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Endpoints in associated accounts call
Slightly related:
Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
Currently, the only way to identify a site from the associated accounts route is by its name. This is pretty error-prone and ...
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Can StackAuth please report which sites use MathJax? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Detecting StackExchanges with non-standard “plugins” (e.g. MathJax)
I just added MathJax support to StackMobile (it seems to actually work on Android phones).
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Anyone build a "Outlook Social Connector" for SO? (perhaps integrated Soapi.CS/C#)
I'd like to see an Outlook Social plugin that shows the reputation of everyone on a given email message.
Update: Here is a sample project to get started. 80% of the work is now complete...
It would ...
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Which nested objects and arrays are optional?
I am handcrafting a JSON Schema for the API, and there is some meta missing from the nested 'returns' objects and arrays.
The relevant information I need is:
if it is an array, can it be undefined (...
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stackapps favicon inconsistent rendering
A lot of us are using the favicon in our apps as it is a quite convenient size.
It seems that IE does not like the stackapps favicon palette and renders the background black.
While I do cache the ...
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Implement Simple Update Protocol (SUP) endpoint
http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/
The basic concept is that instead of polling individual API calls for changes, you make a single call to a 'SUP endpoint' which indicates any changes ...
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API selectively ignores jsonp parameter - havok ensues
UPDATE: this is happening on all routes now and seems to be getting worse. Whatever it is just started this morning.
compare url to json response
GET /1.0/users/14/badges?key=qgAq_KfDu0KYzlNG-qaTuw&...
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/users/questions with content is very latent
I am seeing response times of up to 30 seconds for a page of 100 questions.
http://api.stackapps.com/1.0/users/14/questions?answers=true&body=true&comments=true&page=1&pagesize=100
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Paging /users by rep is on sites with low user count unpredictable
Resolution
Fix confirmed:
Tests.SortDupBug
Page 1 #100
Total 11066 api.serverfault.com /users?max=2147483647&min=99&page=1&pagesize=100&key=qgAq_KfDu0KYzlNG-qaTuw
Page 2 #100
Total 11066 api....
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Why have routes /badges/name and /badges/tags been favored over respective query parameters for /badges?
I realize that the API is frozen, hence tagging this as support rather than feature-request or bug - I'm irritated about the two routes /badges/name and /badges/tags:
They seem to simply filter down ...
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OBSOLETE - ActionStack - An ActionScript Wrapper for the API
Obsolete - designed for a decommissioned version of the API and most of the links, below, are dead.
Screenshot / Code Snippet
Here is a simple example that fetches stats on Stack Overflow:
import com....
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crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml needed on sstatic.net
Silverlight image loading from Uri fails due to lack of xdomain permission files.
Needed:
http://sstatic.net/clientaccesspolicy.xml
http://sstatic.net/crossdomain.xml
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consistency for array parameters
It would simplify the api and consumption there of if all parameters that accept multiple items used a common delimiter.
We have semicolon and space that I know of so far.
Eliminating space as a ...
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UI Improvements when editing your Application Registration
I went to update my application's profile and I got confused by some of the labels, titles, etc.
Here are some suggestions:
Applications page
http://imgur.com/lV424.png
Edit application page
https:/...
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Why does /users/{id}/answers, which returns an array of answers, have an optional 'answers' flag?
I would assume that if you are requesting the route '/users/{id}/answers' that you wish to receive some answers.
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Include range [1, 100] on pagesize
I see that "range" is being used to indicate valid range on most numeric parameters, e.g.
32-bit integer, range [0, 2,147,483,647]
32-bit integer, range [1, 2,147,483,647]
The smaller valid range for ...
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A Grails application demoing the Stack Exchange API
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
I created this mostly for fun, with a little bit of learning thrown in. It's a
super-simple implementation of a client for the Stack Exchange API written in Grails.
It ...
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Should /badges/{id} returns users that have been awarded all badges or any badge in the list?
The current behavior of the list version of /badges/{id} is to return the users that have been awarded any of the badges in the list.
An alternative is to have the API to return the list of the users ...
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Why answers don't have a "locked" attribute?
When looking at an answer, I can see that there is no locked_date attribute, like there is for questions. IIRC, answers can be locked by moderators.
Also, if a post is unlocked, is that field ...
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Using meta.stackoverflow.com as a support channel for a stackapp?
Is it okay to recommend using meta.stackoverflow.com as a support channel for stackapp I've written. For example, say I had been the person who wrote StackPrinter, on the bottom of the home page ...
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Using the API for data analysis?
I am creating an R wrapper for the API. The use case for this is for doing data analysis on the SO data.
As I am building it, it seems like I would need to iterate over many pages in order to get ...
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OBSOLETE - iStack (iPhone app for Stackoverflow sites) - suggestions for UI
Well there's a much better and complete iphone app called six to eight by Adam Wright here: Six to Eight: An iPhone client (discontinued)
(NB: this post did have an app but well, it was useless)
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Provide a method to search for sites
Due to the new pagination of the /sites method in v1.1 of the API, we have to go through all the pages of sites to check whether a site exists, or allow the user to search for a site.
Would it be ...
