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Can I charge for apps I create on Stack Apps?
I want to create an app that will use data from Stack Overflow Careers - both employer and applicant information. It's an app designed for employers.
I have two questions:
Is it even possible to ...
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Get user data using curb/Curl in Ruby
I am trying to get user data in my Rails app.
I am doing this:
url_so = "http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/231917?type=jsontext"
curl = Curl::Easy.new(url_so)
curl.perform
data_obj = ...
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How to set a userscript, listed here on Stack Apps, to auto-update by itself?
I try to make my userscripts as comprehensive as possible on the first attempt. However there are often cases where I need to push some new update to it.
In these cases, past users have to manually ...
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How to get notified when user posts, comments, etc.?
I want to create a slack integration that will list the user's Stack Overflow activity. EG: when the user asks a question, posts an answer, edits a post etc.
What can I use for this kind of ...
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Unable to download data from the API using UNIX wget?
I want to download the JSON data from this sample API call into a file.
I tried using wget, like so:
wget -O ~/ks/json.txt "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search/advanced?pagesize=5&fromdate=...
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Bad format returned by Stack Exchange API, not GZip?
I'm attempting to request some information using the Stack Exchange API. Supposedly, it returns responses compress with GZip. Using Microsoft's System.IO.Compression.GZipStream or Ionic.Zlib....
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API to get the small tag info displayed in the popup
I do not know if this is possible, or if this is even prohibited, but here goes.
I am creating a website where I talk a lot about the web and different programming languages. Now I want to create ...
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Is something filtering 'document.cookie' in SO pages?
My colleague and I are developing an annotation tool for web resources. One way The user can us the tool is to click a special bookmarklet to view the current page with annotations added. The ...
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-430 rep - why?
I just lost 430 rep. from 6777 earlier today to 6347.
This seems to be localized to my account only.
Why?
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How to revoke an access token generated for my application?
I generated an access token for my application and shared it with some people. Now, I wish to revoke the access token and generate a new one. I don't find any way to revoke that token.
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Why doesn't my XMLHttpRequest call work in Excel?
I can make a simple API call in JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest:
<html>
<script>
function reqListener () {
out.textContent=this.responseText;
}
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Suggested edit not returned by API
This suggested edit: https://dba.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/20375 is not returned by the /suggested-edits/{ids} API call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/suggested-edits/20375?site=dba ...
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Role of "preview" in "/questions/add"
To post questions using Stack Exchange API, I am using /questions/add. What does parameter preview do, i.e., if we set it to true/false, what behaviour would it give?
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How to get up_vote_count and down_vote_count for a user?
I'm testing the following command:
$ curl -s "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/55075?&site=stackoverflow" | gunzip -d | python -m json.tool
However it doesn't return up_vote_count and ...
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Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?
Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? :
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens
(This is the most promising API call I found for verifying the validity of ...
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Is it possible to create a private Q&A site using the Stack Exchange API?
I want to create a sort of private Q&A site to allow university students of the same courses to communicate. Is it possible by using the Stack Exchange API?
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Looking for a script to show countdown timer below posts for easier edits
On Stack Exchange sites, edits that are made within 5 minutes of posting a question or answer aren't counted. This is called the grace period.
For example, if you post a new answer, and edit it after ...
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Maximum length of "about me" in the Stack Exchange API?
What is the Maximum length of "about me" in the Stack Exchange API?
The one from the /me path.
And in general, where are the length limits published? If anywhere?
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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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Is there a Stack Exchange API allows research on the body?
I want to use the Stack Exchange API to perform research on the question/answer's body but it seems impossible.
Is that the case? If not, how do I go about doing it?
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Is there a way to get the edit URL for a tag wiki from the API?
I've been playing with a little webapp for tags of a certain kind for travel.SE (current pre-alpha version gist on github).
One thing I would like to do is add links for the various tag-related ...
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Has calling StackAuth changed for Apps?
I started upgrading to v1.1 and have an interesting problem I can't seem to resolve.
When calling http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites using a .Net WebClient I receive responses successfully and I am able ...
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Stack Exchange site layout question
I noticed that the new SE sites all have the same layout and the same image. When will these things be changed? I don't want to support these sites in my application, StackTop, until I know the icon ...
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display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
usually in the owner dictionary there is a display_name value to give the username. But in a few questions it simply doesn't exist and I can't see why only those questions: eg, this excerpt from the 0....
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Documentation describing fields for api stack exchange
When I looked through the StackExchange documentation, I didn't find any documentation describing the fields. I have to study the request and response for a long time in order to understand why this ...
