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StackBuffer - awesome StackOverflow interface (HTML5, CSS3)
Screenshot of StackBuffer.com interface
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StackBuffer is open source project providing HTML5 and CSS3 interface for StackOverflow API. This project is actually experiment trying to prove that you ...
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Link to SVG logo on stackauth
Could you host SVG version of logo and put a link on stackauth in http://stackauth.com/sites ?
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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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Linking to StackExchange Sites
If I request from the /questions route (for example,) I get a list of questions and some relative route data. What I don't get is a nice, neat, full URL to the question on the site:
site_url: http://...
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Getting started: What kind of thing can we do with the SE-API that we can't do with the SE Data Explorer?
I want to know if my slender grasp of the latter will help me learn about the former.
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Are there any restrictions on using icons/look-and-feel from the site(s)?
Can I haz non-logo icons from the site(s)?
I'm designing an app and my plan, assuming it pleases the court, is to use some of the icons/look-and-feel from the site.
For example:
The green and red ...
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Site in closed beta but api working
Webapps has been added yesterday, website is in closed beta and it's not possible to see something on the website when you are not logged.
But if you use the API you can get information.
http://api....
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Stack Users Lite: Search for users on all Stack Exchange sites and view their associated accounts
Stack Users Lite
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Stack Users Lite is a simple single page JavaScript application that searches all Stack Exchange sites for users by partial or complete username and allows you to view the ...
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Intermittent bug in the /search route when providing both tagged and nottagged parameters.
I'm getting the wrong number of results back from the /search route depending on what combination of values I provide for the tagged and nottagged parameters.
Examples:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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In question/timeline api all votes have the same timestamp... is it intentional?
In question/timeline api all votes actions have the same timestamp in creation_date... is it intentional?
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MahTweets - Social Media Client
About
MahTweets is Yet Another .NET Twitter Client, that has expanded to include functionality for other social media sites including Facebook, Yammer, Foursquare, Tumblr, and that's just the start.
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Observe a private beta in StackAuth
See here.
WebApps and Meta.WebApps are listed, as WebApps has entered the private beta phase.
Note that the state property for those two are private_beta and linked_meta respectively, values nobody ...
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How to mimic search behavior of Stack sites?
I want to mimic the behavior of the search field that can be found on all Stack sites. How should I do this?
Filter by tags if all words (how exactly is this detected?) in the query are tags.
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How to get the count of a query efficiently
To get the count of a query without returning results, simply specify pagesize=0.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/users?filter=mike&sort=name&pagesize=0
{
"total": 1161,
"page": 1,
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pagesize=0 on /search throwing error
http://api.stackapps.com/0.9/search?intitle=a&pagesize=0
{
"error": {
"code": 4001,
"message": "The 'pagesize' query parameter is invalid."
}
}
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Web SENotify - Stack Exchange website new question notification
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About
This website is a notification tool of new question on Stack Exchange website.
License
Public Domain
Download
Download http://senotify.jeb.be/ content (html, css, js from)
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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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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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StackTagz - Track the topics you are interested in over time
StackTagz
http://stacktagz.com
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
StackTagz analyses your participation in StackExchange sites by looking at which tags you are active in. A question, an answer or a ...
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Eligibility for the competition?
I notice in the blog post that to be eligible for the comp you need to be listed in the App tab. What is the criteria to get listed on that tab? My app is tagged correctly and I think I am using the ...
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StackLINQ: A StackExchange LINQ Provider
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var questions = from q in ctx.Questions
where q.OwnerID == 34796
select q;
var multiQuestion = from q in ctx.Questions
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Define the max number of vectorised parameters allowed
I am trying to make my app work with as little maintenance as possible, but also be as efficient as possible. Hence I would really like to batch up the ids I am requesting into a vector and get them ...
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OBSOLETE - A Stack of Twits - Tweeting all over your stack
OBSOLETE - Domain is no longer working and Twitter account hasn't been active since 2010.
Get tweets about new questions on Stack App sites
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I am fed up sitting all day refreshing the home page ...
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How to use min/max with sort
While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.
Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.
Aggregated sort ...
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Date that the contest ends
I hoped I wouldn't have to ask this, but after the sudden 0.9 release, it might be good to confirm...
Will there be at least a week's notice (preferably 2) given of the contest ending?
The ...
