Frequent Questions
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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?
I'm starting to write a native Android client for Stack Overflow, and wondering what exactly is a valid OAuth domain name?
Is it the package name of my app?
Or do I have to point it to a server ...
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How can I get the access token to use the StackOverflow Rest API as an authenticated user?
I am trying to understand how the StackOverflow Rest API auth works. Just created an app to get an access token, Would like to use this token to increase my rate limit per day.
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StackList - List Your Apps, Track Bugs, and More!
StackList
http://stacklist.quickmediasolutions.com/
Update: There are already quite a few apps and libraries listed and the number is growing by the day. Don't put off listing yours!
StackList is a ...
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OBSOLETE - Add Timeline and Revisions Links
Obsolete: Script no longer works on any Stack Exchange site. Updated version found here.
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This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds both timeline and revision links to ...
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Acceptable Use of Copyrighted Logos/Names?
Are any/some/all of the following considered acceptable use of the site names and logos?
I know that there is no "official policy" yet regarding this, but I figured I would show some ...
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Custom Sidebar Links
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Custom Sidebar Links is designed for adding user-selected links to the sidebar. By default, it includes a link to the Stack Overflow Teams website, as well as a link to Google. The ...
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Ask Ubuntu Data Server - Blazing Fast Searches from the Data Dump and API
Note: a special thank-you to Jacob for hosting this application on his server.
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http://static.quickmediasolutions.com/media/screenshots/audsmdi.png
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This project was born out of a ...
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Should we adjust the format of the dev-tip questions early on?
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I've 'averaged' the few answers and comments and included the respective result below each question (all results are executed accordingly for some time already in most dev-tip posts). The ...
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Keep getting HTTP 406
Not sure if this is a user or an API problem, but I keep getting HTTP 406 Not Acceptable when making API calls (for example http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats) from either IE 8 or Chrome 6.
Here ...
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Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider
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Ever since the Visual design changes to the review queues suggested edits have been too narrow. Especially when containing code blocks. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore.
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sorting ascending vs descending
I don't understand the difference between ascending and descending?
Surely ascending means the most active/recent/popular/A first, and descending means the least active/recent/popular/Z first?
But it ...
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Adjusting the question templates to better accommodate placeholders
From time to time, we see users posting placeholder questions using one of the templates. They have no useful information to add, so they just leave the template as is, which is very logical behaviour....
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Stack Exchange Archivist
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Inspired by the Meta Stack Exchange question Automatically have links archived in the Wayback Machine. This script searches the post for external links and offers a ...
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Add the 'people reached' count to the API?
Can we have the people reached statistic added to the /users/{ids} method?
The response could simply be:
"people_reached": 1000
I'm asking because it would be cool to get a network-wide number.
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Guidelines on app and library thumbnails
We now have better, user-friendlier display for apps and libraries and scripts:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/stack-exchange-api-1-1-and-improved-app-gallery/
We infer a number of things ...
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OBSOLETE - achivy.com, track all your statistics, reputation and badges in one place (now also supports coderwall)
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Time to collect your achivies
Achivy adds some fun to your life. It supports Stack Overflow and all Stack Exchange applications, GitHub,Coderwall Ohloh as well as many other applications to your ...
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Get reputation changes across all sites without querying each one individually
I'm looking to make an app that shows your reputation changes throughout the network. /me/reputation-history/full almost accomplishes this, but it's on a per-site basis. I only want one query to get ...
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Node.js/ChatExchange - An API for Chat
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ChatExchange is a node.js API for talking to Stack Exchange chat (Largely based on ChatExchange for python). This is still very much in the works, but currently provides a working API for those ...
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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?
Back in version 1.1 of the API, we used to be able to do:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?help
...which would return information about the method in JSON format. However, attempting to do ...
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Stack Overflow app for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 and Android
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Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 don't have a Stack Overflow app and I would like to create one for both the platforms.
Aim:
To create an app that can be used to browse through the questions on ...
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The Unofficial Wheel of Blame
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The chat room Tavern on the Meta (MSO), in its early days, developed a habit of /blameing someone (anyone!) whenever something relatively significant went wrong. When something ...
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Stack 10 - UWP App for Windows 10 & Windows 10 Phone
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Stack 10 is now V 19.5.25 with new fluent design and few bug fixes. Screenshots will be updated shortly.
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Stack 10 is a UWP Stack Exchange client for Stack Exchange Network.
Some of ...
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Convert Stack Exchange posts to your own website
Screenshot - Website Home Page
When you visit the Pippim Website, which you can quickly rebrand as your own, the Home Page on GitHub Pages looks like this:
Screenshot - Convert Stack Exchange to ...
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API usage triggering 503 (Too Many Requests)
Update:
I generally try to back any claims of bugs and shortcomings with evidence.
I have prepared a test page which you, dear Stack Overflow staff and my fellow developers, can use to ascertain ...
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Why these questions do not have a title?
