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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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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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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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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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Possibility of using booleans in the query parameter of /search/excerpts
We can use the symbols ; (respectively &) on the tagged parameter to represent an AND (respectively an OR) boolean operator on tags. For example, the API call
/2.2/search/excerpts?order=desc&...
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Is there a way to export the list of tags as plain text?
I want to export the list of tags as a plain text file. It's fine if I have to massage the data a bit, as long as I don't need to click through pages and pages of tags. Why? Because I use that input ...
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How to use a search regex for tags in the Stack Exchange API
I want to simulate the question search using regex behaviour of Stack Overflow using the Stack Exchange API.
For example, using c++* for tags will give questions which have c++ as prefix in tag such ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange WebSocket action for multiple tags?
I'm developing an app to show all new questions for any tags that user is watching in realtime. So instead of using the REST API, I want to use the WebSocket at: wss://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com.
I'...
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Stack Exchange API for Tags won't set has_more to True
I have this request URL:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/python/top-answerers/all_time?page=1&pagesize=100&site=stackoverflow&filter=!9Z(-x.0nI
What I need is to have a pagination ...
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Stack Exchange API - Obtaining the Tag Watchers Count
I've reviewed the entire Stack Exchange API v2.2 and have not found how to obtain the tag Watchers Count; e.g.:
How to obtain the 'watchers' count using the Stack Exchange API?
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The API crashes when trying to retrieve multiple tags
Using the /tags/{tags}/info route, I try to retrieve the info for a few tags, but the API crashes with:
Server Error in '/' Application.
(click for larger view)
This ...
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Getting all questions with a specific tag
The Stack Exchange API supports /questions/{id}/tags/{tags} but it returns only a selection of questions available on Stack Overflow.
For a school project I need to find all questions containing the ...
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How can I collect the number of times a tag is used per month using the API?
What is the best way to collect the number of times a given tag is used in a given month using the stack exchange API?
Is it by going through all the questions asked during a the given month that ...
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Do different Stack Exchange APIs treat encoded URIs differently? [duplicate]
In our app, we're calling two Stack Exchange APIs:
get tags containing a given substring
get questions containing given tags
We're encoding the tag name in both the calls, but in the former case, ...
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The tagged parameter in /search/advanced Stack Exchange API seems to be applying an AND condition instead of OR condition
I'm trying to use the Advanced Search API of Stack Exchange.
The documentation on that page says the tagged parameter should contain
a semicolon delimited list of tags, of which at least one will ...
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How to obtain the "top N%" number for tags of a user via API?
Here's what my Stack Overflow Developer Story shows:
And my profile:
I want to obtain these top percentages via API for my personal website.
I've tried the /users/{id}/top-tags endpoint, it gives ...
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Usage and attribution of SE tags in third party apps
Are API users allowed to persist the tags queried over the SE API (/tags) and if so, how should the attribution look like and where should it be placed (imprint, or in the footer of every page that ...
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Possible bug with Stack Overflow User reputation
I am working on a university project using the Stack Exchange API.
I get a number of the top users of every year starting from 2008, and I use the API to get their tags.
A strange thing that I ...
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How can I get all the tags on Stack Overflow by using Stack Exchange API
I try it on this site:https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/tags, but it only return a little part of them, and there is some filed that I can't understand in the json result:
"has_more": true,
"...
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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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Should the questions about the API be posted only on Stackapps (and not MSE)?
I saw recent questions about the Stack Exchange API on this website.
Questions about the API have been posted on StackApps for a long time.
So the questions about the API are posted on two different ...
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Get number of questions by tag name
I am just curious to know whether there is a way to find out which tag has got most number of questions on a day.
Like at the moment, i see 582,073 questions overall for java tag, 531,473 questions ...
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Add "Tag Description" to the Tag Query on StackExchange API
Currently there doesn't seem to be a way to get a list of tag descriptions from the StackExchange API. As the above link will show you, this is the info you get out for each tag:
{
"name":...
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Can I identify when a tag has been made on Data Explorer or the SE API?
So, there's an idea I had ...
Tags that are very old and have a low number of questions, are probably not really useful.
... which made me want to write a query for checking them out.
Wait, what.....
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Is there a way to exclude tag synonyms from searches?
I was looking for single-use tags, and approximately half of our tags on Travel-SE (10 pages of them) are actually used once or are synonyms, so this is almost an exercise in futility.
To make it ...
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Does Stack Overflow provide a public API for querying?
I'm interested in possibly writing an aggregation application for subject/tags interested in.
Will Stack Overload be providing some sort of API for the public?
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