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How to adjust the number of results returned when querying the Stackoverflow API?
I'm using the Stackoverflow JSON API to retrieve questions marked with a given tag.
I have this small program in Java which retrieves questions marked with the "Java" tag.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
String…

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Getting null as response from Stack Overflow API with PHP
I use this code for PHP to get Stack Overflow reputation.
$feed = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/22656?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow&filter=!*MxOyD8qN0Yghnep", true), true);
$array =…

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How can I use custom filters in the Stack Exchange API?
I am trying to get the questions and answers from StackApi to train a deep learning model. I have the problem that I don't understand how to use the custom filters so that I only get the body of the question.
This is my code:
from stackapi import…

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How to sort by view count using Stack Exchange API in python?
So, I made a query using Stack Exchange Data Explorer:
SELECT TOP 100 Id
AS [Post Link],
ViewCount,
AnswerCount,
FavoriteCount,
CommentCount,
Score,
Tags
FROM Posts
ORDER BY ViewCount DESC
It returns just what I need, but I need to retrieve this…

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How to extract the accepted and the top voted answer of a question from SEDE?
I am writing a query to extract questions and answers from Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Data Explorer using the following query:
SELECT Top 2
q.id, q.Title, q.Body q_body, q.parentid qpid, q.AcceptedAnswerId, q.Score q_score, q.AnswerCount,…

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How to watch for changes automatically in a API Endpoint with Vue?
I’m building an app that uses Stackoverflow’s API to get the last question of a certain tag & ouput it on my app. I have been able to get the last question on the specific tag, but now I want that automatically detect changes in the API Endpoint &…

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How to get the number of unanswered questions by tag from stackoverflow api?
There is a call that return the number of total questions by tag https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/java/info?order=desc&sort=popular&site=stackoverflow
But how would you get the number of unanswered questions by tag?

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How to get the body of an answer using the Stack Exchange API?
I am using StackAPI to get the most voted questions and the most voted answers to those questions:-
from stackapi import StackAPI
SITE = StackAPI('stackoverflow')
SITE.max_pages=1
SITE.page_size=10
questions = SITE.fetch('questions', min=20,…

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How to download code using TortoiseHg (Mercurial)
I am trying to download the code theworldsworststackoverflowclone. At first I have tried with Tortoise SVN but later get to know that hg command is not supported.
Now I downloaded Mrcurial and TortoiseHg 2.0.2 with Mercurial 1.8.1 - x64 Windows and…

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Date parameters do not seem to work for the Stack Exchange API's tags endpoint
If I request tag info without specifying fromdate/todate parameters, I get back some data. EG:
{
"has_synonyms": true,
"is_moderator_only": false,
"is_required": false,
"count": 1199408,
"name": "c#"
}
But if I use the…

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How to get badge info using the stackr library for the API?
I would like to use the Stack Exchange API with a specific user id to get the text of a user's badges.
I found the stackr library for the Stack Exchange API, and tried this:
#…

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AppAuth, Redirect URI, Stackexchange, Instagram API
I want to make OAuth2 authorization.
I use : implementation "net.openid:appauth:0.7.0"
I have studied many examples (Google Codelabs, AppAuth etc).
I also studied RFC 8252.
I wanted to apply this to Stackexchange and Instagram OAuth API.
I…

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How do I retrieve the actual date from the StackOverflow API *creation_date* field?
How do I retrieve the actual date from the StackOverflow API creation_date field?
The date depicted via their API is an integer:
"creation_date": 1288523078
However, I would like to convert the integer into an actual DateTime value.
I saw this…

Scott Nimrod
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What does "!)V)MSZJUgX_" mean in Stack API filter?
I was looking into Stack API doc and found the following API call.
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/comments#order=desc&min=1&sort=votes&filter=!)V)MSZJUgX_&site=stackoverflow&run=true
I understand all parts but filter=!)V)MSZJUgX_. Apparently…

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How to get data from stack exchange site
I need to get data from specific stack exchange site.
How can I do this most efficiently? Can I use some kind of API? I need to save them into some kind of database.

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