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Question pertaining to the documentation provided with the API.
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Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API
There is no tutorial for the API, nor is there likely to be one -- at least officially. There is a "Hello World" introduction.
To use the current API (version 2.2), you really only need to know/do:
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Accessing Authenticated User's Close/Delete History
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 …
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Docs say the API returns a user's age, but it doesn't (anymore)
The documentation still needs to be corrected. …
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Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3
Note that version 2.3 has been around since at least Aug 28, 2015 (Date of that answer).
I could have sworn that one of the SE guys said they weren't going to document it, but can't find a reference …
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Which reputation events are private?
That API-object, documentation page would be perfect for it.
However, a lead Stack Exchange developer has stated that anything that reveals voting patterns will be hidden or private. …
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Where is "items" & "badge_counts" documentation?
items is documented in the Common Wrapper Object. It is an array of whichever object the given route returns.
In the case of /me/associated, items is an array of network_user objects.
If you use …
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
The link is correct. The purpose of that control is to provide a URL to the doc page with all the parameters prefilled. This is what most users expect and is similar to how that link control works o …
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How do I parse the dates from the API?
The date is in "Unix epoch time", as described in the API-docs, Date Formats section.
How you do the conversion depends on what language you are coding in. Here's one way in javascript:
function un …
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What happened to the links to a Stack App mentioned in the documentation about write access?
This is a documentation bug in my opinion. The "via Example App" was never included, nor should it be. …
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My filter is not returning any results. How to create a minimal filter?
The key mistake here is neglecting the Wrapper Object, and this is a big flaw with the filter documentation.
The wrapper is the box that everything you get from the API comes in. …
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Maximum length of "about me" in the Stack Exchange API?
That question introduced the suggested_buffer_size field in the self-documentation, but (A) that was just a suggestion and (B) the suggested_buffer_size field seems to have been dropped from the current …
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
The documentation was updated sometime in the last 2 years and the API docs (version 2.2) now state that the property may be absent: …
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Difference between `/inbox/unread` & `/me/inbox/unread`
There is no difference and...
The inbox has always been "The global inbox". Certainly for as long as the API has existed.
So any inbox route will be Stack Exchange wide, even if it accepts a site par …
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The /tags query is not giving me the correct results between two dates?
This is either a bug with the route or an omission in the documentation.
Workaround:
Use the /search or the /search/advanced routes, with a filter that just returns total. …
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`types=main_site` in `/me/associated` gives `meta_site` accounts also
This is exactly how it should be (except that the doc page might be more explicit).
The meta_site parameter refers to Per-site Metas.
Meta Stack Exchange is not a per-site meta. Think of it as a …
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