5 votes

400 - Bad Request - Invalid URL errors with HTML response

This is fixed. I was able to pin down the issue two web servers. After SRE verified that the URL length settings were fine, I was able to narrow the issue to individual path components over the IIS ...
Brian Nickel's user avatar
4 votes

Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3

Note that version 2.3 has been around since at least Aug 28, 2015 (Date of that answer). I could have sworn that one of the SE guys said they weren't going to document it, but can't find a reference ...
Brock Adams's user avatar
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How can I retrieve the reputation I (or another user, fwiw) earned for a given tag from questions and answers?

It is easier to use the /users/{id}/top-tags (JSON) endpoint for a single user. That will give you for a given user all their tags with score and count for question and answers. Don't let the "...
rene's user avatar
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2 votes

Search by team API - want to have same query results in StackOverflow.com site

There is no "official" Java client. I assume Java comes with an HTTP client in its standard library. That one should do the trick. The minimal example you need is this URL (click it!): ...
rene's user avatar
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2 votes
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How can I retrieve the reputation I (or another user, fwiw) earned for a given tag from questions and answers?

As a more involved alternative, there is a dedicated endpoint for retrieving reputation changes - /reputation. It returns a list of Reputation objects, each having a post_id and reputation_change ...
Oleg Valter is with Ukraine's user avatar
2 votes

How can I implement a method to call the SE API that handles backoff correctly?

I think a simple singleton that keeps track of the backoff should be enough. I assume you do use the fetch API or any other async capable module. But the approach is also feasible with just Promises ...
rene's user avatar
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1 vote
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Difference in results between parameters Tagged or Q

This request should give the same results Not really; you should leave out the ands in the q parameter. Your second request is equivalent to this search on the site: https://english.stackexchange.com/...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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1 vote
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Unread notifications not showing in API response

Those are not the notifications you're looking for ... It's confusing, but you need the inbox methods instead: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/inbox-unread#filter=default&run=true You can get ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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1 vote
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Tagged parameter not working as described in documentation

You're right; because the API doesn't have much priority for the developers, here is a workaround: use the q parameter and set it to [java] or [javascript] or [python]. https://api.stackexchange.com/...
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