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This tag indicates a proposal for a new feature for the Stack Exchange API, or a change to an existing feature.

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Add List of Libraries to "Get Started" sidebar

I suggest that a link to the List of libraries be added to the "Get Started" sidebar to provide a clear and obvious discovery path.
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please add a key fields to stackauth results

While it is a step in the right direction, the /sites return is missing a vital component: a key field. All of the data currently in /sites is the arbitrary data that can change. We need a constant …
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API Suggestion: suppress http error code when jsonp is specified

Conclusion: fast response by Kevin enables the JSONP functionality of the API to assume it's rightful description of awesome. http://soapi.info/Code/JS/Stable/ErrorTest.htm The JSONP functionality …
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please expose stackauth via a url that is consistent with the api

Most libraries and apps need to version themselves by adding the version number to the url and subsequently most of the http request code includes this information in the url building process. the dev …
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Please add tags to answers

Update: This was completed as of API version 2.1. When querying any API method which returns answers (/users/ids/answers, /answers/ids, etc.) the result does not include the tag information for th …
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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 …
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Prevent that posts tagged with app or library enter Community Wiki mode when the owner edits...

As a result of direct contact by yours truly with the SO team, the thresholds for CW were relaxed for app/library posts on StackApps a few weeks ago. I will defer to the powers that be to post the sp …
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all api endpoints except api.stackoverflow.com are failing paged requests with HTML 503

UPDATE: I am being told that this is by design. I could not disagree more. The inconsistent 503 throttling issue aside, the API is JSON based. HTML errors serve no purpose in response to an API re …
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Why is edit_count exposed on Comments but not Questions or Answers

Comments have an edit_count field, why is this field not included with Question and Answer responses? Further, the edit_count field has limited utility on a comment where, lacking revisions and a ver …
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Define the max number of vectorised parameters allowed

The maximum allowed number of id in a vectorized list is 100, the max page size. The practical limit is undefinable because id are of arbitrary length and the limitation is on the length of the path …
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reduce api calls - please add last_modified to user structure

When updating a cached list of questions, I can query min last_activity_date, drastically reducing traffic. using creation_date, one can efficiently maintain a cached list of users with minimal netwo …
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Is there a meta api?

i have a doc scraper that produces json schema and smd. eventually it will be published as a service on SOAPI2.com, much the same way that soapi.info provides meta for v1. but until then you can find …
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API Help Suggestion: /search - can we make tagged,nottagged description consistent with othe...

on most other params that accept a semi-colon delimited list we see list of tags questions must have, semicolon delimited A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, semicolon-delimited list of …
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Get Site Icon or Icon Url

Yes. Thanks to George's hard work, there is a quality set of Stack Exchange brand images. I have hosted them and included the path in SOAPI-MAP. As other SE sites get folded in, I will add them to th …
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Include tag "objects" in questions

Normally, I am the one arguing for more data but in this case I will anticipate (and agree with) Kevin's likely response: The tag meta is not relevant to a question and inclusion of tag meta would be …
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