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Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API
Monitor the results to make sure you haven't busted your quota or received a backoff warning.
For the next step, It's highly recommended that:
You get an API key. …
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Conscientious use of the API
Making an undue number of requests in a short span of time, or regularly exceeding a request quota during "normal" use. … Exactly the same method and query parameters. …
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Find old display names of a user
confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names
So I've made a simple API-based tool:
Old display names of a user
It is based on /users/{ids}/mentioned method … I advise against running this for the most active users on Stack Overflow: it will likely drain the API quota. …
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Separate Request Quotas for Authorized [app]s
When that authorization token is passed on an API query (via the auth parameter) the request will be counted against a non-IP based quota. … /auth is the first POST method in the API, to use it one merely POSTs their secret key to /auth?key=<existing app key>. …
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List of Votes by Authenticated users
No other API method allows for detecting a user's vote history except one question at a time. You would have to fetch every single question and test the downvoted and the upvoted properties. … limited your search only to questions asked since the user's last visit you might be able to brute-force this for votes on new questions
(Even Stack Overflow only runs about 7.5K questions per day (Quota …
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Calling SE APIs with Nushell (basic overview)
pagesize=100&site=stackoverflow")
# Will error if you are out of quota - Append a key param if needed
> $res.items.title | first 5
╭───┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── … /questions/76766933/how-to-create-kedro-catalog-entry-custom-dataset-init-method-with-values-from
Adding a tkinter scrollbar to a treeview without any space
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76766918 …
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Creation of an API 'about' method for the application key being passed
API version is already served by the /stats method.
Quota information is found in the X-RateLimit-Current & X-RateLimit-Max response headers. …
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How should we test the new write-mode comments functionality?
Every write method takes a parameter called preview (the test console defaults it to true for testing purposes). … Preview calls also don't consume any of a user's write quota.
It's basically built for helping you test that you're calling the API correctly without actually causing any side effects. …
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Browsing method documentation consumes 4 quota units per page
Is it my imagination (scratch that, it's definitely not), or does simply browsing method doc pages (without using the "Run" function) consume quota? … I didn't find anything here with the following searches:
quota method
quota doc
quota help
Sure, 4 per page isn't much if you've registered for a key and have upped the quota to 10,000, but for new users …
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How to use the Stack Exchange API in PhoneGap?
console.log (apiJson);
}
} );
Get a key, it greatly increases your quota and is needed if you want one of the methods that needs authentication. …
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This will save lots of time and bandwidth and quota and doesn't require you to loop through the results just to count things. … So if you fetch more than one user at a time, this streamlined method will not work. …
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Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?
Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? … GitHub apparently has:
#check-an-authorization ("OAuth applications can use a special API method for checking OAuth token validity without running afoul of normal rate limits for failed login attempts …
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Can I get the user's top percentile, for tags, using the API?
Refer to the API docs and you'll note that there is no method that can be used to compute a user's tag percentile‡. … But this would take a while and also quickly bust your quota. …
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?
Basically, if you ever need to check that you aren't hitting your quota... you're probably doing something wrong. …
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Would implementing both 1.1 and 2.0 APIs in an app/script to get around the API quotas be co...
In another question I asked it was established that
The IP, and user/app-pair quotas are separate in V1.x and V2.0.
So with this in mind would an app or script which implemented like methods for …