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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Copying CSS from stackoverflow for use in an app?
Is it ok / legal / allowed to copy some of the styles from stackoverflow / serverfault / etc. for use in a stack app?
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Negative voting questions?
I'm trying to, for humorous purposes, check out some of the worst scoring questions ever on SO.
I'm pretty much expecting them to all be "heeeeelp homework" or "plz send me teh codez" or something to ...
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questions/id is sometimes missing an owner?
Every once in a while when I query: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/id I get a question back that is missing the owner field. Is this expected? I haven't seen anything about owner being ...
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what is the url for a *.stackexchange site's api?
from my understanding, the documentation suggests that we can use the api against any current *.stackexchange website
what would be the url for the api for one of these ? e.g. mysite.stackexchange....
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How to get the count of a query efficiently
To get the count of a query without returning results, simply specify pagesize=0.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/users?filter=mike&sort=name&pagesize=0
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"total": 1161,
"page": 1,
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How will the popularity of hosted apps be determined?
In the contest blog post:
We will look at the number of requests for your API key. Was your application used by a lot of people? Or at least a reasonable amount?
How does this work for apps ...
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URL Format: Special Characters
I just noticed something in my testing. I was searching for questions tagged "C#" and the questions come back tagged "C".
Code Poet's SOAPI javascript formats the route thusly:
http://api....
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Using meta.stackoverflow.com as a support channel for a stackapp?
Is it okay to recommend using meta.stackoverflow.com as a support channel for stackapp I've written. For example, say I had been the person who wrote StackPrinter, on the bottom of the home page ...
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/users/questions with content is very latent
I am seeing response times of up to 30 seconds for a page of 100 questions.
http://api.stackapps.com/1.0/users/14/questions?answers=true&body=true&comments=true&page=1&pagesize=100
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Announcing Apps to the Public
I believe this has been discussed before but I can't find the question/answer so I'll ask it officially here:
Now that v1.0 is released, it's OK to announce our apps to the general public, correct?
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Getting questions with multiple tags
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/tagged/gwt,google-app-engine returns nothing, but https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gwt+google-app-engine does have plenty of entries. And http://...
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What is the throttle interval or threshold?
Resolution:
I have confirmed that a constant interval of 170 ms will run without error.
// 30 per 5 sec = 6 per sec = interval 166.6 ms
Soapi.RequestQueue.setInterval(170);
Soapi....
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rate-limit per endpoint per IP VS. server apps in hosted environments
I was wondering if the scenario of a server based app that lives in a hosted environment, where a single IP can be shared by many web sites.
As I understand the rate-limit as it stands, every site on ...
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how/when is rep_change updated?
I am trying to determine the most efficient way to keep a user's rep_change history updated and need some guidance.
Here are a few assumptions that I am inferring from the available information:
the ...
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Injecting HTML Into A Stackexchange Site
I am writing an application that injects some HTML into the page. I was wondering what the policy is for this. Is it ok or generally frowned upon?
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Fetch questions from offset?
I want to fetch questions from a certain offset. Not a minimum creation date, just an offset index, independent of the sort and order I'm using. How can I do this? Is it possible at all?
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What is the rational behind the chosen /sites styling info?
I was wondering why the chosen styling data is provided though the API. It makes sense to provide it, but I feel like we are only getting part of the information.
"styling": {
"link_color": {
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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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API not returning anything near the actual website
The API /questions page is not returning anything like the list of questions on the actual SO site.
This is the first question of the 0.8/questions
{
"total": 705769,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,...
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Do I need API key to use StackAuth API?
StackAuth sites doco doesn't mention that it requires an API key and there are no X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current response headers on the request.
At this stage I am passing my API key just ...
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How to control vote count for individual user?
How do I find if user has already voted for a particular question/answer?
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How the apps-libraries will be judged for the contest?
Do you know how the apps-library will be judged in term of awesomeness? Is there something more official than Jeff Atwood's contest post on the blog?
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Why have routes /badges/name and /badges/tags been favored over respective query parameters for /badges?
I realize that the API is frozen, hence tagging this as support rather than feature-request or bug - I'm irritated about the two routes /badges/name and /badges/tags:
They seem to simply filter down ...
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How to mimic search behavior of Stack sites?
I want to mimic the behavior of the search field that can be found on all Stack sites. How should I do this?
Filter by tags if all words (how exactly is this detected?) in the query are tags.
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Eligibility for the competition?
I notice in the blog post that to be eligible for the comp you need to be listed in the App tab. What is the criteria to get listed on that tab? My app is tagged correctly and I think I am using the ...
