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Tools that help with tags, or issues with the API handling of tags.

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/tags search multiple words ("or") inname

For example, if I wanted tags that had either javascript or for-off, I'd first search for javascript(44 tags), then for for-off(2 tags), and then merge the results to get the 45 unique tag names. … :`); console.log (tagNames); } ); This gives results like: Found: 2 tags: Array [ "apps-for-office", "javascript-api-for-office" ] Found: 44 tags: Array [ "adobe-javascript", "amazon-javascript-sdk …
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How to get the number/count/total of tags/badges/something from the API?

site=stackoverflow&filter=total, which currently returns: {"total":6363} For tags: /tags? … See the doc page for tags, for example. IMPORTANT: The Tags page also shows synonyms and also a great many tags that have zero questions. …
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Can I get the user's top percentile, for tags, using the API?

Also, it's not clear exactly how it's calculated: Many tags are not eligible. (Number of questions? Total tag score?) It might be that users with less than 200 rep are not counted. … ‡ Technically, you could do it for low traffic tags by downloading every question and answer for that tag. But this would take a while and also quickly bust your quota. …
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Possible to get more than 5 tags for /search? Or to use or-logic, for tags, in /questions?

The search path already allows more than 5 tags, and it uses OR logic. From the docs: tagged and nottagged are semi-colon delimited list of tags. … (bold added) Note that tags are separated with a semicolon, not a comma. So, you would use: /2.1/search? …
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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. … This is an and contraint(sic), passing tagged=c;java will return only those questions with both tags... …
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Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?

Compare to related tags like stackapps, stackoverflow, network-profile(not yet needed here but used on Meta Stack Exchange) -- which potentially can be used for Searching/Filtering/Classifying questions …
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Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?

Based on a reasonable response for Stack Apps, this has now been done. Merged stack-exchange into support (which many of the questions already had) and deleted support from those posts where it didn' …
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How to calculate users, who have posted (question/answer) using specific tag?

parameters, will return question AND answer, user information: ... { "answers": [ { "owner": { "user_id": 3675899 }, "is_accepted": true, "score": 1, "answer_id": 31881563 } ], "tags
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How can I use the Stack Exchange API to get the total score on answers to questions with a s...

To do this you have to use the /users/{ids}/answers path to download all of a user's answers, and then filter out the tags and/or tot-up the scores from there. … It displays a user's tag scores for all his tags, with handy searching and sorting: Here's the results for your Stack Overflow account. See, also How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag? …
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6 votes

The answer object returns an empty array for tags

That is, if your filter returns the tags array, it works: "items": [ { "tags": [ "batch-file", "cmd" ], "answer_id": 42292030 }, { "tags": [ "ios", "arrays", "swift" ], "answer_id": … So, it won't make..." }, { "tags": [], "answer_id": 42294953, "body_markdown": "The git revert documentation provides the syntax like\r\n\r\n git revert [--[no-]..." }, etc. …
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2 votes
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What API do I call to measure popularity growth for specific tags over time?

More tags, or finer time slices, increases the time proportionally. Also, you are allowed 10,000 API calls a day, max. … But it should be obvious how to extend it for more tags on each side. …
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Getting questions that have a specific tag or tags?

For questions tagged with all tags in a list (AND operation), use the /questions path. … For example: /questions#fromdate=2013-01-11&sort=activity&tagged=ruby;git ~~~~~ For questions tagged with any tags in a list (OR operation), use the /search path. …
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2 votes
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags using the Stack Overflow API?

You can try repeatedly polling the /events route, but then you'd have to query each new event to find the tags. It would get real messy, real quick. …
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4 votes

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

The query: Top Answerers, by your tags and your date range takes your date range and up to 4 tags and lists the top-performing answers. …
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The API /tag stats are notably different from the site totals

You can see that the Tags page also shows Synonyms by: Go to the Tags page. Enter userscr in the Type to find tags: box. … Combining the API's /tags route and the /tags/synonyms route, I currently get: 42020 + 2442 = 44462 If you count up all the tags on the Tags page(s), I currently get: 4 columns * 9 rows * 1236 …
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