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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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Search function in the API doesn't work as expected
Although it doesn't appear to say so in the doc page, intitle expects an exact phrase, not a list of words.
You can currently see this by:
/2.2/search?intitle=get column array&site=stackoverflow
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Searching on Stack Overflow and using the API give different results?
The /search path and the /search/advanced path return only questions, not answers, and by design. It says so right in the doc pages:
Searches a site for any questions which fit the given criteria. ...
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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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The /search route is ignoring the answers parameter.
The /search/excerpts route looks to be about as good as /search and it does return both questions and answers, and it does have an answers parameter.
This route is "★ All new! For version 2.2! ★"
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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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Advanced search doesn't return expected results when using min & max (dates) together?
Date parameters are in unix epoch time and 1447113600 is 2015-11-10, 00:00:00.
So any questions posted on Nov 10th actually happened after that.
When searching for date ranges, you usually want to ...
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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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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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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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wrong results of api /search/advanced
is_answered is true if there is at least one positively scoring answer. It doesn't actually mean 'marked as accepted'. See more about how it works in this answer
Also,
https://api.stackexchange.com/...
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