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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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List all tags in use on stackoverflow

Update: Version 1 of the API is long shut down. Here's sample paging on API version 2: /2.2/tags?page=1&pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=popular&site=stackoverflow /2.2/tags? …
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Why does this Stack Overflow API query return binary data?

The Stack Overflow API query http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search? …
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Is there an RSS feed or question that has API changes?

May be you just looking for code poet's: OBSOLETE - SOAPI-WATCH: A realtime service that notifies subscribers via Twitter when the API changes in any way (Now obsolete) …
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Will URLs always follow this pattern?

Regarding the following question, Can I always assume that removing the "api." subdomain will result in the base url of the site? No, According to Kevin here …
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API having more rights than a 0 rep user.

Actually, there is timeline for any users, that can see up/down votes as well. https://stackapps.com/posts/551/timeline
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API not returning anything near the actual website

Adding dummy parameter min=-1000 give me correct results (also with answers :D), you could use it as work-around at the moment. But definitely this should be fixed. http://api.stackoverflow.com/0. …
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Questions with accepted answers

There is "accepted_answer_id" for questions method. When there is no accepted answers,that field does not exists in returned JSON. So hasAccepted is the existance of "accepted_answer_id" field.
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When API site goes offline, please return a JSON , instead of Stack Overflow alike offline H...

I've just noticed that my API queries are failing in JSON parsing, because of API Site shows offline HTML Page. I wish it would return a valid JSON response, instead of HTML Page. …
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it

Yeah, just displaying blank string will be great. And also same for accept_rate age location website_url too (may be there is even some more) Note: Personally, I don't have any problem with ex …
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