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JSON is a text-based open standard. It is human-readable and used for data interchange between applications. Use this tag for questions related to topics about using JSON.

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Possible Gzip or data format problems when trying to read JSON.

Here is the relevant section of code from stack.PHP. $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING,'gzip'); // Needed by API curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNT …
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Stack Cartographer - A PHP tool for generating a JSON map of the Stack Exchange API.

About After the JSON documentation for the Stack Exchange API was dropped for v2.0, I began to wonder if it would be possible to throw together a PHP script that did a bit of screen-scraping to generate … a JSON map of the API. …
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Get user data using curb/Curl in Ruby

I think your problem is that you're forgetting that the API only supplies gzipped data. I don't use Ruby, so you'll have to figure out how to tell curl to accept gzip data.
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Get API responses in formats other than JSON

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: http://quickmediasolutions.com/pastebin/1/stack2xml-source-code It expects two GET variables …
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