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We don't know* I suspect - despite our, and the communities, best efforts - there will be some hack-ish workarounds for defects in v1.0. Part of v2.0 would be addressing these issues, and we need so …

You can use sort=creation and min to pull in only new answers given a list of question ids and the questions/{id}/answer route. You can do the equivalent with users/{id}/questions to monitor for new …

The /errors method was requested to make it easier to test libraries. Finding questions/users/etc. that result in certain error cases can be... trying, and potentially quite brittle. Defined Error C …

The flip-side of that is that an "and" equivalent would require multiple requests to get all of the users who received one of a set of badges. It just so happens that the "or" behavior was easier - a …

Use the association_id returned as part of a user object, as in /users. This returns the user's accounts on any other site they might be on. Think of it as a window into the user accounts tab.

Vote timestamps are reduced in resolution to a day. So multiple votes occurring within the same day will all have the same timestamp. This is intentional.

You can use the API for data analysis, provided you stay within the limits we define for the API. Just like any other [app]. You'll be restricted on the number of requests/day, you shouldn't make …

It wasn't pointless when it was first posted, and now it is because the problem no longer exists. Alternatively, it could be deleted but that would remove all rep gained from the question which is in …

There are currently no plans for an API into the StackExchange.com site. Given how different it is from an SE-site it'd be a significant undertaking. Perhaps in the future. It might be of interest …

*Note that things get complicated when you start accounting for network latency, all of this discussion is from the server's perspective. …

closed_beta in the API is equivalent to Private Beta in Area51. "Closed" as in "to the public" not as in "shutdown." Sites that are shutdown cease to exist in the API.

This is linked into the motivations for v1 of the API. First, we wanted to put everything you could scrape into the API, so there'd be less motivation to do so. Second, we wanted it to be possible t …

No. The API gives read-only access (for now) to the Stack Exchange network of sites. It doesn't provide any services for constructing similar sites.

We're not using a library for OAuth 2.0 in the API. For one, OAuth 2.0 is a lot simpler than OAuth 1.0a and as such the benefits of pulling in a dependency to manage it are a lot smaller. We also ha …

API V2.0 has been out and pretty stable for about 3 months now, and we've become pretty confident in it. Additionally, API V2.0 consumption has now grown past the V1.x family. Now seems like a good t …