Skip to main content
Stack Apps

Questions tagged [support]

Ask Question

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.

858 questions
Newest Active Bountied Unanswered
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
2 votes
1 answer
146 views

All the Stack Exchange sites are designed to take up a width of 1000px or less. Can this be expanded to have the content always try to take up all available horizontal space?
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
3 votes
1 answer
85 views

To get the timeline for a question I am sending this request: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/63299112/timeline?site=stackoverflow&fromdate=1597649222 I am getting empty results: {&...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
0 answers
49 views

After I had some initial issues from errors on the stack exchange side which were resolved, the authorization appears to work but every time I try to start the process I get brought to this page below ...
sjago's user avatar
  • 21
4 votes
1 answer
195 views

How can I get an API key for doing 10K daily requests, without registering an application? Because I only use a script for my Social Network analysis project.
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
1 answer
455 views

I've made an authentication flow for my app (which wants to read your inbox and sent notifications on your desktop). Which can be found here For this, I have created a stack app on this site. With the ...
Murage's user avatar
  • 186
1 vote
1 answer
4k views

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 ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
1 answer
81 views

I'm checking how I can embed the search for one project. Basically I want something like this page. With the search I can get the list of questions with all meta data from the search, however the ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
2 votes
1 answer
498 views

I was just reading into this API and wanted to test it out before I would use it in a project. I have added an application on this site and got all of the keys. When I try to authenticate a user with ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
3 votes
1 answer
263 views

I'm trying to to integrate the Stack Exchange API in my application. I'm trying the authentication but when I got the token and used it it gave a write_access issue. That issue was resolved when I ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
2 votes
0 answers
187 views

I had a program consuming Stack Overflow API quota (10,000 per day) last night across midnight. This morning I checked, and my quota has not been set back to 10,000. Is this normal? If yes, when does ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
1 answer
106 views

Can we get the list of data when clicking on a specific question and display the question detail page like the Stack Exchange app? I can't find the API to get them so far, so I decided to display the ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
2 votes
1 answer
129 views

Is there a way of using the API to submit a suggested edit? This would allow users without the edit privilege to at least submit their suggestion. There is no create/add endpoint listed in the docs ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
3 votes
0 answers
58 views

I joined Science Fiction/Fantasy (SFF) in 2011. For many years I had an app running - an app I found on the site - that would create a pop-up whenever a Harry Potter question was asked. It would pop ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
2 votes
1 answer
96 views

I have been trying to find the API for getting all the pinned/favorite sites of the user, but I can't.
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
4 votes
1 answer
676 views

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 ...
Community's user avatar
  • 1
2 votes
1 answer
238 views

I've noticed in the API docs for revisions that revision_number may be absent. Yet all examples, e.g. /posts/{ids}/revisions include a revision number for all responses. I have a colleague who swears ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
3 votes
1 answer
109 views

I'm trying to get the user's user links from his profile. Like this person has GitHub and Twitter links on his profile. How can I get those?
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
1 answer
63 views

I'm trying to get the data of the user's impact. Therefore I used the /2.2/me route and did not found any of this data. Is there any other route that gives this information? I'm also missing the ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
3 votes
1 answer
310 views

I'm trying to integrate the Stack Exchange API into my web app so I can fetch all posts as well as I can post answer or comments on them. I have successfully got access_token for no_expiry and ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
5 votes
1 answer
451 views

I'm trying to make the Stack Exchange API request using the key provided by Stack Apps. But whenever I try it always throws the below error. {'error_id': 400, 'error_message': "key doesn't match a ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
12 votes
1 answer
415 views

The /sites method is used to enumerate all sites in the network. If your [app] is meant to run against more than a single site (and many are) this method is how you should be discovering new sites in ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
1 answer
82 views

The /sites route can return site_state. What does site state stand for and which values can it have? The values I found: normal linked_meta open_beta
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
3 votes
2 answers
796 views

I am using the Stack Overflow API in Swift but keep getting an error: The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format. whenever I try to use the JSON as shown in code below func ...
gparyani's user avatar
  • 549
4 votes
1 answer
114 views

I am fetching a list of all new answers posted on Stack Overflow using the /answers API call. This returns the owner of the answer, but I would like to know if the answerer is the same person as the ...
Dharman's user avatar
  • 533
1 vote
1 answer
312 views

So I'm trying to authenticate with the v2 API via oauth2. I have a code, so I'm POSTing to https://stackexchange.com/oauth/access_token and ideally get an access_token back. Instead I get an ...
abe973t's user avatar
  • 1
2 votes
1 answer
418 views

I would like to use my API Key in the header as opposed to as a query parameter. In Stack Overflow Enterprise, I pass the value as X-API-Key in the headers. This does not work for the public Stack ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
6 votes
2 answers
144 views

I'm searching for a script to (vertically) expand the text field in questions and answers as I type. I personally prefer seeing all content at once (while the area can be extended by manually dragging,...
yodog's user avatar
  • 191
3 votes
1 answer
211 views

