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Badges are awarded to encourage and reward positive community actions within the site.

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Add information to badges/{id} method.

/badges returns every badge in the system, building a lookup based on id is trivial and costs a single request. …
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3 votes
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Can I determine the post that caused a user to earn a badge?

It may be added in a subsequent release, it's a little finicky as many badges have no associated posts (or aren't linked to a single post). …
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0 votes
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Add last_awarded_date to users/{id}/badges

Since there's an adequate work around, I'm [status-decline]-ing this.
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
2 votes
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Badges with zero count no longer returning zero

This should be fixed now.
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1 vote

No award_count field on any badges

This will be fixed with the next deploy.
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6 votes
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Self-mined Badge Progress via 2.0+ API

I'm declining this, not because I don't see the merit in it, but because we don't have the data to return in anything approaching a reasonable time. Our badge awarding code is very complex, and inten …
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1 vote

Why does badges/ids/recipients return badges not users?

Remember the existence of /badges/recipients, which does not take any badge ids. … For that method, simply returning users would be essentially useless; /badges/{ids}/recipients returns the same type in-keeping with the /something/{ids}/tail pattern. …
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1 vote
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/users/{id}/badges - multiple identical results

This has been fixed.
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2 votes
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Best way to calculate total badge count in Javascript?

Just sum the gold, silver, and bronze badges counts you get from /users/{id}. *And with 0.9 being a release candidate, there almost certainly won't be any changes in badges of all things before 1.0 …
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