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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Download data for specific tag
How to download all the data just for a specific tag (say
[compiler-error])?
On Stack Overflow, there are around 19000 questions tagged with [compiler-error].
So, I was hoping is it downloadable w.r.t ...
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Please add the existence of the Meta tag to What is Meta
On our Help Center Page What is Meta the following sentence is used:
Feel free to ask questions about Stack Apps on Stack Apps, tagging them with the discussion or support tags.
Can we somehow add ...
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How to get access token from the hash?
I am trying to implement OAuth Stack Exchange API via Android app as client.
After a successful login from out I get the below URL how do I get or decode the access_token from the hash?
https://...
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Difference in results between parameters Tagged or Q
If I make a request using the "tagged" parameter, the returned results are more that if I make the same request with the same tags but using the "q" parameter.
Notice that the ...
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How to list your application/library/wrapper/script here
If you've created an application, script, or library for use on the Stack Exchange network, that's fantastic!
Now publicize it by creating a question with the correct tag:
app https://stackapps.com/...
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How can I retrieve more than 25 pages from the Stack Exchange API v2.3?
I'm trying to find a way to retrieve all the results from a search query from the Stack Exchange API v2.3. My use case includes more than 25 pages (I already use the maximum page size of 100).
The ...
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Hide the Stack Exchange sidebar
I would like to gain some screen estate when viewing Stack Exchange sites. The sidebar seldom shows information I need.
I know most help content displayed when composing questions.
Most related ...
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Is there any way to get statistics by tag?
We are Stack Overflow Teams users. We want to get the statistics by tags.
Currently only StackExchangeApiClient.getStatistics API is found which include all team's data.
And can the https://...
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How do you access the StacksEditor to set markdown from a user script?
I'm trying to revive Astro CB's auto edit corrections script. I've got a lot of it updated, improved, and working with Stack Exchange changes since 2015.
One thing that stuck on is setting the ...
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Is it logical to make two versions of an app, one for prod and one for dev?
Let's say I'm working on an app on a local dev server, localhost:1234 for example. Once I feel ready, I upload any changes to a GitHub repo and have those changes sync with an online website, for ...
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How can I retrieve the reputation I (or another user, fwiw) earned for a given tag from questions and answers?
(I've included the api-v2.3 because https://api.stackexchange.com/docs starts with Stack Exchange API v2.3.)
From this answer I see there's no way to get all questions with a specific tag.
However, ...
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Unread notifications not showing in API response
I have been trying to fetch all unread notifications from the Stack Exchange API. However, I always get a blank items data in the response.
API Endpoint:
/2.3/me/notifications/unread?page=1&...
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Where do I look for a new-to-the-network technical-overview introduction to what a script/app/etc. basically is, incl. differences between them?
Where do I look for a new-to-the-network technical-overview introduction to what a script/app/etc. basically is, including differences between them?
Basically, I'm looking for onboarding documentation ...
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How to handle default compression on response with Java's HttpURLConnection? [duplicate]
I sent a request for question with no parameters to
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
I received a response of 9764 bytes stored in ...
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Getting 405 when trying to post a comment
I'm trying to post a comment to The API Sandbox, I did one using the interactive documentation, but when trying to use my own code, it doesn't work. Instead, I get status code 405 (Method not allowed)
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How do I search answer bodies for Markdown links?
The /search/excerpt query enables searching answers for specific text, but searching for Markdown links returns results that don't seem to match the query at all. For instance, the following query ...
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replace text with icons
Exist any way to replace text with icons?
Like this example:
I have tried to re-write/replace the html from an extension in the site but I have not achieved anything functional; with the relative ...
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Writing question API failing with error 407
I'm trying to use https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/add method
payload = {
'site': 'stackoverflow',
'title': title,
'body': body,
'tags': tags,
'key': key,
'...
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When using the Advanced Search API endpoint, how soon after the edit grace period is question data updated?
I'm using the Questions Advanced Search API to retrieve Stack Overflow questions with a specific tag that were created in the last 15 minutes.
I've written a script which runs every fifteen minutes ...
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Why am I getting a 400 Bad Request error with this code?
I'm using this code (in an async function):
let about = await fetch("https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/me?order=desc&access_token="+token+"&sort=reputation&site=gaming&...
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"is_edited": false or "is_edited": true as an option in the API response
When working with the Stack Exchange API I noticed that there is important data (at least for what I thought to do) not available, whether the question, answer or comment was edited or not:
{
"...
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Extension; Access to layout and javascript of stackexchange network site instead of inject (Stacks is not defined)
Note: last update at the end of POST
I am developing an extension for community users.
Introduction:
The extension is under development on this github: https://github.com/IcarosNetSA/atsu
and these ...
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Why has my daily quota increased from 10k to 2 billion?
I'm using the Stack Exchange API with an access token and API key, and I was just checking my remaining quota. According to the documentation, this should be a number (somewhat) lower than 10,000, ...
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How to get access_token from the uri after the fetch function executes?
I am using this snippet to authorize to the Stack Exchange API
const baseUrl =
"https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=17823&scope=read_inbox,no_expiry&redirect_uri=https://...
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If a client authenticates, will API requests be counted on their profile?
