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For questions about caching results of API calls and / or how caching affects user scripts when used on the Stack Exchange sites.

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last_activity_date meaning on /questions route

Activity is defined as, "whatever the site considers Activity." Yeah... More usefully, the current list is: edits (on the post themselves, and on an answer a question owns) opening a bounty a new …
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Why does the API lack (proper) HTTP cache control headers?

There are two, rather divergent, answers to this question. First and foremost, its not in the API because nobody (us included, woops!) thought of it before the API interface was frozen... so it didn't …
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Why does the /events service sometimes pause for a couple of minutes?

The comments are more or less correct; caching applies to the /events endpoint just like every other method. This is by design for now. … We have looked at differing caching policies for /events and /inbox/* routes, as the minute lag on those methods is a bit heavy handed; though we still need to protect ourselves from abusive requests. …
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