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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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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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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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Add logo background color to data returned by StackAuth sites route

I would think that simply the sites primary color and background-color would be more useful.
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Is there anyway to get the information now available in the Notification box?

no - the 'super-collider' is not exposed by the API. you would need to synthesize this by maintaining a last visit data for a user and then polling each site's api endpoint for several queries filter …
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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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more styling info on stackauth

This has already been covered by Kevin here. The minimal styling is provided to help style links and tags, but the rest is omitted to prevent lazy devs from copying look and feel. What value link an …
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Central Login place

Jonathan, your request will most certainly be denied. One thing that I have found useful in general is, when considering asking if something can be integrated, to try and present possible implementat …
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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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Please add accepted_date to answers/{id}

Dave, is this resolved by the timeline_type? "timeline_type": { "description": "type of event", "values": "one of comment, askoranswered, badge, revision, or accepted", "optional": true …
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all api endpoints except api.stackoverflow.com are failing paged requests with HTML 503

Request Throttling Limits
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Finding a user given their (exact) display name

UPDATE: min/max on users by name is now case insensitive resulting in a viable 'exact match'. e.g. min=john&max=john see should min/max for alpha-numeric cases be case-insensitive? the min/max sol …
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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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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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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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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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