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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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r.e. /stats fields.
The other shoe is http://stackauth.com/sites
Its not in docs yet, but it should be good to go.
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consistency for array parameters
Anything that's not semi-colon delimited should be considered a bug.
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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?
/search is generally slower than /questions. You should use /questions unless you need one of the parameters on /search.
That said, ignoring caching differences, those two queries are equivalent.
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Are there any plans to add Inbox functionality to SO API?
API V2.0 introduced the /inbox and /inbox/unread routes.
They provide read-only access to a user's inbox, and both require authentication. …
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Can there be a way to find a user given his email hash?
Currently, we only have two places it could go:
api. …
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Is there a difference between "newest" and "creation"?
This is historical (and should probably be updated..., hmm).
/questions is/was a window onto https://stackoverflow.com/questions ; notice that there sorting is by newest.
Accordingly, sorts for /que …
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Could/Should the API evolve more agile rather than being blocked by v2 writing (and authenti...
Remember, once its in the API (baring exceptional circumstances) it has to stay there until the whole version† is deprecated. This is promise #3 on our API announcement. … Now, all that aside I do think its about time for another API version. …
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Retrieving JSON via the API using Ajax does not work
You can use JSONP (all API methods take a jsonp parameter for the callback name) to work around this.
Alternatively, you can use one of the Soapi.JS libraries, which handle this for you. …
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it
There are a great many fields on objects returned by the API that will be omitted if they are not set. …
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/questions/unanswered and /tags allow id parameter, but it does nothing
This is no longer the case.
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What is the correct way to get the stackoverflow.com URL for an answer via the API?
The most any of the API methods will give you is (relative) links to other API methods. …
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Why does Stats Return a Statistics Array
Symmetry mostly. Every other method returns a collection, why should /stats be a one off?
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SIlverlight 3 ClientHttp vs BrowserHttp stack: no cross domain policy means no gzip for Silv...
The API always sets the Content-Encoding response header, so you might be the victim of your library decompressing the response for you. … The API always responds with gzip'd content.
There are cross policy domain files on the API, StackAuth, and sstatic for Flash and Silverlight. …
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