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Could you add the ability to divide a bounty between multiple users?

This is not possible. The API is not a way to alter the behavior of the StackExchange sites, but rather to access their content. However, if you do want to see this feature implemented, there is a fe …
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Add List of Libraries to "Get Started" sidebar

You know where it would really be noticed? That little announcement strip at the top of the page under the logo. Maybe: Writing an app? Check out the list of libraries.
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Is there any API that provides an event mechanism to implement an outlook style alert when n...

If you have a valid session cookie for a given user, you actually do have access to the messages in the Stack Exchange dropdown using the following URL: http://stackexchange.com/genuwine This URL re …
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Can UserScripts in the "scripts" tab be sorted in a similar manner as applications are in th...

If you bring up the Stack Apps home page (the apps tab), you will notice that the items are sorted according to their score and recent activity. Can we please sort the UserScripts (the scripts tab) t …
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Could there be a way to check stats on a key?

I think it would be very helpful if there was a way to get statistics about your own API keys. That way, you could find out which IP addresses were using your app the most. (And if one was abusing it …
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Retrieving a user's recent information

Yes, currently it would involve a lot of "hammering". I would love to see something like this get added too so that apps that need to "monitor" certain events can poll that method for changes. As for …
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More Global Methods?

Consider the following scenario: I need to retrieve a list of the latest questions asked on three different Stack Exchange sites. I throw together an application that hits up the following routes: h …
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What category does a website fit under?

I developed a mobile front end to StackOverflow... and I was wondering what category it fit under... I mean, is it an app? Something else? I think we need an additional category: services.
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The applications listed on a user's apps tab are a little crowded.

As you can see, there is a very small amount of space between each of the applications in the "apps" tab of my user profile. This makes it a little bit more difficult to read because the space between …
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API key limit increase support

This is a great idea. My mobile site will definitely need a higher limit as more and more people begin to use it. Maybe there should be some kind of form we can fill in explaining why we need more, e …
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Exclude help requests and redirects from the API limit

Well, [looks around] you could use a proxy to get more requests. But I'm guessing your best bet is to take out a key.
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Filter support for regex or wildcards

I personally think that this would be more trouble than it's worth - and I'm speaking about the tremendous amount of work that the API maintainers would have to go through to filter malicious RegEx qu …
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6 votes
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Get a user's "interesting tags"

This is definitely private and should not be exposed by a read-only API that does not authenticate for that user.
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Add information to badges/{id} method.

Currently, there is no practical way to retrieve badge information given its ID. I would like to see title and description added at the very least. Current method for retrieving the data: call the …
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Can StackAuth indicate whether a linked meta is in private / public beta?

Currently, StackAuth returns: state: linked_meta ...regardless of the state of the parent site. This makes my logic quite complicated as then I have to match it up with its parent site to find it …
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