Highest scored questions
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Installing user scripts on site?
I was thinking the other day, if it would be possible to allow users to install scripts to the website, so that they can be used on browsers that don't support user scripts, or don't have the ability ...
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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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Does /invalidate work for no-expiry tokens?
It seems that tokens created with no_expiry scope are immune to requests to invalidate them with /access-tokens/.../invalidate. Is this by design or by bug?
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Where can I request an API key in the docs?
Can you mention the possibility of requesting an API key in the docs? It was displayed for the 1.0 API.
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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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The "/tags/{tags}/wikis" API does not return the proffered "body_last_edit_date" or "excerpt_last_edit_date" fields
The API for /tags/{tags}/wikis offers body_last_edit_date and excerpt_last_edit_date fields.
Both are selected in the default filter. But neither are actually returned even for tags I'm 100% sure ...
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Guid inconsistency in 2.0?
question timeline returns
"revision_guid": "335659EE-8983-4BEC-BACC-CC95784A4465"
revisions by guid return
"revision_guid": "335659ee89834becbacccc95784a4465"
Is there any particular reason for this ...
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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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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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/comments?fromdate is broken?
The following url should return 0 comments:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/comments?fromdate=9999999999
Instead it returns all comments, not actually filtering by fromdate at all.
It happens on ...
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Using the API directly from JavaScript
Is there any way I can use the API directly from JavaScript without any Server side proxy? I know of the inter-domain restrictions, but can we do it somehow in case of facebook API right?
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nottagged only works when tagged is set (/search)
On the /search route, the nottagged parameter doesn't work properly (at least it isn't specially documented to only work at certain times)
For example:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?pagesize=...
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Method /users/{id}/top-answer-tags is returning wrong results
I'm trying the following request:
(555004 happens to be my user id)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/555004/top-answer-tags
and I'm a bit confused by the result:
{
top_tags: [
{
...
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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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The associated accounts are broken once again for this same user
As I reported before (and which was fixed) and again (which was also fixed), the associated accounts are broken once again for for Joel Coehoorn using this query.
What's the deal?
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Clarification on StackApps "App" vs "Script"
Pursuant to a chat conversation there's some clarification needed on what it means for a stackapp to be an app or a script. I'm posting this for the community and for future searchers and as a bit of ...
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Add logo background color to data returned by StackAuth sites route
Given that now with Stack Exchange 2.0 the logo of some of the sites, like Web Apps, AskUbuntu, Photography, Gaming and Pro Webmasters have non-white background, I think it will be best if the ...
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Is it possible to restrict the pool of answerers to users meeting certain criteria?
I'm expecting the answer to this is an unfortunate "no," but I've been unable to find it discussed anywhere, so here I go asking:
I'd love to use this API, but the site I'm considering would need the ...
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Is there an app which graphs arbitrary tag volume over time?
Has anyone made an app which displays a graph of question volume for any arbitrary tag? I know that "analytics overflow" reports some of this info for popular (top 70 or something?) tags, but I think ...
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Is there anyway to get the information now available in the Notification box?
I'm wanting the information in the "Inbox" tab of the notifications in the top left of any SE website. How can I get this or is it not yet available?
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/questions/{id}/answers missing title attribute
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=questions/{id}/answers (it won't linkify properly!):
"title": {
"description": "title of this post, in plaintext",
"values": "string",
"...
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Error Using Stacky v1.0 Binaries in an Azure Worker Role
The following error is being thrown when calling the StackyClient.GetUser method from within an Azure Worker Role:
Method 'ReadJson' in type 'Stacky.UnixDateTimeConverter'
from assembly 'Stacky, ...
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are clientaccesspolicy.xml and crossdomain.xml excluded from throttling
These files are requested by the user agent as needed and the programmer has no knowledge or control over these requests.
The abuse potential connected with these files is nil(?)
It seems that it ...
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Why are 5 IP addresses using my API key?
I have an app that resides on a server. It has only ever accessed the API from 2 IP addresses. The API key has not been shared and there is no client-side code.
When I go to /apps however, it says "5 ...
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Maximum tag name length?