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Should we add a "this site is not affiliated to Stack Overflow.." disclaimer to our website app?
I've checked legal section but it does not say anything specific of this aspect apart from:
Do feel free to explain that your product is built on the Stack Exchange platform so people understand your ...
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when/if/how/why do non-trilogy Stack Exchange sites aquire/provide API access
So I am looking at http://mathoverflow.net, trying to blow some cobwebs out of the dark corners of my brain that used to house some not-insignificant abilities and found myself wondering about API ...
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Strange encoding for JSON output
I'm trying to create an R API. Here's some basic code for processing JSON:
library(rjson)
fromJSON(readLines("http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/stats/", warn=F))
As I look into this, the output of ...
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Best way to calculate total badge count in Javascript?
I'm using Javascript and JSONP and want to find-out a user's total badge-count (i'm not using any libraries).
At first I naively added up the badge counts individually, but some user's have no badges....
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Why do some ranges have so many values?
Why do some ranges have so many values? For example:
[0, 2,147,483,647]
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What characters won't be in question->body?
This might seem kinda strange, but what printable ASCII characters am I guaranteed not to find in the body member of a question / answer?
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Ideas for dealing with this pagination problem?
Okay, here is the problem:
Certain questions contain more than one page's worth of answers. Given a sort method and an answer id, how can we figure out which page the answer is on?
Any suggestions ...
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How to see which users upvoted a question?
I assume this information is tracked, since StackOverflow shows me the questions I have upvoted (when going to their question page, I can undo the upvote). I couldn't find any api call that gives this ...
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What's the best way to mashup a social network with StackOverflow?
I’m experimenting with an integration project where I mashup a user’s LinkedIn connections and StackOverflow activity. Are there any relevant APIs on StackOverflow that could be used to integrate ...
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Where did the "apps" tab disappear?
I may just be missing something, but there used to be an "apps" tab on the main page, which showed you a (sorted by vote) list of all the apps and libraries.
I can't find it anymore. Where did it ...
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consistency for array parameters
It would simplify the api and consumption there of if all parameters that accept multiple items used a common delimiter.
We have semicolon and space that I know of so far.
Eliminating space as a ...
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Can I change my user profile using the API?
It seems the API just allow me to retrive public information, but... is it possible to change, for instance, my "about_me" information using the API?
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Why does Stats Return a Statistics Array
Why does the stats API Call return an Array instead of just an object?
Example Response:
{
"statistics": [
{
"total_questions": 723903,
"total_unanswered": 114097,
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URL Length Limit For For Requests Taking Vectorised Ids (/answers/{id}, /questions/{id}, etc)
I am trying to use /questions/{id} API to get a list of questions by their ids. Help page for this request does not indicate the maximum number of ids that can be passed in. Pagesize is maximum 100, ...
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How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag?
I'm using Stackexchange java client lib I wanted to get a little more statistics but the following snippet returns only 30 answers.
Do I need to to register for an API key, or just use ...
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Is it safe to assume the API will be at api.<DOMAIN>?
I'm writing an application that will eventually allow you to use it for any StackExchange site. Thus, I'm allowing users to input the domains of the sites they want to use (e.g. stackoverflow.com). I'...
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Provide a post listing changes to the API?
While it's possible to pick up on many of the changes that are made to the API by looking at every [status-completed] tagged question on here, I'd like to see a single post that's updated every time a ...
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Is it safe to embed my API key into my javascript-only application?
I have an application I'm developing that's pure javascript and consumes the Stack API. My API key is embedded in the source which anyone could read. Is this safe?
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Terms of the use for the API
What are the terms of use for the API? Are there any restrictions in terms of how I can use it, except for access limitations?
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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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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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Post body is optional field in questions method?
"body": {
"description": "body of this post",
"values": "string",
"optional": true
},
Post body is optional field in questions method? Shouldn't all the posts have body field?
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Can API stats return real revision number instead of 1234.5678?
Currently it returns like this
"revision": "1.0.1234.5678"
And looks like that number never changed.
So, Can API return real revision number whenever there is an update?
It will be very useful when ...
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I can't get a response for /questions/{id} in Chrome Extension
I'm writing a Chrome Extension that queries the API. Using jQuery, I have the following code called from my background page:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/' + id
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Is the question_id monotonically increasing?
Just wondering:
Does the question_id monotonically increase for every new question?
Is the question_id unique globally for a deployed app or is it unique in some sub-domain?
Is there any relation ...
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