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Questions about the Stack Exchange API *only*. If your question concerns any other API, do not use this tag. For bugs, please (also) use the version tag, EG [api-v2.2], that the bug applies to.

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Is it possible to restrict the pool of answerers to users meeting certain criteria?

The API as of version 1.0 is strictly read only (see this answer), so users will never be able to provide an answer on your site, rather they'll have to submit answers on the original Stack Exchange sites … Assuming you rather meant which users answers are going to be visible on my mashup site the answer is it depends: The API in itself doesn't provide advanced query filtering capabilities like you desire …
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Is there an SO API which can fetch all Questions & Answers for a particluar Keywords

Searches that are purely text based should be routed through a third-party search engine, for performance reasons Give it a try and retrieve all questions tagged api-v2. …
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Is there a way to determine total number of upvotes and downvotes (etc) for a user (regardle...

Kevin indeed misinterpreted your question as per your comment on his answer - as such it has been a valid feature-request in principle and I've retagged it accordingly (you might adjust the title a bi …
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Getting started: What kind of thing can we do with the SE-API that we can't do with the SE D...

You can get meta data about a site as well as about all sites and users within the Stack Exchange sites network, see e.g. the following routes: Api Routes /stats Gets various system statistics. …
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