Hitting the following /questions route:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/74?pagesize=1&page=1
the endpoint returns this JSON data:
{
"total": 1,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 1,
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Url length limits have been increased
There's been some grumbling in the past about the unreliability of really ludicrously long URLs sent to the API.
We've always considered this suboptimal, but the underlying technical constraints (...
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More Share Links (Markdown / HTML / BBCode)
Description:
As of 1.04, this now also works with Firefox / Greasemonkey.
Adds share links in additional formats, and also lets you omit user ID from links:
Features:
Adds Markdown, HTML, and BBCode....
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OBSOLETE - StackAd Scroller
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StackAd Scroller is a small web application that scrolls the open source ads from this Meta question. It is highly configurable and makes a nice page to leave your web browser open ...
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Filter doesn't consistently return comment bodies
I've been trying to set up a filter I can use with /questions/{id}/answers/ (using the UI at this link), which returns the following fields:
answer:
answer_id
body_markdown
comments
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Java wrapper for Stack Exchange
I am interested in building an Android or Java ME application. Is there a Java wrapper?
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Platforms Supported by the API and Response Compression
What platforms are supported for use with the Stack Exchange API?
In short, anything that can make a GET request to the API servers and supports JSON/JSONP & GZIP. (JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, ...
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Can we get a sandbox please?
I think that we should have some sort of a sandbox site where we can post questions, answers and comments in a controlled environment.
Currently I'm working with Stack Overflow but I can't post "...
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The API Key does not work
I have registered an app at https://stackapps.com/apps/register, got a Key right away after I have submitted.
But now when I request http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY, I got ...
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Is Stack Apps the place to suggest applications?
Is StackApps.com the place to suggest applications you would like to see created?
I sometimes receive suggestions along the lines of "Is it possible add [feature-suggestion] to Stack Exchange?" I ...
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Prefered way to retrieve all search results
I'm trying to figure out a reliable way to retrieve all the results from a search query (in subsequent pages. My use case includes cases with more than 100 results (the maximum page size).
Looking at ...
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The API /questions/{ids}/timeline path doesn't return several items that occurred after the fromdate parameter
I need to get all the question activity after some particular time. I am using the timeline API, like so:
/questions/20032212/timeline?fromdate=1384705610&site=stackoverflow.com
But it ...
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StackScript JavaScript Wrapper
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Demonstrates the StackUser class:
// Global object
var ss = new StackScript('');
function GetInfo()
{
// The provided callback will be called
// when the data arrives
var ...
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Calling SE APIs with Nushell (basic overview)
While I still prefer a more "traditional" shell for day-to-day use, I'm finding Nushell's structured data capabilities to be a fantastic companion to the SE API (among others). It's been ...
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Why doesn't the API return suggested edits on tag wikis?
Is there a reason why the API doesn't return suggested edits on tag wikis on the suggested-edits route?
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What's an example of the backoff field? Is there some way I can simulate it to test appropriate behavior?
In reading about the API rate limiting, the documentation talks about a method responding with an ominous backoff field, and states that the client should cease from calling that method for that many ...
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Can we not limit requests based on the first one?
According to the answer given to this question, it seems like the API limits requests based on the first one. (Regardless of the presence of a key.)
Can this please be changed? It really hinders ...
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Getting started: /users/{id} [duplicate]
I am trying to get the amount of reputation that a user has. I have established that I need to use this url: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/1272330?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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Selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs Code Camp Video Interview.
This is a very selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs Code Camp Video Interview:
Purpose
Please note that this transcript fragment is mainly a supporting post to decrease the length of ...
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Please provide a way to get Post Edits, filtered by user
I recently discovered from this question that the API does not support filtering revisions by user. I am interested in looking at a user's edit history programmatically (with their permission) and at ...
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go-sechat - Go package for interacting with the Stack Exchange chat network
The Stack Exchange chat network does not currently have an API. However, after spending a bit of time in Chrome's Inspector, I was able to reverse-engineer most of the requests and responses ...
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API compliant request throttle implementations
Balancing compliance with Request Throttling Limits with maximum allowable throughput in our applications and libraries with any reliability requires self-throttling.
This post is meant to be a repo ...
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StackHose: live real-time event stream in your browser
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StackHose is a continuously updated stream of new content from Stack Overflow. It uses the Firehose JSON streaming event service to get a "push" stream of new event notifications. The newest ...
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AND searching for tags?
I am using the search api to search for questions that are tagged with "tags" and not with "tags". However I have noticed that searching for tags is an OR search.
The questions search for tags is an ...
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Reputation changes from accepting answers to questions are not included in reputation results
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, the results don't include the +2 reputation changes from accepting answers.
None of the reputation results from my own reputation history have a ...
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Why have recent dev-tip posts been forced into community wiki without explanation despite ongoing community self-regulation?
Preface
Please note that this question is neither about community wiki nor reputation, rather about acceptable moderation, (to stress that I've made it community wiki in itself). Therefore I need to ...