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If you go to question flagging and answer flagging, you can see the question flagging page has two more options: target_site and question_id. Omitting these works the same as including them. Both are ...
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I tried creating a filter with the Stack Exchange API to give me only the markdown of a post, without HTML escaping. It was successfully registered: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/filters/DDgLLPBaN ...
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I know the API is very buggy and whether a field is returned in the response often depends on what other fields are included/excluded in the filter, but I've been unable to successfully come up with a ...
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Updates (October 6th, 2025): We've closed applications to join the beta Due to a high number of applicants and participants, we've closed our submissions form. Thanks for your interest and feedback! ...
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When editing filters under the Try It section of the API docs, the "unselect all" button only works for default checked items, but not new selections. It just changes the number of selected ...
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I have been seeing issues with the Stack Overflow API where questions created post April 1st 9AM EST do not show up when queried via the Search API. Here is a sample query we used to confirm - https://...
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As of 2025-02-04 16:41 UTC+01:00, all API filters have been changed in a backwards-incompatible way. This means that all API filters used by current applications have suddenly become invalid. This ...
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After the issue with the 40x codes that were returned because of the badges, there is still an issue with the API and these badges in particular. Expected result The /badges API should return the list ...
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I want to fetch my saved posts from across stackexchange network that I have joined, is it possible? I have read the documentation on the api.stackexchange.com and it seems the api is intended for ...
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Currently, as far as I can tell, it is not possible to post a bounty on an answer through the SE API; indeed, that seems to be just about the only thing the API doesn't let apps do to questions. Is it ...
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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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It looks like the fromdate and todate filters have no effect on the /badges endpoint: Example without these filters: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/badges#page=1&pagesize=30&order=desc&...
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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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Goal Use the SE API in order to get the lists of the badges for every website in the network. The /badges endpoint provide this data. Expected result According to the paging documentation, we can ...
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As of 2024-08-14 21:17:15 UTC, the API appears to be fully dead, and blocked by CloudFlare. This is limited to specifically the API; no other services appear to be down. I've verified this on my IP, a ...
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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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This SE API request for user 30382 of Mathematics site returns the following items: ... {"reputation_history_type":"post_downvoted","reputation_change":-2,"post_id&...
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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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Why is https://api.unix.stackexchange.com/1.1/stats not accessible?
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Today, SmokeDetector/metasmoke was unable to raise either automatic or manual flags due to Cloudflare asking for human verification on the SE API for a significant period of time. The response from ...
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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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Later today or tomorrow, we will be moving the API behind our Content Delivery Network (CDN). In an effort to better align all our applications, we are moving this and, in the future, other public ...
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I want to get information about all bounties that were active within last 3-4 days. This should include started, awarded and expired bounties. How do I do this? Here are my thoughts. If a bounty is ...
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The Stack Overflow OAuth endpoints (https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token/ and https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token/json) have started responding to requests from the server I run my ...
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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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The Stack Exchange API doesn't seem to be working for certain sites like meta.stackoverflow.com. For example, the below API to get the answers to a question by ID doesn't work for the following ...
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My preferred browser is Safari. Sometimes, I post a question and get the CAPTCHA because "we're not sure you're human." Unfortunately, on this website, as on more than ten percent of sites ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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