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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2.0 API get votes
I've been searching the 2.0 API for a list of my own (up and down) votes. I don't see them in the API.
I don't think this is a prohibitively resource intensive query or that it can be used to ...
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Is a deobfuscated version of chat js available?
The dev portion of the CDN hosts unminified JS for the main SE sites (you can find it via http://dev.stackoverflow.com ). However, I can't seem to find the same for chat.
Is there any link for ...
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suggest add favicon.ico to api endpoints
It will reduce 404 entries in your logs and in our browser based fiddler results.
Cheap, easy, fast.
GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (...
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Native Windows client for Stack Exchange sites?
Is there a native Windows client for Stack Overflow and/or other Stack Exchange sites?
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API Parameters: Consolidated Observations
This wiki question is meant to be a central location for observations and suggestions in the interest of shaping the API meta data.
Perhaps items can be removed when accepted and resolved as ...
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Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 10 (integration with Action Center)
Is there a Stack Exchange notification app (particularly, the inbox) for Windows 10 that has integration with Action Center?
There are notification apps for Windows 7 that I am currently using, but I'...
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How to get unread reputation changes via the API?
I want to write a desktop widget that checks the Stack Exchange API every several seconds and tells me if there are any new reputation changes. I can't figure out what API method I can use for that.
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How do I grab the CSV from a Data Explorer URL?
I'm building an app that works by users punching in big lists of questions. And I want them to be able to use the Data Explorer to create these lists.
My preferred way of getting the data would be a ...
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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
{
"total": 1161,
"page": 1,
"...
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Moderation request: Make [user] a synonym of [users]
Please make user a synonym of users.
I proposed a synonym but there aren't enough high-rep users active here for that mechanism to work.
Currently*:
user has 5 questions, no tag wiki and no tag ...
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localhost API key receives Curl error when retrieving access token
I have registered two apps -- one that will redirect to my website and the other that will redirect to a localhost server that I have running so I don't have to test my code on the site. I have ...
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Looking for an application which alerts about new questions under a particular topic
I've installed StackApplet, but it only tracks the reputation of a particular user.
Is there an application which tracks new questions under a particular topic, and notifies (in system tray) when ...
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How can I get the "follower" count for a given tag on a site?
One of the metrics (albeit a somewhat weak one) of a given tag's "health" is how many followers it has. I believe this is the count of how many users have the tag on their "Favorite Tags" list. You ...
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Platforms Supported by the API and Response Compression
What platforms are supported for use with the Stack Exchange API?
In short, anything that can make a GET request to the API servers and supports JSON/JSONP & GZIP. (JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, ...
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Get total question views via API
I can currently get the total number of questions for a tag by using the total filter. This works well, but I'd like to get a total views count for the questions in that tag. I could iterate over each ...
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Alternative to official app?
I started using the Stack exchange app, but realized it was abandoned and just plain sucks. Now that I abandoned it though, I really miss push notifications and having all 8 sites I'm active in one ...
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API response doesn't indicate the nature of a rejected question POST
I have a question, which I post to Stack Overflow. The addition of the answer gets rejected and I know that it is due to the fact that I used the tag coredata rather than core-data.
When I do this on ...
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How to quickly retag a question from the API?
I'm playing with the write API, and I'd like to simply retag a question. This is the code I have so far:
$editURL = 'https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/' . $question->{"question_id"} . '/...
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What should I put in redirect_uri for implicit OAuth 2.0
From the document I can't figure out what value should I put in redirect_uri if I want to implement iPhone app. I try https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success but it not work and show this error
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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:
http://api....
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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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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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recommended buffer size for markdown fields is conservative
I ran into a truncation error while inserting user data into a database using the documented field length (buffer size) of 3000.
So I redefined to nvarchar(max), pulled all users in the stack ...
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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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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 ...
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Looking for a desktop pop-up app I can use for Science Fiction/Fantasy
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 ...
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Search incomplete synonym name
Is there is way to search synonym when user is inputting the name. Something like how things work in SO's tag search page.
j2se is a synonym of java tag, but it appears in search when searching for ...
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Moderation request: Please make `app-key` a synonym of `api-key`
Refer to Are "api-key" and "app-key" the same thing?.
Although I've now retagged the questions that used app-key, there are still plenty of places where the redundant term is ...
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Java Wrapper for the 2.2 API
I've been looking for a Java based API/wrapper/DAO for the new SE API 2.2. but could not find any (May very well be a limitation of my search skills, though.)
I found references to attempts at ...
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API for the mobile feed, as seen in the Android app?
I'm creating an app for Windows 10, and I would like to provide a similar experience to the official Android and iOS apps (while keeping my own identity, of course).
One feature seen in the official ...
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Login screen without web browser
I'm playing around with the Stack Exchange API, and have just received my first response from the server using the "Hello World" example.
The next step is to allow the user to log in somehow. From ...
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Show statistics of my community ads, on all sites
In January I posted community ads to various sites I belong to.
From time to time I want to see how they perform, so for each site I craft the display URL manually and launch it in a browser:
http://...
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What's the proper way to fetch the score of all answers of SO?
I wrote a small program querying the SE API to grab the public scoring data of all SO answers (excluding the last 3 days).
Basically the request I do gets me this:
Questions[]:
Id
Title
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Is there any app that could extract and manage questions from Stack Overflow?
I'm looking for help with a Stack Overflow application that could do the following things for me:
Extract the top voted questions at a given date and tag
Extract the answered questions of some given ...
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API error: 500, "this error has been logged" when retrieving questions
I am using the following URL to get new questions:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?pagesize=100&page=1&fromdate=1423639578&site=stackoverflow&key=MY_KEY_HERE
I get:
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How do I access the greatest hits (questions) via API v2.2.?
The greatest hits (questions) of any stack exchange site (say stack overflow) can be found by visiting the below URL:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/greatest-hits
I would want to access these ...
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SSL handshake error after Stack Overflow back on - anything related to SSL certification changed?
I'm building a Stack Overflow app for BlackBerry10. Earlier today (Feb 16, 2014), Stack Overflow was down and after it came back up my app starts to have this issue.
My app works fine when it's in LTE,...
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Does Stackoverflow track what specific user is searching for..?
Does Stackoverflow track what specific user is searching for..?
is that data available through APIs provided..?
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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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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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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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All updates (answers, comments etc) using stack exchange API
Is there anyway to get information about any change using the stack exchange API's? i.e. if someone leaves a comment or votes on an answer/question?
checking for answer changes is easy cause its a top ...
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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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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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How to get a users reputation ranking/position?
Using the SO API request http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/{userId}, I can get a user's current reputation score with no problems. What I'd like to know is where the user's rank in the set of all ...
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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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Uncaught channelUrl must be under the current domain
I'm developing a Stack Chrome extension that will make use of the API. I'm following the instructions on the API docs here.
My OAuth and host websites are set to stackexchange.com in my Stack Apps ...
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A script to freely re-assign/remap/rebind the Stack Exchange hotkeys
the original Stack Exchange announcement from 2014
At least the hyperlink Ctrl + L and code Ctrl + K shortcuts go against the common web standards — in combination with the SE editor not behaving ...
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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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Is there an API call that can get me a user's access_token?
I'm trying to create a connector between Microsoft's Power Platform and the Stack API. Since the server ↔ server auth flow is happening outside of code I control, I can't grab the access_token from ...
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