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the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000. it is apparent that this is the server-side field length. the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/322108?sort=activity&order=desc { "total": 1, "page": 1, "pagesize": 30, "questions": [ { "tags": [ "discussion", "fun" ...
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With the available data points, how would you rank users, both on a site basis as well as globally? Right now I am simply sorting on reputation desc, creation_date, user_id, display_name. This ...
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Update: I am unable to reproduce the case of interactive browsing affecting app quota. And will concede that the failures that prompted this post were likely far edge cases. The remaining issue of a ...
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this query takes ~30 seconds. Seems abnormal to me http://api.stackapps.com/1.0/users/14/questions?pagesize=100&answers=true&body=true&comments=true&page=1
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Every once in a while when I query: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/id I get a question back that is missing the owner field. Is this expected? I haven't seen anything about owner being ...
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It appears that the /questions method still takes the nottagged which specifies a list of tags to exclude questions by but this parameter is not mentioned in the documentation. Is this parameter ...
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See here: http://stackmobile.com/ - towards the bottom Neither the main logo, nor the meta logo is workin.
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Try this: http://api.meta.webmasters.stackexchange.com/0.9/questions?type=jsontext I can't get it to work, even though it's listed in StackAuth.
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After 5-8 successful requests 503 error, in html format, are being thrown. The requests are unique and consecutive, no api abuse is occurring. A related, but critical, concern is that any error ...
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So I was building an irc bot from scratch. I had named it sobot. Did the first test run and guess what? There's already an irc bot by that name. So what I am asking is: Am i paddling in the wrong ...
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In question/timeline api all votes actions have the same timestamp in creation_date... is it intentional?
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Facebook developers can create applications which run inside Facebook. For example, the Graffiti app adds a button to the New wall item popup, and has its own pages inside Facebook. What if we could ...
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conclusion a very short dialog with systempunotout showed me that I could look at this another way that makes a nested structure make perfect sense. the q remains for reference. This should be ...
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in order to uniquely identify a associated_users on must traverse the object graph into the onsite object and construct an artificial key. it makes more sense to either flatten the structure or, more ...
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Hi all, This may be kinda naive, but is there a way to get a snapshot of StackApps' entire corpus of data? I wish to be able to query things like: "All questions, of all users"... Thanks
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Is it possibile to include an "added_date" parameter on users/{id}/favorites method result? It would be helpful when method is called with "added" sort parameter.
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On /users/{id}/badges, the description of the id parameter a semicolon delimited list of user ids diverges from the inferred standard for multi-valued parameters: A single primary key identifier or ...
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I'm trying to get a list of the 10 oldest users. This is the endpoint I'm using: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?key=(key)&order=asc&sort=creation&pagesize=10&page=0 ...
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looks like touching the id parameter description broke the internet. http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/242897/tags should/was working 6/1/2010 -1:11AM - working
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It would greatly simplify machine reading if we could apply type=jsontext to API help pages, including the index. Update: Here's an unofficial JSON schema for v1.x.
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The required id parameter for ...a lot of API routes... is now placed at the bottom of the page. It makes more sense to place required parameters at the top of the page with a slight separation, like ...
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http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=revisions/{id}/{revisionguid} revisionGuid is inconsistent. revisionguid seems appropriate (and will remove one special case from my api parser).
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Can we have all possible closed_reasons in help page and if possible, closed_reason_id, too? For example closed_reason_id=1, closed_reason="exact duplicate", closed_reason_id=2, closed_reason="off-...
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"body": { "description": "body of this post", "values": "string", "optional": true }, Post body is optional field in questions method? Shouldn't all the posts have body field?
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I would find it very useful, if the API response for question (and answer etc.) contained a URL to the question page itself (preferably absolute). E.g. the response for question 305 here would ...
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According to help page, there is no "Id" field. But I am just wondering if there id "Id" field for tags, can we get it through API too?
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It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
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On Documentation page, clicking on errors/{id} returns 500 Internal Server Error EDIT: Fixed!
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I'm looking through my /users/{id}/reputation and I think I see a possible bug regarding how positive_rep is calculated when someone upvotes your question. http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/...
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Does Stack Overflow have an MCP (model context protocol) server?
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Description The underlines in the Stack Exchange chat can be too much in some cases. This is an attempt to reduce them to reasonable levels. Installation This is available as both a userstyle and a ...
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App Name: Yandex Map Description: The App is for providing support for Yandex Map apps and libs. Our company provides an API for working with our maps, which helps to automate business processes in ...
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I am a Stack Overflow for Teams app developer, and given this recent announcement that API v3 is being extended to the public platform, I am hoping we can start asking API v3 questions here. Given a ...
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I am a Stack Overflow for Teams app developer, and given this recent announcement that API v3 is being extended to the public platform, I am hoping we can start asking API v3 questions here. Given a ...
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Description The delete button in chat removes messages with no confirmation, nor any option to return them. This is a small safety measure - adds a simple confirmation on trying to delete. ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About This script allows a user to hide answers on a post, both from the answer itself or from a central box at the top. This might be helpful when reading responses to ...
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This post is to enable authentication with the version of Sentinel that I'm (cocomac) hosting. See also OBSOLETE - Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions. In early February 2025, there ...
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This is a placeholder post for ongoing usage of my API key(s) for development, testing, and personal usage only. There is no intent to publish or provide public applications, libraries, or scripts ...
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Description Inspired from Support paging keyboard shortcuts in NAtOQ 10k-tools and Support paging keyboard shortcuts in Staging Ground. Currently several places that show a paged list of items do not ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About This userscript allows you to underline your text, change the color, and even the size! Formatting guide Format Syntax Non-text parameters Notes Underline ^^^text^^^ ...
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THIS HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY Fix keyboard shortcuts for navigating lists WHICH ADDRESSES THIS AND OTHER KEYBOARD SHORTCUT ISSUES Description Inspired from Support paging keyboard shortcuts in NAtOQ 10k-...
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I'm attempting to set up OAuth in the Stack Overflow API. I've created a Stack App and obtained the Client ID and Client Secret. However, I'm encountering difficulties in the process and require ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About Discover featured questions effortlessly on the home tab, elegantly presented in card format. Each question card provides essential details such as the question title, ...
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Note: There is something in the title to test this tool. About: (required) This searches for spam on a given site and places the links in an MD file. Screenshot / Code Snippet: (highly recommended) # ...
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The App is currently under development and / or only meant for private use. When the author of this App, Script, or Library is ready, they will update this post.
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I'm curious about https://api.stackexchange.com/docs . I looked up and studied the naming convention to make a REST api. I've seen that in the naming convention, don't use verbs and in the case of the ...
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Let's say I'm working on an app on a local dev server, localhost:1234 for example. Once I feel ready, I upload any changes to a GitHub repo and have those changes sync with an online website, for ...
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Just like stackexchange.com has a networkwide search, it would be nice to have an equivalent of excerpt-search which searches the entire network at once. That would save me 360 calls (per-site metas ...
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I'm doing a run every 5 seconds for this API call: url = "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/no-answers?pagesize=30&fromdate={date_today}&order=desc&sort=creation&site=...
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