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Question pertaining to the documentation provided with the API.
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What license is the Stack Exchange API released under? MIT?
You're talking about a number of things here, so let me see if I can explain them all:
The code powering the API is (presumably) written in C# and is closed-source.
The content provided by the API i …
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Make API query to only one Stack Exchange site
By definition all /search and /similar queries are made on one specific site. There is currently no way to search more than one site.
Example:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?intitle=linq …
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How many ids is 'too many'?
According to this answer, it looks like 100.
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What happened to the /stats method?
I can't find the /stats method in the new usage documentation.
A quick run of http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/stats reveals that the method is still there. However, it is not documented. …
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HTTP 400 "Bad Request" while using "access_token" in request Url
First of all, I'm guessing the HTTP 400 errors are directly related to the fact that you are transmitting the access_token over standard HTTP instead of HTTPS. The API (if I remember correctly) throws …
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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?
Adding it simply causes the method to return questions from the site and not documentation.
Is this an oversight or was the feature dropped? If it was dropped, can we please have it back? …
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Document fields that may be not be included in responses
This would be a good idea for the simple wrappers that want to just assume a certain value will be there.
But for a serious application, there should still be a check to make sure a value is included …
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Is it really worth to (implicitly) discourage documentation of API/library usage nowadays al...
Having earned some rep. from the "dev-tip" questions myself, I can honestly say that I probably would not have put in the effort knowing I would never get rep. from it.
I think the CW-requirement nee …
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Is it really worth to (implicitly) discourage documentation of API/library usage nowadays al...
As Jeff mentioned in the comment of my other answer, this information would be best put elsewhere... so...
I have set up a MediaWiki installation for this here:
http://stackoverflow.quickmediasoluti …
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Documentation of /users/{id}/top-answer-tags conflicts with implementation.
According to the documentation:
/users/{id}/top-answer-tags or /me/top-answer-tags – Get the top 30 tags (by score) a single user has posted answers in. … I assume that either this route returns more than the top 30 tags (and the documentation is incorrect) or the route does not return more than 30 tags (and the implementation is incorrect). …
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Getting Question data using stack.PHP fails after a certain number of requests
Note: I'm the author of stack.PHP.
You're likely running into rate limit issues. The API only allows you to make som many requests per second. Quoting from the question I linked to:
The API will …
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What is the "inname" parameter to the /tags 2.0 API?
inname limits the returned items to only those that contain the specified value. This parameter is identical to the filter parameter in v1.0 and v1.1 of the API.
Note: this parameter is also present …
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
According to the documentation:
answer_id integer, refers to an answer
may be absent
body string
unchanged in unsafe filters … Can either the body be added to all items or the documentation updated please? …
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Possible bug in the help page?
There are some weird dot things in this help page:
api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/badges
{Dead link to missing image: http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/stackbug.png}
Wha …