Highest scored questions
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How do you list you stack exchange apps
I wanted to know how you're supposed to get a list of apps you've registered on the stack exchange api.
I finally managed to find this url: https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth
My question is this: How ...
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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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Downloading data en masse
I'm currently in the early stages of developing an Emacs major mode for the Stack Exchange Network.
I'm a little torn on how to set up the use of the API within the mode.
Is there a way to download ...
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Get my profile information after authentication
I am coding for a mobile application and using stack exchange API 2.1. I am able to implement oauth and I have access token also.
Now I am trying to retrieve my profile information, like user_id, ...
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How do you trigger the search/advanced 'q' parameter to search all words?
When you search for “playa parents not working” on http://expressionengine.stackexchange.com, you’re brought to this URL:
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/search?q=playa+parents+not+working
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Looking for Bookmarklet to Create a Question
I want to build a small bookmarklet which can take the selected text and send it to Stack Overflow to create a new post containing the selected text.
Also get a unique id or something that helps to ...
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Are there any APIs for Careers 2.0?
I am planning to create a blog widget which shows data from a page on Careers. For this, I'll need some way to get that data. This could be done using an iframe, but I'm hoping for other avenues as ...
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No token field in the docs test page for /me/reputation-history
There is no form field for an access token at:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-reputation-history
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-full-reputation-history
After attempting to Run the API ...
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View count restriction isn't working for /search/advanced.
I have constructed the following URL, but the questions returned don't contain anywhere near 50k views, despite the query string parameter:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/search/advanced?site=...
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/suggested-edits "Try it": Link for "suggested_edit_id" is broken
When using the "Try it" feature on /suggested-edits, the link for the suggested_edit_id points towards stackexchange.com and not towards the respective site.
For example, retrieve data ...
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/answers endpoint is error-500-ing against many sites
Just calling the "/answers" endpoint, no specific arguments, and I'm getting 500 errors:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=gaming
{"error_id":500,"...
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API returning character entities in JSON
I noticed display names in the JSON contain HTML character entities; e.g.
/2.0/users/718618?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
Gives me:
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": ...
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Reputation API to display a reputation history
I'm building something similar to the reputation graph / summary on the SO user page.
The answer explains that the /users/{ids}/reputation API method gives a sum of reputation for the period. So ...
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Mistake in API 2.0 Documentation - Wrong item type for Careers Message
On https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/inbox-item the Careers Message example shows the wrong item type.
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/users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers returning answers by other users
According to the description, /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers should return answers by the user on that particular tag.
Returns the top 30 answers a user has posted in response to questions with ...
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Dead link in documentation
On the docs for question timelines the link for "Question" points to /docs/type/question when it should point to /docs/types/question
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Answer vote counts are not correct
I was trying to figure out the total number of answers I have that have been downvoted, and at first everything seemed awesome since the total was zero.
However, I knew this wasn't correct. For ...
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link attribute is missing from questions in /tags/{tags}/faq
Check the following requests, the link attribute is missing from questions objects in responses. I checked with the default filter and also with custom filters (both safe and unsafe).
https://api....
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type related_site not listed in 'by type' tab list
The type "related_site" is not listed in the 'by type' tab in documentation.
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Can I get more results/options from /users/{ids}/top-answer-tags?
/users/{ids}/top-answer-tags returns the top 30 tags for a given user. It's also the only endpoint that returns the user's tag scores along with the rest of the tag info. I'd like to use this data ...
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User to de-authorise app?
The API makes use of OAuth to allow queries such as /inbox/unread. In the documentation however, I cannot seem to find a way for the user to control actively the authentication:
Is there a place for ...
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TLS security warnings from api.stackexchange.com
Each time an API request is made over HTTPS, Firefox generates the following message in the error console:
Curious, I looked up RFC 5746 and the document covers the following:
Transport Layer ...
- 23.2k
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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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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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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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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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Sort ranges on /questions/unanswered is broken
The following API request should return all unanswered questions with a score of at least 30:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/questions/unanswered?sort=votes&min=30
However, the response consists ...
