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Can the API return info re "new replies" icon?

Can't you get the user timeline of an ID, which will give something very close to the new replies if not the same thing.
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/question/unanswered, what exactly does it give?

It says no upvoted answers? Does that mean no accepted answers or no answers which have a positive vote? I'm kind of confused about the whole /answered result. I'm trying to get questions with 0 answ …
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How to get the questions from hot/week/month tab?

In the documentation it tells you to set the sort parameter to hot, week or month (or votes, creation, featured, or activity (default)) EG: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?sort=hot
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How to set the stack apps post for an application

On the app management page, when you select one of your apps it says stack apps post, and for me at least says not set. Clicking edit doesn't give an option to set it?
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Why aren't my application icons being used in the "Top Apps" list?

When you post the app use the predefined format. At the top there are parameters you can set including the icon that is displayed. You get to the formats by asking a question with the tag already sp …
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Is there a limit of API requests?

This page sums up request limits pretty well. Basically: Don't make more than 30 requests per second Without a key you can make 300 requests per day, with a key you can make 10,000 requests per day …
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Difference between stackauth URLs

On stackauth theres: stackauth.com/sites stackauth.com/1.0/sites Which one should be used (bearing that yesterday the one with the API version was unavailable)
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Offline cache of the API - for when the developer has no internet.

Is there some fake API program that "simulates" the API? Just I'm going on a long car journey tomorrow, and I won't have an internet connection on my laptop and don't want to waste the whole journey w …
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How can I see the next page of favorites using the SO API?

Look at the documentation: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=users/{id}/favorites You can use the parameter pagesize to change the size of results: eg: http://api.stackoverflow.com …
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Where do I get UUID for fetching user's associations?

You can get the user's association id through the /users/{ids} route Eg: http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/users/1608 (see association_id)
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User on main site, also on meta?

If a user has an account on one of the stack exchange site, I thought they had an account on it's Meta site. This doesn't seem the case in the associated users API route for one user (that's all I'v …
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Point of /users/{id}/inbox?

What is the need for the user ID in: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/user-inbox Given that it will only return the inbox of the authenticated user, and deny a mismatching user id. The only needed …
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No views_per_day in /info route?

I'm not particularly crying over it, just curious why the views_per_day field was dropped?
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Example responses

I think I may have asked this before. Would it be possible to have example responses for the inbox route. Eg I have no idea what a careers_invite would be like.
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Logging out so another user can log in

This is how I managed to completely log out the user, I'm not sure about the URL I use, it's not documented by the SE API, but it's the one users get sent to when logging out on the website themselves …
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