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Make active tab default on StackApps
This script changes the logo link to the active tab and redirects from the home page to it on StackApps. If you want to see the list of apps, you can still do this by clicking the apps tab. Made by ...
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Can I download the executable for any developed or listed application that developed using SO API?
I saw the StackList and the apps. May I know How can I use those applications?
Can I use it ? Are they opensource?
Can I download the executable for any developed or listed application that ...
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Provide a way to discover associated meta sites
Currently, the API doesn't specify what the associated Meta site is for a certain site (I'm talking about the stackauth.com/1.0/sites route). Sure, we could just prepend "meta." to the domain name, ...
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Add 'linked' question data to the API
SE sites show linked questions on the right column.
It would be great to add an array of ids to the question response called 'linked'.
Example Linked Question
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Requesting favorite questions should report which users have favorited it
I can request the favorite questions of a user via the users/{id}/favorites endpoint. If I'm only requesting the favorites for one user, then I know that all of the returned questions are the ...
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Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
I know you wanted to reduce the amount of data returned, but hasn't it gone a little far?
Especially as there are no numerical site IDs. For example the Apple site is now called AskDifferent, however ...
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What happened to the /stats method?
I can't find the /stats method in the new usage documentation.
A quick run of http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/stats reveals that the method is still there. However, it is not documented.
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?
Visiting the page: http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites yields the following headers:
Notably absent are the X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current headers that show up in API queries to the sites ...
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The 'total' field of /comments result is showing up as 0.
Running the following query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/comments
Yields:
{
"total": 0,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,
"comments": [
...
Notice that the total entry indicates there are ...
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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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I am planning to build a Windows 7 gadget for Stack Exchange.
Hello,
I am planning to start development of a windows 7 gadget for stack exchange.Specifically stack overflow.
I would like some guidance, on where to get good designs, HCI patterns, etc for the ...
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Changing the display of the apps tab
We're looking at changing the front page of Stack Apps to look more like a proper app "marketplace" and less like a run of the mill Stack Exchange site.
Proposal (third draft)
This would ...
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analyticsoverflow - tracking question and answer counts over time
About
Question, answer and comment counts for stackoverflow. The individual tag pages show a graph of the question counts over the last fortnight.
Update: Now gathers and displays data for all 3 ...
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StackUsers.com - everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask. (about an SE user. almost.)
About
http://stackusers.com
All Stack Exchange users at your fingertips.
The core of this application is a robust data acquisition and maintenance platform based on Soapi.CS that reliably and ...
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Stack2XML - A JSON to XML Conversion Service
About
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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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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What's expected from the answers to an app announcement post
The general model is to have the original post be a question and the rest of the posts to be an answer to that question. However, with the apps announcement posts, it seems that this pattern is ...
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Central Login place
The Issue
Currently, tracking yourself in an application is not that user friendly, you have to search for your username.
Usernames are not unique, there are many Jonathan's for example
When an ...
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Are the Server Fault and Super User domains officially supported by the API?
Are the Server Fault and Super User domains officially supported by the API?
I don't find this information in the FAQ, although I can browse http://api.superuser.com/0.8/stats for example.
EDIT:
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User's display name field omitted?
If a user doesn't have a username "set" for an account, then the display_name field is omitted.
This is similar to a few other questions, but the only official answer says that "display_name should ...
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Elections nominations posts not showing up in API
I know that it's probably unintended that the Primary voting scores were leaked by the API, but I think if you're going to remove it, then at least make it official, so I won't have to wonder if it's ...
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API 'search' method with 'tagged' parameter
From the docs for tagged paremeter:
List of tags delimited by semi-colons of which at least one must be on a question
Yet, when I execute this query (http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/search?tagged=...
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API 'search' method with 'min' parameter
If you search for questions posted on time 1296897085 or later (by specifying sort=creation and min=1296897085), it may still return questions posted before that date:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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User's Comments: returning 500 error?
It looks like when I try to get the comments of a user that has "a huge number" of comments, I get a 500 error.
Jon Skeet's comments, 500 error: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/22656/comments
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You can gain reputation from edits to tag wikis, although they are not accessible through the API.
