Questions tagged [api]
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Finding my upvotes on Data Explorer
This T-SQL finds all the questions I have answered on SO.
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1779459/questions-i-have-answered
I want to determine if I upvoted the question or not (as ...
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SE API: Recent OAuth 2.0 implicit flow breaking change
Changed behavior: Unexpected values returned with the access_token when using the implicit OAuth 2.0 flow
We are, now, seeing additional scope data included in the hash for the URL used as the ...
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How can I get information of a tag with the Stack Exchange API?
The API documentation of usage of /tags/{tags}/info GET does not give us this information:
How can I get this text description?
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How can we improve the Stack Exchange API?
The Stack Exchange API allows users to programmatically query and connect to the Stack Exchange Network of sites.
The API is currently in version 2.3. We’re collecting feedback from users of the API, ...
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The company's commitment to the data dumps, the API, and SEDE
Many words have been written around the company's commitment to the ongoing existence of the data dumps, the API, and the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). Much of that text can be confusing or ...
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No ID for CS50 or Programming Language Design and Implementation on the Stack Exchange Website
I'm trying to fetch card-data as it is fetched on https://stackexchange.com/sites (request example below as a Node.js fetch), but can't find cards (or, hence, card IDs) for CS50 or Programming ...
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Will SE shut down the free API for good? [duplicate]
SE has intentionally disabled the data dump. And the CEO has stated to the press that he plans to charge AI companies for access to the data.
Given these developments I think it is almost inevitable ...
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Add support to the API to do all non-moderator actions that a user can do
It does not appear that the API supports viewing of deleted posts, which is what a 10k user or moderator can do on a site. Although I don't expect diamond moderator actions to be exposed, I would ...
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How do I set "site" to anything other than Stack Overflow, like the Blender or Ethereum Stack Exchange sites, for example?
I was able to run this request https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/users/MY USER ID/timeline?sort=creation&page=1&pagesize=100&site=stackoverflow just fine.
For some reason, when I change ...
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StackAPI can't parse the Stack Exchange JSON anymore
For the last 4 days, my Stack Exchange view count graphing script has been breaking with StackAPI claiming that:
requests.exceptions.InvalidURL: Failed to parse: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/...
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SE API multiple-escapes the returned data (at least display names, userlinks, and post content)
The Stack Exchange API will, unless you explicitly disable it, apply HTML escapes to certain strings. However, it will apply this transformation multiple times prior responding with the data.
This is ...
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Is there a simple API for getting the number of unread messages?
Stack Exchange obviously has a complex API to meet the possible needs of its users, and it seems to require registering applications in order to use it.
All I'm looking for though is a simple way of ...
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Unable to fetch favorite/bookmarked questions [duplicate]
I'm not able to fetch the favorite questions using the stack exchange api (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-favorites).
This looks like a recent issue
because it was working fine a couple of ...
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SmokeDetector is seeing SE API errors 10,704 times more often than normal (2022-12-09)
For a bit over the last hour, SmokeDetector (SD) has, once again, been seeing a flood of SE API errors. This is well outside what's "normal" to see for SmokeDetector. The only recent change (...
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Possible to have a means to access my saves externally? [duplicate]
Recent changes have converted the Bookmarks section to Saves and made what we have bookmarked private. This is definitely a positive change! However, doing so makes it even more difficult to ...
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Is there a way to programmatically get the days 'visited' information? [closed]
On our Stack Overflow for Teams: Enterprise instance, I'd like to use the API to build a report on how often users visit the site. I can see this information in the admin dashboard (e.g. below, "...
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Is there API support for salesforce.stackexchange.com?
I'm able to use the API to get selected questions from stackoverflow.com by running
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions?order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=salesforce&site=...
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A number of things seem to have broken simultaneously
Things that appear to have suddenly stopped working:
Posts not appearing on the front page of Meta Stack Overflow or the "Active" tab for the post's tags + RSS feeds not updating.
(As of ...
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SE API errors have dramatically increased to 2,768 times the "normal" average error rate [duplicate]
In the last 4 hours, SmokeDetector has reported 60+ errors when making normal requests to the SE API. These are the same requests which SmokeDetector has been making many thousands of every day since ...
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API request for "favorites" now returning an empty list – is there a way to get something equivalent for saves?
I have a script which I use, based on the StackExchange API, to regularly download a local backup of various questions relevant to me (the ones I've asked, answered, or favorited) across various SE ...
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Chat oneboxes are being inconsistent for certain users
For the past few weeks, I have been running a bot in the Sandbox while testing it to replace another, currently broken, bot that posted new posts and challenge sandbox posts in The Nineteenth Byte. ...
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How to run a Stack Exchange data query with the Stack Exchange API
I'm trying to find out if there is a way to run a query/complex search on the Stack Exchange API.
I need to find all users that have a reputation greater than 250 and are from a certain location. I ...
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Question based on Authentication
I am creating a connector which will integrate with the Stack Overflow API. I need to generate an access token of Stack Overflow account so that I can fetch its API. But when I am generating an access ...
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API returns the same content in paginated response [duplicate]
I'm trying to get linked questions for this question which currently has around 490 linked questions. Since it has so many linked questions, I'm using a page size of 100 which is the maximum page size ...
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What is the refresh frequency of the Stack Exchange API?
I'm using the Stack Exchange API and noticed that a comment that I added just now was not being reflected in the API.
Is there a refresh frequency for the API? If so, what is it?
