Highest scored questions
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How to calculate users, who have posted (question/answer) using specific tag?
For example, if I want to know the number of users who asked and answered about PHP.
Currently, I can just get the list of questions and its total number, but it's not enough, because one user could ...
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List recent tag wiki edits
I would like to list tags where the tag wiki or tag wiki excerpt was recently edited or created. How can I do this?
It is not a problem if I get a few false positives by tags modified in other ways, ...
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Encoding problem while accessing the API using Java
Trying to call an API URL from a Java application, I'm having problems accessing the contents of the URL.
I can access other sites through my program but not the Stack Exchange site.
But I can call ...
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Intent for official SE Android app?
Does the official SE Android app export intents? If not, can they be added?
My app, for example, allows users to click on many UI elements to let them see the original question, users profile, site ...
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Why is the API giving a different response for preview true/false with POST requests?
Update
This expression will evaluate to show the cause. The only requirement is an emacs with url. As you can see, the result from using curl and that from using the url package is different. ...
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Is developing, with the Stack Exchange API, possible on my local machine?
I'm sorry if this question seems trivial for the most of you but I'm not very familiar with OAuth and the Stack Exchange API.
Is it possible to use this API in local environment for the development ...
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How can I create a filter from scratch using filter/create?
I want to create a filter from scratch to get just the information I can use:
error_id
quota_remaining
api_site_parameter
The first two are part of the wrapper and the last is part of .items, so I ...
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API returns the last activity date even if asked not to
Using the /questions method, I tried to get upvote and downvote counts, along with question Ids. This is the request I sent:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/857455%3B857454?site=math&...
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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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StackApps for Windows Phone 8
Can anyone suggest a good app for Windows Phone 8 or let me know Where an I find API to build my own?
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OAuth redirect not completing
This is the URL that I'm entering (in Safari, cleared website data and cache; my app, uses own Cookie jar; and incognito chrome)
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=23&scope=...
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What happens when sites or the whole network go offline
Now that the API is all done on stackexchange.com. What happens if say just certain sites go offline (eg just Stackoverflow). Will the API continue to return results or will it return the HTML offline ...
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What's the simplest way to detect if a question was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
What's the minimum filter and simplest way to detect if a question (by its ID) was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
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Can we get write access to user favorites?
I'd like users of my app to be able to add questions to their favourites.
Will this be added to the API as an authenticated call?
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How often should the /info route be accessed?
The /sites method makes it very clear that you should not invoke that route more than once per day:
"It is suggested that you cache its return for at least one day..."
However, the /info method ...
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Is it possible to get daily reputation change for a user via the API?
I'm trying to fetch a user's daily reputation change history for a project that's still early in the planning stages. I've been trying to use the "reputation" endpoint, but it seems like I can query ...
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Documentation has broken link (JSONP)
On Wikipedia, JSONP now has its own article, instead of being part of the JSON article.
The documentation links JSONP to Wikpedia:JSON#JSONP. It should link to Wikipedia:JSONP.
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The /users/{id}/timeline route is reporting incorrect totals
It seems that the /users/{id}/timeline route is returning an incorrect total. For example, the following URL is reporting a total of 1607 items:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/users/7789/timeline
......
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What happened to the /stats method?
I can't find the /stats method in the new usage documentation.
A quick run of http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/stats reveals that the method is still there. However, it is not documented.
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Add Twitter accounts on the /sites route?
Would it be possible to add references to the site Twitter accounts in the /site listing?
If your wondering what I'm talking about:
blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/twitter-question-feeds-for-stack-...
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OBSOLETE - List Area51 discuss in the StackAuth sites list
The API works for Area 51 discuss, but it isn't listed on the site list. Would it be possible to add it so software using the API can access it without adding specific code for it?
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Retrieve inbox notifications
Hi,
Is there a way to retrieve any notification that appears in the inbox of stackexchange? Or is there another technique to retrieve notifications on updates?
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Answers information with tags
I am trying to chart the up votes on answers received by a user by tags. Something like:
I am running into the same situation as this question: How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag?.
If the answers ...
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I want to receive email alerts if a question is asked with a specific tag. Is there an app for that?
The title says it all. Does this exist?
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Central Login place
The Issue
Currently, tracking yourself in an application is not that user friendly, you have to search for your username.
Usernames are not unique, there are many Jonathan's for example
When an ...
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How to generate a list of users ranked by bug report submissions.
The use case is to generate a list of bug report submissions, grouped by User, of the following counts in descending order:
bug
bug + status-completed
bug + status-deferred
bug + status-bydesign
...
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server fault and super user rate limit bonus?
Looks like SF and SU are granting Int.MaxValue rate limit. Not that I mind, but it would be nice to have on the other sites too. ;-)
Thought you would like to know.
