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Your stated problem is considerably easier than the question you linked.
You can use the /users/{ids}/answers route to get what you want -- with a little work.
The trick is to use a filter that returns the answers.tags property.
In your case, if you really just want totals, and for one user at a time, you can use the filter: !GeF-5u(cSumXA .
The ...
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The various /questions routes do allow you to simultaneously retrieve answers, if you set the right filter.
A good starting filter for getting questions with answers is: !gB7hjL3lhJ*Cnfe63rh6pAm74J(5qrOZKbL
To Customize a Filter:
Go to the /questions documentation page.
Scroll to the Filter Edit Tool:
Click on the tool and this dropdown appears:
Adjust ...
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status-completed
person who answered now shown
the answer score shown
owner reps shown
box floats correctly
Awesome script. Here is a eventual feature for it that could be useful.
Instead of listing answers 'anonymously' you could have the person who answered, their reputation, their upvote count and so on.
Also, I have a very wide screen and the Quick ...
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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 details like "Answered the question", "Edited the question", etc.
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This is a bug and seems (based on a series of A/B tests) to be linked with the body_markdown property.
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": 42295110
},
etc...
, unless body_markdown is also ...
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If the answer is the accepted answer, is_accepted is true and anyone can see it.
accepted is set to true only if the currently authenticated user is the one who has accepted the answer.
For instance, if I obtain an access_token with the private_info privilege and call:
/2.2/questions/30028657/answers?site=stackoverflow&key={YOUR APP KEY}&...
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It does return all the answers, but they're paged - by default you'll only get 30 at a time. You'll likely want to increase pagesize to 100, and then add the additional code necessary to make subsequent requests if has_more is set on the response wrapper.
So, for example, your first request would be like
https://api.stackexchange.com/users/2440312/answers?...
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This is very costly to do in the API and currently impossible for many combinations of tag and date (because it would require more than the 10,000 allowed API calls per day).
I'll write more about that tomorrow (11/11 or 11/12 UTC).
Meanwhile, perhaps a SEDE query will work?
The query: Top Answerers, by your tags and your date range takes your date range ...
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Notice that the route used has /top-answerers/. The doc page states:
Returns the top 30 answerers active in a single tag, of either all-time or the last 30 days.
(Emphasis added)
So, that route is returning what it should.
If you really want the top answers for a tag, use the /search/excerpts route and set:
sort=votes
order=desc
q=is:answer
...
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The API does not provide a good way for this.
Worst case, your app will have to keep a table of every question in the tags of interest. Poll that table and see if the accept status has changed from the last stored answer id, if any.
Beware that, depending on what tags you search, and how often you poll, your app may bust its quota.
If you don't mind ...
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First, you'll want to go upvote the feature request to add tag search for answers, etc. (If/when you have the upvote privilege)
In the meantime, for answers by tag you can use the /search/excerpts route as long as you include is:answer in the q parameter.
For example:
/2.2/search/excerpts?&q=is:answer&tagged=best-in-place&...
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New feature: if there's a pager displayed (for the reason of 30+ answers), the Quick Nav box gets a mini-pager too:
This feature is available as of Quick Nav v2.4
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bug status-completed
When searching questions with a specific tag, the quick navigation button will appear. Here is a screenshot showing the bug.
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feature-request status-completed (except deletion)
The realtime updates are enabled by default .You can opt out of them by clicking "settings" and unchecking "real-time updates".
When an answer gets deleted or added, it would be nice if the Quick Navigation box got updated.
As well as live update when an answer gets upvoted/downvoted.
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bug status-completed
in case if owner is deleted, using "Answer by deleted user"
in case if CW, using "Community Wiki answer"
When the user is a community wiki there is no reputation shown. This does make sense since they don't have reputation. Adding an abbreviation of some sort might be helpful, such as "cw".
Here is an example of the problem answer ...
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last_editor will be missing (empty) from the results when the last editor is a deleted user. This deleted user does not have to be the owner, or original poster, of a given question or answer.
For example, see this answer -- which looks like this in the API:
{
"owner": {
"user_id": 362168,
"user_type": "registered",
"display_name": "Saqueib"
...
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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/excerpts?&q=Hear! is:answer&site=stackapps
-- which returns Stack Apps answers with the text "Hear!" in the body.
(Pretty sure I tested this in early 2014, ...
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Hear! Hear!
I want to study what makes a good answer on SO.
I started by querying complete web pages (questions with all comments, answers, and their comments) for questions with some minimum score (such as 5) for a number of fixed tags A,B,C created in some time period (say, one full week two months ago). This can be done well with \search and a filter that ...
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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 for answers in the API; everything's geared towards questions -- especially the /search and /search/advanced.
There is no way to search for deleted answers, ...
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First can I say, you might want to use your own icon. Font Awesome is a very useful and easy to use icon toolkit that lets you add icons with simple CSS classes. You could use http://fontawesome.io/icon/star/ if you want :)
However, if you want to use SE's button, in Javascript, if you want to override an event handler, you need to return false; or call ...
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If you just want the total, don't bother paging through the entire full result set.
Use the total property of the Common Wrapper Object. This will save lots of time and bandwidth and quota and doesn't require you to loop through the results just to count things.
The total property is not enabled by default, so you will need to Create a custom filter for ...
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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 active questions instead (a new answer makes the question active again) and fetch both question and answer information at once; the question object contains the ...
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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 feature-request:
The post object should also return a locked_date.
A sample locked question does return a locked_date as expected.
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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 give /answers/{ids} a filter to make it return: username, tags, and title for the answer's question -- which may be all you're after?
But in/with the API, I ...
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Don't use the default button. That's bad UI anyway.
Add your own favorite button for each answer.
And, since you will be using your own classes, like:
<a class="myStarOff" href="#" data-ansID="1234" title="Click to add as favorite answer (click again to undo)">
favorite</a>
<a class="myStarOn" href="#" data-ansID="56789" title="Click to ...
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Okay I figured out that a filter(withbody) needs to be applied here. So the URL would be something like :
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/5877753/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&filter=withbody&site=stackoverflow
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The /search/excerpts route looks to be about as good as /search and it does return both questions and answers, and it does have an answers parameter.
This route is "★ All new! For version 2.2! ★"
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The method I ended up using in SOUP 1.10 is the first one listed above — loading the full question page and stripping it down to match the review interface. Here's the core of the actual code:
var injectAnswers = function ( html ) {
// kluge: disable script tags; $.parseHTML() would be better, but needs jQuery 1.8+
var $html = $( html.replace(...
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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 tickets/issues for the "product" in the question.
It is of course up to the OP if they prefer to use answers for issue tracking and instead defer that ...
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