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It's pretty simple, you just append your key to the URL as a parameter. For example, looking for users 1 and 5: http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/1;5?site=stackoverflow&key=YOUR_KEY_HERE So, …

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. Cru …

No. Currently the users type does not return any private_info and neither does the user_timeline type return any voting information. No other API method allows for detecting a user's vote history ex …

This is what custom filters are for. For example, if you append &filter=!BGRhem4Z)WIti9lP55R*tgr(Jq_fHC to your query, above, you will get results without upvote_count, downvote_count, or owner inform …

This is currently not possible via the API. The best you could do is have the user logged into a browser and then screen-scrape the stackoverflow.com/users/{user_id}/?tab=votes pages... Hardly an …

See the "Safety" heading in the "Custom Filters" doc. The difference between a "safe" (default) filter and an "unsafe" filter, is that the unsafe data might return data that could result in a script …

You can get data close-enough to "real time" for most practical purposes. See the StackHose app, for example. Read the page about the API's Throttles and Quotas. From that page we can deduce: The m …

By "bio" you mean the about me field, right? ... Any path that returns a user object will return the about_me property, but this is not returned by default. You have to use a filter that has about …

To find user_id(s) for a username, use the inname parameter of the /users query. You will have to repeat this query call for every Stack Exchange site that you are interested in. For example: /user …

Since the .getTime() value is already in UTC, you can just divide by 1000, and round. That is: var apiDate = Math.round (new Date().getTime() / 1000); works just fine. apiDate is in "unix epoch t …

The API does not provide any method to determine a user's email address and it is unlikely to do so in the future. This would be a risk to both the user's privacy and his/her trust in Stack Exchange. …

You need to use a filter that returns those properties. The default filter does not. Also, the API is at version 2.2. You should use that unless you've a very good reason not to. So try, for example …

If the answer is the accepted answer, is_accepted is true and anyone can see it. accepted is set to true only if the currently authenticated user is the one who has accepted the answer. For instan …

This seems to have been silently/magically fixed in the last 7 months (Date of Nicos Karalis' comment). Descriptions seem correct now. I had verified that they weren't correct when I upvoted this q …

accept_rate is the internally tracked value of the user's Accept Rate. This is roughly a measure of how many of the user's questions have answers and where one of the answers was accepted by the user …