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Stack2XML - A JSON to XML Conversion Service
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Stack2XML is a web service that fulfills API requests on your behalf and converts the results to XML before returning it to you. The purpose of this service is to support those languages / ...
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Why Content-Encoding gzip rather than Transfer-Encoding gzip
The API responses are returned in gzipped format. But by using Content-Encoding gzip, the burden of unzipping is on the user of the API. On the other hand if the server uses Transfer-Encoding gzip, ...
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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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SpaceOverflow - An awesome new way to browse the Stack trilogy!
Browse questions in 3D space!
About
There are a lot of interesting questions in the Stack Trilogy. But it is difficult to find your way through the huge amount of content when the only way to browse ...
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Area 51 site proposal: StackExchange API Application Development [closed]
The question was closed instead of migrated so I have opened a new question on meta
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55163
Currently intended role of StackApps.com is not entirely clear.
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when/if/how/why do non-trilogy Stack Exchange sites aquire/provide API access
So I am looking at http://mathoverflow.net, trying to blow some cobwebs out of the dark corners of my brain that used to house some not-insignificant abilities and found myself wondering about API ...
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Strange encoding for JSON output
I'm trying to create an R API. Here's some basic code for processing JSON:
library(rjson)
fromJSON(readLines("http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/stats/", warn=F))
As I look into this, the output of ...
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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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Should we add a "this site is not affiliated to Stack Overflow.." disclaimer to our website app?
I've checked legal section but it does not say anything specific of this aspect apart from:
Do feel free to explain that your product is built on the Stack Exchange platform so people understand your ...
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OBSOLETE - StackMail - Making the StackExchange Sites Accessible Via Email
Planned Obsolescence
Due to almost negligible usage and ongoing maintenance issues, I would like to announce that the StackMail service will be shut down in a few days after the 4th of July 2013.
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How to retrieve paged API results in C# and Silverlight
In this tip we are going to leverage the SimpleRequestFactory and gather a multipage response.
Let's pull the first 5 pages of 100 users on stackapps.com.
NOTE: for Silverlight, substitute Newtonsoft....
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How to call the API via JSONP in Plain Old JavaScript
This tips demonstrates how to call the API in JavaScript without the need of jQuery or other frameworks.
In a lot of cases you will find that the JSONP implementations provided in various frameworks ...
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Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight
This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api.
With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in ...
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How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]
Update:
All of our grumblings and the unbearable beauty of our workarounds resulted in this issue being fixed last week.
You can now send 100 id in one request and receive 100 responses.
See Url ...
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Stackathlon 2.5: Leader board for users active on multiple sites
tl;dr New! See "More Athlons" below.
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It's surprising how few people are active on multiple Stack Exchange sites. Well, maybe not so surprising. But it's a big world; you'd ...
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Auto discover API version?
I may have missed this before, and if I have, I apologize (I searched and didn't find anything).
Is there a way to discover what the API version for a site is? With the recent change from 0.8 to 0.9,...
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Why do some ranges have so many values?
Why do some ranges have so many values? For example:
[0, 2,147,483,647]
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Explain http://stackauth.com/0.9/help/method?method=users/{id}/associated
Any One knows what this does?
What Id should I use?
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Access to /users/recent/ (Recent Activity) through the API
Would it be possible to have access to a user Recent Activity?
I know that this is not a public information on the website, but I think that most part is public. I only see one Activity that should ...
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OBSOLETE - Stack Insight - Track a User's Activity Over all Stack Sites
OBSOLETE - Site is dead. And domain has been un-hosted and/or parked since 2013.
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Web application to show how all a user has been involve in the different stack sites over time.
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Stack Overflow KDE Plasma widget
Is a Plasma widget being developed for Stack Overflow in KDE 4?
I tried StackTray, but I'm thinking of something more complete to use as a widget on my desktop. I'd like to see this done, or ...
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Add last_awarded_date to users/{id}/badges
I'm working on an activity notification app. It would be helpful to know the date of the last award for each badge, so the app can notify of changes since the last query.
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What characters won't be in question->body?
This might seem kinda strange, but what printable ASCII characters am I guaranteed not to find in the body member of a question / answer?
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What real world application does the Stack API have?
This is such a noob question, but its simple, so hopefully someone can answer for me please:
If you skill up in the Stack API, what purpose does it serve? What can you do with the API, how can you ...
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