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Questions about the Stack Exchange API *only*. If your question concerns any other API, do not use this tag. For bugs, please (also) use the version tag, EG [api-v2.2], that the bug applies to.

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What is the latest version of the Stack Exchange API?

See also: Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3 API 2.3 Release …
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Can I use the Stack Exchange API to build a "GH Archive" like project?

But given that you're only allowed 10,000 API calls each day, assuming you have a key, you can barely fetch each new post (question or answer) on a regular day. These numbers show exactly that. … Making calls at a higher rate makes no sense as you will run out of API quota before the end of the day. Beware that the throttle guidance talks about both IP based and dynamic throttles. …
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Why are Stack Exchange API methods named like this

I would argue the Stack Exchange API does a pretty decent job to adhere to the fundamental aspects of a REST API. … So far it looks like there are some decent reasons to have the API designed as is. For what it is worth, I often look at this specific API when I am designing one myself. I can only do a worse job. …
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Can I get information about a user with their network ID?

You can use /users/{ids}/associated Try it for your network account Returns all of a user's associated accounts, given their account_ids in {ids}. {ids} can contain up to 100 semicolon delimited ids …
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Java exception when user age or location is unspecified in returned JSON

I resolved this by putting if/else statements with the variables that were missing and setting the values to 0 or null if the key-value pair was missing. This is the URL I used to return Stack Overflo …
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Differences between versions 1.x and 2.x of the Stack Exchange API?

The changes in version of the API are documented in the Change log. … For V2.0 it has the following info on the request URL: All API request now go to api.stackexchange.com with a site parameter Every method of the form /users/{ids}* now has a /me version, which is the …
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I want a python program example for more requests a day

The description for that field is: Pass this as key when making requests against the Stack Exchange API to receive a higher request quota. …
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List recent tag wiki edits

While this isn't possible with the API, it is possible with SEDE, if you allow for up to 7 days of lag. …
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How to create API filters?

You can create and edit filters from the documentation page of the API endpoint. So you start at the Index of all endpoints. There you'll find /users/{id}/answers. …
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How can I retrieve the reputation I (or another user, fwiw) earned for a given tag from ques...

The user I used as an example has 440 tags in the API result and that is roughly 50 tags off compared to their site profile (and SEDE). …
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How can I implement a method to call the SE API that handles backoff correctly?

I assume you do use the fetch API or any other async capable module. But the approach is also feasible with just Promises and/or callbacks. … The design of your App will require that you only have one instance that makes the calls to the API. …
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