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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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Odd String Format Result from API Call

I'm just getting started messing around with the SO API. I haven't worked with JSON before, and I am getting a strange result from a basic call (No API Key). … Edited to add a bit of code to decompress the API data: WebClient stackClient = new WebClient(); byte[] compressedData = stackClient.DownloadData(@"http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats"); int messageLength …