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Tools that help with questions, or issues with the API handling of questions.

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How to control vote count for individual user?

There is currently no way of finding this information out. This has been discussed before and it would be a serious privacy breach if this information was made available.
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List of example questions

Since it's hard to find examples of questions with various attributes, maybe we can turn this into a reference? … List: Questions Closed: 3003308 (Stack Overflow) Migrated: 2965 (Stack Apps) Locked and Closed: 2835801 (Stack Overflow) Protected: 17207 (Supe rUser) Locked and Protected: 84556 …
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Ideas for dealing with this pagination problem?

Okay, here is the problem: Certain questions contain more than one page's worth of answers. Given a sort method and an answer id, how can we figure out which page the answer is on? …
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Why does api.stackoverflow.com allow resource calls that accept vectorized or multiple IDs?

StackApplet tracks new answers to a user's questions by doing the following: Retrieve the user's 100 most recently asked questions. … Use the IDs from the questions in a vectorized call to /questions/{vectorized_list}/answers with the range set to the time of the last request and the current time. …
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Get questions content from StackOverflow API

The URL for retrieving information about a question looks something like this: http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions/ question_id ? … Your URL now becomes: http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions/4010?site=stackapps&filter=withbody …
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Sort ranges on /questions/unanswered is broken

The following API request should return all unanswered questions with a score of at least 30: http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/questions/unanswered? … Obviosuly if there are only 26 total questions that have a score >= 30 then there cannot possibly be more unanswered questions than that. …
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StackBot - Making it easy to post StackExchange questions to Twitter

About StackBot is a small C# application that is designed to post interesting questions to a Twitter account at specified intervals. License StackBot is released under the Ms-PL license. …
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