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We’re collecting feedback on how we can improve the Stack Exchange API
The Stack Exchange API allows users to programmatically query and connect to the Stack Exchange Network of sites.
The API is currently in version 2.3. We’re collecting feedback from users of the API, ...
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How to get a User Id
Is there a way to get the user id so I can use the method /users/{id}
I guess that for security you cannot asked the API give the id of a user with this openid Identification but is there another way?...
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How do I get my total reputation score using the API?
How do I get my total reputation score?
My score is 354, on Stack Overflow, as per my user page.
I browsed the API, and found a call similar to what I require:
api.stackexchange....
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Is it safe to embed my API key into my javascript-only application?
I have an application I'm developing that's pure javascript and consumes the Stack API. My API key is embedded in the source which anyone could read. Is this safe?
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How to obtain the bibtex item for a question with a program or HTTP request?
Which request should my program send to mathoverflow.net to get the bibtex, which is so well hidden behind the share button?
Rephrased: what I'm after is something analogous to a link like:
adsabs....
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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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How to deal with the "Too Many Requests" error coming as HTML?
The API specifies error codes, and messages.
It also specifies a "backoff" parameter.
But, even while respecting the backoff and stopping at errors, and even when waiting a long time between requests ...
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Stackexchange oauth2.0 is suddenly failing
No changes in stack apps or my code, it was working fine for a while, suddenly it stopped working now.
I get "InternalOAuthError: Failed to obtain access token"
After more details inspection,...
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Can we have the display_name field in the /me/associated route?
I'm reading the Authentication documentation and I've noticed that the /me/associated route returns fields like user_id, badges, reputation but not the display_name, even specifying a custom Filter.
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Is a deobfuscated version of chat js available?
The dev portion of the CDN hosts unminified JS for the main SE sites (you can find it via http://dev.stackoverflow.com ). However, I can't seem to find the same for chat.
Is there any link for ...
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Am I accessing the API correctly?
When running the code
$.getJSON('http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/4', function(data) {
// Do some stuff here....
});
I get the error
Failed to load resource
Am I accessing this wrong?
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How to strip out certain fields from the Stack Exchange API, JSON response?
I want to fetch all my favorite questions on Stackoverflow.com and dump them as JSON. I used this API path:
/2.1/users/1310070/favorites?fromdate=1382486400&site=stackoverflow
But it is returning ...
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What are the min and max parameters?
Several of the api methods (e.g. questions) have min and max parameters with the following description:
min (optional)
Minimum of the range to include in the current .
number
max (optional)
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StackExchange API /sites/ does not return all the sites
I am working on one application that produces timeline of user on every site of StackExchange.. We have some users on Sharepoint.stackexchange.com..
Since I want list of all the sites, I am trying to ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 7?
Is there a Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 7?
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My App unintentionally DoSed api, and my IP got blocked across all the sites, now what should I do?
I put a program in cron to run every 5 minutes, and that program loop 5 times and read each api site 12 seconds interval.
But last night (12 hours ago), I noticed that my program broke and there was ...
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Request for script, or fix, to add Edit-Reason checkboxes
I've found a Stack Exchange userscript which looks GREAT - it would make things so much easier for me:
The Edit summary options script
Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all! I'm not sure why.
My ...
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How are filters created?
Can someone explain how Filters are created in the Stackexchange v2 API?
The documentation mentions the following for /filters/create:
It is not expected that many applications will call this method ...
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Is there a limit on the data that is returned from stackoverflow API calls?
I have the following query, which is identical to the example they give in the documentation:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions?fromdate=1391756400&order=desc&site=stackoverflow&...
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What's the different between user_id and account_id?
What is the difference between user_id and account_id in the User object ?
Both are different and I'm looking for the unique ID of the User.
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": 2144246,
"...
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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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Provide a post listing changes to the API?
While it's possible to pick up on many of the changes that are made to the API by looking at every [status-completed] tagged question on here, I'd like to see a single post that's updated every time a ...
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Stack Exchange API in Chrome extension
How I can connect my extension to the API? I tried to use this example code for connecting:
SE.init({
clientId: 1,
key: '?',
channelUrl: '?',
complete: function (data) { alert('...
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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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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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