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Placeholder - Mini-Mod
Mini-Mod is planned to be an app that helps the community moderate content
This also has automated features which require write_access
This is simply the placeholder which the app will be connected to
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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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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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API "Hello World" code
The Stack Exchange API is based on HTTP and URLs, just like the web page you're browsing now. Except instead of HTML, the responses are all in JSON.
Let's say we wanted to call the /info method:
https:...
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Is it possible to get the response from a form POST?
This is related to my XYZ app to write comments.
I found a much neater way to submit the request using forms:
function post() {
se_url='https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/posts/'+se_postId.value+'/...
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Is there a way to increase the contrast of the special highlighting that is applied to the OP of a question?
EDIT: as you can see, the OP is now highlighted a bit more clearly, in 2021! But this may change, or someone might want a more striking contrast.
When the Original Poster of a question comments ...
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Why doesn't my XMLHttpRequest call work in Excel?
I can make a simple API call in JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest:
<html>
<script>
function reqListener () {
out.textContent=this.responseText;
}
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Using StackEx as a prefix for the name of my app?
According to trademark guidance:
[...] Including one of the terms, "Stack" or "Exchange" or "Overflow" in your product name is generally okay.
I'd like to use "...
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?
I have a site that will offer technical help and assistance for a certain niche of computer users. I can either host my own forums, or tie in with stack... but I want to be able to make money off it ...
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Load answers to a question with review-like wrapper HTML
I'm trying to implement this feature request in SOUP, but I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to actually load the answers.
I can just load the full question page (like this one, for example) ...
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trying to query answers for a question using the stack.php
I am trying to query stackoverflow and route it to my website via the following
<?php
require_once './stackphp_source_0.4/src/api.php';
require_once './includes/function.php';
// Begin by getting ...
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Get points from Multiple sites in one call
Is there any way to get total points and badges from various sites (e.g. stackoverflow, sharepoint, wordpress etc.) in one call?
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Serel returns a JSON Parse error for the 'C#' tag
When I try requesting the tag c# via Serel, I get an error.
This is the error I am getting:
INFO][2013-02-25 02:06:42] Making request to /2.0/tags/c#/info?site=stackoverflow&key=mykey
JSON::...
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Write comment API failing with error_id: 500
I am trying to test post comment with the following URL
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/posts/10305691/comments/add?key=HIDDEN&access_token=HIDDEN&site=stackoverflow&preview=true&...
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Answer delete votes in the post sidebar
About
Users with more than 1000 reputation points can see delete votes in the post timeline, but it's much more convenient to have this information fetched and added to the sidebar:
Note that the ...
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Removing Collectives™ from Stack Overflow
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Inspired by the reaction to Beta release of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, I decided to create a small practical solution in the form of a user script.
It will remove almost all traces of ...
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Make better use of the space in profiles, like profiles used to be
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The change to user profiles discussed in Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive has introduced some empty space. It can be seen directly in Profile page is very empty, revert to ...
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User sort by last_modified_date always return errors
I am using this API to get users info sorting by last_modified date, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/users#page=1&pagesize=100&order=asc&sort=modified&filter=!9YdnSBVWs&site=...
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What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
For the /users endpoint in the Stack Exchange API v2.3, what does the modified filter in sort field look for?
It is unclear from ...
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Garbage (litter) filters - delete custom filters from the "more" dropdown
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Garbage (litter) filters is a userscript that allows users to delete custom filters from the top dropdown directly without scrolling down to the "custom filters" sidebar. Inspired by ...
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Java exception when user age or location is unspecified in returned JSON
I am brand new to the Stack Exchange API and Android (well, self taught in the last four months). I have been working on creating a school project focused around Android and JSON. My initial idea was ...
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Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons
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This script implements the suggestion from user1306322 to Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE, which was the original request that led to New ...
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Get questions with body and answers
How can I get the latest 30 questions with body and answers using the api?
And then, I want to get only first most voted 3 answers for each question. Is this possible with only one request?
To get ...
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Two minor typos in the API help
In http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help
/users/{id}/answers Gets answer summary informatino for the user with 'id'.
and in the Returns section of http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=...
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Minor typo on help page
On the API Routes help page, this:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets summary information for the questions that have been favorited a set of users.
should probably be:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets ...
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Does Stack Apps have some special rep and Community Wiki modifications?
I have posted a "question" (actually an app) on Stack Apps, and received two upvotes on it. Each gave me 10 reputation. This runs counter to every other Stack Exchange site - and, indeed, the Stack ...
