These questions are the most frequently asked and answered questions on Stack Apps.
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What's the etiquette for answers/comments on an app “question” on stackapps.com?
Since the stackapps FAQ doesn't really address this, and everything I list below could be acceptable when there is so much to discuss, is there an accepted etiquette to what "answers" should address ...
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Guidelines on app and library thumbnails
We now have better, user-friendlier display for apps and libraries and scripts:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/stack-exchange-api-1-1-and-improved-app-gallery/
We infer a number of things ...
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Announcing API version 1.1
As has been announced on the blog, we're rolling out a minor revision of our existing read-only API.
While the blog post gives some high level details, I figured [app] developers would appreciate ...
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Separate Request Quotas for Authorized [app]s
Imagine, if you will, you have a popular [app] hosted on a cloud computing service which is also used by a number of other [app]s. If this service forces clients to share IPs (and they all do, in ...
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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 in ...
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Request Throttling Limits
What are permissible requests "speeds?"
The API will cut you off if you make more than 30 requests over 5 seconds to any single endpoint.
We consider this a breach of the API interface contract, so ...
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Version 1.0 released 9th of July
For a lot of us, that would be next Friday.
At some point - most likely after noon PST - version 0.9 of the API will be replaced with the final 1.0 release.
There are no expected interface changes ...
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Supported Platforms
What platforms are supported for use with the StackExchange API?
In short, anything that supports JSON/JSONP & GZIP.
All responses from the API will be compressed with GZIP. The ...
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Conscientious use of the API
What constitutes abuse?
Making an undue number of requests in a short span of time, or regularly exceeding a request quota during "normal" use.
Guidelines for polling
We realize that a great many ...
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How API Keys Work
What are the API request limits?
A single IP address can only make a certain number of API requests per day, depending on the presence of a valid API key.
Default API daily limits:
Key: 10,000
No ...
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How to list your application/library/wrapper/script here
If you've created an application, script, or library for use on the Stack Exchange network, that's fantastic!
Now publicize it by creating a question with the correct tag:
app ...
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Sample Application: World's Worst StackOverflow Clone
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About
The World's Worst StackOverflow Clone is an open-source example application for the stack exchange API. It is meant to help programmers get up to speed on development with ...
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API “Hello World” code
The Stack Exchange API is based on HTTP and URLs, just like the web page you're browsing now. Except instead of HTML, the responses are all in JSON.
Let's say we wanted to call the info method:
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API Documentation and Help
Method List
All API methods can be found at https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
Global Method Parameters
All methods accept the following parameters:
type=jsontext: responds with mime-type ...
