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Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
status-planned
Just a simple recommendation (I do not particularly like the abbreviations):
could there be a table on hover, e.g:
* Like the Roomba Forecaster userscript.
The table can contain long ...
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How do I search answer bodies for Markdown links?
The search methods work on the HTML version of the post, so searching for Markdown won't work. You can either use this parameter
url - a url which must be contained in a post, may include a wildcard.
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Getting the ID of the question-asker when fetching new answers from the API
No; the answer object doesn't contain any information about the question except the question ID.
I'm not sure how you obtain the answer IDs, but you could investigate if it's possible to look for ...
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Sort Best First
Some case studies:
The good: Much of the time, vote-weighing order successfully puts first a better-quality answer than the most popular one as measured by naïve score sort.
Under “Passing a string ...
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How to get deleted answers?
This question is nearly a duplicate of: Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted -- which has been "status planned" for 6+ years.
In general, it is very hard to search ...
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OBSOLETE - Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions
Sentinel has been down for months for me (and apparently at least 1 other user). I cannot access it on any device (Chromebook, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mac), in any browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, ...
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How to search answers like is:answer
I forget when, but sometime in the last couple of years, the /search/excerpts route started allowing is:answer in the q parameter.
For example:
/2.2/search/...
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Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
feature-request status-deferred
Please add a way to search through these posts1.
Possible use cases:
Checking your recent comments (on either questions or answers) to see whether they are still up to ...
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Copy code-blocks from Stack Exchange websites
Following introduction of a copy button (with attribution) for code blocks on Stack Overflow, I've updated this userscript to offer a superior (imo), cross-site experience.
The advantages of having ...
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getting answer body and question body in same request
I recognize that problem, I've had it too in the past. It may be a bit counterintuitive, but you also have to select question.answers in the filter.
A possible reason for this to not be automatic is ...
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Obtain the list of questions associated to answer_ids without losing the information of which question comes from which answer_id
On the other hand, making one single /answers/{ids}/questions request for all the ids (well, I should actually make a request for chunks of 100 entries; then maybe I have to browse the few resulting ...
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How can I fetch the answers posted in last week based on tags of the question?
I'd still use the /questions method, and change the filter to include answer details. E.g. this query lists all Stack Apps answers in the support tag, newest first. All I had to do was to edit the ...
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Why doesn't the API return a 'locked date' for this locked answer?
Does it work on answers at all?
Here's a newer locked answer. Yet, it doesn't have a locked_date either.
It's not a filter issue.
Nor is it fixed in version 2.3 (yet).
Also, additional bug ...
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Get everything touched by a user?
Since some users might exhaust your quota, for such a set of data, this might be a better job for SEDE.
In your API approach, not sure why you are getting question id's from answer id's. You can ...
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Should feature-requests, for third party apps, be flagged as "not an answer"?
No, they should not.
We "abuse" the Question and Answer model a bit but what basically happens when you post a question tagged app, script or library, the answers basically can be seen as ...
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Questions with accepted answers
I am facing the same difficulty with API v3.
Let's say I have a set of 1000 questions, and I want to obtain all accepted answers for that set of questions.
I do not see an accepted_answer_id field in ...
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