Frequent Questions
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Can i make an internal Q&A site like StackExchange?
I'm looking forward to develop a Q&A site that was requested to be private for my company, and as my boss talked it looked like he was describing StackOverflow, what i want to know is, is it ...
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How to get (unread) achievements?
Is there an API call where you can get all achievements and all unread achievements?
Like this:
Update
Thanks to the answer of Glorfindel, I use the following methods to calculate the unread ...
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StackExchange – Expand Hidden Comments
In principle that what Expand all comments script does, but with two major differences:
Scrolls the page back to the initial target of the corresponding link you selected (i.e. to question, question ...
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After which time span can my vote no longer change?
I came across a toast that appears when I try to change my vote that I made a few days ago.
Is it documented somewhere after which time span you can no longer change your vote? Or does the API ...
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Wrong error message when attempting to edit a locked answer
When attempting to edit a locked answer like this one via the /answers/{id}/edit API method, I get an error message:
Account is not allowed to suggest edits
I have the privilege to edit the post, so ...
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Request for user script to calculate Wilson confidence ratings for posts
I came across the following blog post on the Internet recently: How Not to Sort by Average Rating:
PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to ...
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/answers/{id} summary incorrect
/answers/{id}
Gets a set of questions enumerated in id
should probably be
Gets a set of answers enumerated in id
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The Authentication Problem of WebAuthenticationBroker Class in .NET 4.6
I have a problem when you test the Stack Exchange Authentication API to WebAuthenticationBroker.
If you proceed with authentication, such as screenshots it will continue to appear only in progress.
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Advanced search doesn't return expected results when using min & max (dates) together?
I want to use the Advanced Search API to get the same results as the Stack Overflow site search.
With it, I can see new questions on 11/10/2015.
When I tried to craft a query using the Advanced ...
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How to sort by the newest question?
I'm trying to retrieve the latest questions posted in a particular tag.
What's the equivalent for:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php?sort=newest&pagesize=15
I see that v1.1 API is ...
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Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions
This post is to enable authentication with the version of Sentinel that I'm (cocomac) hosting. See also OBSOLETE - Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions.
In early February 2025, there ...
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How to increase the allowed number of API calls?
Stack Exchange provides the possibility to do a limited number of API calls per day from the same IP (10,000 if the customer registers the app).
Is it possible to get that number increased?
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Spam Detector: Detect spam posts! (section just to test it: 736-_555 /007//] [3)
Note: There is something in the title to test this tool.
About: (required)
This searches for spam on a given site and places the links in an MD file.
Screenshot / Code Snippet: (highly recommended)
# ...
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StackX app - problem signing in with Google ID
I have a problem with StackX app on my Samsung Galaxy 4 phone (Android 4.3). I'm logging to StackExchange in general, and StackOferflow in particular, using my Google ID. The app does not recognize ...
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Does anyone have a script that lets you log in to chat server side?
There doesn't seem to be any sort of API for chat. I'm working on creating one, however I'm stuck at the login bit.
How can I get Python (or some other server side language) to log in to chat? The ...
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Why are Stack Exchange API methods named like this
I'm curious about https://api.stackexchange.com/docs .
I looked up and studied the naming convention to make a REST api.
I've seen that in the naming convention, don't use verbs and in the case of the ...
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ChatterBox configuration option is confusingly worded
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
I'm confused over the option:
Mark items as unread when you view them:
Why would I want to mark items as unread when I ...
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Ability to sort answers by number of revisions via StackExchange API v2?
I was curious whether there was a way to easily find which StackOverflow answer has the highest number of revisions and/or to sort by that metric.
I see mention of a sort function in the ...
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Featured questions API
Can we get an API to get the list of featured questions (/questions/featured)?
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Can I use the Stack Exchange API to build a "GH Archive" like project?
I'm not sure if I can use Stack Exchange API to build a https://www.gharchive.org like project?
I studied the API throttling documentation but I am not sure.
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Bug Bridger - A stack overflow mobile app to solve all of your questions
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
Discover featured questions effortlessly on the home tab, elegantly presented in card format.
Each question card provides essential details such as the question title, ...
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How to login programmatically
I'm building an app for personal use. The app simply screen-scrapes the StackExchange homepage and checks whether I am currently logged in to StackExchange. This works fine.
However, if the app ...
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StackAuth 1.1 API reports a site without a site_name
Calling the StackAuth 1.1 API associated method for a particular user returns one site with no site_name property (the one for which the user_id is 349). I cannot find a matching account in ...
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Typo in throttle violation error message
I was just playing around with the API locally and got throttled for the questions and answers methods (the only two I was using).
Anyway, I noticed there’s a small typo in the error message that’s ...
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Is there a glossary of the properties returned in response to the Stack Exchange API?
While most items are self-explanatory, some aren't, and I was wondering if there was a glossary explaining all the properties in each of the response types?