Does a maximum tag name length exist? Or it is just the "suggested size" with no hard limits? I'm trying to figure out how to best store them in a database.
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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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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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Provide a way to discover associated meta sites
Currently, the API doesn't specify what the associated Meta site is for a certain site (I'm talking about the stackauth.com/1.0/sites route). Sure, we could just prepend "meta." to the domain name, ...
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Will I be able to update the (optional) application icon after registering an application?
The Register Your Application form allows for the (optional) submission of an application icon. Presumably this can be updated after registration via Manage API keys? I'd be surprised if not, of ...
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Do I need API key to use StackAuth API?
StackAuth sites doco doesn't mention that it requires an API key and there are no X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current response headers on the request.
At this stage I am passing my API key just ...
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Problems with the Site Icons
I'm having trouble with the WebApps icon being returned from the /sites method.
Namely, the image is composed of a larg white rectangle with a very small guy in the middle.
Why can't the guy take up ...
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StackApps API is down.
It seems to not be responding to any request.
* at least according to downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Update: seems like all the SE sites are down :(
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/questions/{id}/timeline throwing 500 instead of 404
Kevin, you fixed this bug some time ago, would you like to tag it as status-complete?
Sometime last week, this route stopped throwing 404 like the rest of my 'bad id' tests and started throwing 500. ...
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Best way to calculate total badge count in Javascript?
I'm using Javascript and JSONP and want to find-out a user's total badge-count (i'm not using any libraries).
At first I naively added up the badge counts individually, but some user's have no badges....
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Order parameter not functional
Consider these two API calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?pagesize=1&sort=votes&order=desc
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?pagesize=1&sort=votes&order=asc
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How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag?
I'm using Stackexchange java client lib I wanted to get a little more statistics but the following snippet returns only 30 answers.
Do I need to to register for an API key, or just use ...
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Abuse potential in API write-access?
I understand some of the use-cases for write-access in v2 of the API -- primarily to enable full access to StackExchange sites without a web browser. And I'm sure it will be a hit for people who want ...
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Best way of structuring a library?
I am busy building an app using the API and I am about to start to work with the API.
I have looked at the one other PHP library, and it is one object with method calls which return back a ...
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Why my /mentioned page return 404?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/213464/mentioned?type=jsontext
{
"error": {
"code": 404,
"message": "The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI."
}
}
Its returning ...
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Top questions/answers
Is there a way to get a list of X questions/answers with the highest votes up, visits, etc?
Say I want to get the list of most voted questions in .NET category (tag) or Java.
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Indicate in documentation whether "numbers" can be non-integral
"number" is an very ambiguous term. Integral or non-integral?
For developers in more dynamically-typed languages like JavaScript, this is not an issue; but when using more statically-typed languages ...
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The users/{id}/timeline method is returning an extra result.
The users/{id}/timeline method is returning 31 results by default, and one more result than specified by the pagesize parameter.
Example:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/1288/timeline?pagesize=...
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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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Revision help URL contains wrong header
There are two revision urls listed on the help page but they both seem to contain the same detailed information. The header for the non-guid version contains the url for the one that takes a guid. ...
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Two minor typos in the "Register your Application" form
In the help text (on the right hand side) for the Application Name field on https://stackapps.com/apps/register:
I think this should be changed: " ... is built on the our platform ...". For example, ...
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Slow response times?
I'm working with the API, but I noticed requests are quite slow. Each request seems to take between 8-11 seconds. I timed different requests and the time doesn't seem to differ much between search and ...
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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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Helper module for SE API for Nushell
Following on from Calling SE APIs with Nushell (basic overview), I have developed a helper module for calling SE API's in Nushell. The library itself is short and included in the first answer. Usage ...
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Voting activity tracker v2: check your voting activity on per-site meta!
About:
In 2015 I built a tool to check your voting activity on meta. It was live probably for a year before my free domain was terminated.
A lot of time passed since then, and a few days ago I decided ...
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Is there a way to use the API without using localhost or a web domain?
I'm developing an SO chrome extension in React with TypeScript.
I've been reading the guide on how to use the API with OAuth and it looks fantastic for what I'm trying to do.
The problem is that the ...
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