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A tip for developers working with the Stack Exchange API.
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How to get the count of a query efficiently
To get the count of a query without returning results, simply specify pagesize=0.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/users?filter=mike&sort=name&pagesize=0
{
"total": 1161,
"page": 1,
"pagesize" …
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How to generate a list of users ranked by bug report submissions.
The use case is to generate a list of bug report submissions, grouped by User, of the following counts in descending order:
bug
bug + status-completed
bug + status-deferred
bug + status-bydesign
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How to use min/max with sort
While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.
Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.
Aggregated sort …
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How to format time since xxx e.g. "4 minutes ago" similar to Stack Exchange sites
function timeSince(date) {
var seconds = Math.floor((new Date() - date) / 1000);
var interval = Math.floor(seconds / 31536000);
if (interval > 1) {
return interval + " years";
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How to format reputation numbers similar to Stack Exchange sites
UPDATE
For JavaScript, see CMS's implementation below. It is much more elegant than the one I provide in the body of this Q.
// formats a number similar to the way stack exchange sites
/ …
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Simple Activity Monitor - For Educational Purposes only.
This Soapi.JS script, if abused is likely to provoke frowns from those whom you would like to see smiles.
Note: the dataset is only valid if the entire user base is pulled, and on just about any othe …
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API compliant request throttle implementations
Balancing compliance with Request Throttling Limits with maximum allowable throughput in our applications and libraries with any reliability requires self-throttling.
This post is meant to be a repo …
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recommended buffer size for markdown fields is conservative
I ran into a truncation error while inserting user data into a database using the documented field length (buffer size) of 3000.
So I redefined to nvarchar(max), pulled all users in the stack exchang …
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How to calculate a list of users ranked by question view count totals.
The API provides methods to sort and filter individual questions by view count.
In order to calculate the question view count totals per User, some grouping and set operations are required.
e.g.
t …
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How to calculate a list of users ranked by question score (votes sum) totals.
The API provides methods to sort and filter individual questions by score.
In order to calculate the question score (votes sum) totals per User, some grouping and set operations are required.
e.g.
…
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How to calculate a list of users ranked by question favorite count totals.
The API provides methods to sort and filter individual questions by favorite count.
In order to calculate the question favorite count totals per User, some grouping and set operations are required.
…
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How to generate a list of users ranked by activity (question or answer count).
The use case is to generate a list of users ordered by activity, i.e. question_count or answer_count.
e.g.
total_(questions|answers) display_name [user_id]
----------------------------------------- …
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How to call the API via JSONP in Plain Old JavaScript
This tips demonstrates how to call the API in JavaScript without the need of jQuery or other frameworks.
In a lot of cases you will find that the JSONP implementations provided in various frameworks …
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Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight
This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api.
With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in …
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How to retrieve paged API results in C# and Silverlight
In this tip we are going to leverage the SimpleRequestFactory and gather a multipage response.
Let's pull the first 5 pages of 100 users on stackapps.com.
NOTE: for Silverlight, substitute Newtonsoft. …