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The answer object returns an empty array for tags
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-...
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Getting the top answerers/users for a tag in a custom time range?
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 ...
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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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Sort Best First
Test cases:
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 literal ...
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Top answers for a tag is returning user details?
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, ...
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How to monitor (for new) accepted answers by certain tags?
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 ...
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags using the Stack Overflow API?
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 ...
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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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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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Default Stack Exchange behavior interferes with my "Mark answers as favorites" code?
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/...
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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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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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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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Default Stack Exchange behavior interferes with my "Mark answers as favorites" code?
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="...
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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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