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What license is the Stack Exchange API released under? MIT?
Are there any license requirements the Stack Exchange API?
Which license is it released under?
If I were to develop an app, would I have to credit Stack Exchange API?
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Add Twitter accounts on the /sites route?
Would it be possible to add references to the site Twitter accounts in the /site listing?
If your wondering what I'm talking about:
blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/twitter-question-feeds-for-stack-...
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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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OBSOLETE - List Area51 discuss in the StackAuth sites list
The API works for Area 51 discuss, but it isn't listed on the site list. Would it be possible to add it so software using the API can access it without adding specific code for it?
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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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Stack.PHP does not seem to work on sites that are sub-domains of stackexchange.com
The documentation explains to crate objects using the site's url minus the TLD which appears to work fine.
$service = new Post_Exchange('gamedev', null, 0);
returns what appears to be a valid object ...
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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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Overflow7 - Stack Exchange sites on Windows Phone 7
Video of 1.0
On YouTube - http://bit.ly/stackoverflowforwp7
About
This is a Stack Overflow app for Windows Phone 7 - it allows you to browse, read and bookmark Stack Exchange sites
Screenshot
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted
Could you please provide a way to retrieve deleted questions/answers?
Your database contains that data, until you hard delete it, so it would be useful for us to have the chance to play with it.
I'm ...
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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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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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StackBot - Making it easy to post StackExchange questions to Twitter
About
StackBot is a small C# application that is designed to post interesting questions to a Twitter account at specified intervals.
License
StackBot is released under the Ms-PL license.
Download
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Does a registered stack apps application have to be a website?
If I've created an application that is not a website, can I still register it and get a key?
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Where is the usage documentation?
I know this is probably a dumb question, but there's a bunch of documentation and I don't know what to do with this stuff. How do you use the API?
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Retrieving list of c# questions
I am trying to retrieve list of C# questions using http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions?title=true&tagged="c#".
But I get JSON response related to c questions.
Response :
{
"...
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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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Stacky JSON error
I'm trying to use Stacky to grab a question from Stackoverflow, however I always an error. The error thrown is:
JsonReaderException was unhandled -
Unexpected character encountered while parsing ...
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Looking for app to support offline access to my posts?
I am looking for an application to download all the questions I asked (and the answers) on Stack sites and all the questions that I labeled with the favorite label (that start what appears under the ...
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Is it possible to authenticate a user through Stack Overflow API?
Is it possible to use the Stack Overflow API to authenticate a given user identity such as with Facebook, Twitter, or OpenID?
If it's possible: Can you tell me the method (s) that make this happen?
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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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Retrieving JSON via the API using Ajax does not work
I tried to retrieve information of my user profile on Stack Overflow via the API using Ajax/jQuery. But it does not work for me. The result of the request is always empty.
<html>
<...
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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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Let's delete the off topic questions?
There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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Application to read stackoverflow off-line
I'm now going on vacation and I won't be having internet connection there, I was thinking it would be a good time to browse throught the stackoverflow data dump. However its all in XML and I'd have to ...
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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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Follow your friends on StackOverflow with FriendOverflow
Screenshot
Video of app in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zflMRXt2c&hd=1
About
I created this app because I wanted to see what my friends and co-workers were doing on StackOverflow. I ...
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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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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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Add logo background color to data returned by StackAuth sites route
Given that now with Stack Exchange 2.0 the logo of some of the sites, like Web Apps, AskUbuntu, Photography, Gaming and Pro Webmasters have non-white background, I think it will be best if the ...
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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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Android app for Stack Overflow
Is there any android app for Stack Overflow available?
Which basic features must I include if I develop this app? Ideas are appreciated.
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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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/users/tags should contain scores
I am implementing some simple JavaScript/bookmarklet based apps that show some reputation info, including the score in the User's top tags (roughly based on this previous bookmarklet of mine).
Now I ...
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Is there any Careers CV API available?
Is there any API for the CV service of Careers (careers.stackoverflow.com)?
My requirements are simple, I just need a way to access the data of a given CV to propose an alternative view.
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SOCharts: Charts by Tags
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I created this small app as a weekend hack. It shows the reputations, upvotes, downvotes and accepted answers for a user against the tags for the answers.
About
I wanted to know how many ...
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StackCenter 2 - Now in Public Beta!
Visit now: http://stackcenter.quickmediasolutions.com/beta/
Feedback is appreciated!
About
StackCenter 2 has been brewing for quite some time now. Since the global inbox was introduced, the original ...
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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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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 ...
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is there an api to access a list of tags on super user?
As above, is there an api function to access a list of tags on super user?
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PyOverflow: Account statistics for Stack Overflow for Ubuntu!
I was bored, and I wanted to play with the API, so I came up with this little script:
It's coded in Python and has only a single image dependency.
Here is a screenshot:
Here's the source code (it's ...