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Reputation losses aren't reflected in the API
This includes reputation recalculations (e.g., the latest) and (speculative) when people take upvote back.
First case you can see on standard stackauth/users query: it displays meta reputation before ...
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API usage triggering 503 (Too Many Requests)
Update:
I generally try to back any claims of bugs and shortcomings with evidence.
I have prepared a test page which you, dear Stack Overflow staff and my fellow developers, can use to ascertain ...
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List of API client libraries grouped by programming language
This question serves as an organized reference of client libraries available for the Stack Exchange API. This is intended to be an all-inclusive list of libraries, so if you develop a library, feel ...
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Where can I find the reputation black market?
Apparently there is one around, at least I can't explain the recent jump in reputation of 4k for user 1026 by any other means (just kidding of course, no offense please ;)
The API Beta badge accounts ...
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SE API V1.1 documentation, date errata
The Stack Exchange API, version 1.1, documentation is ever so slightly confusing wherever Unix timestamps are mentioned (perhaps any ranges, I haven't dug too deeply)
For instance:
todate – Unix ...
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Get API responses in formats other than JSON
I am working on an application which uses the Stack Exchange API. But I don't want responses in JSON format.
So, if I want to convert JSON to another format like XML, is there any way to get the ...
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Why am I getting a 404 when trying to post a comment?
I'm dabbling around in /posts/{id}/comments/add, and I'm trying this query:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/posts/144890/comments/add?site=meta.stackoverflow&key=ArbQthisismykeyjyecuJQ((&...
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Possible to get a user's flag history?
Is it possible to retrieve a signed-in user's flagging history, preferably with the status of the flag?
I looked at the /me/timeline docs, and noticed it doesn't return flags. Is this type of ...
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Wrapper implementation method to get user notifications in Stack Exchange?
I'm trying to build an app that requires me to get the user notifications for a particular Stack Exchange user.
Now, I'm trying to use Java to accomplish this and I came across this wrapper library: ...
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Flow (code-editor extension)
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Get code instantly:
Simple navigation between results
Dive in to get more info about the code-snippet
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Flow is a code-editor extension for programmers, that integrates the power of ...
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Some blank properties missing
I am using /me/associated. I haven't posted any question in one account, so the response comes as:
"top_questions": [],
"top_answers": [],
"question_count": 0,
"answer_count": 0,
in the same browser ...
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webStack - A Stack Overflow Application for webOS
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webStack is my humble attempt to create an application for webOS users that enables them to browse Stack Overflow questions, answers, users, etc.
License
webStack is released under ...
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SmokePreview - A chat addon for the SmokeDetector
SmokePreview
A Greasemonkey script
to add a preview to chat messages of the SmokeDetector.
Messages which are deleted while loading the preview will get a opacity of 50%
to make clear that this is not ...
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Is there an RSS feed or question that has API changes?
Is there someplace that we can find notifications of API changes? I noticed today that a new property has been added to user along with a couple new method (and maybe other changes).
Is there an ...
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How to set the width of an image in the body of a question?
I used the questions/{ids}/edit to add a hyperlinked image at the end of a question. It works if I use the default dimensions of the image. However, if I specify the width using width="320" or style="...
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Possible bug in the help page?
There are some weird dot things in this help page:
api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/badges
{Dead link to missing image: http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/stackbug.png}
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Descriptions of tag-based badges are incorrect
The descriptions associated to tag-based badges are wrong, they always show 0 instead of actual thresholds:
Earned at least 0 total score for at least 0 non-community wiki answers in the … tag
See ...
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C# Stackexchange Questions API [duplicate]
I need to build an web application C# and below is what I'm stuck with
Can I use Stack Exchange's API with Key? Do they have a "hello world" key can be used for learning purpose.
I wish to get the ...
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Reputation_change has the historical total rather than the daily delta?
I'm trying to use the reputation API to get the recent reputation delta for a given user. For example, looking at recent entries for /2.2/users/21539/reputation, one has:
{
on_date: 1447018487,
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Sane limits for script that auto-loads new reviews for easier manual reviewing
I was looking at Am I allowed to use/create robots to track questions? just now and started wondering whether my current userscript to help with reviewing has quite the right internal rate limits. It ...
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Can there be a way to find a user given his email hash?
Given a user's email, it would be great if we could hash it and search for that user with it.
The reason for this is suppose:
Someone has a website
On that website, they invite SO users to enter ...
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What happens if an app becomes super popular?
