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Questions about the Stack Exchange API *only*. If your question concerns any other API, do not use this tag. For bugs, please (also) use the version tag, EG [api-v2.2], that the bug applies to.

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Possible to return newest questions with a certain tag?

There are 2 ways to get the 10 most recent questions of a tag, either on the /questions method or /search method. The parameters on both routes are the same, just set tagged to your tag (eg iphone), a …
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Roadmap - any update?

So now it's 2011 and we should be getting some API updates. As a company you must have some kind of plan. … a writeable API. …
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Would it be a problem if my server polls the API every minute or so about 1 of my questions ...

But would it be a problem if I had a server which had a list of question IDs (say 10 per user, so reasonable max 10,000 in total) and the server polls the API every minute each question with a pagesize …
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Posting answers via Stack Exchange API

At the moment it is only possible to post comments with the API. (and when/if posting answers can be done using the API, it will follow the restrictions of the site, if not even stricter) …
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Area 51 sites api

This is because area51 doesn't have an API. It's not a traditional stack exchange site and runs differently. …
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API not returning anything near the actual website

The API /questions page is not returning anything like the list of questions on the actual SO site. … It gets stranger as the second question from the API page is actually before (closer to the top of the page) the first API question on the SO.com page. So the questions seem completely out of order. …
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3 votes
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Add Twitter accounts on the /sites route?

Would it be possible to add references to the site Twitter accounts in the /site listing? If your wondering what I'm talking about: blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/twitter-question-feeds-for-stack-exc …
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Can we have some debug endpoints for testing corner cases?

You can use Charles to simulate any response, It has a free 30 day trial, for Windows, Mac and Linux. Just set a breakpoint for http://api.stackexchange/* which breaks on Response (obviously you ca …
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/associated should include user's display name and the api_site_parameter

/associated should include api_site_parameter The /associated routes return the site_name and site_url but not the api_site_parameter. It would be useful if it did because api_site_parameter is t …
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Request: Mark inbox items as read, now that API 2.2 is here [duplicate]

Now we have write API, can we get a method for the inbox to mark inbox items as read? … API. …
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