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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 …
7
votes
Accepted
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 …
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 …
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 …
3
votes
Inbox item not marked as read after viewing
Update: Op followed the advice, below, and changed the question from a bug to a feature-request.
This is not really a bug. Right at the top of the API documentation, it states that the API is rea …
3
votes
Accepted
Using OR with featured questions
Currently the API does not let you get "featured" questions (questions that have bounties) using or logic with the tag parameters. That is, you cannot search for questions that:
Have a bounty AND (ha …
3
votes
Accepted
Getting historical data for careers?
Currently, the Stack Exchange API has nothing to do with Stack Overflow Careers.
Anyway, there is no API for accessing Stack Overflow Careers job listings.
Best you can do is grab the most recent 10 …
3
votes
Accepted
Is it possible to have no sorting - to just show results in order of inputted IDs?
This is a classic "procedural" (or "row based" or "sequential") versus "set based" issue. See Understanding “Set based” and “Procedural” approaches in SQL or any one of thousands of similar articles. …
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 …
2
votes
Getting display name of the site on which question is located
You already know the site, it has to be built in to every /questions query. But, if you are querying separate sites with concurrent AJAX queries, merely encapsulate the site name in your AJAX callbac …
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. …
2
votes
Accepted
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: …
2
votes
Accepted
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 …
2
votes
Accepted
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/ …
2
votes
Accepted
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 ( …