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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
Yes, it would. And now you do!
Pushed some improvements for your Community Bulletin experience:
No more "Stack Apps has no Site.ChildMeta defined" message
Posts with the featured tag on ...
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
Should we ask the dev team politely to enable Stack Snippets here?
Yes!
It would, primarily, be useful in cases such as your example: support with using the API.
I think people looking for help ...
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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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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
@Catija just informed us the Community Bulletin is now live. Because Stack Apps is ... special (it's a main site but also its own Meta, just like Meta Stack Exchange), we won't see posts featured here,...
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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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Please make the site search on the API alphabetical
If this doesn't happen, this simple script will do it for you!:
$('.site-picker.ui-autocomplete-input').on('input', function() {
setTimeout(function() {
var mylist = $('body > ul.ui-...
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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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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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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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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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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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Getting historical data for careers?
Currently, the Stack Exchange API has nothing to do with Stack Overflow Careers.
Anyway, there is no API for accessing Stack Overflow Careers job listings.
Best you can do is grab the most recent ...
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3
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Is it possible to have no sorting - to just show results in order of inputted IDs?
This is a classic "procedural" (or "row based" or "sequential") versus "set based" issue. See Understanding “Set based” and “Procedural” approaches in SQL or any one of thousands of similar articles.
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3
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Find out whether a user has association bonus
Yes, you can find out if the user has received the association bonus using the API. It's a bit clunky though.
However, as we discovered, "association bonus rights" are rather meaningless at the ...
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3
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Clarify read-only vs. write operations for Teams in documentation
API access and capabilities depend on the tier of Stack Overflow for Teams that you are subscribed to.
Free - No API access
Basic - Read-only API access
Business - Read and Write API access
The ...
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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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2
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Get favorited tags of user
UPDATE:
The feature appears to be present in the, so far, undocumented API version 2.3. See captncraig's answer on this page.
After all these years, it looks like this might never get implemented. ...
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Hot questions (network)
Whilst an API method would be so much more helpful, and easy to use, the mobile apps use the URL http://stackexchange.com/hot-questions-for-mobile. You can send a GET request to that URL and parse it ...
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Add the 'people reached' count to the API?
Until the feature request is approved (unlikely, and a similar request has no developer love either), you can get this number in one of 3 ways:
You can get slightly stale data with this SEDE query (...
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2
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
I would put a Snippet in this answer if I knew what to put in one but, thanks to Yaakov, this is now done. :)
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2
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API access to the /10m ("Thank you") web page?
You can get this data easily by scraping or by using the websocket interface that Stack Exchange helpfully leaves available.
If you are making an application or webpage, just fetch stackoverflow.com/...
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2
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Why doesn't Stack Apps have community promotion ads?
Community promotion ads wouldn't promote apps.
These ads exist to promote sites as a whole. If you wish to put such ads on other sites, then there is nothing to stop you posting proposals on their ...
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Can we change the Stack Apps homepage tabs to not show questions tagged "obsolete" and "placeholder"?
Yes, the homepage is not showing Stack Apps in its best light.
As a mitigation that we can all do now:
Prepend "OBSOLETE - " or "PLACEHOLDER - " to the title, if appropriate.
(In ...
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Please provide an API "flair"-data call (`/associated` route is inadequate)
A unified call would be nice, but everything you asked for falls into one of 3 categories:
It's already in the users/{ids}/associated call.
It's trivially easy to calculate in the app or script. EG: ...
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2
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API to submit a Suggested Edit
This functionality is not available in the official released version of the API (2.2), but since the Stack Exchange apps (now discontinued) do have this functionality, it must exist, right? Indeed, it'...
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"is_edited": false or "is_edited": true as an option in the API response
There is a last_edited_date on questions, answers and posts. If it's empty (and you did include it in your filter), it hasn't been edited.
Comments have a built-in edited field which seems to be what ...
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Stack Exchange API - Get Watched Tags for a User
No, this information is not exposed via the API (and it's not available in SEDE either). At the moment, your best bet is probably to scrape the tag notifications page, though this only works for your ...
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/tags search multiple words ("or") inname
There is no need for a special API route, "OR" logic is easy to implement. Merely search for each term separately and then merge the results.
For example, if I wanted tags that had either javascript ...
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How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date
This is most likely one of those things you'll have to do yourself and one reason why the API is available.
And, it's not too hard; here is pseudo code that works:
Call /questions/featured with max ...
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