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How to login programmatically on Android?
I think my question is not a duplicate of this one: How to login programmatically
I have read the authentication document but, still, I am unable to get what's needed to login programmatically on ...
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Getting started: /users/{id} [duplicate]
I am trying to get the amount of reputation that a user has. I have established that I need to use this url: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/1272330?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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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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Array of all Stack Exchange sites with Name, URL and Description
I'm building a WordPress widget and need this array do display a dropdown where the user will select the target site.
And with the selection value, the information will be built and displayed ...
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json with list of all user's on stackoverflow
I am trying to get the list of all user's in JSON format (as provided by the API) (using jQuery jsonp)
What I found is:
pagesize – The number of collection results to display during
pagination. ...
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How do you list you stack exchange apps
I wanted to know how you're supposed to get a list of apps you've registered on the stack exchange api.
I finally managed to find this url: https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth
My question is this: How ...
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Get questions content from StackOverflow API
I need to get the question content from StackOverflow site.
I already built the functions that parse the HTML for a question, and return me the question content.
But, I found that there is an API, ...
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List of object types on SE API v2.0+
Beware: The API is Huge!!
Below is the list of all the "types" of objects returned by the API v2.0+ :-
Note: v2.1 specific types are noted in a seperate box
Type | Field ...
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Can you identify a user from the access_token?
I have the access_token after authentication from the user. At this point I don't know with which sites this user has registered. Is it possible to get user information like the display name or ...
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How can I re-authenticate StackAlert Addon
Recently I removed StackAlert Firefox addon from my apps list in StackExchange. Now when I reinstall it, it is not authenticating and giving message
key is not valid for passed access_token..
How ...
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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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Wrapper implementation method to get user notifications in Stack Exchange?
I'm trying to build an app that requires me to get the user notifications for a particular Stack Exchange user.
Now, I'm trying to use Java to accomplish this and I came across this wrapper library: ...
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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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Stack Overflow Firefox Extension
Recently I created a tiny Firefox extension to get given user reputation of Stack Overflow. But I did that using API version 1.1.
How can I migrate that to 2.1? How to authenticate my application ...
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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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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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Whatever happened to closed_reason?
When pulling back info on a closed question, I have come to expect closed_reason to be a present key if there's a closed_date. It seems that as of recently this is no longer true.
Proof: https://api....
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What sizes are the images available through the /sites endpoint?
I see logo_url, icon_url, favicon_url, high_resolution_icon_url... But I wasn't able to find any information about any of those images in the documentation. Are any of them fixed size? And/or is ...
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No website (yet), how to register?
I just started developing a Stack Overflow client, and wanted to add authentication. I found out I needed to register for that and wasn't sure if it was okay to register your app when it is not yet ...
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Downloading data en masse
I'm currently in the early stages of developing an Emacs major mode for the Stack Exchange Network.
I'm a little torn on how to set up the use of the API within the mode.
Is there a way to download ...
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Serel returns a JSON Parse error for the 'C#' tag
When I try requesting the tag c# via Serel, I get an error.
This is the error I am getting:
INFO][2013-02-25 02:06:42] Making request to /2.0/tags/c#/info?site=stackoverflow&key=mykey
JSON::...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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Ruby wrapper for stackoverflow api - Serel, Pilha
Serel and pilha are good Ruby wrappers for the StackExchange API, but I am not able to access the body method for question and answers. The body method returns nil.
I want the content of questions ...
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ChatterBox configuration option is confusingly worded
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
I'm confused over the option:
Mark items as unread when you view them:
Why would I want to mark items as unread when I ...
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Does the API have a method to get the total favorite count of a question?
Like it says in the title, is the total favorite count of a question exposed anywhere via the API? I know about the favorites method, but that looks like it will give you the specific favorites of a ...
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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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Write comment API failing with error_id: 500
I am trying to test post comment with the following URL
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/posts/10305691/comments/add?key=HIDDEN&access_token=HIDDEN&site=stackoverflow&preview=true&...
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Get my profile information after authentication
I am coding for a mobile application and using stack exchange API 2.1. I am able to implement oauth and I have access token also.
Now I am trying to retrieve my profile information, like user_id, ...
