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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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How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?
You cannot get the days visited, nor consecutive, information for a user because that is private information(Poster is SE representative).
Stack Exchange is supposed to be about the content, not the p …
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503 errors on batch get questions endpoint
So, you are making up to 150 requests in a 30 second period (10 "parallel requests", with a 2 second pause in between). And failing at 80 to 100+ seconds of operation and 400 to 500 total requests?
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Please provide an API "flair"-data call (`/associated` route is inadequate)
A unified call would be nice, but everything you asked for falls into one of 3 categories:
It's already in the users/{ids}/associated call.
It's trivially easy to calculate in the app or script. EG: …
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
You can filter (not sort) questions (and to some extent answers) by using the /search/advanced route of the API.
The q parameter allows most of the Advanced Search Options. … Is there a SQL-like query for the API?
How to search answers like is:answer …
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Suggested edit not returned by API
The API excludes (most) deleted data (usually). …
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Are the revisions returned by /posts/{ids}/revisions guaranteed to be returned in descending...
This way old answer about API version 1, has the lead developer saying:
Because sorting by dates is much more common than by name, ordering is descending by default. …
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How to get access token from the hash?
Refer to the API Authentication docs; there are a great many things wrong with the URL in the question (at least 5). …
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How to search ALL sites with the advanced API?
To implement this usually would mean that a supporting method would be added to the API. This feature-request has been ignored. … Use some third-party search API, like the DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API. …
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Is there a SQL-like query for the API?
No there is no "Query API", especially not for SQL-like syntax. … For large and rapidly changing data, fetch the base from SEDE and/or heavily cache it, and then use the API to only fetch what's changed since the last cache or SEDE update. …
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Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3
Anyway, in Jan 2017 the (former) API developer, Brian Nickel, said:
There's no timeline yet for new features (and API backing them), just focused getting the app working. … Given that that was before API devs got switched to "Developer Affinity & Growth" (DAG), per the answer you linked, it may be a while before we can see anything official on the next API release... …
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Unable to get access token
Refer to the Stack Exchange API, Authentication docs. It looks like you are trying to authenticate using either a server you do not control, or a local server that is not on the public internet. …
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Is it possible to create a private Q&A site using the Stack Exchange API?
Teams do have API support, although it is read-only at the moment. …
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I have created a lot of access_token with no_expiry scope while experimenting. How do I dele...
This is what the /apps/{accessTokens}/de-authenticate route does.
Passing valid access_tokens to this method causes the application that created them to be de-authorized by the user associated wit …
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The API is not returning a value that I know it should
The API results are paged, defaulting to 30 (base) records at a time.
So you need to always check the has_more property and fetch additional pages, if needed. …
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How to get the number/count/total of tags/badges/something from the API?
The API /tags route , however, returns neither of these, as best as I can tell‡. (3 or 4 very recently orphaned tags being the exception). So the totals will not match up. … Likewise, the only zero count tag in the API is currently the featured tag, which is moderator only. …