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The API only returns data in JSON format - you must perform any conversion yourself. Here is the source code for a PHP app I wrote a while back that converts the JSON returned by the API to XML: …

The OAuth domain name is the domain name that will be used to restrict the value of the redirect_uri parameter when authenticating from your application. This is done as a security precaution to preve …

It depends on what profile information you need to display. Basically anything in a user's profile that's public-facing is exposed via the API and requires no action on behalf of the end-user. Starti …

Unfortunately the news is bad all around. Sathya has updated the tag wiki for script to include the following paragraph: As of May/June 2012, Chrome no longer allows for direct installations of o …

You might want to take a look at my Insert APT Link UserScript, which demonstrates how to add a button to the toolbar and associate an action with it. It also demonstrates how to interact with the edi …

The official rate limits are posted here. One thing you mentioned in your post does strike me as a little odd: "I've been doing a first call with pagesize=0 to determine how many pages there are …

I almost forgot: Thank you! We have been looking forward to this for a long time and it's great to finally get a chance to play around with the new API.

You can search any Stack Exchange site for some keywords using the /search method: http://api.[site].com/1.1/search?intitle=[search string] According to the usage documentation, the intitle parame …

I never thought about that — that's a serious problem. I totally understand throwing option #1 and #2 out — they're either impractical or impossible. I strongly suggest going with option #3. I would …

This has become a bit of a concern for me with the upcoming beta for v2.0 of the API. The problem is simple: if someone wants to know what version of the API a library is compatible with (or at least …

Ask Ubuntu Data Server does what you suggest in a very small way. It uses the information in the data dumps to respond to the /similar route. Its behavior is designed to match the actual API route as …

I can give you a good example of where this would be helpful. StackApplet tracks new answers to a user's questions by doing the following: Retrieve the user's 100 most recently asked questions. Use …

This is relatively easy - just make him give you the same email address that he provided for his Stack Exchange account and then calculate the MD5 hash of the email address. Then compare that to the e …

There sure is: StackApplet. Keep in mind that right now, it is only available for Linux users - but a Windows version is in the works.

Are you still working/updating it? Yes, I'm still keeping my applications as up to date as I can with the time I have. Obviously this is not as often as I'd like, but I do the best I can. Even after …