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What is the "Manage API Keys" link to the right of the StackApps.com frontpage?
When I click on it, I get a page that goes "Your Applications", then "No applications registered". Needless to say, this is different from "Manage your applications" link on the frontpage because I do ...
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Posting answers via Stack Exchange API
Can I post answers via an app using the API, is it possible? And if so, what are the limitations; linked with the reputation of users?
So if someone has 1 reputation he can also post answers, like a ...
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Overwhelmed by unorganized information [duplicate]
As you can see I am a newbie, and trying to use Stack Exchange API for a school project.
I spent 3 hours just trying to understand How to get started. Is there an example for me to follow? or A ...
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How do you trigger the search/advanced 'q' parameter to search all words?
When you search for “playa parents not working” on http://expressionengine.stackexchange.com, you’re brought to this URL:
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/search?q=playa+parents+not+working
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What's an example of the backoff field? Is there some way I can simulate it to test appropriate behavior?
In reading about the API rate limiting, the documentation talks about a method responding with an ominous backoff field, and states that the client should cease from calling that method for that many ...
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How to login programmatically
I'm building an app for personal use. The app simply screen-scrapes the StackExchange homepage and checks whether I am currently logged in to StackExchange. This works fine.
However, if the app ...
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Software for Javascript?
Do I need any special kind of software to view the responses I get after requesting something? Like with Klout for example, I can get all the code returned as I need it, I just don't know where to put ...
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Client Side Flow security problem
I'm not pretty sure, but if my app is enabled to Client Side Flow Authentication, then anyone with my client ID (easily found for being embedded or by sniffing the initial request) would be able to ...
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How to access my App info
I've registered for an app yesterday, but I'm not finding where should I go to see/edit its info again.
I've search through profile, at stackexchange.com but couldn't find it.
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Getting unauthorized_error when using OAuth2.0
I want to create a simple desktop application which connects to my account and shows some information in the status bar. I've been trying to authenticate using OAuth2.0 but I'm getting stuck and I ...
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Can I place my Android application here?
I have an Android application, which is written by me and placed on Google Play Store, Can I place that application on stack apps site ?
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Questions returned by /questions/{ids}/related do not contain link properties
The API docs claim that /questions/{ids}/related return question objects, but I can't find a link property on the returned questions at all.
Is there some sort of workaround to find the link for a ...
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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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Ajax get questions by tags ERROR
i'm trying getting questions by tags.
this is my simple code and i'm running this from my http://localhost:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$.ajax({
url:'http://api....
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How can I get beta sites to show on StackApplet (v1.5.1)
I installed StackApplet v1.5.1 and it works fine, although the refresh time of 5 mins minimum is a bit slow. However, I have an account in Robotics which is in beta state.
How can I get notifications ...
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Why am I being told to backoff when I'm well within my API limit?
I've been running my API app fine for some time now and when I added another function I realized I was being told to backoff.
I only run the app once a night and don't really pull that much data. I ...
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How to access global stackexchange user favourites in a feed?
I was looking for a way to IFTTT my questions, and found this recipe, that automaqically saves your favourited questions to Evernote. Nice. It uses stack2rss (thus the SE API) to provide a feed with ...
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stack overflow data dump utility error - mysql
I have the SODDI v.11 utility (although the screen says v.10)
I also have the SODD from 092011.
When I try to import the SF/MSF data, I get:
Table 'SF.VoteTypes' doesn't exist.
It creates the SF ...
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Is it safe to change the OAuth Domain?
I'm about to develop a small application that will use the Stack Exchange API. I understand that I have to provide an OAuth Domain when I register the application with Stack Exchange. Right now, I am ...
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Clarification on related tags for a tag returned by API
I was assuming that the related tags API call, returns all the tags that co-occur with the input tag. But a closer look at the API documentation indicate the following:
Returns the tags that are ...
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Algorithm for calculating filter
What is the Algorithm that one can use to make filters like !-u2CTCBE?
For example /2.1/filters/create?include=question.body&unsafe=false returns "filter": "!9hnGssGO4". How is this String ...
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Get Key for my application
I am creating Stack Overflow client application and have reach limit to request. So I decided to get the Key from my application, but got a little confused.
When I requested the Key I provided ...
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