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What is the best way to provide support for an unknowable number of StackExchange sites?
I just wrote an app for Chrome extensions and received a request to make it cross-StackExchange compatible. If there's eventually going to be more sites than just the few listed and I don't really ...
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Meta Stack Overflow API Try-It form sends request to Stack Overflow API instead of Meta API
Meta Stack Overflow API Try-It form sends request to Stack Overflow API instead of Meta API
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Can I Drive the Area51 Process via the SO API?
I am planning a new webapp. I want to use an SE instance to power the community feature of the new webapp.
Since all SE sites must pass through the Area51 process, I would like to know if I could ...
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Stats not showing the same values as the Site
I get less values in the api method that in the site, is this posible?
Example: form the API I get that SO has 709980 questions from site 701005
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I can't get a response for /questions/{id} in Chrome Extension
I'm writing a Chrome Extension that queries the API. Using jQuery, I have the following code called from my background page:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/' + id
,...
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Why was Not a Real Question deleted?
I posted an answer on Not a Real Question's Stack Apps post and shortly after, the entire post was deleted by animuson. I'm not sure why it was deleted, it seems on-topic because it is related to the ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag using .Net?
I want to get the list of questions based on tag name using .Net. can any one please let me know how to achieve this using .Net with API Version 2.2?
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How to get "inbox" items
Is there an API function to get the contents of the user's inbox? For example, my inbox looks kind of like this:
2 comments on Bash Prompt keeps disappearing
What does that PS1 accomplish that PS1='\...
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1.1 sites - SO and MSO
In 1.1 with the new related sites, is it intentional that MSO and SO are not related?
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What license is the Stack Exchange API released under? MIT?
Are there any license requirements the Stack Exchange API?
Which license is it released under?
If I were to develop an app, would I have to credit Stack Exchange API?
- 113
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App that tracks a specific tag
I'm looking for a software like StackTracker that allows to track a specific tag on StackExchange sites.
Do you know some?
- 113
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Icons of beta sites
Icons of beta sites are different form the icons given in the http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites . As example:
Original icon of the English Language and Usage is
where http://stackauth....
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Getting a "Forbidden" response when calling the API from code, but not when using the exact same URL in a browser
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I'm just trying the SO API, and have run into a basic problem.
If I enter the following URL in a web browser...
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions?...
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Request for user script to change the comment delete button from the word "Delete" to the old gray X
A few hours ago, the system was changed to show the comment delete button as the word "Delete" rather than the gray X that it's been using for years. However, I find this a little intrusive and ...
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How to login programmatically on Android?
I think my question is not a duplicate of this one: How to login programmatically
I have read the authentication document but, still, I am unable to get what's needed to login programmatically on ...
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Software for Javascript?
Do I need any special kind of software to view the responses I get after requesting something? Like with Klout for example, I can get all the code returned as I need it, I just don't know where to put ...
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How to get tags using the API?
I have a requirement in my application to show the technical skills (tags) in auto-complete format like Stack Overflow has.
Is there any example to get the tags from Stack Overflow using JavaScript +...
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How to license applications?
I registered on http://stackapps.com few days ago. I have written several applications that I want to place on this site. But I have a question -- how can I license my applications?
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Is there an authentication component to the API?
Is there an authentication component with the API? Same as logging in with Facebook or Google etc?
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Definitive on timeline_type?
Hi all,
I am trying to get a definitive on what timeline_type actually means...
I've looked at: https://stackapps.com/search?q=timeline_type but to no avail.
The new documentation doesn't list ...
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Is Stack Overflow Meta incorrectly configured?
If I call the Auth "sites" API, then it shows Meta Stack Overflow as:
"name": "Meta Stack Overflow",
"logo_url": "http://sstatic.net/stackoverflowmeta/img/logo.png",
"api_endpoint": "http://api....
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On Stackauth /sites new meta sites have wrong name
This should be the correct behaviour:
name: "Stack Overflow Meta"
name: "Web Apps Meta"
name: "Gaming Meta"
..
For the newcomers Server Fault and Super User, Meta is before the parent site in the ...
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Last activity date
It would be useful if the API allowed you to return items based on their last activity date. Let's take a question for example.
/questions/fromlastactivitydate=XYZ&tolastactivitydate=XYZ
All ...
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API methods that return a single Item by id: unnecessary parameters to remove?
On methods that return a single item by id like the following:
/badges/{id}
/answers/{id}
/questions/{id}
/comments/{id}
/users/{id}
is it correct to have these parameters on Documentation?
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RSS security in general and StackEye security specifically
Surely (or at least hopefully) I'm not the first to wonder about this (but a search on "StackEye security" gets me nothing).
All I really want to do is follow users on StackExchange and so I ...
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Is there a way to get a user's account ID given his site's user ID?
I'm trying to modify this userscript of mine to make it work on all sites but I couldn't find a way to get the account ID (i.e., network profile ID) for a user.
Is this possible?
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Fetch all questions of a particular tag from the Stack Exchange API in Python
I am trying to fetch all questions of the Swift tag from Stack Overflow. I created the query using https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions and wrote a simple wrapper in Python.
def fetch_question(...
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