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`key` is not valid for passed `access_token`, token not found (although seemingly valid authentication)
I've made an authentication flow for my app (which wants to read your inbox and sent notifications on your desktop). Which can be found here
For this, I have created a stack app on this site. With the ...
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How to solve bad_parameter error?
I'm trying to make the Stack Exchange API request using the key provided by Stack Apps. But whenever I try it always throws the below error.
{'error_id': 400, 'error_message': "key doesn't match a ...
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A script to freely re-assign/remap/rebind the Stack Exchange hotkeys
the original Stack Exchange announcement from 2014
At least the hyperlink Ctrl + L and code Ctrl + K shortcuts go against the common web standards — in combination with the SE editor not behaving ...
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Get total question views via API
I can currently get the total number of questions for a tag by using the total filter. This works well, but I'd like to get a total views count for the questions in that tag. I could iterate over each ...
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How to get write_access to comment/answer on Stack Exchange
I'm trying to integrate the Stack Exchange API into my web app so I can fetch all posts as well as I can post answer or comments on them. I have successfully got access_token for no_expiry and ...
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How to get all tags' descriptions from the Stack Exchange API directly?
I know I can get one tag description by request such as "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/tag_name/wikis?site=dba".
But if I use it more than hundreds of times, I will get a ...
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Applications must have a registered Stack Apps post to write
I have problems with registered Stack Apps, I've tried different combinations, but it doesn't work.
OAuth Domain
9924033ab80e.ngrok.io/
Application Website:
http://9924033ab80e.ngrok.io/
Application ...
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Having Trouble Setting Up OAuth for App
I am trying to build an app but I can't get the authentication right.
I have been following the steps here:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication
I keep getting the below error no matter ...
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App post got deleted
I'm currently writing an app using the Stack Exchange API.
Today I wanted to rework the login component, but after signing in I get the following message:
Application must have a registered Stack ...
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Can I ask questions about features and functionalities of the Stack Exchange Android App here?
Is the "Stack Apps" Stack Exchange site the appropriate site to ask questions about features and functionalities of the Stack Exchange Android App?
It says 'Apps' in the title, sure, but you'...
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Is there a way to fetch my flag quota?
I would like to stop flagging when I start running low on flags. Is there any way the API can tell me not only the flag options, but also whether I have any flags left and if so how many?
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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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Is there an API call that can get me a user's access_token?
I'm trying to create a connector between Microsoft's Power Platform and the Stack API. Since the server ↔ server auth flow is happening outside of code I control, I can't grab the access_token from ...
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Unable to post a comment using the interactive API documentation
I'm trying to to integrate the Stack Exchange API in my application. I'm trying the authentication but when I got the token and used it it gave a write_access issue. That issue was resolved when I ...
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Bugs in API 2.2 "/search/advanced" with a "q" parameter
How can we handle these problems?
Result for sort=relevance&order=desc is similar to
sort=relevance&order=desc.
Very poor caching system: After some queries, you may receive the same
results ...
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Why and how to make use of API key and credentials Stack Overflow API? [duplicate]
I am in need of using the Stack Overflow API for my website. I've gone through the documentation and I got the API key and client credentials. But my question is, I am able to send my question through ...
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Unable to get access token
I am trying to get a non-expiry access token, like so:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth?scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri={{some_uri}}&client_id={{some_value}}
I am repeatedly getting the error:
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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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Version 1.0 released 9th of July
For a lot of us, that would be next Friday.
At some point - most likely after noon PST - version 0.9 of the API will be replaced with the final 1.0 release.
There are no expected interface changes ...
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Call to search/advanced is treating tagged as an AND search, not OR [duplicate]
The docs for search/advanced (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search) have this to state about the tagged attribute:
"tagged - a semicolon delimited list of tags, of which at least ...
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How to analyze and debug Stack Exchange's Javascript?
When writing userscripts, I often want to be able to look at what Stack Exchange's Javascript is doing. Getting to the code that the browser runs is easy enough - in the Network tab, I can see network ...
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Would it be possible to create a script that could be run manually to unprotect questions that meet certain parameters?
One of the sites I use has in excess of 10% of their questions protected. It's a small site but this seems like a huge amount, largely due to questions being on the HNQ regularly and attracting many ...
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Why is my API quota not resetting after UTC reset?
According to How API Keys Work, the default daily API limit -- which is per site, per day -- is 300.
I started with 300, as expected, but over a period of days, I've noticed that the remaining quota ...
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How can I see how a Stack Apps summary looks for a particular app?
When using one of the templates (app/library/script) while writing a question here, the top of the post will contain some HTML comments:
<!-- thumbnail: https://example.com/some-image.png -->
&...
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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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