For example, let's say client X signs into an app that I made. My servers get an access_token which I can then use to send requests on their behalf, for example reading their reputation history. By ...
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Why can I not authenticate my application? Application is not allowed to request implicit grants
I created a placeholder. PLACEHOLDER - Disco Application I created an application and added placeholder. I followed https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=19204&redirect_uri=https://...
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Why does this minimal filter return no results at all?
I tried to create a 'minimal' filter
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions#order=desc&sort=activity&filter=!34JvAEfIUyU-&site=stackoverflow&run=true
for the 'question' object, ...
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Search by team API - want to have same query results in StackOverflow.com site
I just want to have same query result like stackoverflow.com did. I read this post:Searching on Stack Overflow and using the API give different results?.
looks like /search/excerpts is the right ...
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Why Content-Encoding gzip rather than Transfer-Encoding gzip
The API responses are returned in gzipped format. But by using Content-Encoding gzip, the burden of unzipping is on the user of the API. On the other hand if the server uses Transfer-Encoding gzip, ...
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What's the relation between access_token, key, quota_max, and throttling?
From How API Keys Work (FAQ) I read that the limit of requests per day per IP is 300 without a registered key, or 10000 with it.
And this is what I see by experimenting myself: since I've not ...
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How can I use an iOS custom URL scheme as redirect_uri?
I am trying to implement OAuth using iOS URL schemes. For example if I provide myapp:// as redirect_uri the app should launch. However, I cannot add it as OAuth domain in the Stack Apps settings, as ...
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How to get all communities a user is associated with?
Is there a way to get all Stack Exchange communities in which a user is active? I mean the list of communities that are displayed on a user's network profile.
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How do I see the differences between two or more SE API filters and merge into a filter which includes all requested properties (i.e. is a superset)?
For SmokeDetector, we have several SE API filter values in use. Notably, there are separate filters for the /answers/*, /questions/* and /posts/* routes. From an organizational standpoint, I'd like to ...
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How to create API filters?
I used the following request link to extract data from the Stack Exchange API. But I have no idea how to create "filter" as used in the request line.
Please help me understand the creation of such ...
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Getting weird response from StackExchange API [duplicate]
Context:
I am trying to notify myself with an email whenever there is a reputation change on my account every 30 mins(which will come via a cron job). So I am hitting a StackExchange API to get this.
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stack remote download [closed]
The application is not present on Google Play and there is no download link. Why ?
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Using API to collect tag information - data differences
I am trying to get a list of the most popular tags on Stack Overflow.
According to the SO page, these are the most popular tags as of today:
The Python tag has 6690 questions asked this week alone.
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Conscientious use of the API
What constitutes abuse?
Making an undue number of requests in a short span of time, or regularly exceeding a request quota during "normal" use.
Guidelines for polling
We realize that a great ...
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Get access token for matrix bridge
I want to build a bridge for my matrix server.
To read my inbox an access_token is required.
Do I really need to register an application just to get one access token?
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How can I write (edit) one of my answers?
I started to love the Python black formatter and I want all my code on Stack Overflow to be formatted like that. So I wanted to go over the answers and apply black / blacken-docs, check if anything ...
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Can "trends" be queried with the Stack Exchange API?
I've studied the Stack Exchange API to some extent (although I'm a newbie to such things), and it appears I can query the database using many criteria. But does Stack Exchange store any "trends&...
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Why does the 'Apps' tab show hot questions and the 'Scripts' tab high scoring questions?
The Stack Apps homepage has two unique tabs which are not present on other sites: Apps and Scripts. There is a slight difference between the two, which is visible upon hovering:
That's right, the '...
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When are Stack Apps questions shown with thumbnails instead of regular statistics?
Today I was browsing a tag here and I noticed that on the first pages, all questions are shown with thumbnails (most of the time, just the default one):
However, from page 5 on the formatting is like ...
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How can I fetch the answers posted in last week based on tags of the question?
I see that tags are present only for questions. How can I get the answers to these questions given in last week (if any) having specific tags?
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Creating personal applications using Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange API
I want to create an application to read Stack Overflow notifications on my device.
My question: what should I provide in the OAuth Domain and Application website fields while registering the ...
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How to get statistic data for specific tags which belong to a specific team?
I just want to get statistic data for specific tags which belong to a specific team.
For example, for tags: "abc", I want to know how many users viewed the questions which have the "abc&...
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Is there an API to upload images to SE's imgur installation?
Is there an API for uploading images to the StackExchange-specific imgur installation? I could use the main imgur site, but they don't keep the images indefinitely.
Use case: It would be ...
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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?
I'm starting to write a native Android client for Stack Overflow, and wondering what exactly is a valid OAuth domain name?
Is it the package name of my app?
Or do I have to point it to a server ...
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Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API
I see the Stack Exchange API but I'm unable to understand it. I don't think there is any fundamental tutorial showing how to use Stack Overflow fully in the API documentation.
I want some fundamental ...
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Browsing method documentation consumes 4 quota units per page
Is it my imagination (scratch that, it's definitely not), or does simply browsing method doc pages (without using the "Run" function) consume quota?
From Bash using httpie and jq (on a ...