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Can I search for the most favoured questions via the API
This came to me after reading this post.
I had a look at the API page and I wanted to find a way to search for the most Favoured questions. Is there a way to do this?
I tried to manipulate the URL ...
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How to sort by the newest question?
I'm trying to retrieve the latest questions posted in a particular tag.
What's the equivalent for:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php?sort=newest&pagesize=15
I see that v1.1 API is ...
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Get API responses in formats other than JSON
I am working on an application which uses the Stack Exchange API. But I don't want responses in JSON format.
So, if I want to convert JSON to another format like XML, is there any way to get the ...
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json with list of all user's on stackoverflow
I am trying to get the list of all user's in JSON format (as provided by the API) (using jQuery jsonp)
What I found is:
pagesize – The number of collection results to display during
pagination. ...
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Stack Overflow Firefox Extension
Recently I created a tiny Firefox extension to get given user reputation of Stack Overflow. But I did that using API version 1.1.
How can I migrate that to 2.1? How to authenticate my application ...
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Ability to sort answers by number of revisions via StackExchange API v2?
I was curious whether there was a way to easily find which StackOverflow answer has the highest number of revisions and/or to sort by that metric.
I see mention of a sort function in the ...
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Ruby wrapper for stackoverflow api - Serel, Pilha
Serel and pilha are good Ruby wrappers for the StackExchange API, but I am not able to access the body method for question and answers. The body method returns nil.
I want the content of questions ...
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ChatterBox configuration option is confusingly worded
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
I'm confused over the option:
Mark items as unread when you view them:
Why would I want to mark items as unread when I ...
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JSON parsing, won't work
I'm using the Stack Apps API. Retrieving questions by tags works well, and the JSON is returned. Now I need to parse the JSON and there is something wrong with my code:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api....
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What is the api_site_parameter of stackapps.com in API 2.x
What is the api_site_parameter of stackapps.com in API 2.x? https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/sites doesn't list stackapps. Why?
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How do I search for a specific question whose url I know?
I was wondering if there is a feature in the API that I could use to retrieve various features of a question on the Stack Exchange network when I know the actual URL of the question.
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How to get the site name from document to pass to API?
Most APIs take a parameter site which must be set to the name of the site your queries are about.
For meta.travel or travel.
But of course sites have various names, for example gaming.stackexchange....
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is there a way to use my app to authenticate users with only a StackOverflow account with the stackExchange oauth api 2.1?
Recently I registered an app in https://stackapps.com/ to provide a way to authenticate users with their stackoverflow account. but I notice that https://stackexchange.com/oauth only works for users ...
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StackExchange Android app for on Tablet
Is there any Android app designed for Tablet?
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Use stack2rss to receive responses via RSS
I'm trying to setup http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/ to receive full-body "responses" (comments, edits, answers and so on) to my own stackoverflow questions via RSS, but I can't find the right ...
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Inbox unread since parameter not working
The since parameter of /inbox/unread no longer seems to work.
I enter a date after the creation date of the item currently unread in my inbox and still the item is returned. I try putting in ...
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New questions on live home page display improperly
I was browsing Stack Apps earlier today and a little box popped up indicating that there were new questions. It looked something like this:
After clicking the provided link, here is what was displayed:...
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Badges displayed incorrectly?
It seems that there's something odd going on with badges. If we take some random user, say 1719, which has one account, and check the user page http://stackexchange.com/users/1719/jelon, then we can ...
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API is accepting requests from other OAuth domains
I've set an OAuth domain for an application (the client_id is 24) and the following link authorizes the application:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=24&scope=no_expiry,...
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stackapplet and Google account
I am trying to use Stack-Applet for Ubuntu (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/stackapplet-1-4-released-ubuntu-indicator/) and I have registered on Stack Overflow using my Google account. I guess that'...
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Would implementing both 1.1 and 2.0 APIs in an app/script to get around the API quotas be considered abuse?
In another question I asked it was established that
The IP, and user/app-pair quotas are separate in V1.x and V2.0.
So with this in mind would an app or script which implemented like methods for ...
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Why don't the tags APIs expose the tag IDs?
It seems that all tags have an internal ID, for instance here on stackapps, the api-v2 tag has ID 2442 which you can only see if you edit the api-v2 tag.
As far as I can see none of the APIs expose ...
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Is there a maximum on the number of search results returned (using the SO API)?
I was trying to do statistics on post from some not-too-popular tags like matlab, using the search method. It appears that it will never return a total larger than 2000. Is this a hard limit that ...
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StackAuth.com user's id
What ID should I pass to stackauth.com/1.1/users/{id}/associated url to get user's associations?
The description of the api call states:
id – a set of up to 10 users' association ids, obtained from ...
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Stackoverflow API - get “received” upvote count of a user.
I'm currently using the Stackoverflow API to get a list of detailed user information (via http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/users-by-ids). There is an attribute called "up_vote_count" ...
