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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? …
Ryan Alford's user avatar
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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 if … A chat API would make a lot of these easier and hopefully help form a solid foundation for future of chat. …
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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0 answers
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Add ability to get flag status via API

As a companion to my other feature request regarding flag statuses, and a previous feature request for the same thing, I would like to request the ability to get a flag's status via the API. …
Andy's user avatar
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Will chat be accessible through the API?

Will chat be accessible through the Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange API? …
MicTech's user avatar
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Could SE provide per-user storage for 3rd party scripts?

So how about Stack Exchange provide limited, user-based data storage for selected third party tools through its API? … But it's worth at least thinking through: it would open a new dimension of awesomeness to the API, a whole new range of possibilities for scripts and apps working with it. …
Pekka's user avatar
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Please provide a way to download SEDE data via an API

I recently suggested on the Stack Apps site that a formal API be added to SEDE, and it was suggested I reference the feature request here, for visibility. … My use case is a query that the API does not support, so I thought it would be interesting to get it programmatically from SEDE instead. I wonder if this feature might be of interest to others here? …
halfer's user avatar
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27 votes
2 answers
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Provide a streaming chat API

But what if chat had a streaming API, sort of like Twitter's Streaming API? … This would allow people to use an actual documented and official API, as well as get an actual stream instead of AJAX which is closer to what a chat is. …
TheLQ's user avatar
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0 answers
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Include backoff value (or remaining time) in API backoff violation response

When a rate limit violation in the API occurs, a response such as the following is received: { "error_id": 502, "error_message": "Violation of backoff parameter", "error_name": "throttle_violation … However, for a human testing the API, especially through one of the documentation test pages, sometimes this is not the case. …
Jason C's user avatar
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http://api.stackoverflow.com is a bit of a maze, can it be changed?

I decided to Google for the StackExchange API. … Can http://api.stackoverflow.com instead redirect directly to the V2.0 API? …
James Donnelly's user avatar
22 votes
1 answer
330 views

Accessing the Hot Network Questions via the API

Currently, there is no public API to access the Hot Network Questions. Can this ability be added to the official API? …
Daniel M.'s user avatar
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334 views

Can we unblock the DuckDuckGo karma bot API access?

DuckDuckGo serves up little karma badges like this: (in action: my about page). However, apparently the karma data for StackOverflow is no longer grabbed (and will show up as 0 points if you attemp …
Alan H.'s user avatar
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19 votes
1 answer
116 views

Include Site-Specific Closed Reasons in Stack Exchange API Results

Current Design When we search the API for questions, one of the fields provided is closed_reason. … This question was closed for the second reason, but there is absolutely no way to determine that from the API results. …
jmac's user avatar
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16 votes
1 answer
314 views

Include my close and reopen votes on the votes page (or the API /question object)

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? …
Diminutive Colossus's user avatar
15 votes
0 answers
101 views

Show recent API-made comments for 10k users/mods to review

Since chances are good that even with the limitations some people will abuse the new write API it would probably be a good idea to show all comments made by it on a page within the 10k tools or mod tools …
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Allow users to edit the API documentation

The API documentation has more than a few typos, errors, and unclear bits. Many of these have been noted in comments over the years and there are 44 bug complaints on Stack Apps. … Other sites also occasionally report API documentation problems. For example, there are at least 4 here on Meta SE. …
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