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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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Retrieving a post with a specific ID

According to this question (and its answer), questions and answers are using the same index to determine their ID. In other words: Question with ID #1 Answer with ID #2 Answer with ID #3 Answer w …
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Is there a meta api?

Is there a meta API for StackExchange? I don't mean an API for accessing meta sites, but rather an API to get information about the API itself. What I'm looking for is something that I can call that …
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Sorting the event stream

It seems like the data returned from the /events endpoint is flawed by being returned in descending order. For example: { "items": [ { "event_type": "comment_posted", "event_id": 1 …
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Requesting favorite questions should report which users have favorited it

I can request the favorite questions of a user via the users/{id}/favorites endpoint. If I'm only requesting the favorites for one user, then I know that all of the returned questions are the favorit …
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Can StackAuth indicate whether a linked meta is in private / public beta?

How hard is it to remove "meta." from the api_endpoint and then iterate through the list of about a dozen sites you got already to find the one with a matching host name? In Objective-C, which is gen …
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2 votes
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Auto discover API version?

I may have missed this before, and if I have, I apologize (I searched and didn't find anything). Is there a way to discover what the API version for a site is? With the recent change from 0.8 to 0.9 …
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Will URLs always follow this pattern?

Many of the API endpoints return urls, such as /questions/{id} (which returns urls for question_timeline_url, question_comments_url, etc). However, the URL returned is a relative URL, like /questions …
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Do tags have "Id" field?

I doubt there would be, since tags are uniqued by their name-color combination.
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