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Here's how it looks for that /users/{ids}/answers route: /users/2440312/answers?site=stackoverflow&filter=!. … (EG: this two-user request yields total = 3663 (at least 37 pages of answers) with no way to tell which user has which without paging through your original-style query.) …

If you really want the top answers for a tag, use the /search/excerpts route and set: sort=votes order=desc q=is:answer An appropriate filter (follow the example link, below) For example, this gets … the top 30 answers for the Java tag:         /2.2/search/excerpts? …

And, when I use /questions/{ids}/answers to search a question where I know I have a deleted answer, the results only show me the undeleted answers. … So, clearly, the current API was not meant to support deleted answers. …

The API filters are kept pretty simple, and there is no way to restrict these answers to just accepted answers. …

For instance, if I obtain an access_token with the private_info privilege and call: /2.2/questions/30028657/answers? … On questions owned by the authenticated user, accepted == is_accepted for any answers to that question. Note that you need to use a filter that returns accepted, as this is not present by default. …

The /search/excerpts route looks to be about as good as /search and it does return both questions and answers, and it does have an answers parameter. This route is "★ All new! For version 2.2! ★" …

You can use the /users/{ids}/answers route to get what you want -- with a little work. The trick is to use a filter that returns the answers.tags property. … The general procedure is: Call /users/{ids}/answers with the desired user ID's, the desired date ranges, and an appropriate filter. For example: /users/1068142/answers? …

If you don't mind data that's up to a week old, you can use the Data Explorer (SEDE) to get answers by tag and by accept date. … See this query of Answers that were accepted after a given date and for given tags. …

To do this you have to use the /users/{ids}/answers path to download all of a user's answers, and then filter out the tags and/or tot-up the scores from there. … Pseudo code: scoreByTag = [] // Empty associative array while (more pages of results) { 1) Fetch next page of answers 2) Store results and/or update scoreByTag array } Display/use select tag …

The various /questions routes do allow you to simultaneously retrieve answers, if you set the right filter. A good starting filter for getting questions with answers is: ! … Here is the critical part: Expand the question group and check answers. Expand the other fields and uncheck items you do not want. …

This is a bug and seems (based on a series of A/B tests) to be linked with the body_markdown property. That is, if your filter returns the tags array, it works: "items": [ { "tags": [ "batch-fil …

First, you'll want to go upvote the feature request to add tag search for answers, etc. … site=stackapps Be sure to set/use a filter that includes answers and comments. …

myStarOff" href="#" data-ansID="1234" title="Click to add as favorite answer (click again to undo)"> favorite</a> <a class="myStarOn" href="#" data-ansID="56789" title="Click to remove from favorite answers …

You can give /answers/{ids} a filter to make it return: username, tags, and title for the answer's question -- which may be all you're after? … Feed the answer post id's, 100 at a time, to /answers/{ids} to get further details if desired. Feed the question post id's, 100 at a time, to /questions/{ids} to get further details if desired. …

Does it work on answers at all? Here's a newer locked answer.   Yet, it doesn't have a locked_date either. It's not a filter issue. Nor is it fixed in version 2.3 (yet). …