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What real world application does the Stack API have?

You can write applications that leverage the so body of content. There is a whole 'apps' tab full of 'real-world' examples. One of my entries is soapi-notify : Stay ahead of the pack with new questi …
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Area 51 site proposal: StackExchange API Application Development [closed]

The question was closed instead of migrated so I have opened a new question on meta https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55163 Currently intended role of StackApps.com is not entirely clear. …
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Helping people is 'noise or pointless'?

How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed] closed as noise or pointless by Kevin Montrose♦ Aug 16 at 23:15 This question does not add anythin …
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Do we have a C++ wrapper library for SO API?

Yes. A list of libraries can be found here: List of API client libraries grouped by programming language. Someone suggested that link be placed in the side bar, but apparently no one with the juice t …
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What is stackapps?

First step: read the FAQ FAQ means Frequently Asked Questions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ
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I was building an irc bot with the stackapps api and...

Well, I haven't seen any mention of an irc bot here. perhaps the name is coincidental. Apparently is is not coincidental. Can you beat it? if so - go for it. competition creates better software.
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Seamless authentication between my site and StackOverflow

there is no concept of authentication with API 1.0. And if there were it would be applied to usage of the api. there is no, should be no, and unless there is a cold snap in hades, will never be a con …
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Will Stack Exchange hot questions be provided by the API?

Is this what you mean? http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions?sort=Hot I don't see why you would need to pull RSS and API when you can get all information with params. e.g. http://api.stackover …
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How to calculate rank; local to site and globally?

With the available data points, how would you rank users, both on a site basis as well as globally? Right now I am simply sorting on reputation desc, creation_date, user_id, display_name. This close …
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site status: Closed_beta

Will stackauth ever show a site as closed_beta? private beta data is available via API, the last time I checked. Is there much point if it's closed? depends on whether that data is of value …
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Why is there no /answers route?

As I was answering this question, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66403/find-answers-with-max-upvotes, I found myself wondering, quite late in the game, why there is not an /answers route tha …
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Accepted answer on questions/id/answers method sorted by votes

Yes, you are explicitly telling it to sort on votes and it dutifully does so. Drop the sort (or specify the default, activity) and the accepted answer will be listed at the top. see kevin's commen …
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API V2 Musings: What would you like to see

Move the id value into the query string In that the id is vectorized, it is designed to represent multiple values. Currently the id field is a component of the url. This severely constrains the number …
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when/if/how/why do non-trilogy Stack Exchange sites aquire/provide API access

So I am looking at http://mathoverflow.net, trying to blow some cobwebs out of the dark corners of my brain that used to house some not-insignificant abilities and found myself wondering about API acc …
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How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request

JavaScript implementation This code is taken from Soapi.JS and is free to use without restriction of any kind. Documented with JsDoc and VS Xml Docs, take your pick of either or remove both. Not my bu …
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