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Sort Best First
Some case studies:
The good: Much of the time, vote-weighing order successfully puts first a better-quality answer than the most popular one as measured by naïve score sort.
Under “Passing a string ...
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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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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
No, the API has a limited number of sort options (just like the website itself). The best you can do with the API is to fetch all results and then perform a client-side sort.
Alternatively, use SEDE ...
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Are the revisions returned by /posts/{ids}/revisions guaranteed to be returned in descending order?
I think creation_date is a default/universal sorting, unless activity_date is available. (But you know what they say happens when you "ASSUME".)‡
Evidence for:
Seems like it would be required ...
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Wrong sorting parameter in documentation for question/{ids}/answers
No, I think this is intentional. The word on the left side is the value of the sort parameter:
while the word on the right side is a field name of the answer object:
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