Frequent Questions
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API selectively ignores jsonp parameter - havok ensues
UPDATE: this is happening on all routes now and seems to be getting worse. Whatever it is just started this morning.
compare url to json response
GET /1.0/users/14/badges?key=qgAq_KfDu0KYzlNG-qaTuw&...
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Should HTML or Markdown be passed to /questions/{id}/edit?
I'm making an app that supports editing questions. Should HTML or Markdown source be passed to the body parameter of /questions/{id}/edit?
user18962
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Tagged parameter not working as described in documentation
In the documentation it is reported that the tagged parameter in the request URL should work like this:
tagged - a semicolon delimited list of tags, of which at least one will be present on all ...
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Title Case All Question Titles Everywhere!
Because some like it like that:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document regexp("*.stackexchange.com|superuser.com|askubuntu.com|serverfault.com|mathoverflow.com|stackapps.com|...
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Possible to get more than 5 tags for /search? Or to use or-logic, for tags, in /questions?
This is the query I want to run:
/2.1/search?pagesize=100&page=1&order=desc&sort=creation&tagged=linux,ubuntu,bash,linux-mint,mint,linux-distributions,linux-distro,archlinux,&site=...
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What constitutes 'active participation' in the private API beta?
In trying to understand some continued weirdness regarding badge/reputation rewarding in the context of private API participation I failed to find the explanation what exactly constitutes 'active ...
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Authorized requests: auth parameter seems broken
I'm having problem with authorized requests.
Every requests with a valid auth token get:
error: {
code: 4009
message: "The 'auth' query parameter is not a valid auth token."
}
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Upbar for SE/SO chat
rlemon and myself created a Userscript which moves the userbar on top... so that you can see more stars!
UpBar
The goal of this project was to gain more space on the sidebar of the StackExchange ...
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"client_id rejected" error when retrieving the access_token
I'm developing an application in C# and I to post questions, so I need an access token.
I registered my application and I have received a client ID. Then I get the following query-string to get the ...
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API to submit a Suggested Edit
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 ...
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Request: Mark inbox items as read, now that API 2.2 is here [duplicate]
Now we have write API, can we get a method for the inbox to mark inbox items as read?
Previously I believe the reason for not having this was the risk of apps marking items as read without the user ...
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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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Can I see my past upvoted questions in handset APP?
It's not hard to dig out questions upvoted by myself through the PC website. But I cannot find any access to them in the ios app. I guess neither does android app. Did I miss something or is it a ...
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Rejoin Favorite Chatrooms
Screenshot / Code Snippet
This script adds a link to rejoin favorite chatrooms, even if you're in multiple ones already:
About
When you're in only one chatroom on a server, there's an orange button ...
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Filter support for regex or wildcards
Filter would be significantly more useful it it supported Regex or wildcards. Ideally under a different parameter. Wildcard could be with the * or the %. This would allow for "starts-with" or "ends-...
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questions/{id} help page sort parameter description is inconsistence with others
The description of the Sort parameter in questions/{id} help page is inconsistent with those of other pages.
On the questions/{id} help page:
sort (optional):
How a collection
should be ...
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Update Teams API documentation to reflect dependency on tier
The documentation says (emphasis mine):
Starting with the release of Stack Overflow For Teams, the Stack Exchange API exposes read-only access to data stored in private Teams.
This is slightly ...
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400 when posting a question to the Stackexchange API
I am adding a question via the API and I manage to create a preview of my question (See JSON extract below).
{
"has_more" = 0;
items = (
{
"creation_date" = ...
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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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Sorting the event stream
It seems like the data returned from the /events endpoint is flawed by being returned in descending order. For example:
{
"items": [
{
"event_type": "comment_posted",
"event_id": ...
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the stack exchange javascript library is 404
the library listed on the doc page for Authentication
https://api.stackexchange.com/js/2.0/all.js
ultimately redirects to
https://api-v2cdn.sstatic.net/js/all.js
which results in varying degrees ...
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Add 'linked' question data to the API
SE sites show linked questions on the right column.
It would be great to add an array of ids to the question response called 'linked'.
Example Linked Question
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Can I get more results/options from /users/{ids}/top-answer-tags?
/users/{ids}/top-answer-tags returns the top 30 tags for a given user. It's also the only endpoint that returns the user's tag scores along with the rest of the tag info. I'd like to use this data ...
