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This tag indicates a proposal for a new feature for the Stack Exchange API, or a change to an existing feature.

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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)
Brock Adams's user avatar
38 votes
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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.
2 votes
2 answers
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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?

For the type "string", I think there is some upper limit of character count. For example, post title : 200 characters post body : 30000 characters In the help page, currently like this "body": { …
6 votes
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Please include Flag Weight in User API

Flag Weight is visible to everyone. It would be great if that info included in API /users/{ID} result.
2 votes

Access to /users/recent/ (Recent Activity) through the API

Current API is read-only, and /users/recent info can only viewed by yourself (404 for other users). So, API shouldn't expose the informations that real site doesn't. Actually, there is users/timeline …
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Don't include answers in question lists by default

Option like answers=true/false would be great. Because including answers save API daily rate-limit, on other side. So both can be happier adding an option answers=true/false, instead of just dropping …
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3 votes

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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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?

Well done! now returned JSON on help pages are like this ... "title": { "description": "title of this post", "values": "string", "optional": false, "suggested_buffer_size": 200 }, "bod …
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5 votes
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api.stackoverflow/0.8/questions now gives answers as well by default?

It is supposed to include answers (probably first page only), and documented (look for "answers" in return json), but there was a bug, and it has been fixed recently. But yes, I also think answer=tr …
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1 vote
1 answer
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Can we have all possible closed reasons in help page?

Can we have all possible closed_reasons in help page and if possible, closed_reason_id, too? For example closed_reason_id=1, closed_reason="exact duplicate", closed_reason_id=2, closed_reason="off- …
1 vote

Retrieving a user's recent information

Isn't users/{id}/timeline method quite similar? You could get "comments, questions, answers, badges, revisions, or accepted status"
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1 vote

display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)

There is 2 questions in your JSON, First one, question id : 2932214, userid : 353236, and display_name : Gary is correct You could check at actual post here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ …
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3 votes
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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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Do tags have "Id" field?

According to help page, there is no "Id" field. But I am just wondering if there id "Id" field for tags, can we get it through API too?
2 votes
1 answer
40 views

Can API stats return real revision number instead of 1234.5678?

Currently it returns like this "revision": "1.0.1234.5678" And looks like that number never changed. So, Can API return real revision number whenever there is an update? It will be very useful wh …

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