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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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1 answer
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Retrieving a post with a specific ID

However, this is not reflected in the API. In some cases, you must know the type of a post in order to request information about it. …
2 votes
1 answer
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Any guarantees on JSON string encoding?

to the JSON specification, JSON can be returned in one of five string encodings: UTF-8 (the default encoding) UTF-16 Little Endian UTF-16 Big Endian UTF-32 Little Endian UTF-32 Big Endian Does the API
4 votes

Definitive on timeline_type?

Check out the enumerations page on the documentation.
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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?

Going over the API, there seems to be some overlap when it comes to expressing a predicate in a URL. … According to the API, there are two ways to do it: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/search?tagged=cocoa http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions? …
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Will URLs always follow this pattern?

However, this URL is not relative to the API url. It's relative to a URL that we (potentially) don't know. … They're API URLs. Doh! …
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Is there a difference between "newest" and "creation"?

When I look at some API endpoints, say /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/{id}, I see that the former can be sorted by newest, and the latter can be sorted by creation, both ascending or descending …