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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?
For the type "string", I think there is some upper limit of character count.
For example,
post title : 200 characters
post body : 30000 characters
In the help page, currently like this
"body": {
...
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display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
usually in the owner dictionary there is a display_name value to give the username. But in a few questions it simply doesn't exist and I can't see why only those questions: eg, this excerpt from the 0....
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What's the best way to get all available data related to a user's reputation?
I'm looking for the best way to get a full list of every event which has caused a user's reputation to change, It could look like:
timestamp,reputation_change,object_uri
2011-01-25 14:58:27Z,10,/ajax/...
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OAuth2 Authentication Redirection error in PHP
I'm trying to authenticate into Stack Exchange's API with the following URL:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=3535&scope=write_access&redirect_uri=https://stackexchange.com/...
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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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The reputation_change field is missing from the reputation results on some CW posts
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, the reputation_change field is missing from the results on community-wiki answers. I think the reputation type should always include this field, ...
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What is the difference between accepted and is_accepted?
I saw there are two fields in answer type.
One is accepted, introduced in v2.2 and needs private_info access.
While another one is is_accepted without these limits.
Can somebody give an explanation?
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Is there any way to get statistics by tag?
We are Stack Overflow Teams users. We want to get the statistics by tags.
Currently only StackExchangeApiClient.getStatistics API is found which include all team's data.
And can the https://...
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Can the API Edit a Question, changing only one field?
The documentation for the edit question method (/questions/{id}/edit) is somewhat vague.
Are all of the parameters required?
For example, if the only field I want to change in the question is tags, ...
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Can I fetch Stack Overflow users by location in Stack Exchange API
I read the documentation and I know that I can get users' locations but I have not seen anywhere about querying by location. Does that mean that it is not possible? If it is possible, how?
As an ...
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How do you trigger the search/advanced 'q' parameter to search all words?
When you search for “playa parents not working” on http://expressionengine.stackexchange.com, you’re brought to this URL:
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/search?q=playa+parents+not+working
...
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Is there a way (or app) to get realtime updates of new questions with a given tag?
According to Stack Exchange API not realtime?, the API does not return results in realtime, but has 1 minute delay for the same query.
Is there a system or an app that delivers new questions in ...
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An associated query is returning a partial record for a particular user
This query returns (in addition to several complete records) this incomplete one:
{
"user_id": 2196,
"user_type": "registered",
"display_name": "Wil",
"reputation": 151,
"email_hash": "...
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is there an api to access a list of tags on super user?
As above, is there an api function to access a list of tags on super user?
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StackAuth returning 404?
http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites
http://stackauth.com/1.0/help
Both of these are currently returning 404 Not Found. What's up with that?
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The /questions endpoint only returns around 30,000 items where 400,000 are expected
I used the stackr library and I registered for an API key as the library mentions that "it increases your daily quota of queries from 300 to 10,000." So I used the following code, which ...
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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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Best strategies for calling the API with full throttling support?
I know this would be subjective on a normal SE site but as the relevant chat rooms are mostly dormant, we have no meta site, and nobody noticed when I asked if this kind of question is OK here, I'm ...
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TrendsOverflow, quick trends from Stack Overflow
About:
TrendsOverflow is a very simple website that displays the number of questions per day for the most popular programming languages from Stack Overflow.
I created this application because I ...
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Looking for app to support offline access to my posts?
I am looking for an application to download all the questions I asked (and the answers) on Stack sites and all the questions that I labeled with the favorite label (that start what appears under the ...
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API to Emulate Notifications
Is there a API End Point that will emulate Test Notifications? When I say Notifications, I Mean both Inbox and Achievements.
Right now i am using below for the data
Unread Notification : https://...
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White keyboard highlighting in dark mode
Description
This changes highlighting from using keyboard shortcuts to use white instead of black. Allows actually seeing the highlighting noticeable in high contrast mode.
The userstyle only works ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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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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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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Chatdump - a site monitor
Dump activity from a site into a chatroom. Configurable as to what to dump and with what conditions.
Github repo
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Stackoverflow Monitor - A Blue Prism Utility
About
An RPA utility for the Blue Prism Connected RPA solution, configured to search Stackoverflow content for product-specific questions and for posting relevant answers from the Blue Prism ...
