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The stackexchange API supports /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers which returns the top 30 answers a user has posted in response to questions with the given tags (see here). What query would I use to get all answers a user has posted in response to a certain tag? I tried /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/answers, but this is not a valid query.

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    The API returns the top 20 answerers, not 30 as claimed. There is an open documentation bug on that issue.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Jun 18, 2014 at 18:11
  • Thank you for pointing that out. However, I'm trying to get all answers, not just the top answers. Is that possible? Reading through the docs, it seems to me that I would need to make multiple queries.
    – Jason B
    Jun 18, 2014 at 18:13
  • You really have to use the api? Or would using data.stackexchange.com be an option?
    – rene
    Jun 18, 2014 at 18:47
  • @rene I need to use it in a script. How would data.stackexchange.com help me?
    – Jason B
    Jun 18, 2014 at 19:11
  • If it is not real-time you could export the result of a query to CSV but that is basically it.
    – rene
    Jun 18, 2014 at 19:14

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One way would be to grab all answers posted by a user and then client-side filter that down to the tags you want.

You can pass !9YdnSPSy. as the filter to /users/{ids}/answers to make sure tags are included in the output in addition to the default properties of the answer object or build a new filter by clicking "edit" here.

As a side note, API-related questions are usually best asked on Stack Apps.

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  • Thanks for directing me to the proper site for future API questions. This works nicely for my purpose.
    – Jason B
    Jun 18, 2014 at 20:35

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