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Quota remaining is negative
I think I must be doing something very stupid, that I just can't see
I just registered an app, in the last ~10 minutes.
I have just been going to the /info route, no authentication or anything else.
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No views_per_day in /info route?
I'm not particularly crying over it, just curious why the views_per_day field was dropped?
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Fairly subtle filter bug between 8 am and 10 pm UTC Dec. 29th
This is a public service announcement about a bug that most people probably didn't notice, but might be biting you pretty hard about now.
Between 8 AM and 10 PM UTC December 29th, filters generated ...
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Example of inbox items?
Would it be possible to get an example of each type returned by the inbox, Eg careers messages, and whatever meta questions are.
Do careers invites/chat messages/etc have ids? And what is their site?
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2.0 tags API returns only created tags
Searching for tags, using the inname parameter AND a date range returns only the tags that were created in that period, not the tags that were used in that period. When searching by inname only, or ...
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2.0 API get votes
I've been searching the 2.0 API for a list of my own (up and down) votes. I don't see them in the API.
I don't think this is a prohibitively resource intensive query or that it can be used to ...
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What are the possible errors returned from authentication?
The title pretty much says it all,
I couldn't find in the Authentication doc much about the errors (other than the HTTP code will be 400)?
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How about a regex filter in the tags API?
The tags API has a "filter" parameter but it only matches the exact substring in the parameter in the tags.
On Travel we have one kind of tags, IATA airport codes (SYD for Sydney, SFO for San ...
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Is there an API to fetch tags related to a given tag?
I'm interested in making a tool that explores the tags of a site for tags which should be merged or mention each other in tag wikis etc.
On the page of any given tag there is a column on the right of ...
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What is the "inname" parameter to the /tags 2.0 API?
I'm just playing with the new 2.0 API and in /tags there is a field inname that I can't find any description or documentation for.
What does it do? Is it like the old filter parameter on the old API?
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Access token quota
The documentation says that each user gets 5 distinct quotas of 10,000 requests per 24 hours, and as I interpret it, per app.
If an application does have an access_token, then the application is
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Apigee API Console for the Stack Exchange API
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Apigee API Consoles make it easier to learn, explore and test APIs by letting you browse all methods, send and view request/response pairs and share what you are ...
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Once authorized, is there a way to auto-login with a browser?
Assuming I've created an app that authenticates the user against api-v2, is there a method to get a token or cookie that I can pass to a browser instance set to load a stack exchange site that will ...
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How to provide a logout button for authentication?
How would you provide a logout button for an app that uses authentication. (Not so that the user has to choose to accept or reject the app, that's deleting the app from their tab)
Basically force the ...
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API V2.0 Public Beta Begins
As has been announced, we're starting the public beta and spinning up a contest (as we did with V1.0).
As such, some of the guidelines for the private beta no longer apply.
The api-v2-beta tag no ...
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Removing/disallowing app does nothing
I have just deleted/disallowed, the console app and the app I'm currently writing.
For the console the access token I was using before deleting the app carried on working, and when I got a new token, ...
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Auth dialog improvements (who's logged in, etc)
The auth dialog (client side) could do with a bit of improvement.
Specifically, showing the currently logged in user, and a link saying "not you?". Facebook does this and allows you log in as someone ...
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OBSOLETE - revisions/{id} is returning an error for locked posts
The API is returning the following error message when I request the revision history for locked posts.
Example URL: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/revisions/194812
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
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How many simultaneous queries may I make of the same Stack Exchange API?
I've been playing with some of the APIs that have paged results.
I've been doing a first call with pagesize=0 to determine how many pages there are then running a loop querying each page.
In my case ...
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Can UserScripts in the "scripts" tab be sorted in a similar manner as applications are in the "apps" tab?
If you bring up the Stack Apps home page (the apps tab), you will notice that the items are sorted according to their score and recent activity.
Can we please sort the UserScripts (the scripts tab) ...
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StackExchange Theme Switcher
Inspired by this post. Now you too can enjoy the satisfaction of switching SE's themes at will like the devs do, albeit this affects your browser only:
This creates a dropdown at the bottom of the ...
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How do I get a GreaseMonkey/UserScript to interact with the Live Preview?
I've converted a script that I hope to get embedded on a StackExchange site (Lego Answers) to a GreaseMonkey/Userscript but I'd like to get it interacting with the live preview when creating or ...
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stackoverflow-cli, a *nix stackoverflow command line client
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This is a small libcurl-based C application for the command line. I started this simply to brush up on my C and Linux/POSIX skills. Plus, I am playing around with a netbook loaded ...
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BrickJax: Brick Image Replacement for Bricks.StackExchange.com
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We've put together a script that we're hoping to get added to LEGO Answers that will allow users to easily insert images of Bricks, with or without links, and also links to sets on ...
