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This tag indicates a proposal for a new feature for the Stack Exchange API, or a change to an existing feature.

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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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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

Find out whether a user has association bonus

Yes, you can find out if the user has received the association bonus using the API. It's a bit clunky though. However, as we discovered, "association bonus rights" are rather meaningless at the mome …
Brock Adams's user avatar
5 votes

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 …
Brock Adams's user avatar
2 votes

Get favorited tags of user

UPDATE: The feature appears to be present in the, so far, undocumented API version 2.3. See captncraig's answer on this page. After all these years, it looks like this might never get implemented. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
2 votes

Can we change the Stack Apps homepage tabs to not show questions tagged "obsolete" and "plac...

Yes, the homepage is not showing Stack Apps in its best light. As a mitigation that we can all do now: Prepend "OBSOLETE - " or "PLACEHOLDER - " to the title, if appropriate. (In addition to those 2 t …
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"text/plain" content type header for x-www-form-urlencoded content?

The question is either not completely clear or a duplicate. You may need to post an MCVE. According to the OAuth 2.0 Authorization spec (RFC 6749), section 5.1: The parameters are included in the ent …
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2 votes
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Add the 'people reached' count to the API?

Until the feature request is approved (unlikely, and a similar request has no developer love either), you can get this number in one of 3 ways: You can get slightly stale data with this SEDE query ( …
Brock Adams's user avatar
2 votes
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How to search answers like is:answer

I forget when, but sometime in the last couple of years, the /search/excerpts route started allowing is:answer in the q parameter. For example:           /2.2/search/excerpts?&q=Hear! is:answer&sit …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote

/tags search multiple words ("or") inname

There is no need for a special API route, "OR" logic is easy to implement. Merely search for each term separately and then merge the results. For example, if I wanted tags that had either javascript …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote
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How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date

This is most likely one of those things you'll have to do yourself and one reason why the API is available. And, it's not too hard; here is pseudo code that works: Call /questions/featured with max …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote
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Share short link to comment

Here is a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script that should work. It is untested and unhosted at the moment. : // ==UserScript== // @name Stack Exchange, Comment cleanup // @description See stacka …
Brock Adams's user avatar
2 votes
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API access to the /10m ("Thank you") web page?

You can get this data easily by scraping or by using the websocket interface that Stack Exchange helpfully leaves available. If you are making an application or webpage, just fetch stackoverflow.com/ …
Community's user avatar
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1 vote

Can I change my profile picture using the API version 2?

As you have discovered, you cannot do this with the current API. See, and upvote, this related feature request: Is there an API to upload images to SE's imgur installation? See, also, Using the Stack …
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4 votes

Getting the top answerers/users for a tag in a custom time range?

This is very costly to do in the API and currently impossible for many combinations of tag and date (because it would require more than the 10,000 allowed API calls per day). I'll write more about tha …
Brock Adams's user avatar

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