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How do I get information about top users of a Stack Exchange community?
I was going through the stack exchange API and I want to extract information about, say, top 20 users of a particular stack exchange community. How do I use the API for that?
I tried on this page ...
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Get UserId by passing email ID in the Stack Exchange API? [duplicate]
The Stack Exchange API is mostly based on 'ids'. IE
/2.2/users/{ids}/top-tags?site=stackoverflow
How can we get {ids} for a particular user using his email id or name? Is there any method available ...
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Paging issue: is /users/{ids}/associated API route returning incomplete information?
When querying to find associated accounts for a list of account ids, some ids in the results appear to be missing many of the associated sites. I have only observed this in multi-page responses. For ...
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Hat Overflow - Show number of Winterbash hats at a glance
This script adds a Winterbash hat-count to every user "Signature block" on questions, answers, review pages, etc. For example:
Reference this feature request: Show hat count in user card (next to ...
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Getting the top answerers/users for a tag in a custom time range?
I'm trying to use the top answers on tags API to get the users who contribute the most for a given tag. Like so:
/2.2/tags/azure-web-sites/top-answerers/month?site=...
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StackMaps - Interactive Maps of Stack Exchange Communities
StackMaps - Interactive Maps of Stack Exchange Communities
https://johndbritton.com/stackmaps
What
Easily view users from your favorite Stack Exchange community on a map.
Why
I wanted to make it ...
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How can I get a user's Meta site details in the API call?
This query returns the details of the Main sites only:
/associated-users#ids=2855348
How can I get the Meta site details also in the same query?
Do I need to add any ...
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Fetch the Personalized Prediction Data through the API?
Is it possible to get a user's personalized prediction data in an automated way?
I'm building a graphical visualization of this data, you can check the project here: http://jlhonora.github.io/...
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Provide a way to get display name via access token
Please include a new (network) method with the ability to gather display name and profile image directly via access token.
Right now to retrieve this information you have to first authenticate a ...
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Get total answers count for a specified: Tag, Userid and Date-range?
I would like to get the total number of answers provided by userid 1068142 between
01/07/2015-31/07/2015 with tag = paypal.
I have looked into this question but it does not help!
I have been trying ...
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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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How can I access a user's ID on another site (eg. SU) if I have their ID from another site (eg. SO)?
If I have the ID of a user from any site, how can I get that's user's ID for a site I specify?
Eg. If someone's ID was 10349 on Super User, how could I get 10349's id on Stack Overflow?
I know I'd ...
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Can I change my profile picture using the API version 2?
I was considering making an app that lets the user design a profile picture and then activate it on the user's Stack Exchange account. Could a feature to change the profile picture be added to the ...
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400 Error when attempting to retrieve authenticated user data
I am attempting to use the /me API to retrieve an authenticated user's details but I am receiving a 400 error.
I am able to complete the OAuth2 dance and have been able to capture the access token ...
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How to calculate users, who have posted (question/answer) using specific tag?
For example, if I want to know the number of users who asked and answered about PHP.
Currently, I can just get the list of questions and its total number, but it's not enough, because one user could ...
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Get users based on location? [duplicate]
I want to get site users by their location but I don't see any method for that.
And it's not possible with a filter either.
Is there any way to get users based on location or is it not possible?
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How to get the "People reached" stat of a user, using the API? [duplicate]
I checked the user ids and advanced search API docs, but I could not get this stat. Does Stack Exchange provide this info in the API?
/2.2/users/{ID}?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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Can we have a test user account?
I am writing a program that checks for new comments posted to a user.
The problem is this: in order to test the program, I am forced to post comments to existing users - which probably isn't the best ...
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What is "accept_rate" in the Stack Exchange API?
when I call the /users path, like:
/docs/users-by-ids#&ids=1&site=stackoverflow
In the reply, I get a field called accept_rate.
What is that field about?
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Can revisions be returned from the API, filtered by user?
I see that question or answer revisions can be returned from the API either by post ID or by GUID.
I'd like to obtain this data filtered by user, e.g. "all revisions made by user X". However, I ...
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Plans to expose details from the "accounts" tab of the user page?
One thing that I noticed was missing from the /users/ API was an ability to see what other Stack Exchange sites the user is associated with (what's usually available from the "accounts" tab of the ...
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Please add the `tagged` parameter to /answers, /users, etc
The /questions endpoint supports a tagged parameter which I find quite useful. However, it's the only route that appears to support this parameter.
If, say, I want to get questions asked by a given ...
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Show when user is online
I apologize if this already exist, but i could not find it.
