tag?
I want to use the API to get the sum of all scores of my answers to questions having a specific tag.
I started using top-user-answers-in-tags method, but it only returns the top 30, whereas I want ...
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Should feature-requests, for third party apps, be flagged as "not an answer"?
I spotted this "answer" as a first-time post:
Feature Request
Please add support for proxies.... It would be helpful to people behind proxies.
Like "ME"
I was going to flag it as "Not an ...
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Get accepted answers from Stack Overflow using Stack Overflow API 2.1
I want to fetch only my accepted answers from Stack Overflow using the API 2.1 and currently I've following code
$data = file_get_contents("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/741747/answers?page=...
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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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Ideas for dealing with this pagination problem?
Okay, here is the problem:
Certain questions contain more than one page's worth of answers. Given a sort method and an answer id, how can we figure out which page the answer is on?
Any suggestions ...
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What is the correct way to get the stackoverflow.com URL for an answer via the API?
A while ago I made a little "Recently answered on Stack Overflow" sidebar widget for my homepage. Currently this works by filtering answers out of the user feed however I thought I'd update it to make ...
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Why answers don't have a "locked" attribute?
When looking at an answer, I can see that there is no locked_date attribute, like there is for questions. IIRC, answers can be locked by moderators.
Also, if a post is unlocked, is that field ...
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