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The following URL only includes upvotes or downvotes that I have cast (as far as I can tell):

http://stackoverflow.com/posts/POST_ID/votes

I'm requesting that this page also include the close and reopen votes that I've cast on the question.

I realize that the timeline page includes information on who voted to close the question after it was closed, but that is not the information I am looking for.

I want to be able to find out the following without incurring a large overhead on requests:

  • if I have voted to close a question while it is still open, or
  • if I have voted to reopen a question while it is still closed

The timeline page returns a potentially large HTML response, while the votes page returns a relatively tiny JSON response.

Alternative request

The /question API object has the optional downvoted, upvoted, and favorited fields.

Could the close_voted and reopen_voted (or however you want to name them) fields be added?

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  • Are you using some user script that accesses this information? I doubt very many users are even aware they can just look at this page, and just as few are going to know what the vote type IDs are. You can very easily tell if you've cast a close vote by just clicking on the close link and looking at the text. What overall benefit to the community would adding this to the output provide? Seems like a change that would help a very small fraction of a percentage.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 22:41
  • Yeah I have a userscript that loads on a search page for close vote review requests in the SO Close Vote Reviewers chat room. Right now it hides requests for closed / deleted questions and false positives (messages that aren't actually close vote review requests). I would like to be able to hide questions that the reviewer has already voted to close, but the close popup has rate-limiting which makes it useless for that purpose. As well, it is an overly large request for the information I'm trying to find anyway. @animuson
    – Diminutive Colossus
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 22:45
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    I would tend to consider that page an implementation detail, not a public API. You might wish to request that this information be added to the actual public API...
    – Shog9 Mod
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 23:03
  • But, why not include it there? It should be pretty simple to do, and wouldn't adding it to the API be a larger undertaking? @Shog9
    – Diminutive Colossus
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 23:05
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    My point is, you're asking for an API. Assuming you don't want this implemented and then silently dropped at some point in the future, that is.
    – Shog9 Mod
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 23:29
  • Updated with an alternative API request. I would much rather it be on the votes page for obvious simplicity reasons, but I would be OK with any easy way to obtain this information. @Shog9
    – Diminutive Colossus
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 23:46
  • I wasn't sure of a better place to write this so I'm commenting. I noticed a lot of statistical analysis requests lately. Most of the functionality is usually there already. Perhaps a statistics segment including the API's would be well received in a dedicated place.
    – user6035379
    Commented Nov 19, 2016 at 6:35

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Can't see why. We already have this information in the new timeline. For example:

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    I've edited my question to show that the timeline does not show the information that I am requesting to be shown, nor is it suitable for my needs because the response would be potentially large even if it did include the information that I am looking for.
    – Diminutive Colossus
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 22:28

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