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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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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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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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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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Stack Overflow Careers API
SO has an API for most of the site (questions, members, etc.), but I was unable to find any information on a public API for the Careers site. Does one exist? If not, are there any plans for one?
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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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Stack Overflow iPhone app [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Native iPhone app
Am I the only person who keeps on searching the iPhone app store for a Stack Overflow app? There are probably 100,001 less useful apps out there. Is this ...
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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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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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What is the status of development and future of the SE API?
While as a non developer, and whose code tends to consist of hastily hacked together bits of bash its not of direct use for me, I'd love to have the option of a android app again.
While the official ...
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Cloudflare challenge on API and WebSocket traffic used for AI Analysis
Currently, there's a reproducible issue with Cloudflare blocking (via user/browser challenge as in this question) all API and WebSocket traffic from several sources. This is impacting the AI analysis ...
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Can anyone explain why I'm getting in crap from I.T. because of bandwidth to api.stackoverflow.com given my sparse usage of the sites?
I.T. just sent me a report complaining that my bandwidth use for our internet connection leads the company by more than 30X what the rest of the company is using. After I prevented myself spitting ...
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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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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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Where I can get my access token/key for the API?
I am designing an application where I only run it on my PC, it uses StackExchange's API 2.2
The problem is that during testing and troubleshooting my code, many of the 300 requests quota have been ...
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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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Need of search bar in Stack Exchange API Documentation Pages
The is a need of search bar in Stack Exchange API Documentation Pages. Eg. the place marked in the snapshot
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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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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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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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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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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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StackOverflow API for R?
Is there an R package for accessing the StackOverflow questions, answers, user profiles, badges, etc. through an API? I would like to make a word cloud of popular tags and other such plots.
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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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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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Are option_ids for flags guaranteed to not change?
When given an integer as option_id, the API path /answers/{id}/flags/add raises the flag corresponding to option_id on a specific answer (same goes for its counterpart for questions). Are these ...
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Cloudflare blocking requests to StackExchange API when User-Agent header is not specified
Since around 8/14/2024, our services requests to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search are getting blocked by Cloudflare.
Despite not having any changes in the traffic pattern or the actual code.
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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 to get unread reputation changes via the API?
I want to write a desktop widget that checks Stack Exchange API every several seconds and tells me if there are any new reputation changes. I can't figure out what API method I can use for that.
I ...
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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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How to use Stack Exchange API?
I was wondering how to learn to use Stack Exchange API? I know how to program with APIs in my familiar languages, to write html webpages, and to remote control with servers via ssh. But can you tell ...
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What's the URL format that shows all comments expanded for all SE sites?
I want to archive some questions. But some comments are hidden because of the mechanics of how SE's UX work i.e. I have to click on show X more comments below each post.
So, like superuser.com/a/...
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Can the number of elections graph from the former Elections site be re-created?
There used to be an elections site that obviously showed how many elections took place each month over time.
Image by Tim Stone
But that site for reasons unknown to me no longer exists in that form....
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Is there a better way to get revision source as-is?
I am wondering if there's a way to get the last post's revision source without these steps. Is there a more direct way?
I need to ask the Stack Exchange API to give me the API site parameter
I ...
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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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Accessing the latest comments on a site from the Stack API
Context:
As a moderator on a relatively small beta site, I often notice spam, chatty, rude or entirely unrelated comments on old posts. It'd be nice if I had an easy way to monitor them. From the ...
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How to check user reputation from terminal?
Is there any way I can check a user's reputation or a specific question for updates using a terminal or command line?
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How do I delete all my comments?
I want to delete all of my comments, but the https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/comments/$ID/delete API method has a limit of 20 deletions per day.
I don't want to call it every day for months, so is ...
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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 an API I can get my total amount of reputation and badges from?
I have already seen the flair™ image I can embed on my website. However, I think it's small and I don't really like the design.
I would like to retrieve my overall reputation and badges as seen in ...
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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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Sandbox for Posting Questions [duplicate]
Is there any Sandbox for posting question? I beleive I can only post comment or answers in the existing Sandboxes (Formatting and API sandbox), Do I need to Create a new question in order to test ...
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I comply with backoff orders, but still get "Violation of backoff parameter"
I sometimes get throttle violation errors from the API
{'error_id': 502, 'error_message': 'Violation of backoff parameter', 'error_name': 'throttle_violation'}
despite complying with back off orders ...
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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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How to logout using the API?
I have recently developed my own Stack Overflow Android App, by using Stack Exchange API.
I am logging into Stack Overflow by using Authentication OAuth 2.0 implicit with Google. I got access_token ...
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Less results when hitting the API compared to using the search bar for the same query
I am new to Meta so let me know if I need to add clearer information or correct it.
I am currently trying to determine what the differences in functionality between making API calls and using the ...
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