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Tools and triggers
What Agents can do in Stack Exchange
Available tools and events after Stack Exchange is connected.
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Advanced Search
Tool to search a Stack Exchange site for questions matching advanced criteria. Use when you need to search with complex filters like accepted answers, closed status, body text, title text, user filters, or view counts…
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Create Filter
Tool to create a custom filter for Stack Exchange API responses. Use when you need to customize which fields are included/excluded in API responses to reduce payload size or include additional data not in the default…
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Find Similar Questions
Tool to find questions similar to a hypothetical one based on a title and optional tag combination. Use when you need to correlate external data with similar content within a Stack Exchange site, or to get suggestions…
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Get Access Tokens
Tool to read the properties for a set of access tokens obtained via OAuth 2.0. Use when you need to verify token validity, check expiration dates, review granted scopes, or identify the account associated with tokens.
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Get Answer Comments
Tool to retrieve comments on a set of answers from Stack Exchange. Use when you have answer IDs and need to fetch their associated comments. If you know you have a question ID instead, use the questions endpoint. If…
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Get Answer Flag Options
Tool to fetch valid flag options for a specific answer. Returns flags that the authenticated user can create for the answer. Available flags vary from post to post and user to user. Use when you need to know which…
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Get Answers by IDs
Tool to retrieve a set of answers by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch specific answers by ID (up to 100 semicolon-delimited IDs). Supports filtering by date, sorting by…
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Get Badge Recipients by IDs
Tool to retrieve recently awarded badges constrained to a specific set of badge IDs. Use when you need to track who has received specific badges (up to 100 badge IDs) within an optional date range.
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Get Badges by IDs
Tool to retrieve badges by their IDs on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to get details about specific badges using semicolon-delimited badge IDs.
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Get Collective Answers
Tool to retrieve answers belonging to the specified collective(s) on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find answers associated with a specific collective or multiple collectives.
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Get Collective Questions
Tool to retrieve questions associated with the specified collective. Use when you have a collective ID and need its questions for a site.
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Get Collective Tags
Retrieve tags associated with specified Stack Overflow collectives. Returns tag information including usage count, moderator status, and collective membership details. Use this when you need to discover what tags are…
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Get Collective Users
Tool to retrieve users who are members of the specified Collectives on Stack Exchange. Use when you need to list members of a collective (e.g., google-cloud, azure) on a Stack Exchange site.
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Get Collectives
Tool to retrieve all collectives on a Stack Exchange site in alphabetical order. Use when you need to list collectives for display or filtering.
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Get Collectives by Slugs
Tool to retrieve Collective objects by their slugs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch specific collectives by their identifier slugs.
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Get Comment Flag Options
Tool to fetch valid flag options for a given comment. Use when you need to know which flags a user can raise before submitting. Requires authenticated access.
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Get Comments
Retrieves comments from a Stack Exchange site (e.g., Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault). Returns recent comments with full metadata including comment body, score, creation date, owner details (reputation…
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Get Comments by IDs
Tool to retrieve specific comments by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you have a cache of comment IDs obtained through other means (such as /questions/{id}/comments) but suspect the data may be stale…
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Get Events
Retrieves a stream of recent events that occurred on a Stack Exchange site. Events include posting questions, answers, comments, editing posts, and creating users. Events are only accessible for 15 minutes after they…
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Get Filters by IDs
Tool to retrieve the fields included by the given filters and the safeness of those filters. Use when you need to debug or understand what fields a filter includes before using it in other API calls.
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Get Linked Questions
Tool to get questions which link to those questions identified in the ids parameter. Use when you need to find questions that reference or are related to specific question IDs by explicit hyperlinks within a single…
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Get Me
Tool to retrieve the authenticated user's profile information from Stack Exchange. Use when you need details about the current user associated with the access token.
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Get My Achievements
Retrieves the authenticated user's recent network-wide achievements across all Stack Exchange sites. Returns achievements including badges earned and reputation changes with metadata like site information, timestamps…
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Get My Associated Accounts
Tool to retrieve all Stack Exchange accounts associated with the authenticated user. Use when you need to discover which Stack Exchange sites the user participates in, along with their reputation, activity stats, and…
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Get My Featured Questions
Tool to retrieve questions with active bounties offered by the authenticated user. Use when you need to check which questions the user has placed bounties on. Requires authentication.
