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Duplicate Target Manager
Not sure which posts you should setup with this script? I made a quick SEDE query to help you find common duplicate target posts for your tag of choice.
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/...
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Why is /questions API returning deleted questions?
Confirmed; see bottom section, below.
However, please refer to Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted -- which is "status-planned".
This is a feature, not a bug. And ...
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API throws improper error when "date" parameters are the same
Yes, that bug is annoying, especially since specifying a todate that's before the fromdate returns a valid result set, EG:
{
"items": [],
"has_more": false,
"quota_max": 10000,
"...
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'Saviour' of Lost Souls
If not available already, can we have a version of that user script applying for Meta Stack Overflow please?
We face the very same problem there frequently.
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How to get new questions continuously?
Probably the most cost-effective way is to poll /questions every minute or two. (Results are cached so, polling more than once a minute probably won't do anything but chew up your quota.)
Related: ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag using .Net?
To get the questions in a tag you can simply use the /questions endpoint as that does accept a tagged query parameter, from that document page:
To constrain questions returned to those with a set ...
rene♦
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Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?
Confirmed the bug on a post that accrues comments much slower than a typical Stack Overflow question does.
Currently, the OP's filter returns "comment_count": 1 on that post. There are no comments.
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How can I introduce my Stack Overflow app to other users?
There's no one way. Here's a recipe you can use:
Make a proper app post here on StackApps.
See How to list your application/library/wrapper/script here.
Look for posts on Meta Stack Overflow (MSO) ...
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Why was Not a Real Question deleted?
You have posted the 4th answer that confirmed the app no longer worked. The first answer that came to the same conclusion was posted in 2014.
If you have nothing new to add to an Q/A, please refrain ...
rene♦
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How to include answers when fetching questions?
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(...
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Would it be possible to create a script that could be run manually to unprotect questions that meet certain parameters?
Yes, it is possible to create such a script and here it is:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Unprotect questions
// @namespace https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/158100/rene
// @version 0....
rene♦
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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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LegacyQuestions - Bringing back the old questions design
bug status-completed
I do not know if it's just me, but it seems to work amazingly well in a full-size browser window, but not when I make the browser (Chrome) fill only the right half of the screen:
...
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LegacyQuestions - Bringing back the old questions design
bug status-completed
It seems some recent changes happened:
There are ugly attention-snagging golden tags. Could you make them the normal blue instead? The eye is far enough, even though I don't ...
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Field "comment_count" is not always returned by API
This appears to be closely related to the bug: Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?.
The workaround from there -- altering the filter by:
selecting comment....
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Invalid HTML characters in questions bodies
If the code tags are <pre>s, then \n is fine. Pre means "preformatted;" it makes the browser ignore the usual rules and preserve whitespace, etc.
Repeat after me: "There is no such thing as a ...
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Filter SE questions by votes, views and rep
feature-request status-completed
Support /unanswered tab as well.
An example: http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/regex
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How to find questions that were posted or edited recently?
There really is no particularly satisfactory way to do this since all versions of last_activity_date conflate a question's activity with the activity of its answers.
You are going to have to fetch ...
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How to get question body (markdown) in the API response using filters?
The body_markdown field in the question (or answer) categories will give you the markdown.
So, !9YdnSJ*_T would be the filter to get a question with the markdown.
Demo: This question:
API URL: ...
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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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LegacyQuestions - Bringing back the old questions design
bug status-completed
"1 question with new activity" loads in incorrectly.
When a question is bumped to the top, you see this:
Loading the new question yields:
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The /tags query is not giving me the correct results between two dates?
This sure looks like a bug.
Site search shows that there were 946 browserify questions created in 2015 (so far).
The /tags route doesn't have a created option, but it shows 0 questions were active in ...
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How to get all questions with a specific tag between certain dates
Yes, you need to page through the results. See the doc page on paging.
So, you would probably want to set the max pagesize(100) and then make a sequence of calls. EG:
/2.2/questions?page=1&...
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How to get the 10 most recent questions with accepted answers based on a given tag?
You would use either:
/search/advanced
or
/search/excerpts
Then:
Set the tagged parameter to your tag.
Set the accepted parameter to True, if you want questions with accepted answers...
OR
Set ...
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Questions with specific tag and specific text inside questions
You can use the /search method with tagged and intitle
For example: http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search?order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=rest&intitle=api&site=stackoverflow will ...
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How can I introduce my Stack Overflow app to other users?
Make sure that you have coded all the bits that you can do first. This ensures that any request for help is genuine. If the project idea is any good, you should find that, although you can't get what ...
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`last_editor` is missing but `last_edit_date` is present?
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 ...
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How can I access all questions asked by an arbitrary user?
It would be simpler and more precise if you made users provide their ID number instead (for example, yours is 1637442 on Stack Overflow).
Then you'd merely use the /users/{ids}/questions route to get ...
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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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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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