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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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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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When using the Advanced Search API endpoint, how soon after the edit grace period is question data updated?
tl;dr: I think you can reduce the delay to 8-10 minutes. Grace period edits are available for 5 minutes after post creation and search results can be stale for a few minutes afterwards, especially ...
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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!):
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Paging fails at 10K items for /search on any site but Stack Overflow
This was a search issue in elastic (max_result_window) that has now been tuned across the network.
See, also, this related Q&A on Meta SE.
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How do I get the total number of records for a given search?
In order to get the total, you need to use a filter that includes it.
If you just want the total, as your sample code implies, then use the built-in total filter. For example:
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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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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/...
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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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Can we pull posts out of Stack Overflow based on tags?
Is there any valid way to get the information from stackoverflow.com/search?q=?
Use the /search/advanced route of the API; that's what it's there for.
For example:
/2.2/search/advanced?...
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Discrepancy in results size
I can reproduce (sort of):
Search on the main site: 1,449 results
Searching with the API: 857 results
I use a different filter which shows the total number of results at the bottom, but that doesn'...
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Bugs in API 2.2 "/search/advanced" with a "q" parameter
There's indeed no difference between order=asc and order=desc; perhaps this is a limitation of Elasticsearch which powers the Stack Exchange search engine (both the API and on the sites). To be fair, ...
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Is there any way to get questions by tag with excerpt?
The /search/excerpts method supports searching by tag and returns the excerpts you're looking for:
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How to search ALL sites with the advanced API?
No, there is no easy way to do this via the API.
Related feature requests:
Provide a method to search for sites winch merely wanted a search for site name/description. It was declined.
Search ...
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Is there a SQL-like query for the API?
No there is no "Query API", especially not for SQL-like syntax.
It sure would be sweet to have an always current version of SEDE† (even if limited to, say, a hundred rows), but this is very ...
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