I ran /inbox/unread & /me/inbox/unread. What is the difference between the two? Also, the site parameter which we give in call to /me/inbox/unread is not required as inbox_item refers to global ...
Taryn's user avatar
  • 201
2 votes
1 answer
73 views

From /answers/{id}/delete: In practice, this method will never return an object. For me, "in practice" means that the method will maybe return an object. But why? That's not good from an application ...
Taryn's user avatar
  • 201
2 votes
1 answer
106 views

My intended behavior of my app is to navigate the user the the question page when an inbox item gets clicked. For example, when the API return a link like this https://stackapps.com/questions/8515/...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
0 answers
163 views

I have been trying to create an access token for a Stack Exchange app (already created). I am not even sure if I am using the correct URL https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token. RestAssured....
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
1 answer
321 views

When writing userscripts, I often want to be able to look at what Stack Exchange's Javascript is doing. Getting to the code that the browser runs is easy enough - in the Network tab, I can see network ...
Community's user avatar
  • 1
2 votes
0 answers
16 views

I found few similar questions: first, second. But answers is too old (2014 year). It's actual now — no way to get this info by using API?
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
2 votes
1 answer
92 views

I came across a toast that appears when I try to change my vote that I made a few days ago. Is it documented somewhere after which time span you can no longer change your vote? Or does the API ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
2 votes
1 answer
371 views

Is there an API call where you can get all achievements and all unread achievements? Like this: Update Thanks to the answer of Glorfindel, I use the following methods to calculate the unread ...
Norbert Bartko's user avatar
  • 214
3 votes
1 answer
69 views

On another site the issue has come up that questions may not be upvoted but answers are. I would like to get some statistical support for this. Are there already existing apps that can do this kind ...
empty's user avatar
  • 133
2 votes
1 answer
59 views

Stack Exchange site tags have "usage guidance", both a 1-paragraph "excerpt" and a longer tag description, as e.g. for JavaScript here. Is it possible to get this data through the API? The options ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
1 vote
0 answers
98 views

I know that I can get all hot question by sorting it like this: /2.2/questions?order=desc&sort=hot&site=stackoverflow Likewise, I'm not quite sure if other sortings like activity also ...
Norbert Bartko's user avatar
  • 214
3 votes
1 answer
123 views

I receive a lot of "socket hung up" and 503 Service Unavailable on the /questions/{ids} endpoint. I make requests in batches: 10 parallel requests with 15 question ids, interval between each 10-size ...
Community's user avatar
  • 1
1 vote
1 answer
210 views

I want to get the list of questions based on tag name using .Net. can any one please let me know how to achieve this using .Net with API Version 2.2?
Rusty Nail's user avatar
  • 103
1 vote
1 answer
261 views

I am currently working on a prototype for the flair provided by Stack Exchange and can't seem to get the API to work with CodePen. It continuously returns the following error on the SE.init call: ...
Brock Adams's user avatar
  • 13k
2 votes
1 answer
115 views

The documentation about write access states: The application responsible for creating content via the API may be indicated with a link to an app's Stack Apps post. The exact manner of display is ...
Community's user avatar
  • 1
-1 votes
1 answer
1k views

I am in need of using the Stack Overflow API for my website. I've gone through the documentation and I got the API key and client credentials. But my question is, I am able to send my question through ...
Community's user avatar
  • 1
5 votes
1 answer
544 views

In the app management page for a little app I made, the following statement is presented below this key Pw9D)judG8FE4tJR3qjUTA((: Pass this as key when making requests against the Stack Exchange API ...
Brock Adams's user avatar
  • 13k
4 votes
1 answer
182 views

Summary This is a suggestion to create one, possibly two, indicators relating to Reopen Review Queue status. The purpose is to alert users to the requirement for intervention outside the normal ...
Community's user avatar
  • 1
3 votes
1 answer
3k views

I am trying to use the Stack Exchange API to see the trends on different topics. Looking at the API documentation, I see that I could do this using the /search path (it's documented that this method ...
Pravej Alam's user avatar
  • 1
1 vote
1 answer
123 views

Is the maximum tags for all SE sites (and those in the future) 5?
rene's user avatar
  • 2,897
1 vote
1 answer
349 views

When using the explicit OAuth authentication for apps, I have problems receiving the access_token. A user goes to /approve and is then forwarded to approve the app. When redirected back to my site I ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,965
3 votes
1 answer
87 views

I would like to list tags where the tag wiki or tag wiki excerpt was recently edited or created. How can I do this? It is not a problem if I get a few false positives by tags modified in other ways, ...
rene's user avatar
  • 2,897
2 votes
1 answer
90 views

This suggested edit: https://dba.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/20375 is not returned by the /suggested-edits/{ids} API call: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/suggested-edits/20375?site=dba ...
Brock Adams's user avatar
  • 13k

1
…
3 4
5
6 7
…
18