Questions tagged [status-declined]
Indicates that a request (usually a feature request) has been considered, but will not be implemented. Generally speaking, a developer will leave a comment as to why, or the community will come to consensus that the request is unnecessary.
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Installing user scripts on site?
I was thinking the other day, if it would be possible to allow users to install scripts to the website, so that they can be used on browsers that don't support user scripts, or don't have the ability ...
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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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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?
Back in version 1.1 of the API, we used to be able to do:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?help
...which would return information about the method in JSON format. However, attempting to ...
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Include Full Post Details In /users/{id}/timeline
I have a feature request. I'm trying to pull the recent activity about a user from the API. So I'm parsing /users/{id}/timeline. But that only gives me meta-information about the activity. So then,...
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Is there any way we could have more information about tags in /questions?
In the /tags route, the following information is returned for a specific tag:
{
"name": "c#",
"count": 262613,
"is_required": false,
"is_moderator_only": false,
"has_synonyms": true
}
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Add last_access_date field to the shallow_user object
Would it be possible to add the last_access_date field to the shallow_user object? I presume this corresponds to the seen field when visiting someone's profile.
My reasoning is that it saves the ...
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Site categories in API?
Would it be possible to have a category field added to the site object. Eg Technology, Culture, etc. The sites seem to already have categories, as you can see on this page: https://stackexchange.com/...
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Relevance value on /similar route
Given that the /similar method can be sorted by relevance there must be a numeric rank for each question.
Would it be possible to have access to the value? Off by default, but can be enabled by using ...
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Can we have a flag for sites with mature content?
To my horror today, I discovered that StackMobile was happily serving up content from the newest Stack Exchange site. (StackMobile has a cron job that runs daily, updating the list of sites using the ...
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Self-mined Badge Progress via 2.0+ API
Badge Progress as a topic has had many questions, and some closed. Before downvoting or closing, please consider how this question might be different.
First, what's the the latest official answer of ...
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How about a regex filter in the tags API?
The tags API has a "filter" parameter but it only matches the exact substring in the parameter in the tags.
On Travel we have one kind of tags, IATA airport codes (SYD for Sydney, SFO for San ...
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Is there going to be an API for the Careers site?
Is there going to be an API for access to the careers site? I could understand that it would be different to the rest of the Stack Exchange APIs, but I could see that it could be useful for use cases ...
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Global Inbox **Unviewed Count** API
Ok so some of the messages in the GI are private, those could be filtered out of the API return, or replaced by a type = private so that apps can let the user that if they want to see it they have to ...
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Remove [app] questions from active
Now we have a special app tab, shouldn't the [app] questions at least be given lower priority on the active tab, which is now for development?
Ideally it would be to have the ability to sort the app ...
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Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
I know you wanted to reduce the amount of data returned, but hasn't it gone a little far?
Especially as there are no numerical site IDs. For example the Apple site is now called AskDifferent, however ...
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Provide a method to search for sites
Due to the new pagination of the /sites method in v1.1 of the API, we have to go through all the pages of sites to check whether a site exists, or allow the user to search for a site.
Would it be ...
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OBSOLETE - List Area51 discuss in the StackAuth sites list
The API works for Area 51 discuss, but it isn't listed on the site list. Would it be possible to add it so software using the API can access it without adding specific code for it?
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/users/tags should contain scores
I am implementing some simple JavaScript/bookmarklet based apps that show some reputation info, including the score in the User's top tags (roughly based on this previous bookmarklet of mine).
Now I ...
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Include tag "objects" in questions
getting a question returns among other things an array of tag names, it would be better if it return a whole tag "object" in other words: the count and fulfills_required (okay maybe not the fulfills ...
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Rather than remove site from /sites set status close, at least temporarily
I noticed today, due to some exceptions, that sites that do not perform in beta can be closed and thus removed from /sites.
If you persist data, you will need to check your data every time you pull /...
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StackAuth feature requests
Would it be possible to have a hash of a sites icon so that you only have to download when it's changed. Or is this already implemented with HTTP cache or something like that (if it is could someone ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange icon available?
StackAuth /sites route provides all the site's icons except for the one of the Stack Exchange master site.
Could you please provide it in some way (a static SVG would be good)?
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Add careers link and info to StackAuth
It might be nice to have access to a user's linked careers information via StackAuth if at all possible. One use I had in mind was integration into a sidebar widget.
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Auto discover API version?
I may have missed this before, and if I have, I apologize (I searched and didn't find anything).
Is there a way to discover what the API version for a site is? With the recent change from 0.8 to 0.9,...
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Add last_awarded_date to users/{id}/badges
I'm working on an activity notification app. It would be helpful to know the date of the last award for each badge, so the app can notify of changes since the last query.
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Creating plug-ins with StackApps which can be used on a per-user basis.
Facebook developers can create applications which run inside Facebook. For example, the Graffiti app adds a button to the New wall item popup, and has its own pages inside Facebook.
What if we could ...
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associated_users does not have a root level key
in order to uniquely identify a associated_users on must traverse the object graph into the onsite object and construct an artificial key.
it makes more sense to either flatten the structure or, more ...
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please add a key fields to stackauth results
While it is a step in the right direction, the /sites return is missing a vital component: a key field.
All of the data currently in /sites is the arbitrary data that can change.
We need a constant ...
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Please provide a mechanism for retrieving random questions
A lot of ideas I've had for Stack apps have been of the "question of the day" variety. It would be nice if there was a way to retrieve one or more random questions.
/questions/random/
The max ...
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Can we have some sort of notification system?
It seems like the only way to get notified of certain events is to poll the site continuously. And as per the current policy, it seems like there should be at least a 2 minute delay between requests.
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Shouldn't there be a separate call for featured questions?
I find it rather peculiar that you can sort questions by featured. My arguments:
What does order mean in this case? It could mean the bounty amount (e.g. using desc would return the questions with ...
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added_date in users/{id}/favorites method result
Is it possibile to include an "added_date" parameter on users/{id}/favorites method result?
It would be helpful when method is called with "added" sort parameter.
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Abstract paged results to enable cleaner libraries
It would make great sense for paged results array property to have a common name, items perhaps.
For those writing in languages that support 'generic' constructs, this would simplify the code ...
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Get a user's "interesting tags"
The current implementation of the API does not provide a way for us to fetch a user's "interesting tags". The /users/{id}/tags unfortunately returns all tags a user has participated in, which I'm not ...
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Can there be a way to find a user given his email hash?
Given a user's email, it would be great if we could hash it and search for that user with it.
The reason for this is suppose:
Someone has a website
On that website, they invite SO users to enter ...
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Can we have all possible closed reasons in help page?
Can we have all possible closed_reasons in help page and if possible, closed_reason_id, too?
For example
closed_reason_id=1, closed_reason="exact duplicate",
closed_reason_id=2, closed_reason="off-...
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Return URL of the non-API question URL
I would find it very useful, if the API response for question (and answer etc.) contained a URL to the question page itself (preferably absolute).
E.g. the response for question 305 here would ...
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Creation of an API 'about' method for the application key being passed
Hi there!
Because the API uses a key, I'd like to ask if a request can be created so that, on application start (and, during runtime), you can ask whether your key is valid, and get back information ...
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Provide a "latest" version for apps that want to keep up
By pointing my application at
http://api.stackoverflow.com/n.n/...
or possibly http://api.stackoverflow.com/latest/...
I could keep up with all the version changes released.
Alternate forms to stay ...
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Can the server side of the API be open sourced?
I would like to see the open source Stack Exchange clones (OSQA/Shapado) to implement the same API, and this would help considerably.
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