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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 …

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' …

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 …

You should be POST'ing your parameters, form encoded, rather than putting them on the Url. GET'ing should fail more gracefully than that though, I'll get a better error message in there in the next d …

The implicit flow uses the url https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog, not https://stackexchange.com/oauth. You should just need to change the url, otherwise that looks correct.

backoff isn't used to indicate when you're breaking api limits (we start returning errors when you break contracts). The typical cause of a backoff is a request that takes unusual resources to run. …

Stack Exchange's implementation of OAuth 2.0 is modeled after Facebook's. While I haven't used Scribe, presumably their Facebook example is the relevant.

Well technically it already says "Most methods" so it's correct as written. But I agree, it's easy to miss that note. After the next build there will be another sentence mentioning that some methods …

This is what preview is for. Every write method takes a parameter called preview (the test console defaults it to true for testing purposes). When it's explicitly set to true, the method goes throug …

key is your app key, access_token identifies a user (and a set of permissions) and is what you get at the end of an authentication flow. Keys are not secret, for example here's what the Documentation …