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Stack Exchange thinks that Shog is a elected moderator
Funny story...
When I first joined the team here at Stack Exchange, Jeff just went around on the trilogy sites and made me a moderator... And he used the "elected" route instead of the "...
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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?
The OAuth Domain is either:
A valid domain that you own and control, and that is hosted somewhere the client can reach. Say, for example that you owned unicorns.mil.
See this answer and this answer ...
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How can I quickly get an access token for personal use?
It's possible to authenticate yourself via the command line; there's no need to set up a website or so.
Open the application page via https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth and make sure the option 'Enable ...
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Can the redirect_uri contain port number?
You got that error because you set the OAuth Domain like example.com:8080, not the redirect_uri. That's not how you configure non-standard ports; see below.
The redirect uri, with port, feature now ...
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How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?
You cannot get the days visited, nor consecutive, information for a user because that is private information(Poster is SE representative).
Stack Exchange is supposed to be about the content, not the ...
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Stack Overflow for Teams support
Unfortunately, the Free Tier Stack Overflow Team does not have access to APIs. You will not be able to create a PAT if you only have a Free Tier Team assigned to your account.
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Bug with `badges/name` endpoint
I don't know for sure what the original problem was, but the most recent issue was a result of implementing a new badge without rebuilding the API. Once the API was pushed to production, the bug was ...
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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 ...
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Is the StackExchange API free of charge?
It is completely and unconditionally free. (Although there are usage limits, which are described here.)
It is not even necessary to create an account in order to use it. (Although an account is ...
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What is the right way to create a Stack Exchange API filter?
I have struggled with Stack Exchange API filters too, when I tried to incorporate up_vote_count, down_vote_count and view_count attributes in my user response object.
I visited this page of the ...
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How can I extract user information on Stack Overflow using Python and the Stack Overflow API?
The API presents individual features behind individual URLs. The information on the profile page is combined from several sources; to get the details you requested, you will have to submit multiple ...
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Refresh expired acess token basics
Dealing with token expiration is pretty simple.
When a token is/goes bad then, when you make an API call that uses the token, you will get a JSON response like this:
{
"error_id": 403,
"...
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Documentation or API method for `option_id` information, for the `/flags/options` API calls?
The original intent of these options is clearly not to enable automated flagging, but rather to allow an application to generate a UI that presents the applicable options to a user who would be ...
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Is there an easy way to get user reputation via API?
The question is not clear. If you just want a user's reputation merely do a GET of the API /users/{ids} route. Like so:
api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/3528590?site=stackoverflow&filter=!...
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503 errors on batch get questions endpoint
So, you are making up to 150 requests in a 30 second period (10 "parallel requests", with a 2 second pause in between). And failing at 80 to 100+ seconds of operation and 400 to 500 total ...
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Creating personal applications using Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange API
If you need something for personal use, it doesn't really matter. You can even use example.com, as long as the site doesn't redirect and change the URL. You'll need a browser and a tool like curl. ...
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What is the latest version of the Stack Exchange API?
The documentation always refers to the latest official version.
At the time of posting, that is version 2.3.
See also:
Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3
API 2.3 Release
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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 ...
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Documentation or API method for `option_id` information, for the `/flags/options` API calls?
The official documentation is here:
Available flags vary from object to object, user to user, and site to site. An application should not assume that particular flags are always available, or that ...
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Will the Stack Exchange API work with an org-specific Stack Overflow site?
Are you using Stack Overflow Enterprise? If so, API support was promised for right about nowThere's a chance that ETA might slip. ;).
Otherwise, how exactly is this company-specific site configured?...
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My filter is not returning any results. How to create a minimal filter?
The key mistake here is neglecting the Wrapper Object, and this is a big flaw with the filter documentation.
The wrapper is the box that everything you get from the API comes in. You always get the ...
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Can we find the time of a vote using the API?
Obviously, vote time data is sensitive and censored to protect voter anonymity.
So, scanning the list of available objects in the API, we see that:
A user's downvote times can be obtained via the /...
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How to get a list of all StackExchange employees?
Updated thanks to comments by Brock Adams and user43888.
There are two methods to achieve this:
Method 1: inefficient, but future-proof as it only depends on the SE API.
Query the SE API for all ...
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Cannot get redirect_uri to work
There have been no reported changes to the API, officially for many years, (unofficially since January).
But, frankly that script's approach should have never worked. OAuth credentials are sent to:
&...
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How to query the Stack Exchange API using an OR operator?
The API currently does not support this, but then neither does the website itself.
The "How do I search?" help page says:
OR operator
To combine results from multiple tags, separate the tag ...
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Can I fetch Stack Overflow users by location in Stack Exchange API
It's not possible (short of fetching all users and filtering yourself). The API simply does not offer that query. For alternatives, see the Data Explorer (SEDE): https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/...
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Suggested edit not returned by API
It's probably because the referenced post has been deleted.
The API excludes (most) deleted data (usually).
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
You can filter (not sort) questions (and to some extent answers) by using the /search/advanced route of the API.
The q parameter allows most of the Advanced Search Options.
For example, this will ...
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API stopped allowing CORS requests
The bug has been fixed:
Thanks for reporting. We're working on porting our websites to ASP.NET Core, and those errors you've seen were a result of this.
We caught the first error ourselves on a ...
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How to get the user's pinned sites?
This information is not available in the officially released version of the API (2.2) and you won't find it in the documentation.
However, the Stack Exchange mobile apps have some 'special' API ...
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