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Better way to find activity changes in terms of API Usage
I am coding an application that notifies events in Stack Exchange accounts. I want to notify about badges/reputation changes, and also I would like to notify whenever a new answer or comment is posted ...
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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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Small user scripts, one-liners, prototypes?
The script tag is to be used for complete userscripts. It would also feel kind of pollutive to swamp it with lots of smallish submissions.
Hencewhy I'm making this proposal as reference question to ...
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The 'total' field of /comments result is showing up as 0.
Running the following query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/comments
Yields:
{
"total": 0,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,
"comments": [
...
Notice that the total entry indicates there are 0 ...
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?
Visiting the page: http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites yields the following headers:
Notably absent are the X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current headers that show up in API queries to the sites ...
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Does Lucene back the API search now?
With the announcement that Lucene is being used for site searches does it cover the API as well?
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Stack.PHP does not seem to work on sites that are sub-domains of stackexchange.com
The documentation explains to crate objects using the site's url minus the TLD which appears to work fine.
$service = new Post_Exchange('gamedev', null, 0);
returns what appears to be a valid object (...
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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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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?
Going over the API, there seems to be some overlap when it comes to expressing a predicate in a URL.
For example, let's say I want to fetch some questions from stackoverflow.com that have the tag "...
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Something's changed about user timelines
Six to Eight's user display has just broken, as the /user/id/timeline route seems to have started returning different data. Previously, timeline_type of entries in the user_timelines array used to be ...
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Retrieving JSON via the API using Ajax does not work
I tried to retrieve information of my user profile on Stack Overflow via the API using Ajax/jQuery. But it does not work for me. The result of the request is always empty.
<html>
<...
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MSO is not being returned in StackAuth's /users/{id}/associated route
In looking into a StackFlair issue, I have discovered that MSO is not being returned as part of a user's associated accounts. Please see my associated accounts according to the api. Note that there ...
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An associated query is returning a partial record for a particular user
This query returns (in addition to several complete records) this incomplete one:
{
"user_id": 2196,
"user_type": "registered",
"display_name": "Wil",
"reputation": 151,
"email_hash": "...
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/questions/id route problem: comments section is not returned when there aren't comments on question
Something is changed on questions route called with comments= True:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/1940243?body=True&comments=True&pagesize=1&page=1
It does not return the ...
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Suddenly, some entries on /questions route are missing display_name
An odd bug has developed this morning. At the moment, api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions is returning a question of the format...
... },
{
"tags": [
"jsf-2.0"
],
"...
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AskUbuntu API returns wrong colours
Calling the stats method of the AskUbuntu API returns the wrong colours.
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SOAPI data fails on WP7
Im trying to simply get all of the recent questions using Windows Phone 7.
But I keep getting an ObjectDisposedException
My Code is not complicated:
public void BeginGetAllRecentQuestions()
{
...
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What exactly is the 'user' on a post_timeline?
What exactly is the 'user' on a post_timeline?
I am assuming that it is the user responsible for the action, if not the user, but I cannot be sure as the JSON structure used to document the results ...
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App to monitor a beta site for all questions
The only notification app I could find that lets you monitor all questions on a site is soapi-notify, but it doesn't let you monitor beta sites. Is there an application that will let me monitor all ...
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API is completely down? content encoding is broken?
all requests have no content-encoding or have 'gzip,gzip', both of which fail to decompress browser side.
note: the content-encoding header, when it is present, does not seem to be included in the ...
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what is the url for a *.stackexchange site's api?
from my understanding, the documentation suggests that we can use the api against any current *.stackexchange website
what would be the url for the api for one of these ? e.g. mysite.stackexchange....
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stackauth is not serving gzip to silverlight3/phone7
I ported all of my integration tests to phone 7, which is a flavor of silverlight 3, and found that stackauth is not forcing gzip as expected.
while this simply means that I need to check the first 2 ...
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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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