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You need help with the use of the Stack Exchange API, apps built on the API, or assistance building scripts that work on Stack Exchange websites.

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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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My app has to be published first? But it's still under development

It's a bit of a Catch-22. Work around it by: Make a app (or script) post for your app (or script). Also tag it with placeholder. And put "PLACEHOLDER - " at the beginning of the title. Provide a sum …
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How to make a Stack Exchange API call, using my key

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, …
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My registered apps are not showing in my profile; where can I find them?

You can see your apps, that you registered with the registration page, by going to: stackapps.com/apps/oauth This page is different for every user and you will be forced to log-in to see it. Th …
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Unable to get access token

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 …
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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?

The OAuth Domain is either: A valid domain that you own and control, and that is hosted somewhere the client can reach. Say, for example that you owned unicorns.mil. See this answer and this answer …
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How to delete apps in StackApps?

You cannot do this. A delete feature has been requested and requested again (with status-planned given about 3.5 years ago). Register your desire for this by immediately upvoting these posts: Dele …
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Complete list of sites to @include / @match into my script?

You don't need to support alias domains. They redirect to *.stackexchange.com domains, anyway. This will match all current Stack Exchange sites. …
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List of Votes by Authenticated users

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 …
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How to strip out certain fields from the Stack Exchange API, JSON response?

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 …
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How do I get my total reputation score using the API?

Just use the plain /users/{ids} route. (For network-wide score, see the bottom section, below.) if you run it on your userid, it currently returns: { "items": [ { ... "reputation": 354, …
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Can the redirect_uri contain port number?

You got that error because you set the OAuth Domain like example.com:8080, not the redirect_uri. That's not how you configure non-standard ports; see below. The redirect uri, with port, feature now …
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Hide the Stack Exchange sidebar

Support for this low demand functionality will be limited. …
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Javascript SDK channelUrl for local development

Your value for channelUrl is nominally correct. If I set up my XAMPP server, via httpd.conf to use port 8000, then this HTML page works perfectly fine for me: <!DOCTYPE html> <html><head> <title …
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How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?

To that end, there is a request to add this information to the Stack Exchange Data Explorer which you should probably support, given your question here. …
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