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API returning character entities in JSON
I noticed display names in the JSON contain HTML character entities; e.g.
/2.0/users/718618?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
Gives me:
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": ...
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In lieu of write access, can a user be referred to a site with title and tags in the URL?
For an app I'm working on, I'd like to refer users to Stack Overflow instead of providing an "Ask a Question" interface. Users will enter their question and I'll be using the similar API to suggest ...
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How do I fetch one question at a time starting from the latest?
I'm trying to fetch questions one by one, starting from the latest, so that I can create an infinite stream of questions in a Clojure program. I haven't yet been able to do so.
I can't just get the ...
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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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How to provide a logout button for authentication?
How would you provide a logout button for an app that uses authentication. (Not so that the user has to choose to accept or reject the app, that's deleting the app from their tab)
Basically force the ...
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I can't get a response for /questions/{id} in Chrome Extension
I'm writing a Chrome Extension that queries the API. Using jQuery, I have the following code called from my background page:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/' + id
,...
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Is the "link" URL enough to uniquely identify an "inbox_item"?
I've been looking at the documentation on the inbox_item type, and I was wondering what is the correct way to uniquely identify an inbox_item?
Is the "link" URL enough to uniquely identify an "...
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Is it safe to assume the API will be at api.<DOMAIN>?
I'm writing an application that will eventually allow you to use it for any StackExchange site. Thus, I'm allowing users to input the domains of the sites they want to use (e.g. stackoverflow.com). I'...
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Using the API directly from JavaScript
Is there any way I can use the API directly from JavaScript without any Server side proxy? I know of the inter-domain restrictions, but can we do it somehow in case of facebook API right?
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Error Using Stacky v1.0 Binaries in an Azure Worker Role
The following error is being thrown when calling the StackyClient.GetUser method from within an Azure Worker Role:
Method 'ReadJson' in type 'Stacky.UnixDateTimeConverter'
from assembly 'Stacky, ...
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URL Format: Special Characters
I just noticed something in my testing. I was searching for questions tagged "C#" and the questions come back tagged "C".
Code Poet's SOAPI javascript formats the route thusly:
http://api....
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Can you access a user's tag reputation/score via the API?
Is it possible to retrieve a user's tag specific reputation/score via the API? If not, is it possible to make an API call that returns enough information that you can calculate the value?
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Is dev.meta.stackoverflow.com gone?
Sorry If I am posting in wrong place, but when I try to login to dev.meta.stackoverflow.com today, I got password protected page and looks like previous password is not valid anymore.
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Url length limits have been increased
There's been some grumbling in the past about the unreliability of really ludicrously long URLs sent to the API.
We've always considered this suboptimal, but the underlying technical constraints (...
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StackAuth.com user's id
What ID should I pass to stackauth.com/1.1/users/{id}/associated url to get user's associations?
The description of the api call states:
id – a set of up to 10 users' association ids, obtained from ...
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Use stack2rss to receive responses via RSS
I'm trying to setup http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/ to receive full-body "responses" (comments, edits, answers and so on) to my own stackoverflow questions via RSS, but I can't find the right ...
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Negative voting questions?
I'm trying to, for humorous purposes, check out some of the worst scoring questions ever on SO.
I'm pretty much expecting them to all be "heeeeelp homework" or "plz send me teh codez" or something to ...
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Is there an authentication component to the API?
Is there an authentication component with the API? Same as logging in with Facebook or Google etc?
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Does Stackoverflow track what specific user is searching for..?
Does Stackoverflow track what specific user is searching for..?
is that data available through APIs provided..?
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2.0 API get votes
I've been searching the 2.0 API for a list of my own (up and down) votes. I don't see them in the API.
I don't think this is a prohibitively resource intensive query or that it can be used to ...
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How to license applications?
I registered on http://stackapps.com few days ago. I have written several applications that I want to place on this site. But I have a question -- how can I license my applications?
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Which nested objects and arrays are optional?
I am handcrafting a JSON Schema for the API, and there is some meta missing from the nested 'returns' objects and arrays.
The relevant information I need is:
if it is an array, can it be undefined (...
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Best way to calculate total badge count in Javascript?
I'm using Javascript and JSONP and want to find-out a user's total badge-count (i'm not using any libraries).
At first I naively added up the badge counts individually, but some user's have no badges....
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Announcement: StackExchange API Development Wiki
RIP August 24, 2010 - April 26, 2013
Due to lack of interest and the increasing burden of maintenance, I have decided to close down this wiki. Most of the information that it contains is either ...
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Can I search for the most favoured questions via the API
This came to me after reading this post.
I had a look at the API page and I wanted to find a way to search for the most Favoured questions. Is there a way to do this?
I tried to manipulate the URL ...