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Tools that help with questions, or issues with the API handling of questions.
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
For example, this will fetch questions tagged python with at least 2 answers, and that have a score of 50 or more:
/2.2/search/advanced? … page=1&pagesize=100&q=score:50&answers=2&tagged=python&site=stackoverflow
Related questions:
How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date
Ability to sort answers by number of revisions via …
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Restore missing and/or obsolete Close-Vote Reasons
About:
This userscript restores missing/obsolete close-vote reasons to the close-vote dialog.
This script is in response to:
A chat request where the poster used it in conjunction with a bug …
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Can the API Edit a Question, changing only one field?
Yes, you must provide all three of: tags, title, and body -- even if they haven't changed.
Otherwise you will get error messages like:
"error_id": 400, "error_message": "tags", "error_name": "bad …
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What's the meaning about " is_answered" field of question object?
Refer to this Venn diagram:
Only questions in the green circle will have is_answered set to true. … .
-- That's questions that are in the intersection of the purple circle and the green circle.
is_answered is false, and question has an unaccepted answer.
-- That's questions that are in the blue circle …
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Can we pull posts out of Stack Overflow based on tags?
Is there any valid way to get the information from stackoverflow.com/search?q=?
Use the /search/advanced route of the API; that's what it's there for.
For example:
/2.2/search/advanced?q=foo …
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Get everything touched by a user?
Feed the question post id's, 100 at a time, to /questions/{ids} to get further details if desired. …
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How to pass multiple tags (OR between the tags) to the Stack Exchange Questions/Unanswered API
For example, suppose I wanted the unanswered questions tagged either unityscript OR rate-limiting.
I would do the following:
Fetch questions/unanswered? … Fetch questions/unanswered?tagged=rate-limiting(link), paging as necessary. …
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How to Create a Multi-tag URI Request to /questions
From the /questions doc:
...use the tagged parameter with a semi-colon delimited list of tags. … EG, see Why is there a difference between "questions" and "search" in API?. …
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How to get questions, under a tag, which have at least one answer with 10+ votes?
Note that questions often have several answers scoring more than 10. (And qualifying questions usually have other lower-scoring answers too.) … More questions...
That is, for each qualifying question, all of its answers are listed.
HOWEVER, this approach also restricts the results to questions that have at least 10 upvotes. …
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Do my users need to be logged in, for quota?
Your app can just give them the link, and they don't need to be logged in.
The quota is a function of your API key (mainly).
Register your app and use a key and that will give you a 10K quota.
See …
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How to get new questions continuously?
Since it is active questions, rather than newest, you will need to separately track which questions are really new. … Note that I suspect that this page misses questions, but have no evidence of that.
Also, this information is essentially the same as for the 155-questions-active WebSocket endpoint. …
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Get a great many counts of questions, by select tags for a date range?
Use a /search query to get the questions for the whole interval in question. EG:
/search? … For example, in 5 years there have been about a million Java questions. It would take your full 10K quota just to fetch that data (10K calls times 100 questions per call). …
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Notice field on questions may be absent?
Yes, officially this is a documentation bug. From the Absent Fields doc:
Fields that are not always guaranteed to be set... are indicated in the per-type documentation. Any discrepency(sic) betwe …
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Field "comment_count" is not always returned by API
This appears to be closely related to the bug: Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?.
The workaround from there -- altering the filter by:
selecting comment.comm …
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Why is /questions API returning deleted questions?
However, please refer to Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted -- which is "status-planned".
This is a feature, not a bug. … So, shush please, don't ruin it for us. ;)
Confirmation info:
You can see this behavior (for now) with this API search: /2.2/questions?fromdate=1466553600&... …