Will there be provisions for apps to become "sponsored" by SO wherein the limits are removed? Say somebody writes the de-facto iPhone app and it gets 500,000 users, the 10K cap will be hit pretty ...
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How to monitor (for new) accepted answers by certain tags?
In practice, I don't know the IDs of the questions, but I can search for answers by given tag(s).
The problem is how to find (newly) accepted answers. The "activity time" does not work for this.
For ...
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Looking for Android app that allows posting questions/comments to SE sites [duplicate]
I remember that not so long ago all the apps had a limited, read-only functionality. I wonder if it has changed?
Is there an Android app that allows you to post questions/comments to SE sites?
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Is there a way to discover what versions are available?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help works.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help does not.
Is there something that returns 0.8 as the most recent version? And/or is there something that lists every ...
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Invalid HTML characters in questions bodies
While writing an Android App that shows questions from the SE network, I've noticed that the SE REST API returns invalid HTML characters; after a bit more of researching I've found it's not the API ...
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How to get a User Id
Is there a way to get the user id so I can use the method /users/{id}
I guess that for security you cannot asked the API give the id of a user with this openid Identification but is there another way?...
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StackTrace – Track your reputation and badges
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About
This is a basic app that shows your reputation change.
Download
Download the extension
Platform
This works on Safari 5.1 or later.
Contact
Created by Jed Fox (...
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Mass find and replace in answers, questions and titles of questions
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I don't find, how I can mass replace string in multiple answers, questions and titles of questions of any Stack Exchange site.
2. Example
For example, I want to replace incorrect form of ...
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Get accepted answers from Stack Overflow using Stack Overflow API 2.1
I want to fetch only my accepted answers from Stack Overflow using the API 2.1 and currently I've following code
$data = file_get_contents("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/741747/answers?page=...
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Where is "items" & "badge_counts" documentation?
Where is the items & badge_counts documentation?
This is returned as JSON. I am using the /me/associated query function.
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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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Remove chat room description and tags
Chat room description and tags may only be useful a first couple of times you come by a chat room. After that, they are just wasting space. To hide them from the view, you can install the following ...
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MetaStackApps: "Library" Tab
Not sure if this is appropriate here (no Meta site yet), but here goes...
I think it'd be a good idea to have a "Library" navigation tab (next to the "Apps tab"), so that people can easily see ...
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Ace Overflow - Google Chrome extension that replaces WMD Editor with Ace on all Stack Exchange sites
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About
Ace Overflow is a Google Chrome extension that replaces WMD Editor with Ace on all Stack Exchange sites.
The reason I created it because I found it hard to write quick ...
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Oddity with migration data from questions
Take a look at this question on SuperUser. Apparently, it was migrated from ServerFault, and was originally asked by user 3d1l. However, now look at the API result: http://api.superuser.com/1.0/...
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Image Based Flair (Downloadable Implementation [v2.1])
Image Based Flair
I have created an implementation of flair which generates an image of your current reputation automatically. It is currently using PHP GD.
Download Source (Version 2.1 - 2009-08-...
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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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Why does the API lack any POST methods?
Why aren't any POST methods available?
Being able to post new questions and answers would be very interesting.
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How can I edit a post with the API and python?
I am a real beginner, but want to know more about using the API.
I need to be able to get a post tagged with installation and the have it displayed to me. I then enter either 1 or 2, and it will ...
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BlackStack - A Stack Exchange app for BlackBerry 10
BlackStack is a native BlackBerry 10 app for browsing Stack Exchange sites like Stack Overflow, Stack Apps, and Science Fiction & Fantasy. You can view questions and answers as well as sign-in to ...
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Is it safe to embed my API key into my javascript-only application?
I have an application I'm developing that's pure javascript and consumes the Stack API. My API key is embedded in the source which anyone could read. Is this safe?
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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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How to get the 10 most recent questions with accepted answers based on a given tag?
I am trying to figure out how to get the 10 most recent questions from the Stack Overflow site, that have been answered, based on a given tag (such as 'Java').
I looked at the documentation but I ...
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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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How to search my threads based on some key words?
As I have already many threads in some StackExchange sites, sometime I would like to be able to search among them, for instance, based on some key words.
Does anyone know how to do that? Thank you!
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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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LIVE Desktop Alert for Stack Overflow
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This app will provide you LIVE desktop notification for new questions posted on StackOverflow. You can add your favorite tags and it will continue searching for new questions. If it finds a new ...
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Auto-Add A Comment When Closing
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Automatically adds a comment when closing a question, with the text taken directly from the close reason you chose, so that the OP can see why their question may be being downvoted, and improve ...
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