My question is, is there a real-time display next to the user question if that user is still on line or not.
Something like this (green ...
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How to get up_vote_count and down_vote_count for a user?
I'm testing the following command:
$ curl -s "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/55075?&site=stackoverflow" | gunzip -d | python -m json.tool
However it doesn't return up_vote_count and ...
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API for getting multiple (yet specific users)
I am developing one app which will be used internally in our company. We are recommending our colleagues to contribute to StackOverflow. To keep the moral of employees high, I am planning to develop ...
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Finding a user given their (exact) display name
For my app, I allow people to "register" themselves on my site by typing in their Stack Overflow (etc) name. Now it does allow you to use your ID if you know it, but I find that typing in usernames is ...
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The `top_questions` field shows outdated information?
I am using Stack Exchange API. I posted question from the doc page /questions/add to Stack Overflow. This was my first question. As that question was to check the function /questions/add, means it was ...
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Reputation changes from accepting answers to questions are not included in reputation results
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, the results don't include the +2 reputation changes from accepting answers.
None of the reputation results from my own reputation history have a ...
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How do I get a user's bio with the SE API?
Am I just missing something here or is there not a way to retrieve a user's bio with the SE API? I looked at the documentation under the "Users" section, but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions?
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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?
It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
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StackPlonk: plonk users you don't want to help anymore
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If you really don't want to help some user anymore, go to his profile page, and click the Plonk button next to his name. Every question of this user will then have a ...
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Certain users aren't showing up in /users when filter is applied
NB: The filter parameter in v1.x of the API had a different meaning to the filter parameter in v2.0
Consider the following query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users?filter=jon%20skeet
This ...
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Encoding type of display_name
I am using the v2.2 api. There is a small issue I have come across.
For the display_name I do not understand the encoding. For example for this user, the name comes as Mike Sherrill 'Cat ...
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StackAuth.com user's id
What ID should I pass to stackauth.com/1.1/users/{id}/associated url to get user's associations?
The description of the api call states:
id – a set of up to 10 users' association ids, obtained from ...
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Method /users/{id}/top-answer-tags is returning wrong results
I'm trying the following request:
(555004 happens to be my user id)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/555004/top-answer-tags
and I'm a bit confused by the result:
{
top_tags: [
{
...
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Can more vote-related data be added to the user object?
The only data about votes that I can currently get from the user object via the API is the user's up_vote_count and down_vote_count.
I am creating a dashboard that displays a range of stats about a ...
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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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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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Does an access using the API count towards the user's consecutive days total?
Supposing I knock up a quick Python script that uses Py-StackExchange (or similar) to visit stackoverflow, retrieve a recent question, etc.; and then run a cron job to do this a couple of times a day.....
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Access to /users/recent/ (Recent Activity) through the API
Would it be possible to have access to a user Recent Activity?
I know that this is not a public information on the website, but I think that most part is public. I only see one Activity that should ...
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Something's changed about user timelines
Six to Eight's user display has just broken, as the /user/id/timeline route seems to have started returning different data. Previously, timeline_type of entries in the user_timelines array used to be ...
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Better Call /me maybe?
I am using implicit OAuth 2.0 flow, hence requesting for a token first.
Now when I want to know which user has logged in, I have to make request to /me endpoint to get all of the data about the user, ...
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Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I'm having a problem returning a list of users questions within a given timespan. I understand that the documentation ( http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/questions ) that ...
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On /users method id parameter does not work
Calling /users method with id parameter returns a list of users and not the user expected.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?id=23234
Could be a documentation "bug" on help page:
http://api....
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Suddenly, some entries on /questions route are missing display_name
An odd bug has developed this morning. At the moment, api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions is returning a question of the format...
... },
{
"tags": [
"jsf-2.0"
],
"...
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/users/{id}/badges - multiple identical results
Each badge returned in the list of results from /users/{id}/badges already contains an award_count indicating how many times the badge was awarded for the particular user attached to the badge. In ...
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Problem getting a users answers within a date range
This issue is similar to Problem getting a users questions within a date range. Only this time I'm calling a different api and getting unexpected results.
I'm calling
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/...
user424
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Add last_access_date field to the shallow_user object
Would it be possible to add the last_access_date field to the shallow_user object? I presume this corresponds to the seen field when visiting someone's profile.
My reasoning is that it saves the ...
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/users/{ID}/reputation is returning a 500 error.
The following API request:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users/235/reputation?filter=%21DnBO_&site=askubuntu&page=1
...is returning an error:
{
error_id: 500,
error_name: "...
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