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Tools (scripts/apps/libraries) that help with answers, or issues with the API handling of answers
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What is the correct way to get the stackoverflow.com URL for an answer via the API?
You have to generate any links back to "proper" SO yourself. The most any of the API methods will give you is (relative) links to other API methods.
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The /search route is ignoring the answers parameter.
/search is already pretty resource intensive, and not returning answers is a conscious effort to reduce its runtime. … The answers parameter does not appear in the documentation for /search accordingly. …
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Why these questions do not have a title?
Naturally, answers have no titles or tags. …
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Answers parameter not functional
This has been fixed.
Example
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Problem getting a users answers within a date range
This should be fixed now.
(Its kind of safe to assume these are bugs by the way, we are in beta)
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Please add tags to answers
Just going off of usage statistics, nearly everybody is grabbing answers as part of /questions/{id} or /questions. … This strongly suggests that what use of */answers there is, is largely independent of corresponding question (if I had to guess, I'd say its generally user analytics of some sort). …
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Why answers don't have a "locked" attribute?
locked_date has been placed on both questions and answers now. …
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Ideas for dealing with this pagination problem?
Why go through the question to get an answer you already have?
You have an answer id, so you can get all of its information.
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Answer up/down vote count not being returned in filter
Building answers is typically a three step process, and we were stopping on step 2 effectively. …
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/users/{id}/answers - broken
This has been fixed.