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How to get a User Id

You can use filter by names as you already mentioned, and it is the correct way because user names are not unique. You can sort it by reputation, name, creation date with ordering asc or desc In the …
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My App unintentionally DoSed api, and my IP got blocked across all the sites, now what shoul...

I put a program in cron to run every 5 minutes, and that program loop 5 times and read each api site 12 seconds interval. But last night (12 hours ago), I noticed that my program broke and there was …
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Getting questions with multiple tags

Try this http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/?tagged=gwt+google-app-engine
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Post body is optional field in questions method?

"body": { "description": "body of this post", "values": "string", "optional": true }, Post body is optional field in questions method? Shouldn't all the posts have body field?
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Negative voting questions?

Adding max=-10 will only show score with -10 or lower questions http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?sort=votes&order=asc&max=-10&type=jsontext
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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?page=2&pagesize=100&order=d …
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Is dev.meta.stackoverflow.com gone?

Sorry If I am posting in wrong place, but when I try to login to dev.meta.stackoverflow.com today, I got password protected page and looks like previous password is not valid anymore.
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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?tagged=javascript&intitle=%3Cdiv%3E returns what appears to be binary data: ���I�%&/m�{J�J��t��$ؐ@�������iG#)�*��eVe]f@�흼 …
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Can I apply the API Key first and do the application later?

I don't have an application to submit at the moment, but can I apply the key first?
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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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Can API stats return real revision number instead of 1234.5678?

It will be very useful when we do bug reports or asking for support. …
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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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The API Key does not work

I have registered an app at https://stackapps.com/apps/register, got a Key right away after I have submitted. But now when I request http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY, I got RequestLim …
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What will be rate-limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from same IP?

What will be the effective rate limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from the same IP address? Will it be whatever only one of the keys can use? So maximum 10k? Will rate-limit …
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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- …
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