GET /1.0/users/173?key=mykey HTTP/...
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How to monitor answers/comments on all of my multiple Stack Exchange accounts?
I am active on 5 Stack Exchange websites, and I would like to be notified when there is a new comment/answer on any of them, rather than discovering it a few days late.
Is there such a tool?
If it ...
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pagesize=0 on /search throwing error
http://api.stackapps.com/0.9/search?intitle=a&pagesize=0
{
"error": {
"code": 4001,
"message": "The 'pagesize' query parameter is invalid."
}
}
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both /revisions methods are spotty
These are the urls for a couple of my valid endpoint tests of the /revisions methods.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/revisions/2688191 (?key=xxx)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/revisions/2350874/...
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SIlverlight 3 ClientHttp vs BrowserHttp stack: no cross domain policy means no gzip for Silverlight
I notice that even if I send accept-encoding=gzip the response does not seem to be compressed. ( it is late and i was conflating 'accept' with 'accept-encoding')
Should we expect, in the 1.0 ...
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On /users method id parameter does not work
Calling /users method with id parameter returns a list of users and not the user expected.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?id=23234
Could be a documentation "bug" on help page:
http://api....
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Inconsistency in sort order
If I execute the following API call:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?sort=newest&body=True&pagesize=5&min=1275575777&order=desc
versus one that does not include the min ...
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Could there be a way to check stats on a key?
I think it would be very helpful if there was a way to get statistics about your own API keys.
That way, you could find out which IP addresses were using your app the most. (And if one was abusing it,...
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The Faq Has a Broken Link
Currently the first link in the FAQ points to http://dev.stackapps.com/?tab=apps. It should link to https://stackapps.com/?tab=apps.
Simple fix, but it confused me for a short time.
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PLACEHOLDER - HeapExchange Android App
PLACEHOLDER post so that I can have write access. The old post got deleted.
HeapExchange is an Android app designed to bring the power of Stack Exchanage to your fingertips.
🔍 Browse anonymously ...
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AI NLN detection bot
This post is to test and develop a bot (currently named NLNBot, subject to change if anyone comes up with a good name) to detect No Longer Needed (NLN) comments on Stack Overflow and report them to a ...
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SO Stats - Track your stack overflow activity
About
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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Comment Image Upload - upload images directly from the comment box!
Screenshots
About
Comment Image Upload script allows one to upload images directly from the comment box: by dragging and dropping them, pasting them from other sources, or selecting them from the ...
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Pronoun Assistant Reloaded
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
Based off of Glorfindel's excellent userscript, this userscript displays users' pronouns (as mentioned in their chat or main site bios) under their usernames in chat ...
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WebSocket Defibrilator - try to keep SE websockets (and in-page updates) working
Description
Websockets on Stack Exchange provide live updates on a page - for example, showing there are new notifications, or new answers, or new comments, etc.
These are unreliable in some cases. If ...
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Logout from all devices by default
Description
Inspired from Add option to make "log out of all devices" the default
Installation
Direct install (GitHub)
See the code on GitHub
// ==UserScript==
// @name Logout ...
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SO Link-only Parser: Parse Stack Overflow for potentially link-only answers
The provided Python script is designed to identify potentially "link-only" answers on Stack Overflow for a specified time period and set of tags. It does this by leveraging the Stack ...
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Fix for the network search pagination
Description
Problem
See the report Pagination on stackexchange.com search is broken
The pagination in the global search is broken. It only shows 15 results even when the page size is set to something ...
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Backpack: Download all of your questions and answers across all SE sites as Markdown files
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
This app is used to download a user's questions and answers across all Stack Exchange (SE) sites that they are registered for. The questions and answers are downloaded ...
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Easily apply "bookend" deletion of AI-generated content
Description
This is a fork of Samuel Liew's DeletedUsersHelper userscript. It's a script for moderators only.
The purpose of this userscript is to simplify bulk-deletion of AI-generated posts as per ...
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Are these images really necessary?
In the homepage (mobile phone) there's a huge image on the left side of each question:
But are they really necessary? Should we remove them? The images seem unrelated to the questions themselves. ...
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PLACEHOLDER - CoreDump, a macOS desktop SE client
What the app will do: a macOS desktop client app for SE network sites with a clean user interface and potentially some features enhancing the regular SE web-based experience. Written in SwiftUI.
The ...
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Enhanced revision view
When visiting an individual post revision page, this script adds:
buttons that allow switching to a view showing how the revision differed from the previous one, just like on a full post history page;...
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Bring focus to inline tag editor
Description
Focus the inline tag edit tool1 when opened. Allows for using keyboard immediately to interact with the tags.
Press Escape to cancel the editing or Enter to save.
1Part of the moderator ...