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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Confusing documentation re vectorized requests limits
The documentation for vectorized requests says this:
Most methods that take ids in the Stack Exchange API will take up to 100 of them in a single go. This allows applications to batch work and ...
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How should we test the new write-mode comments functionality?
Endpoints which write public content are much harder to test. What's the best way to test the new comments functionality without having to post to real threads?
I have seen the Charles web proxy ...
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Do the terms "key" and "access_token" refer to the same thing?
I'm trying to get my head around all the limits and throttles but some terminology is confusing me:
If an application does not have an access_token, then the application shares an IP based quota ...
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Logging out so another user can log in
Just in the process of final testing for an iPad SE browser, and uncovered some odd behaviour.
I'm using Google for authentication. If I deploy a clean version of the app, and authenticate, I get the ...
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Is the "link" URL enough to uniquely identify an "inbox_item"?
I've been looking at the documentation on the inbox_item type, and I was wondering what is the correct way to uniquely identify an inbox_item?
Is the "link" URL enough to uniquely identify an "...
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When will the "site" field be absent from an "inbox_item"?
According to the documentation on the inbox_item type, the site field "may be absent". Under what circumstances will this occur?
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how to get the number of profile views
according to the documentation, a User object has an attribute view_count, indicating the number of views of the user's profile. An example is also given there. However, when I sent a request
/2.0/...
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User profile_image dimensions
I'd like to use the user profile_image string property (which is the url of a user's avatar image e.g. http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fbc10e7e541ba1f171a06af062bef7c0?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG) ...
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The migrated predicate on advanced_search seems underachieving
What does the migrated parameter to the advanced_search method mean? Setting it to true on CS finds only one question that has been migrated away, out of several:
{
"items": [
{
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Why does the web service fail sometimes for the Stack API?
It seems to have happened all of the sudden. My calls to the web service fails. What is the limit of calls per day with a registered app? I can't seem to remember where it says that, I can't seem to ...
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Link field on notification type
There is no link field on notification. Is this by design or a bug? If it's by design can it be changes so it's included, I can't see how to build the URL with only a post id, and not know what type ...
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Is it OK to have a test account for a developing client?
I'm currently trying to implement an agorava component for Stackoverflow, and for testing purpose, i would like to create a test account, which would have one question asked, and would maybe send ...
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String formatting in returned JSON objects
So I sat down this evening to play with the Stack Exchange API. I downloaded RestSharp, and used it to call the API. One thing the struck me was how strings are formatted, with regards to non-ASCII ...
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Registering app for API 2.0 key without Oauth domain
I'm trying to register an app, but it states that I need to add an OAuth domain. But I have Enable Client Side OAuth Flow disabled, because I don't need it right now.
I basically have two questions:
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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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2.0 tags API returns only created tags
Searching for tags, using the inname parameter AND a date range returns only the tags that were created in that period, not the tags that were used in that period. When searching by inname only, or ...
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Retrieving JSON via the API using Ajax does not work
I tried to retrieve information of my user profile on Stack Overflow via the API using Ajax/jQuery. But it does not work for me. The result of the request is always empty.
<html>
<...
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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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Use stack2rss to receive responses via RSS
I'm trying to setup http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/ to receive full-body "responses" (comments, edits, answers and so on) to my own stackoverflow questions via RSS, but I can't find the right ...
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Am I accessing the API correctly?
When running the code
$.getJSON('http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/4', function(data) {
// Do some stuff here....
});
I get the error
Failed to load resource
Am I accessing this wrong?
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Which nested objects and arrays are optional?
I am handcrafting a JSON Schema for the API, and there is some meta missing from the nested 'returns' objects and arrays.
The relevant information I need is:
if it is an array, can it be undefined (...
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Is there any Careers CV API available?
Is there any API for the CV service of Careers (careers.stackoverflow.com)?
My requirements are simple, I just need a way to access the data of a given CV to propose an alternative view.
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Why can I access the API from a browser but not wget?
If I try to access the following from firefox everything works even if I'm not logged in
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users/19068?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
However
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How to monitor API version and site state
I want to make an application in which the used API will automatically be updated when a newer version is released. What is the procedure to check if a newer version is available or not?
How can I ...
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/me API endpoint returning 500 error
I'm making an authenticated call to /me:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/me?access_token=[redacted]&site=stackoverflow&key=[redacted]
But it's returning:
{"error_id":500,"error_name":"...
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Why does this Stack Overflow API query return binary data?
