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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. …
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OBSOLETE - Build an app with Soapi.JS and gain praise and adulation. And some rep
Bounty Contest:
Build anything using the Soapi.JS JavaScript wrapper and either post the code or a link to a live demo.
When the question gets old enough (7 days I think) I will click 'start a bounty' …
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Guidance on usage thresholds - specifically throttling [duplicate]
I am running a lot of tests and have started to get 403 errors.
I am using a key and certainly have not exceeded my quota.
Am I running foul of some yet unmentioned throttling threshold and if so, w …
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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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The API v0.9 2010.06.24.002 as seen by SOAPI
Stack Overflow API as seen by the SOAPI parser and code generator:
With the API freeze, changes to the vast API should slow to a trickle, making manual maintenance possible. At this milestone, I have …
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`type=jsontext` JSON results for help pages
It would greatly simplify machine reading if we could apply type=jsontext to API help pages, including the index.
Update: Here's an unofficial JSON schema for v1.x.
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Indicate in documentation whether "numbers" can be non-integral
"number" is an very ambiguous term. Integral or non-integral?
For developers in more dynamically-typed languages like JavaScript, this is not an issue; but when using more statically-typed languages …
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/questions/tagged/{tags} - tags param clarification
This API method has been removed as of Jul 16 '10. The original question is preserved below for posterity.
It is not clear what a "list" of {tags} looks like.
Does this parameter follow the s …
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Position required parameters at the top of help pages
The required id parameter for ...a lot of API routes... is now placed at the bottom of the page.
It makes more sense to place required parameters at the top of the page with a slight separation, like …
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/users/{id}/badges id parameter clarification
On /users/{id}/badges, the description of the id parameter
a semicolon delimited list of user ids
diverges from the inferred standard for multi-valued parameters:
A single primary key identifier or …
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why is badge counts a nested structure?
conclusion
a very short dialog with systempunotout showed me that I could look at this another way that makes a nested structure make perfect sense.
the q remains for reference.
This should be fl …
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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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Getting required upvotes for apps tab is too dependant on release date
Yeah, it seems that the group of actual developers is pretty small, considering, and seem to be very frugal with votes, as if showing approval with a vote is going to lower their standing.
The thing …
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Posting questions and answers via API
You may not post data to the api but retrieving data in c# is quite simple.
Create a project and get an api key. To get started, just make use your project's name, whatever it is and your profile ur …
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Get a list of required tags for site
the original question was apparently for V1.
in V2 we now have https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/required-tags
the request: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/tags/required?order=desc&sort=popular&s …