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/questions/{id}/linked is failing for this question on ServerFault.
This route is reporting an error:
http://api.serverfault.com/1.1/questions/45734/linked
Incidentally, I discovered this error thanks to my handy tool StackStatus, which runs a status check on the API ...
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OBSOLETE - Add Draft Save Links
Obsolete: Install and source links are dead. Script was written for much older version of the sites.
Screenshot
About
This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds Save and Clear buttons for use ...
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StackAuth 1.1 API reports a site without a site_name
Calling the StackAuth 1.1 API associated method for a particular user returns one site with no site_name property (the one for which the user_id is 349). I cannot find a matching account in ...
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Remove [app] questions from active
Now we have a special app tab, shouldn't the [app] questions at least be given lower priority on the active tab, which is now for development?
Ideally it would be to have the ability to sort the app ...
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Non-verbatim search strings in py-stackexchange
I am writing a python program with py-stackexchange that takes a query and returns a list of urls to questions with that query in the title.
Here's the code:
#!c:/Python27/python.exe -u
import sys
sys....
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Offline cache of the API - for when the developer has no internet.
Is there some fake API program that "simulates" the API? Just I'm going on a long car journey tomorrow, and I won't have an internet connection on my laptop and don't want to waste the whole journey ...
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Complete question timeline including votes
Is there any chance to get more information in questions timeline such as when it has been upvoted, when it has been downvoted, same for all answers, including comments, and other actions such as vote ...
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Is there an SO API which can fetch all Questions & Answers for a particluar Keywords
I am looking for an API which helps in fetching all the Questions & Answers from SO and other Stack Exchange sites only on a particular "keyword". Later using XML RPC these questions will be ...
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Maximum tags for a question on any SE site [closed]
Is the maximum tags for all SE sites (and those in the future) 5?
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api.stackoverflow.com down?
I am currently getting errors when trying to access the stack overflow api. I have tried others (superuser and serverfault) and they seem to work. Is this by design or did the api unintentionally go ...
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Rather than remove site from /sites set status close, at least temporarily
I noticed today, due to some exceptions, that sites that do not perform in beta can be closed and thus removed from /sites.
If you persist data, you will need to check your data every time you pull /...
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Can the API return info re "new replies" icon?
I would like to be able to query the status of the "new mail" icon that shows whether there is new comments or favorites activity. Is this possible?
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api.money.stackexchange.com returning questions from 2009?
http://api.money.stackexchange.com/1.0/questions/?pagesize=1&fromdate=1254960000&todate=1255564793
body => question[0] => [creation_date] => 1254969799
1254969799 == Thu, 08 Oct 2009 ...
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Copying CSS from stackoverflow for use in an app?
Is it ok / legal / allowed to copy some of the styles from stackoverflow / serverfault / etc. for use in a stack app?
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New Meta sites out of order in /sites
I don't know if this is by design, but the ServerFault and SuperUser Meta sites don't follow their main sites in the response for the sites API route. Having linked_meta sites follow their main (...
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Can we add a creation_date to the /sites method?
I think we really need a way to determine when one of the new sites went live so that they can be ordered by date.
Something like:
{
"name": "Gaming Meta",
"logo_url": "http://sstatic.net/...
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Accepted answer on questions/id/answers method sorted by votes
Looking at this stackoverflow question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3012488?tab=votes#tab-top
when sort is by votes, the accepted_answer is always on top regardless of answer's upvotes.
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How to control vote count for individual user?
How do I find if user has already voted for a particular question/answer?
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redundant question fields
These are simply pointing to known endpoints. This is truly 100% redundant data.
"question_timeline_url": "/questions/3078600/timeline",
"question_comments_url": "/questions/3078600/comments",
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Possible problem calling users/?filter method searching username with tilde
I'm testing curious usernames and I am searching their user_id by:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/?filter=username_filter
I'm trying to get information about this particular user:
http://...
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Is there a difference between "newest" and "creation"?
When I look at some API endpoints, say /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/{id}, I see that the former can be sorted by newest, and the latter can be sorted by creation, both ascending or ...
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API not returning anything near the actual website
The API /questions page is not returning anything like the list of questions on the actual SO site.
This is the first question of the 0.8/questions
{
"total": 705769,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,...
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help page issue: revisions by revisionguid example needed
/revisions/{id}/{revisionguid} - usage of this route is not clear to me.
can someone provide a working url and perhaps a simple use case.
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Where to Host applications installer
Hi, Any one knows a place to host my app installer? any recommendation, I am creating my website and will put it there but before I have my site i need to put it some where so you guys can test it.
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The user and owner objects appear to be optional in the question timeline result.
This is probably just a simple documentation fix and not really a bug. The doc for the /questions/{id}/timeline method says that the user and owner objects are not optional, but they aren't always ...