Reputation gain from edits to tag wikis appear through the API; the API reports them as answers, but fetching them via the /answers route does not work.
Case in point:
My accepted edit (+2 rep)
My ...
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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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Does there exist a method call to get unaccepted answers?
I noticed there was the method /questions/unanswered which returns questions with no upvoted answers but I'm more interested in something like /questions/unaccepted which returns all questions that ...
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Could we please have election data added to the API?
It would be great if the election data were available from the API.
Use cases:
Applications can display notifications when certain events happen in the election.
A user might want to check their ...
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Does Lucene back the API search now?
With the announcement that Lucene is being used for site searches does it cover the API as well?
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/user/{id}/timeline results leaking template used for badge information
From my elections statistics page:
I inserted in the detail field as plain text because I wasn't sure if the results would be HTML, but the $ChatUrl left in the anchor's href is surely a bug.
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Drafting users for testing in Alpha/Beta stage?
I finally stopped stagnating long enough to start working on an application for Stack Apps using the API. Development is going well and within the next 6 to 8 weeks there will be enough functionality ...
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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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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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Stackoverflow as an app on Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7?
Do you know of an app for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 that let me use stackoverflow.com and hast most (if not all) features of the site itself. Maybe there is one currently in development? ...
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How to get a post title for a given post ID, even if that post ID is an answer and not a question?
I'm trying to beautify the reputation audit. If I want to show the post title for a reputation change event, however, I have a problem -- I don't know if the post ID is relative to a question or an ...
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How your app[s] is going?
Do you mind to share your current experience with your live app[s]?
Are you still working/updating it?
Are you getting traffic/popularity?
Got some good review/link from some big fish?
In ...
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Can i make an internal Q&A site like StackExchange?
I'm looking forward to develop a Q&A site that was requested to be private for my company, and as my boss talked it looked like he was describing StackOverflow, what i want to know is, is it ...
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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?
Going over the API, there seems to be some overlap when it comes to expressing a predicate in a URL.
For example, let's say I want to fetch some questions from stackoverflow.com that have the tag "...
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Roadmap - any update?
So now it's 2011 and we should be getting some API updates. As a company you must have some kind of plan. So can you either say the API is never going to be updated or give a time frame to at least a ...
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Google App Engine [app]s - We are all on the same quota!
Noticing a couple of "This IP has exceeded the request-per-day limit" errors on StackPrinter log, I asked for a verification and the prompt answer was:
There are a number of [app]s using
Google ...
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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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Something's changed about user timelines
Six to Eight's user display has just broken, as the /user/id/timeline route seems to have started returning different data. Previously, timeline_type of entries in the user_timelines array used to be ...
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Retrieve inbox notifications
Hi,
Is there a way to retrieve any notification that appears in the inbox of stackexchange? Or is there another technique to retrieve notifications on updates?
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Is the API readonly right now?
Does the StackOverflow API offer some way to authenticate a user?
I am wondering if the API supports logging a user in so that they can write to the system.
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AskUbuntu Add-on for Firefox, Opera and Chrome
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Firefox
Opera
Chrome
About
The extension, called AskUbuntu Add-on, allows to easily track user info and questions from askubuntu.com.
This extension displays user reputation and badges ...
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ID number for sites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
please add a key fields to stackauth results
It would be easier if sites each had an ID, it help with keeping track of them, not only in a numerical way (which is generally ...
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Associated accounts is broken for this user
When I retrieve associated accounts for Joel Coehoorn using this query it only includes Programmers.SE and Webmasters.SE despite the fact that I retrieved the association key from a query to SU. The ...
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Coding error at open URL
Hi,
I have the following method to open a URL API
String c="";
URL direccionURL;
try {
direccionURL = new URL("http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/523725");
BufferedReader in = new ...
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Site Icon Hash in stackauth.com/sites
How do I cache the images properly, I think asked this somewhere before, but it hasn't affected me until gameing site went out of beta.
It's HTTP headers or something isn't
Ok I used George's answer ...
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Answers information with tags
I am trying to chart the up votes on answers received by a user by tags. Something like:
I am running into the same situation as this question: How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag?.
If the ...