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Can I have a separate account just for testing my Stack App?
It's allowed with the caveat there's no guarantee it won't be merged, provided that you abide by the good faith criteria.
If you attempt to actually run something like the script in your previous pos …
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wrong results of /search/advanced
From the docs:
Searches a site for any questions which fit the given criteria.
(emphasis mine)
The searches on the API aren't guaranteed to exactly replicate the current on-site search, so this …
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Clickable link in "Try It" section of some doc pages
The routes that don't link require POST requests because they create context, so there's nothing meaningful to be gained by going to those URLs in your browser.
The rest of the routes return data whe …
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Do the questions tagged "placeholder" need it explicitly in the title?
There's no real expectation set for this, feel free to pick whichever option seems better to you.
I personally feel the tag is sufficient, but I could see how having it in the title might save some p …
3
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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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404 "This Method cannot be called this way" when getting user's inbox
I don't believe that that route accepts POST requests (as it's non-actionable), so you should have better luck sending a GET request instead.
Routes that require auth tokens necessitate HTTPS, but st …
3
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Where are the built-in filters?
"A number of" might be a bit of a misnomer, as there are a whopping four standard ones:
From the filters documentation:
default, each type documents which fields are returned under the
default …
4
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Limiting the number of items returned by a request?
Just set pagesize in the URL, like:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags?pagesize=10&order=desc&sort=popular&site=stackoverflow
3
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Question's body rendering in Android's webview
If you query the site list, the markdown_extensions property for each site will contain the list of enabled post-processing extensions, if applicable.
Some possible extensions are:
Balsamiq
MathJax …
3
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Total Number Of Answers
It does return all the answers, but they're paged - by default you'll only get 30 at a time. You'll likely want to increase pagesize to 100, and then add the additional code necessary to make subseque …
3
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In lieu of write access, can a user be referred to a site with title and tags in the URL?
The tags URL parameter accepts a space-delimited set of tags to prefill in the form. As an example, check the link in the last question of the Data Explorer FAQ which has a URL like:
http://meta.stac …
8
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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 …
3
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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 …
3
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How to get a list of sites that a user is a member of?
If you already have a token, then you can use the /me/associated network route to get the associated site for the authorized user. There's a similar route that takes a network account ID and does not …
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Use case for /render endpoints?
You can use these endpoints to provide a user with preview functionality, since you can get back the submitted content as Stack Exchange would render it without the user having to actually create some …