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Invalidating access token vs de auth app?
Other that invalidating an access token doesn't remove the app from the apps tab (why not?) whats the difference between these two methods?
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Answers for Stack Exchange - universal iOS Stack Exchange search app
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This third-party app allows you to quickly search the full Stack Exchange network of sites from your iphone or ipad. It is nice for when you are away from your desktop or in a ...
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Removing StackExchange dropdown and mobile version of auth dialog
Would it be possible to remove the StackExchange drop down (hot questions, sites, inbox) from the Auth dialog?
Typically when displaying dialog, you don't want the user to start browsing questions ...
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What are the paging parameters to the info method used for?
As far as I can tell, there can only be one info object returned from the info method, so why does the method take page and page_size?
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Runtime error getting thrown with certain parameters on older 1.1 methods
This v1.1 URL is creating a runtime error:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/comments&min=1323731212
Example output:
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Policy on shipping working examples that use the explicit authentication flow in an SDK?
I'd like to ship a working example of using the explicit authentication flow in Stack.PHP. I have no trouble embedding the API key and app ID in the example. The problem lies in embedding the client ...
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Is there a way to programmatically access chat?
I'm thinking about starting a project where I'd like to have access to the "chat" feature of the stack exchange sites. I saw this project: IRC access for the chat?
But I don't believe that it works ...
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Same redirect URL for Approve and Reject
Why, when I'm requesting /oauth/dialog and selecting either of the options I get redirected to the same URL with different hash values? It's not a bug per-se, just an observation I made while ...
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Can I get the FAQ ordering via the API?
StackExchange sites have a feature to order by FAQ, e.g.:
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This is in fact an ordering by the number of related questions and often produces very nice results.
Can you get that ordering ...
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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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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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Point of /users/{id}/inbox?
What is the need for the user ID in:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/user-inbox
Given that it will only return the inbox of the authenticated user, and deny a mismatching user id.
The only needed ...
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API v2.0 Developing desktop app
If I am developing a client side application, what kind of domain should I provide to 0Auth callback? Can it be a custom application-centric scheme (like myapp://oauthcallback/)?
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Secure OAuth pages contain insecure content.
I noticed that some of the OAuth pages use insecure content (http:// content on an https:// page):
I'm not sure how easy this is to fix but it could potentially scare off some users who don't ...
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Stack Overflow reputation API [duplicate]
I am creating one wordpress widget plugin that display different types of social media fans and followers counts. After that I feel that i also include Stack Overflow reputation for specific users. ...
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Am I out of luck if my http client doesn't support gzip decoding?
I'm playing with the oauth2 support in v2-beta with an http client that doesn't support gzip decoding. (My client is http spec compliant but can't deal with the non-compliance of the api on this issue)...
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API V2 Private Beta Begins
It's about time this thing got under way. If you're participating in the private beta, you should receive an email to that effect.
If you were also a member of the V1.0 private beta, you'll notice ...
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What is the unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799] in the API docs?
The type of the fromdate or todate in several methods is set to
unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799]
I don't know what that is and I can't find any information -- can someone explain it or ...
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OBSOLETE - SymbolHound: Search Stack Overflow for special characters
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See symbolhound.com
SymbolHound is was a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. I was always frustrated that I couldn't search for symbols like >> and && using ...
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Register for the Stack Exchange V2.0 API Private Beta
It's getting to be that time (actually, it's about a month later than I'd hoped but still!), API V2.0 is shaping up and we're spending more and more time on UI polish rather than functionality.
So let'...
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Country Flag Tags - See mini-country flags next to tags on Money.SE
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This UserScript was inspired by this post on Meta.Money.SE. One of the users requested that tiny country flags be added to tags where appropriate. Another user made ...
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Frequent Message Manager - Easily store and send frequently used messages in chat?
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Have you ever said something in chat that made you think "I know I've said this many times before?" Perhaps you have a few common links that you reply to questions with on a frequent ...
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OBSOLETE - Live Home Page - Never touch the refresh button on the home page of a Stack Exchange site again!
Feature implemented and this script retired
This script is no longer needed since this feature is now built-in. This post will remain here for historical purposes.
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Live Home Page is a ...
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Answers without owners
Is it valid for Stack Overflow data to have an answer that does not have an owner?
For example if you hit the following API url http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/answers/18, it does not bring back an ...
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List of possible values for user_type on API for users
I'm starting to work with the API and I see on the call to retrieve a user or multiple users one of the fields that is returned is user_type.
So far I have only seen a value of "registered" ...
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LinkOverflow -- list of links in a Stack Exchange post
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This site useful to find the links that will appear on the stackoverflow post. Give the question url then site will parse the all answers and extract the list and it will mark it with tag.
It ...
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