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

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Can we merge the 'library' and 'wrapper' tags?

There seems to be some fragmentation amongst the tags assigned to wrappers/libraries. Some have library, some have wrapper, and some have both. If I'm not mistaken, they are the same thing. …
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API to get the small tag info displayed in the popup

That information is available in the /tags/{tags}/wikis route: "Returns the community editted tag wikis associated with a set of tags." Example: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/tags/html/wikis …
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How to get tags using the API?

The tags can be retrieved from the API using the /tags route - a sample request for Stack Overflow looks something like this (notice the results are paginated - you will receive the first 30 tags according … When the user enters tags: Load all tags for the site filtered by the string the user has entered. Combine the returned list of tags with a semicolon and hit the /tags/.../wikis route. …
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Is there any way we could have more information about tags in /questions?

In the /tags route, the following information is returned for a specific tag: { "name": "c#", "count": 262613, "is_required": false, "is_moderator_only": false, "has_synonyms": true } is_required … indicates that the tag is part of the set of required tags for the site. …
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I want to receive email alerts if a question is asked with a specific tag. Is there an app f...

Well, one of mine comes close... Stack2RSS converts an API request to an RSS feed that you can subscribe to with an RSS reader. (You can also get daily emails with the contents of the feed.) The RSS …
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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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How about a regex filter in the tags API?

You didn't specify a particular language / framework, but if you were using Stack.PHP, you could simply do: $tags = array(); $response = API::Site('travel')->Tags()->Exec(); while($tag = $response->Fetch … ()) $tags[] = $tag; This would leave you with an array ($tags) that contains all of the tags on the site. …
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