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Stack Flower: a simple Android app for searching Stack Overflow
Stack Flower is a simple Android app for browsing Stack Overflow, with some useful search customization options. You can easily make queries like
Posts from this week tagged "android", ranked by ...
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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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rate-limit per endpoint per IP VS. server apps in hosted environments
I was wondering if the scenario of a server based app that lives in a hosted environment, where a single IP can be shared by many web sites.
As I understand the rate-limit as it stands, every site on ...
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API v1.1 users call returns association_id for which the Stack Exchange web site has no profile [closed]
For a particular user, the users API v1.1 call returns an association_id that gives a "Page Not Found" error where the Stack Exchange profile should be, though their Stack Exchange profile can be ...
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Padding missing between thumbnails and other app/script information
On the Apps and Scripts tabs, the thumbnails and the rest of the information touch each other:
This didn't use to be the case, could you please re-add some padding?
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Is there going to be an API for the Careers site?
Is there going to be an API for access to the careers site? I could understand that it would be different to the rest of the Stack Exchange APIs, but I could see that it could be useful for use cases ...
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Add a special page where developers can reset throttle timeouts
As George Edison noted, it would be useful to have a special page where developers can reset the throttle timeout when we accidentally trigger it.
This happened to me this morning — I got banned for ...
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How to use the StackExchange object on a userscript?
This object seems to be available in all Stack Exchange pages and contains interesting information about the actual page, site, user, among others. Just type StackExchange on the console to check it ...
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API Implicit Authentication with Python
I am working on an desktop inbox notifier for StackOverflow, using the API with Python.
The script I am working on first logs the user in on StackExchange, and then requests authorisation for the ...
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Get a user's "interesting tags"
The current implementation of the API does not provide a way for us to fetch a user's "interesting tags". The /users/{id}/tags unfortunately returns all tags a user has participated in, which I'm not ...
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How can I get unread messages for inbox testing? [duplicate]
I use /users/{id}/inbox/unread method to get unread items in a user's inbox. But how could I test it if I have no unread items in my inbox?
How can I get/generate unread messages for testing?
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Merging/migration should be reflected by the API
Now that we have a new merging/migration system that keeps records of all merges, I think that this information should be visible through the API:
Questions that are merged into other questions should ...
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Total reputation reported by the /users/{ids}/reputation route is low
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, the total amount of reputation I get back from all reputation changes is much lower than my reputation reported on Stack Overflow. Here's my ...
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Newest unaswered by tags
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Often, when I was looking for questions to answer on StackOverflow, I would go through newest unanswered questions and look for those that had one of my favorite tags. The “my tags” ...
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Crew for Exchange 2.0 (Full iOS native client)
My all-new app Crew 2.0 is NOW AVAILABLE 🥳
Crew 2.0 was rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and today's update is a crazy one.
A completely revamped user interface, powerful markdown rendering, new ...
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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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Questions method does not return answers
I think questions method also return answers too and the help page says so
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=questions
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"answers": [
{
"answer_id": {
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Items response empty after article POST request
I'm trying to post an article using StackExchange's Teams API then try to pull that new article's id from the API response.
The article gets posted but the items field is empty :
{"items":[],...
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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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Why do I get a throttle violation after 300 requests while using a key but no access_token?
I'm doing some testing on my app, and I let it run on a machine this afternoon while I was away. When I got back, I was geting 503 throttle violation errors from my API calls.
I was calling the "...
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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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Can I register for an API key for an "alpha" site?
I appreciate that you'll want to limit users of the no-key API, however I fear that on a daily basis I might exceed the 300 limit in testing alone.
I certainly don't want to hammer the API, but my ...
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Chat audio enhancements
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There's no meaningful screenshot available since this script plays sound.
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When someone starts talking about unicorns you definitely want in on the action.
You can now ...
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Can I apply the API Key first and do the application later?
I don't have an application to submit at the moment, but can I apply the key first?
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Verifying and linking SE users from external sites.
It would be great if you could allow your sites user base to link too their SE userId and this could then be verified.
Not sure if there are privacy issues here, but one way would be too include the ...
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Python library 2.2 API Wrapper?
Is there a Python library that encompasses the new functionality in the 2.2 API?
