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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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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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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 ...
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Sort Best First
Test cases:
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 literal ...
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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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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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Absence of `order` and `sort` in rest calls?
Yes, much of the time, but:
Do not assume this is so, since it is never explicitly promised.
Some sortable routes do not even have an activity property (Example).
In this answer, the lead API ...
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