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New Meta sites out of order in /sites
I don't know if this is by design, but the ServerFault and SuperUser Meta sites don't follow their main sites in the response for the sites API route. Having linked_meta sites follow their main (...
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How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date
The API documentation describes tthe usage of /questions/featured. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to sort the result by bounty_closes_date, which is IMO the sort option making most ...
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new throttle does not differentiate between api requests and requests made from viewing the site
Update:
I am unable to reproduce the case of interactive browsing affecting app quota. And will concede that the failures that prompted this post were likely far edge cases.
The remaining issue of a ...
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How to login programmatically on Android?
I think my question is not a duplicate of this one: How to login programmatically
I have read the authentication document but, still, I am unable to get what's needed to login programmatically on ...
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Blur the topbar’s background
This stylesheet will make the background of the topbar show a blurred version of the contents below it. Note that I was unable to make the search box transparent (the icon was invisible), and I couldn’...
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StackPromo: Free Q&A Advertising Service (beta)
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About
StackPromo is a free SE post advertising platform. Submit your posts. Webmasters can embed the ads on their site.
SUBMIT YOUR POSTS HERE: https://stackpromo.appspot....
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user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small
the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000.
it is apparent that this is the server-side field length.
the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag using .Net?
I want to get the list of questions based on tag name using .Net. can any one please let me know how to achieve this using .Net with API Version 2.2?
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last_activity_date meaning on /questions route
I would like to add a cache layer to my app for questions, answers and comments.
The last_activity_date parameter on /questions route seems a valid candidate (probably the only way available)
The help ...
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How to get all questions with a specific tag between certain dates
I would like to get all questions created and tagged with tag "R" between 2 dates.
I'm using parameters: tagged = R, sort = creation, fromdate and todate set to appropriate dates and site = ...
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Comments are returning markdown.
Look at the output of the following:
http://api.askubuntu.com/1.0/questions/12218?comments=true
Output:
{
"comment_id": 12713,
"creation_date": 1289269467,
"owner": {
"user_id": ...
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Why doesn't the API return a 'locked date' for this locked answer?
This answer has been locked, yet when I ask the API about this post it fails to return a locked_date:
It's a rather old lock, but I can't see anything suspicious in the timeline or the Post History.
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Is the question_id monotonically increasing?
Just wondering:
Does the question_id monotonically increase for every new question?
Is the question_id unique globally for a deployed app or is it unique in some sub-domain?
Is there any relation ...
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OAuth redirect_uri to https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success?xxx strips part of the query string
I have a browser extension that uses OAuth2 to retrieve an access token. As recommended by https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication, I use https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/login_success as the ...
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Is there a SQL-like query for the API?
I've looked at the API docs.
However, I haven't found a way to do complex queries through the API such as I can do in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer query editor (select, joins etc).
Example: data....
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Offline cache of the API - for when the developer has no internet.
Is there some fake API program that "simulates" the API? Just I'm going on a long car journey tomorrow, and I won't have an internet connection on my laptop and don't want to waste the whole journey ...
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Stack Exchange v2.2 PHP API Client [closed]
I am developing a PHP library for interacting with the Stack Exchange API.
Most of the methods are unimplemented so far.
I am writing this post because I need to test some auth methods.
My app ...
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What is the best way to provide support for an unknowable number of StackExchange sites?
I just wrote an app for Chrome extensions and received a request to make it cross-StackExchange compatible. If there's eventually going to be more sites than just the few listed and I don't really ...
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Stats not showing the same values as the Site
I get less values in the api method that in the site, is this posible?
Example: form the API I get that SO has 709980 questions from site 701005
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Shouldn't there be a separate call for featured questions?
I find it rather peculiar that you can sort questions by featured. My arguments:
What does order mean in this case? It could mean the bounty amount (e.g. using desc would return the questions with the ...
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Associated accounts is broken for this user
When I retrieve associated accounts for Joel Coehoorn using this query it only includes Programmers.SE and Webmasters.SE despite the fact that I retrieved the association key from a query to SU. The ...
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How to get tags using the API?
I have a requirement in my application to show the technical skills (tags) in auto-complete format like Stack Overflow has.
Is there any example to get the tags from Stack Overflow using JavaScript +...
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Provide a method to search for sites
Due to the new pagination of the /sites method in v1.1 of the API, we have to go through all the pages of sites to check whether a site exists, or allow the user to search for a site.
Would it be ...
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fromdate is ignored for /posts/{id}/comments requests
The api docs:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=posts/{id}/comments
The test request.
You can see comment itself here, it's four months old, while cutoff date in request is less than ...
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redundant data in users
this is an example of truly redundant data. the paths are documented. they don't need to be included in the results.
"user_questions_url": "/users/22656/questions",
"user_answers_url": "/users/...
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