I've seen this question and this question, and the comments indicating that libraries were being created and updated ...
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Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight
This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api.
With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in ...
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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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StackApp NNTP bridge for accessing Stack Exchange sites (like Stack Overflow)
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With this NNTP Bridge you can follow all posts of Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) very easily. Each question will be shown as one thread with all tags, the ...
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API returns delete vote count for questions, but not for answers
The questions method of the API returns the number of delete votes among other kinds of votes: sample query.
But the answers method does not have a delete_vote_count field available in the filter:
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Drafting users for testing in Alpha/Beta stage?
I finally stopped stagnating long enough to start working on an application for Stack Apps using the API. Development is going well and within the next 6 to 8 weeks there will be enough functionality ...
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Official Status Site/Page/Banner
It would be useful to have an official status displayed somewhere.
A banner on all stackapps.com pages, or a specific page that we could view to see the status of the API.
Just now I tried to view ...
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Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
I know you wanted to reduce the amount of data returned, but hasn't it gone a little far?
Especially as there are no numerical site IDs. For example the Apple site is now called AskDifferent, however ...
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StackStatus - Monitor the status of the Stack Exchange API
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This service is temporarily offline. The original version was having some problems, and I am also migrating a number of tools from PHP to Python - so expect to see this tool come back to ...
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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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Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
In the /sites method, not all the sites return high_resolution_icon_url field. (e.g. Personal Finance and Money) Although if you add "@2" to the normal resolution icon you can see a high res image ...
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Crew for Stack V1.0! (full native client) [duplicate]
App link (https://apps.apple.com/it/app/crew-for-stack-overflow/id1547171709?l=en)
Crew is a beautiful full native (iOS) StackOverflow app built for fast navigation with powerful set of features.
The ...
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Implicit OAuth Flow stopped working. Redirect happening to a non existent URL [duplicate]
The following URL is first hit when a user clicks on Login:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=202&redirect_uri=https%3a%2f%2fstackexchange.com%2foauth%2flogin_success&scope=...
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Allow registrant to use write access without linking Stack Apps post
Especially in light of the Flatiron School using the Stack Exchange API* as a part of a student-created program, it'd be useful if you could use write methods without the required Stack Apps post so ...
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Is there an api to post questions without using the websites interface?
I wanted to post questions after a proper user authentication explained here. Is there anyway I can do this?
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Stack Explorer (Android app)
This Android app randomly selects pages from Stack Exchanges sites based on tags selected by the user, to help discover new interesting content and learn new things.
You can install it here:
https://...
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Accessing the Stack Exchange API not on behalf of an user? [duplicate]
I'm implementing an App and intend to use Stack Exchange tags to classify content, of course, respecting the terms of use.
However, the Authentication documentation says I'd need to use the OAuth 2.0 ...
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SEStandard - A .NET Standard 1.1 compliant Stack Exchange client library that supports API v2.2
Please note that SEStandard is still under development. It is currently at version 1.0.0-rc, and is a release candidate. While you can expect the API not to change, you might come across bugs. Please ...
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SO Stats - Track your stack overflow activity
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I created the SO Stats app because I wanted a simple and convenient way to track my Stack Overflow activity and progress. As a frequent user, I was always curious about how my reputation was ...
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Stack Bridge Application
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SB For Windows
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From This Application you can see all your account, see new Questions and Answer. You will receive a message every time you get a badge etc.
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MahTweets - Social Media Client
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MahTweets is Yet Another .NET Twitter Client, that has expanded to include functionality for other social media sites including Facebook, Yammer, Foursquare, Tumblr, and that's just the start.
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Tangoverflow - StackApps API using D with Tango
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So far, in commit #2, can successfully parse the statistics API into an object. I'll update more as I get more of the API done (but for now, I need ...
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Exterminators - Bugs and Features, Present and Past and those who brought them to light.
Exterminators
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Exterminators is a simple aggregate of bugs and feature requests with a per-user breakdown with a weighted score thrown in for fun.
Bugs and Feature requests are considered 'open' ...
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Write access (post answers, comments etc. on behalf of users)
From what I can tell, there's currently no way to write to StackExchange sites using the API. Are there any plans to support this? This would mean some implementation headaches, such as providing a ...
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