I was not able to ...
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Missing code block language when using the Stack Exchange API
I managed to search and get questions with HTML body with Stack Exchange API.
I am using the following request:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/search/advanced?filter=withbody&tagged=node.js&...
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SE API forgot how to order badges lexicographically
As of recently, the Stack Exchange API endpoint for listing named badges started to error out when choosing to sort the result set by name. Can this be fixed as soon as possible, please?
Switching to ...
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Query for retrieving all answer ids for questions which a user already answered
I'm looking for a query from a Stack Overflow dump to find this. Example: user-id 'XXXXX' answered_list_id:[10,20,30,40]
Also, I don't consider whether the answer is accepted or not.
FROM Users AS u
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SE API quota_remaining property is periodically missing from the response
Over the last several days while running SmokeDetector, we've periodically seen multiple responses from the SE API with the quota_remaining missing, with the most recent group a few hours ago. The ...
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Many API requests to /questions with filter parameters are failing with status code 400 errors
For some questions, using a filter parameter appears to break the API, causing it to return a "400 Bad Request" status code with the following payload:
{"error_id":404,"...
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API to programmatically close questions as duplicate with duplicate list
If you follow and/or curate a tag long enough, you'll probably notice that there's some questions that just get asked over and over. Usually these are confusing aspects of some commonly used feature ...
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Why only 50 related tags?
I'm using the Stack Exchange API and I want to get related tags of a particular tag. Fortunately, the API provides such an endpoint (/2.3/tags/devops/related?pagesize=100&site=stackoverflow).
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Is there an API that I can consume to detect the current release version of each SE network site?
Is there an API that I can consume to detect the current release version of each SE network site?
For example, during the last 5 months the design of the sites has changed, and changes have been made ...
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GET requests to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2 methods return HTTP 400 "Violation of backoff parameter" without previously warning to back off
We have the following logic to make GET requests to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2:
private async get(
apiMethod: string, // can be 'users', 'tags', 'info', or 'questions'
url: string, // ...
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What kind of actions are bots allowed to do?
Based on all of the Stack Exchange API endpoints, especially the [auth required] ones, what actions are bots allowed to do?
There is a lot of things you can do with the API, so here's some that are ...
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Automate adding questions from search to tag
Occasionally I notice a topic that has been discussed often enough to merit a tag, but there isn't one. For example, today on Raspberry Pi, a question popped into the active queue about using the ...
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Accessing Stack Exchange API behind a firewall - are there IP address ranges to whitelist?
Scenario
I am calling Stack Exchange APIs to collect Stack Overflow Teams data for my organization. In order to call these APIs from the server where I would like to run it, I must first request ...
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What scope to supply to get a refresh token from Stack Exchange?
In the process of implementing a OAuth app for Stack Exchange, I noticed that none of the approaches that conventionally work - supplying a offline_access scope, for example - result in the OAuth ...
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Is/could the "Android/iOS" application endpoint for notifications be opened up to other apps?
The Android application is quite dead for me (but not to me) - I've been messing with an alternate app, but the lack of notifications is still a pain.
The 'long term' alternative would be to get web ...
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How can I save the result of a Stack Exchange API call into a text file using curl?
As I run the following,
curl https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions-on-users#order=desc&sort=activity&ids=912523&filter=default&site=math&run=true > result.txt
I got the ...
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Is there an API for user badges?
Is there was a way to pull down 'badges' for users of various sites in the network. I noticed that there is an API call for all badges in the system, but can't see one for users.
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Instant self-answers are ordered inconsistently
When the "Answer your own question" checkbox is used to provide an instant self-answer, the self-answer has the same creation timestamp as the question, and its ID number is 1 more than the ...
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Could we revisit/reconsider the lack of chat API?
It's a feature request almost as old as the network itself - here's a request for a streaming API that felt like it got off on the wrong foot, and a frustratingly cryptic answer from Jeff when asked ...
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Associated users endpoint gives empty response for meta users
The /users/{ids}/associated endpoint of the Stack Exchange API has the option to set ?types=meta_site to get the child meta users of a network account. But when I try it now, I get an empty response ...
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Too many requests from this IP address [duplicate]
I am using the StackAPI library for Python to access Stack Overflow questions. I need to collect all question IDs attached with a particular tag (for example, regex).
I used the search bar on Stack ...
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revision_number is returned in every revision item, even if it's not an edit
As of recently, the Stack Exchange API v2.2 (and v2.3) returns revision_number in every revision item, even if it's not an actual edit, effectively invalidating the "may be absent" for ...
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Stack Exchange API inconsistently causes CORS errors for client applications after a certain number of properly throttled requests (again?)
After a certain number of sequential requests made in short bursts (normally around 180 requests but I managed to get it down to 50 if the first batch of more than 180 requests succeeds) respecting ...
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Stack Exchange API returns an empty array for tags on methods that return a list of answers
I was trying this filter to get the answers of a Stack Overflow user.
But the tags array "tags": [], is always empty when questions have at least one mandatory tag (for example, see this ...
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Stack Exchange API quota is intermittently unstable
The quota_remaining returned by the Stack Exchange API is intermittently unstable and either increases or decreases significantly for no apparent reason.
For example, my quota_remaining increased by ...
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The API is unexpectedly retracting flags
I use the Charcoal FIRE userscript to red-flag posts. Today I found this SuperUser question (possibly 10k by now since it's spam) and I spam flagged both the question and answer. The question I ...
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