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Questions about the Stack Exchange API *only*. If your question concerns any other API, do not use this tag. For bugs, please (also) use the version tag, EG [api-v2.2], that the bug applies to.

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what should be the duration between each call to stackoverflow api for getting new questions?

If you're application is making identical requests more than once a minute it is probably going to be considered abusive see Conscientious use of the API for more info. …
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Strange encoding for JSON output

All api results are gzipped. So what you are looking at is a gzipped binary blob. Simply decompress using a gzip implementation in R. …
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Scratch Pad Wiki Question

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Are there more implementation samples with Stack Exchange API 1.0? How could this API useful...

A possible strategy for maintaining a verified association might look something like this: Gather a reference account from the user, similar to http://soapi.info/findusers.aspx, and upon user select …
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Where is the API located?

Look to your right------> (where it says Get Started) Api is a REST implementation and as such has no 'download' You may access it right from your browser address bar or leverage one of the many client … List of API client libraries grouped by programming language If you are using JavaScript or C#, I would be remiss, as a library author, not to recommend the Soapi family of client libraries, but most …
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StackApps API is down.

George, the api is not down even though downforeveryone says it is. I am not sure what downforeveryone is checking, but you might want to check http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/users? …
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AND searching for tags?

It seems to me that questions allows you to be more exclusive with your filter while search allows you to be more inclusive with your filter. this flexibility is a good thing and, right now, I would …
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Can there be a way to find a user given his email hash?

While the hash is available as a member of the users object, exposing a method to search by hash would be a blinking target for abuse. you would have to perform this type of filter on a locally cache …
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Silverlight download JSON from API fails

You can use it for API calls as well as others as it will check for gzip and respond accordingly. … } } else { responseText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data, 0, data.Length); } } return responseText; } Previous answer ALL output from the API
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What is the throttle interval or threshold?

Request Throttling Limits
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API not returning anything near the actual website

You are looking at 'questions' and not the landing page? Seems not. The landing page reflect's activity, not timeline. Click on 'questions' to get what you are looking for.
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?

As long as the content is properly attributed you are free to use it as you like. as per Robert, a visible, not necessarily prominent, attribution of the content source, e.g. the site, and the poster …
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Version 1.0 released 9th of July

Thank you for that.