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Data from the Stack Exchange Data Explorer is obsolete [duplicate]
I was querying data from https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/atom using a LINQ query in LINQPAD and found that the data I got back is quite obsolete. I searched for Shekhar-Pro (me) by using ...
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The API Sandbox
This is the same concept as the first sandbox.
Why do we need more than one? This is in order to test the API, some methods support vectored ids (for example /questions/id1;id2/comments) and for that ...
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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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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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My project requires data from Stack Overflow. What can I do?
I want to make research on Stack Overflow (or any other Stack Exchange website).
How can I parse the website's data using regular expressions?
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Stack Exchange API too many requests from this IP address
I am using the Stack Exchange API to get Stack Overflow data, but I am getting "too many request from this ip" after making only five requests. I got JSON content like this:
{u'error_id': 502, u'...
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Is there a public API for Stack Overflow?
I was just trying to find out if there was a public API for the Stack Overflow site. I want to know so that I could maybe use it for whatever it would let me use it for (like web-service or non ...
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Is there any kind of API which allows to get the profile information?
I want to include a tag or kind of business card on my homepage where a link to my account, my current reputation and my current badges are show. Could be something like the user card under a question ...
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How do you see what applications you've authorized on Stack Exchange with OAuth access?
I'm working on an app that integrates with Stack Exchange's OAuth interface, as defined here. I can approve the application, but can't figure out how to find the apps that I've approved.
How do I ...
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Can we programmatically retrieve hat counts via an API call?
I'd like to be able to get access to the leader board data on winterba.sh, as well as individual hat counts for specific users on different sites. There is, however, no mention of an API on winterba....
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Does access via the API count towards Fanatic and Enthusiast badges?
Now that the Stack Exchange API offers user authentication via OAuth 2.0, if a user accesses a Stack Exchange site via the API, does the access count towards the Fanatic and Enthusiast badges?
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How can i link my UserProfile on my personal homepage?
I want to put a link to my SO profile on my homepage. I remember a codesnippet i saw somewhere that would basically display my Username and my reputation. Where was that?
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Gathering and Reporting SE Site Stats
Recently, I've built an application which accesses the SE API to gather certain statistics on each site. (The application gathers the data between 00:00:00UTC+00:00 and 00:05:00UTC+00:00 for the most ...
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Is there a beginner's tutorial for using the Stack Exchange API v2.0?
Is there a "Stack Exchange API 2.0 for Dummies" page out there somewhere?
Almost all of the support questions on Stack Apps are for 1.0. Everything explaining how to use javascript to parse through ...
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How can I get the text from a large number of deleted posts?
I'm looking into running a machine-learning project on EL&U to detect low-quality posts. To do that, I need a large dataset - and to get that, I need to get the text from a large number of deleted ...
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Searching by date
I've had a look through previous questions on Meta and haven't been able to find an answer to this. Does StackOverflow provide any ability to search by date?
For example, if I wanted to search for ...
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How could I get my own vote activity from API?
For the sake of curiosity I want to visualize my vote activity on Stack Overflow. I can scrape it easily from HTML, but it would be elegant to accomplish it using an API.
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Stack Exchange API - getting answers for the questions object
I use https://api.stackexchange.com/docs. To get a sample question, I use the address https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/6827752?&site=stackoverflow. Thanks to this, he gains a question. ...
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Unable to fetch data from the Stack Overflow API (too many requests)
I am trying to fetch API data from:
api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow...
But I am getting the error:
{error_id: 502, error_message: "too many requests from this ...
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How to get tag info for tags with special characters using SE API?
Let's say we have the tag c#. How can I get its info with the Stack Exchange API? I tried doing api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/c#/info. However, it returns:
{"error_id":404,"error_message":"no ...
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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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What, exactly, is "OverflowAPI"?
The description on the OverflowAPI website is rather vague marketing speak:
OverflowAPI is a subscription-based API service that provides continuous access to Stack Overflow’s public dataset to train ...
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Record for most consecutive days visited?
Is there a way to find out the actual number for the highest ever consecutive days visited?
I don't want to know who the user is that holds the record (I would hope that information would be kept ...
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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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Getting the body of a question, or answer, through API
You can fetch a question by providing its id, via SO's API. See this page, for more information.
However, the returned JSON, has no body containing the actual text of the question. Is it by design? ...
