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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 …

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 …

Purposefully not shown. The potential for abuse is way too high.

Dates increase as time advances, so 1293861600 (Jan. 1st 2011) is greater than 946706400 (Jan 1st. 2000). Thus, a descending ordering puts the most recent dates first. Because sorting by dates is mu …

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 …

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 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.

Try using JSONP instead of raw JSON; we just added support for the jsonp parameter. …

Yes, you can change very nearly everything (and actually everything that's user entered) about an application after it's been registered. You should use the domain you intend to host the client-side …

Every response from the API can be cached for up to a minute, so making the same request multiple times in that time-frame typically won't return different results. We make note of this in the thrott …

Yeah... These are kind of complicated, but very flexible. They're also getting better docs soon-ish. Basically, min & max are the range of the sorted results to return. So, if you order a list of …

Yes. Your API key identifies your application for stat tracking purposes more-so than security purposes. It is safe to leave in a plain text, user readable, format.

I'll slot this in for v2.1, not super useful in general but definitely interesting information that we should make available.

An IP has a request quota, an application key is used to determine that quota. In answer to your question, 10k.