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How the /sites method is meant to be used

The /sites method is used to enumerate all sites in the network. If your [app] is meant to run against more than a single site (and many are) this method is how you should be discovering new sites…

Stack Exchange API - What does “site_state” mean?

The /sites route can return site_state. What does site state stand for and which values can it have? The values I found: normal linked_meta open_beta

Is there a way to fetch my flag quota?

I would like to stop flagging when I start running low on flags. Is there any way the API can tell me not only the flag options, but also whether I have any flags left and if so how many?

Can't Decompress Stack Overflow API in Swift

I am using the Stack Overflow API in Swift but keep getting an error: The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format. whenever I try to use the JSON as shown in code below…

script to manage naming duplicated - javascript

i'm looking for a script who manage naming, example : i have a liste of string like that : ["saad", "john", "patric"] if i want to add a name like "saad" the result will be "saad(1)", like windo…

PLACEHOLDER - MyZoom integration

Just to say I'm here. Hope it's the right way to do it.

PLACEHOLDER - TestCafe Tag Manager

An app adds additional common tags like 'testing', 'automated-tests' and similar for some testcafe-tagged questions for better discoverability. The app is not yet ready for prime time and is used f…

PLACEHOLDER - Writing a bot to monitor new answers posted on Stack Overflow

This is a post to test a development of a bot, which is supposed to report badly written answers based on simple heuristics. It uses rules similar to Natty bot, some of which have been borrowed dir…

I downvote because UI

An integration of the idownvotedbecau.se website I made a userscript which adds a simple popup whenever you are downvoting a question, which lets you choose from a set of reasons on why you did it…

Getting the ID of the question-asker when fetching new answers from the API

I am fetching a list of all new answers posted on Stack Overflow using the /answers API call. This returns the owner of the answer, but I would like to know if the answerer is the same person as th…

PLACEHOLDER - Stack App

Small and compact ionic angular app for the stack exchange sides. This app is currently under development and therefore in a private github repository. When the app reaches alpha state where it c…

“client_id not provided” when trying to obtain an access_token

So I'm trying to authenticate with the v2 API via oauth2. I have a code, so I'm POSTing to https://stackexchange.com/oauth/access_token and ideally get an access_token back. Instead I get an inval…

How to pass `key` as header value instead of as query params?

I would like to use my API Key in the header as opposed to as a query parameter. In Stack Overflow Enterprise, I pass the value as X-API-Key in the headers. This does not work for the public Stac…

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