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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Prevent that posts tagged with app or library enter Community Wiki mode when the owner edits...

Edit: I am afraid, it is by-designed at the moment. Please take a look at this FAQ on meta The post has been edited eight (8) times by the original owner. It is to prevent, question bumping in …
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Could there be a way to check stats on a key?

I am afraid, I think you need to handle that in your app itself. They probably don't want to expose those IP addresses used by API. I first, thought that API key limit is per IP Address, but looks li …
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Featured questions API

Try this http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?sort=featured
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