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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.

4 votes

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? …
2 votes
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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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3 votes
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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 …
Brock Adams's user avatar
3 votes
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Suggested edit not returned by API

The API excludes (most) deleted data (usually). …
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2 votes

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. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
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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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1 vote
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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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1 vote

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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5 votes

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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1 vote

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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2 votes
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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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1 vote
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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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3 votes

How to query the Stack Exchange API using an OR operator?

The API currently does not support this, but then neither does the website itself. The "How do I search?" … The API equivalents (one, two, three) give the same results. …
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3 votes
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Cannot get redirect_uri to work

There have been no reported changes to the API, officially for many years, (unofficially since January). But, frankly that script's approach should have never worked. … ‡ For the Stack Exchange API, this URL is: https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/login_success. …
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1 vote

Can the API Edit a Question, changing only one field?

error_message": "title", "error_name": "bad_parameter" Or "error_id": 400, "error_message": "body", "error_name": "bad_parameter" (Emphasis added) Note that I just edited the question, above, via the API
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