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This tag is for questions about the Stack Exchange API version 2. First released Feb 2012.

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How to deal with the "Too Many Requests" error coming as HTML?

It sounds like you've either got a bug which is in fact making more requests than you think it is, or you're on a network where there's some other source of high-frequency requests. You're not suppos …
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How to track the open/closed status over the history of a question?

You can get at this information, but it's messy. Using the /posts/{id}/revisions route you can query for the list of all revision events for a particular question, which includes close/reopen events. …
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StackExchange API /sites/ does not return all the sites

You need to pass in a sufficiently large pagesize value, per the documentation: The pagesize parameter for this method is unbounded, in acknowledgement that for many applications repeatedly fetchi …
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Are the "body", "comments" and "answers" parameters supported in the API version 2.x?

Are they moved to filters? Yes, you need to generate a filter that includes the question.body, question.comments, and question.answers fields. There are shorthand filters (i.e. _bca) that will do …
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Is there a limit on the data that is returned from stackoverflow API calls?

The API allows you to set a pagesize of 0 to 100 (with the exception of the /sites route, which allows larger values), and defaults to a maximum of 30 items in the response. To get all of the items a …
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API for getting multiple (yet specific users)

Most routes that take an ID, including the /users route, will accept multiple values separated by semicolons. For example, a query like /users/1%3B22656?site=stackoverflow will give you results for …
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Give us a site's API name in the list of a user's sites

I don't see any particular reason not to add it, but there are some workarounds you can use in the meantime: Build a cache of all site information with the site URL as the key, and then look up the …
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The API has stopped allowing CORS requests

I just noticed that a script I have that makes CORS requests to the API stopped working on Meta Stack Overflow, claiming that the domain isn't allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin, which is true sin …
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Serel returns a JSON Parse error for the 'C#' tag

I imagine the API is returning a Bad Request response because the hash mark isn't properly encoded in the URL. As Serel doesn't appear to attempt to encode the passed-in values at the moment, you sho …
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/posts/{id}/revisions breaks for posts with [tag:*] content

Attempting to access (at least) the revisions route for a post with a revision involving the [tag:*] syntax causes an error: Example on Meta Stack Overflow (Post History) Example on Mathematica (Pos …
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Is the display name meant to be escaped HTML in the 2.0 version of the API?

It's mentioned under the Safety section of the filters documentation that by default all response data can be safely inserted into HTML, which is why the data is pre-escaped in this case. You can try …
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