Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of the Stack Exchange API, apps built on the API, or assistance building scripts that work on Stack Exchange websites.
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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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Top questions by tag and period
I want to get via API the most voted questions from the latest week (for example) from a specified tag (php, for example).
How can I do this?
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How do I parse the dates from the API?
I see that JSON returned by the API contains dates in the following format:
"creation_date":1364546475
^^^^^^^^^^
What's the meaning of it? How can I parse it to get the date in the ...
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Array of all Stack Exchange sites with Name, URL and Description
I'm building a WordPress widget and need this array do display a dropdown where the user will select the target site.
And with the selection value, the information will be built and displayed ...
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In the API, User object, what are all these reputation properties?
I am going through the JSON that is resulting from calling the Stack Exchange User API.
I see a bunch of reputation fields.
private Number reputation;
private Number reputation_change_day;
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How do I get a user's bio with the SE API?
Am I just missing something here or is there not a way to retrieve a user's bio with the SE API? I looked at the documentation under the "Users" section, but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions?
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How to get the site name from document to pass to API?
Most APIs take a parameter site which must be set to the name of the site your queries are about.
For meta.travel or travel.
But of course sites have various names, for example gaming.stackexchange....
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How can I get a list of favorite/ignored tags?
I can not find an API method method that would provide me with a set of favorite/ignored tags for a given user. Is there such a method? If not, is there a recommended way to get this information?
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List of object types on SE API v2.0+
Beware: The API is Huge!!
Below is the list of all the "types" of objects returned by the API v2.0+ :-
Note: v2.1 specific types are noted in a seperate box
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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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Possible to get more than 5 tags for /search? Or to use or-logic, for tags, in /questions?
This is the query I want to run:
/2.1/search?pagesize=100&page=1&order=desc&sort=creation&tagged=linux,ubuntu,bash,linux-mint,mint,linux-distributions,linux-distro,archlinux,&site=...
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Get all sites of type "main_site"
Is there a way to get all sites of type main_site from the /site method?
If not, what's the best way to get that list? Should I get all sites with a huge pagesize and then filter it in my App?
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Searching answers with API
I'm very new to the API and I was looking for a way to get answers of a user. E.g. something like if you click on a tag in your tags section of your profile.
For questions this seems to be quiet easy ...
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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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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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Software for Javascript?
Do I need any special kind of software to view the responses I get after requesting something? Like with Klout for example, I can get all the code returned as I need it, I just don't know where to put ...
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Get questions content from StackOverflow API
I need to get the question content from StackOverflow site.
I already built the functions that parse the HTML for a question, and return me the question content.
But, I found that there is an API, ...
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Whatever happened to closed_reason?
When pulling back info on a closed question, I have come to expect closed_reason to be a present key if there's a closed_date. It seems that as of recently this is no longer true.
Proof: https://api....
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How can I re-authenticate StackAlert Addon
Recently I removed StackAlert Firefox addon from my apps list in StackExchange. Now when I reinstall it, it is not authenticating and giving message
key is not valid for passed access_token..
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Stack Overflow Firefox Extension
Recently I created a tiny Firefox extension to get given user reputation of Stack Overflow. But I did that using API version 1.1.
How can I migrate that to 2.1? How to authenticate my application ...
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Get accepted answers from Stack Overflow using Stack Overflow API 2.1
I want to fetch only my accepted answers from Stack Overflow using the API 2.1 and currently I've following code
$data = file_get_contents("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/741747/answers?page=...
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Ability to sort answers by number of revisions via StackExchange API v2?
I was curious whether there was a way to easily find which StackOverflow answer has the highest number of revisions and/or to sort by that metric.
I see mention of a sort function in the ...
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What sizes are the images available through the /sites endpoint?
I see logo_url, icon_url, favicon_url, high_resolution_icon_url... But I wasn't able to find any information about any of those images in the documentation. Are any of them fixed size? And/or is ...
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ChatterBox configuration option is confusingly worded
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
I'm confused over the option:
Mark items as unread when you view them:
Why would I want to mark items as unread when I ...
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Posting answers via Stack Exchange API
Can I post answers via an app using the API, is it possible? And if so, what are the limitations; linked with the reputation of users?
So if someone has 1 reputation he can also post answers, like a ...
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Does the API have a method to get the total favorite count of a question?
Like it says in the title, is the total favorite count of a question exposed anywhere via the API? I know about the favorites method, but that looks like it will give you the specific favorites of a ...
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What is the "Manage API Keys" link to the right of the StackApps.com frontpage?
