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What constitutes abuse? Making an undue number of requests in a short span of time, or regularly exceeding a request quota during "normal" use. Guidelines for polling We realize that a great many appl …

The Stack Exchange API is based on HTTP and URLs, just like the web page you're browsing now. Except instead of HTML, the responses are all in JSON. Let's say we wanted to call the /info method: https …

We've always said that we'll support anyone who builds on our platform, but I still want to emphasize that. 18 new methods have been added, 2 older methods have been revisited (their old versions still …

For a lot of us, that would be next Friday. At some point - most likely after noon PST - version 0.9 of the API will be replaced with the final 1.0 release. There are no expected interface changes b …

Tags on the sites are, at most, 35 characters. Permitted characters are a-z 0-9 + # - . However, this is not part of the API contract insofar as if the site definition of a tag changes so will the API …

The /sites method is used to enumerate all sites in the network. If your [app] is meant to run against more than a single site (and many are) this method is how you should be discovering new sites in …

The API does support the jsonp parameter for cross-domain requests. Why is GZIP support required? GZIP is 17 years old, and has been part of the HTTP 1.1 standard for 11 years. …

The /me/associated routeDoc is the preferred way to turn an access_token into a list of users, it returns the collection of per-site user details that can be quickly fetched. It's basically the user' …

You have to create a post describing your application, and edit it into your application's registration. Basically, the first arrow needs a value; and you can set it when you edit (with the second …

No, Area51 isn't in the API; it's different enough from the Q&A sites that it'd have to have a rather different one anyway. There are currently no plans to make an Area51 API either.

Your apps registered domain must match that the url passed as channelUrl. You'll need to update your app's domain from actionbox.io to cybertron-nodejs-11139.apse1.actionbox.io (or whatever other ful …

Fun one. Changes behind the scenes to how closed reasons are handled caused the API to stop getting a real reason and start getting a null one. This was just different enough from failing to get a r …

This isn't possible and isn't likely to be added. Post history is by a good clip the largest chunk of data in the system. Regularly sorting by it would be prohibitively expensive on the sites themsel …

/questions take's a semi-colon delimited list of tags in the tagged parameter. If tagged is set, questions returned will have all the passed tags (ie. it's an AND operator). https://api.stackexchang …

Your app's key can be found by clicking "manage your applications" in the sidebar on the homepage of Stack Apps, then clicking the app's name. Here's what the key looks like for the documentation con …