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high_resolution_icon_url points to a non-existing image for Area 51 Discuss
In 2013 this bug was reported: Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
Since then a lot has improved. Most urls found in high_resolution_icon_url on the site type as returned by the /sites endpoint ...
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QStack (Android Mobile App)
Screenshot / Code Snippet
Insert a reasonably sized screenshot (or code snippet) of your
app here, so we can get a quick look at it and
an idea of how it works and what it might do for us.
App ...
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Formatting and formatted content is missing for body in search excerpts call
The body returned by the search excerpts call seems to omit formatting and sometimes even formatted content. Example calls follow for this question: Does `inquestion` support multiple question ids?
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Does `inquestion` support multiple question ids?
The q parameter has an inquestion operator that can take a question id.
Can it take multiple question ids?
My use-case is as follows:
I want to get an array of questions with their excerpts.
However,...
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PLACEHOLDER - AskOverflow
Ask questions on Stack Overflow directly from inside VS Code
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StackApplet and AskUbuntu
Two questions:
Whenever one clicks on the "Ask Ubuntu" in the StackApplet's menu it opens https://askubuntu.com/users/recent/### (where ### is the user's id number), but there is no such ...
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Question close, reopen, and delete votes in the post sidebar
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This is for users that cannot normally see these votes. On Stack Overflow that is less than 3,000 reputation points for close and reopen votes, and 10,000 reputation points for delete votes. The ...
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Permission request form is broken, approve button is hidden, css variables are missing
You can check that form doesn't work with this link https://stackoverflow.com/oauth?client_id=17581&scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri=http://functional.localdomain:3449/login/github
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CollapsibleBanners - Save screen space when viewing questions
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What is CollapsibleBanners?
CollapsibleBanners is a userscript that allows you to collapse the 'Closed' banner on questions. This helps save screen space.
Download
Auto-update version (...
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Wrong sorting parameter in documentation for question/{ids}/answers
It looks like that in the question/{ids}/answers documentation, there is a mistake:
votes – score
Shouldn't this be
votes – votes
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Show the protected banner to everyone
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According to What is a "protected" or "highly active" question?, users with more than 10 earned but less than 15,000 reputation points aren't shown the protected banner:
It ...
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cv-pls Helper Chrome Extension
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Formatted cv request
Settings
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cv-pls Helper makes the process of closing questions easier on Stack Overflow.
There are a lot of 'bad' questions being asked and to help reduce the ...
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How do you get the association_id from the CC data dump?
I am working with Stack Exchange /users/ data and trying to get a user's "united" profile, to see what sites they're active in other than the queried site.
As an example: http://...
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StackMarks™ - Better bookmarks for a better experience
v1.4.2, 2021/6/10 UTC
Preview
Notice: There have been breaking changes to the UI. This preview is outdated (per version 1.0). View the most updated preview in the user manual at the bottom of this ...
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Why does api.stackoverflow.com allow resource calls that accept vectorized or multiple IDs?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/questions-by-ids
What is the motivation for building api.stackoverflow.com in a manner that accepts multiple IDs in a resource call?
For example, I can ...
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Script to keep mobile-view active
As you probably know SE is moving to the responsive view on there website meaning everything will look like the desktop kinda. Same with mobile devices. I’m new to SE for about 20 days, and I like the ...
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Community Diamond Restorer - Add the diamond back to Community's profile!
Screenshot / Code Snippet
Before:
After:
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This userscript, in response to this question, restores the "Moderator" label for the Community user, both in edit summaries and on the ...
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Call to search/advanced is treating tagged as an AND search, not OR [duplicate]
The docs for search/advanced (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search) have this to state about the tagged attribute:
"tagged - a semicolon delimited list of tags, of which at least ...
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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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The cute little blue box on flag dialogs
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Based on Use the same location for Submit button in the comment flag dialog as in the post flag dialog which asked for the buttons to go on the right side, and Question Close Updates: Phase 1 ...
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How are filters created?
Can someone explain how Filters are created in the Stackexchange v2 API?
The documentation mentions the following for /filters/create:
It is not expected that many applications will call this method ...
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Can I get information about a user with their network ID?
My network profile's ID is 4337810.
Is there any way to get information about users with their network ID from the API? So stuff like username, location, profile image, etc...?
There doesn't seem ...
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
A couple of days ago I answered a question about the Stack API.
As my answer could be illustrated with a working code example I went ahead to create a Stack Snippet. To my surprise that feature isn'...
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Possible to return newest questions with a certain tag?
I am not finding a way to return a list of new questions by tag with the new Stack Exchange API.
Am I missing something or is this not available? If this is not available, I most certainly request ...