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What do I need to know as a user about authorising applications that interact with Stack Exchange?
I know that I can grant permission of an application to do something with my account on the network. What can and cannot an application do if I allow it? For example, if I see a description like:
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Am I allowed to include Stack Exchange resources (images, css) with a plugin for offline use?
I'm working on a plugin that adds some degree of offline functionality to Stack Exchange. It needs to be able to render pages without internet access.
I am going to bundle jQuery and WMD/PageDown ...
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Stack Overflow Enterprise API support
Does Stack Overflow Enterprise support REST API?
If so, where could I find the docs?
If not, will it be supported in the near future?
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What does "new_active_users" field represent?
I'm working with some site data obtained via the Stack Exchange API and I see each site has a field called new_active_users. I looked at the type info page for site data, as well as usage of /info ...
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Choosing best resource for crawling data from Stack Exchange sites
For the purpose of an academic research project, I would like to obtain detailed data on questions, answers, tags, users, etc. That is, I seek historical data, as detailed as possible. I have seen ...
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Is there any C# API available to query Stack Overflow?
Well, I am new in this arena. I want to know about any C# API available to query Stack Overflow to get the information like Questions, Answers, Reputation, Votes, Tags across different Users, etc.
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How do we get the API build date/number?
The API keeps breaking and often gets fixed, all without a single peep in the Change Log.
Officially the API is unchanged since version 2.2 in February of 2014.
But we know from the resolved bugs ...
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How is the filter for API calls calculated?
The Stack Exchange API uses filters to determine which fields have to be returned from the service. The filter property is quite obscure though.
You can create the filter using the documentation ...
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Retrieving a list of questions closed as duplicates [duplicate]
I couldn't find any way to get, through the API, a list of all questions that are duplicate of what other question.
For example, for the question with ID 10369, I want to obtain the question with ID ...
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Where is the chat API page on the api.stackexchange.com site?
I received news about the chat API changing in a couple of months from another chat user and API library developer, but I can't find any mention of it on my own now. So I went to look at the prime ...
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Will there be an Open Data Protocol (OData) endpoint for every (future) Stack Exchange site?
The official introduction states the phantastic Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) to be
a web tool for sharing, querying, and
analyzing the Creative Commons data
from every website in the Stack
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Are there any ways to petition to increase your Stack Exchange API limit?
I know there is a 10,000 query limit for the Stack Exchange API, but I was curious if there was any way to ask for a one-time increase of API requests as I just need to do a one-time pull to get a bit ...
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Is it possible using the SE API to get a list of another user's posts that I have upvoted?
I'm looking to obtain a list of another user's posts that I have upvoted. I learned in a previous question that this is not possible through the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, because any private data,...
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Is there a way to programmatically get info about chats?
I'm beginning some research into bots on the StackExchange platform, and I was wondering if there was a (reliable) way to get information about a chat, particularly a list of Room Owners for any given ...
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Requesting help for reputation history feature on API Stack Exchange
I have a set of 141 user IDs on the math.stackexchange site, and I would like to pull information about these users' reputation histories through the Stack Exchange API. I have set the parameters for ...
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Stack Exchange site names for API URL query parameter
When calling a Stack Exchange API we need to specify which site we are trying to fetch the data from in a API URL query parameter (site=webapps.meta) like below:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/...
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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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How do I automatically join all SE sites I haven't joined yet?
On SE sites which I haven't joined yet, neither inbox nor achievements are available. I'd like to have these available in all sites. I could wait around for the devs to fix it ... or I could join all ...
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Stack Exchange API Licensing Compliance
We are implementing an app that searches Stack Overflow content. When search results are rendered, we will make sure all the sources and authors are attributed with proper links (clickable) to the ...
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Search API: AND Vs OR
Using API, if you search for 'orange icon' in the title:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/search?order=desc&sort=activity&intitle=orange%20icon&site=stackoverflow (5results)
but a site ...
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Does the API support viewing user's voting activity?
For research purposes, I need to view users' voting behavior.
I didn't see this option in the api documentation: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs
On the other hand, When viewing a user's page, I ...
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Is there a sandbox chat room for testing the API? [duplicate]
Right now I have one (1) reputation and I need 20 to be in a chat. How do I test the chat API? Do I need to get more upvotes to chat or is there a "sandbox" chat that does not need rep?
I know that ...
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