When I click on it, I get a page that goes "Your Applications", then "No applications registered". Needless to say, this is different from "Manage your applications" link on the frontpage because I do ...
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Can I place my Android application here?
I have an Android application, which is written by me and placed on Google Play Store, Can I place that application on stack apps site ?
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How do you trigger the search/advanced 'q' parameter to search all words?
When you search for “playa parents not working” on http://expressionengine.stackexchange.com, you’re brought to this URL:
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/search?q=playa+parents+not+working
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What exactly is the 'user' on a post_timeline?
What exactly is the 'user' on a post_timeline?
I am assuming that it is the user responsible for the action, if not the user, but I cannot be sure as the JSON structure used to document the results ...
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jQuery Ajax calls return null
When I enter the API URLs into my browser they work, but when I try from jQuery they just return null. When I open the HTML below, all I get is an alert that says null, despite the fact that Firebug ...
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How to login programmatically
I'm building an app for personal use. The app simply screen-scrapes the StackExchange homepage and checks whether I am currently logged in to StackExchange. This works fine.
However, if the app ...
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Client Side Flow security problem
I'm not pretty sure, but if my app is enabled to Client Side Flow Authentication, then anyone with my client ID (easily found for being embedded or by sniffing the initial request) would be able to ...
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How can I get beta sites to show on StackApplet (v1.5.1)
I installed StackApplet v1.5.1 and it works fine, although the refresh time of 5 mins minimum is a bit slow. However, I have an account in Robotics which is in beta state.
How can I get notifications ...
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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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stack overflow data dump utility error - mysql
I have the SODDI v.11 utility (although the screen says v.10)
I also have the SODD from 092011.
When I try to import the SF/MSF data, I get:
Table 'SF.VoteTypes' doesn't exist.
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Questions returned by /questions/{ids}/related do not contain link properties
The API docs claim that /questions/{ids}/related return question objects, but I can't find a link property on the returned questions at all.
Is there some sort of workaround to find the link for a ...
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Ajax get questions by tags ERROR
i'm trying getting questions by tags.
this is my simple code and i'm running this from my http://localhost:
<script type="text/javascript">
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Is it safe to change the OAuth Domain?
I'm about to develop a small application that will use the Stack Exchange API. I understand that I have to provide an OAuth Domain when I register the application with Stack Exchange. Right now, I am ...
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Clarification on related tags for a tag returned by API
I was assuming that the related tags API call, returns all the tags that co-occur with the input tag. But a closer look at the API documentation indicate the following:
Returns the tags that are ...
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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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Does the API allow us to pull down a user's subscriptions?
When I joined the site, I found that I could subscribe to hear about new posts within my favorite tag/filter. I started receiving daily emails with the latest posts in those categories. I can't find ...
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What is the api_site_parameter of stackapps.com in API 2.x
What is the api_site_parameter of stackapps.com in API 2.x? https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/sites doesn't list stackapps. Why?
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Better Call /me maybe?
I am using implicit OAuth 2.0 flow, hence requesting for a token first.
Now when I want to know which user has logged in, I have to make request to /me endpoint to get all of the data about the user, ...
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edit-comment method returns 405 error
Trying to understand how edit-comment method could be used.
I passed valid token with write_access, valid key, and existed comment id, but all I've got is:
{
"error_id": 405,
"error_name": "...
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Why does adding fromdate=<long time ago> return a different set than without it?
I've been trying to get some stats for the Windows 8 challenge over on Super User. I've noticed that there are some questions missing if I add fromdate=0. Why is this?
Without fromdate:
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Using Stack2RSS, why can I get feeds for some SE sites and not others?
I can use Stack2RSS to easily get RSS feeds of some StackExchange sites but not others:
The pattern if I understand the API is http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/{SiteName}/questions
Substituting ...
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How do I know what apps on my stackexchange account I have already authorized?
I'm developing an app using the stackexchange oauth, I want to revoke my permissions to this app for testing the overall process, but I can't find which apps I have authorized.
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is there a way to use my app to authenticate users with only a StackOverflow account with the stackExchange oauth api 2.1?
Recently I registered an app in https://stackapps.com/ to provide a way to authenticate users with their stackoverflow account. but I notice that https://stackexchange.com/oauth only works for users ...
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Using an existing Java oAuth implementation to access the Stack Exchange 2 Api?
I found the Scribe oAuth api and I was wondering how a call would work with the Stack Exchange API, since that uses oAuth. I'm sorta green when it comes to oAuth but I'm planning on writing an ...
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