The Stack Overflow API query
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?tagged=javascript&intitle=%3Cdiv%3E
returns what appears to be binary data:
���I�%&/m�{J�J��t��$ؐ@�������iG#)�*��eVe]f@�...
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API returning character entities in JSON
I noticed display names in the JSON contain HTML character entities; e.g.
/2.0/users/718618?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
Gives me:
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": ...
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Reputation API to display a reputation history
I'm building something similar to the reputation graph / summary on the SO user page.
The answer explains that the /users/{ids}/reputation API method gives a sum of reputation for the period. So ...
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What happened to the recent API contest?
I am curious to know the results of recent stackoverflow contest
It has been removed from the api.stackoverflow page and no updates were seen. I believe that the deadline for the results ...
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Why does badges/ids/recipients return badges not users?
I can't understand why badges/{ids}/recipients returns badges and not users? You must pass the badge ID in, so it should be given that you already know what the badge is. If it returns 30 objects you ...
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Slow response times?
I'm working with the API, but I noticed requests are quite slow. Each request seems to take between 8-11 seconds. I timed different requests and the time doesn't seem to differ much between search and ...
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Handling working of PHP API key on webpage
I'm building a phpapi and in this api will be giving my clients API key generated for each client.
So basically my client will be sending client id, his personal data(to be stored in DB) & an ...
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Security certificate error when logging in with myOpenID
I have written an application that embeds the WebKit rendering engine (the same rendering engine used in Safari and Chrome). This application makes use of the /inbox route and therefore requires the ...
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Can I determine the post that caused a user to earn a badge?
Some badges, like 'Yearling' are associated with a user. Other badges, like 'Great Question' and 'Great Answer' are associated with a post as well.
When I fetch the recipients of the badges, I get a ...
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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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Pagination of users ordered by reputation
I know I can retrieve a page of users ordered by reputation using these apis:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/?sort=reputation&order=desc&page=1
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/...
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sites method styling code problem
One of the site returned from the sites method has the following styling codes
"site_type": "main_site",
"name": "GIS",
"logo_url": "http://sstatic.net/gis/img/logo-small.png",
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Example of inbox items?
Would it be possible to get an example of each type returned by the inbox, Eg careers messages, and whatever meta questions are.
Do careers invites/chat messages/etc have ids? And what is their site?
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Implicit OAuth flow is not working when the user is not logged in.
Here is the URL I am trying to use:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=120&scope=read_inbox,no_expiry&redirect_uri=https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success
This works ...
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What's the simplest way to detect if a question was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
What's the minimum filter and simplest way to detect if a question (by its ID) was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
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Is data retrieved from /events dependent on the access token used to retrieve it?
This may seem like a bit of an unusual question at first but I'll try to explain where it's coming from. My PHP wrapper (Stack.PHP) offers a caching class that follows the guidelines in the API docs ...
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Does stackexchange provide https access to its API?
Requests I make appear to be redirected back to plain http URLs and the certs seem questionable:
% curl -O 'https://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/?key=oxXcnoD51kKE crj7TadaA&tagged=...
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How to limit the number of responses in Stack.PHP?
How do I limit the number of results provided by Stack.PHP (a library wrapper over the Stackexchange API)?
For example, how do I get the first 50 questions tagged with a keyword?
The query I ...
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Example responses
I think I may have asked this before. Would it be possible to have example responses for the inbox route. Eg I have no idea what a careers_invite would be like.
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Is there a limit of API requests?
Our development community wants to use Stackoverflow: http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8R4ABK
We used the Stackoverflow REST APIs to display the most recent requests on http://...
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In API 2.0, what happened to questions sorted by "featured?"
I was looking for a way to grab the list of "featured" questions via the API, and I stumbled across several answers that all point to the same solution:
Shouldn't there be a separate call for ...
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Find user using e-mail address
I'm wondering if there is a simple way of using the API to find users given their e-mail address. So far, I've found the following:
the search API only lets you search for questions
the users API lets ...
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Update the default filter editor to use the API key
When I run a sample query using the SE API browser (is that right term?), say against /questions for example (here), I'll always see something to the effect of:
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"quota_remaining": 9424,
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Is it possible to get daily reputation change for a user via the API?
I'm trying to fetch a user's daily reputation change history for a project that's still early in the planning stages. I've been trying to use the "reputation" endpoint, but it seems like I can query ...
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How often should the /info route be accessed?
The /sites method makes it very clear that you should not invoke that route more than once per day:
"It is suggested that you cache its return for at least one day..."
However, the /info method ...
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