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Get My Mentions
Tool to retrieve comments mentioning the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find where the user has been mentioned in comments, track discussions involving the user, or monitor user…
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Get My Merge History
Tool to retrieve account merge history for the authenticated user. Returns records of merges involving the user's accounts. Use when you need to track account id changes, confirm if an account_id is new to your…
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Get My Network Activity
Tool to retrieve a summary of the authenticated user's activity across the Stack Exchange network. Returns recent activity including questions posted, answers given, badges earned, and other user actions across all…
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Get My No Answer Questions
Tool to retrieve questions owned by the authenticated user that have no answers. Use when you need to find unanswered questions asked by the current user on a Stack Exchange site.
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Get My Posts
Tool to retrieve posts (questions and answers) owned by the authenticated user from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list the user's own content, review their posting history, or track their contributions to…
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Get My Privileges
Tool to retrieve privileges for the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to check what permissions or capabilities the current user has earned based on their reputation.
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Get My Questions
Tool to retrieve questions owned by the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list the user's question history, check their recent questions, or analyze their contribution patterns. Requires…
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Get My Reputation
Tool to retrieve reputation changes for the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to track the user's reputation history, including gains and losses from votes, accepts, and other…
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Get My Reputation History
Tool to retrieve the authenticated user's public reputation history on a Stack Exchange site. Returns a chronological list of reputation changes with details about what caused each change (upvotes, downvotes, accepted…
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Get My Suggested Edits
Tool to retrieve suggested edits submitted by the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list the user's own suggested edits with filtering by date range, sort by creation/approval/rejection…
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Get My Tag Preferences
Tool to retrieve tag preferences for the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Returns the tags the user has marked as favorite or ignored. Use when you need to fetch the user's tag filter settings.
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Get My Tags
Tool to retrieve tags the authenticated user is active in on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch the user's tag activity, filter by date, or sort by popularity/activity/name.
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Get My Timeline
Tool to retrieve a timeline of actions the authenticated user has taken on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to track user activity history, review their contributions chronologically, or monitor recent actions…
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Get My Top Answer Tags
Tool to retrieve the authenticated user's top 30 tags by answer score on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to identify which tags the user is most active in or has the highest scoring answers.
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Get My Top Answers in Tags
Tool to retrieve the top 30 answers the authenticated user has posted in response to questions with specific tags. Use when you need to fetch the user's best answers filtered by tags, sorted by activity, creation date…
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Get My Top Question Tags
Tool to retrieve the authenticated user's top 30 tags by question score on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to analyze which tags the user has the most expertise in based on their question activity.
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Get My Top Questions in Tags
Tool to retrieve the top 30 questions the authenticated user has posted in response to questions with the given tags. Use when you need to find the user's most successful or highly-voted questions in specific topic…
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Get My Top Tags
Tool to retrieve the authenticated user's top 30 tags by combined question and answer score on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to discover the user's areas of expertise based on their participation in specific…
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Get My Unaccepted Questions
Tool to retrieve questions owned by the authenticated user that have no accepted answer. Use when you need to find the user's unresolved questions or track which questions still need an accepted answer.
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Get My Unanswered Questions
Tool to retrieve questions owned by the authenticated user that are not considered answered. Use when you need to find the user's unanswered questions on a Stack Exchange site.
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Get Post Comments
Tool to retrieve comments on posts identified by IDs, regardless of post type (question or answer). Use when you have post IDs from users or other sources but are unsure of the specific post type. If you know the post…
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Get Post Suggested Edits
Tool to retrieve suggested edits on posts from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch pending or historical suggested edits for specific posts by their IDs (up to 100 semicolon-delimited post IDs). Supports…
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Get Posts by IDs
Tool to retrieve a set of posts by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when grabbing an object when unsure whether an ID identifies a question or an answer (commonly with user-entered data). Accepts up to 100…
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Get Question Answers
Tool to retrieve all answers for a set of questions identified by their IDs. Use when you have specific question IDs and need to fetch all answers for those questions (up to 100 semicolon-delimited question IDs). Most…
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Get Question Close Options
Tool to fetch flag options that make up close reasons for a specific question. Returns close options that the authenticated user can create for the question. Available flags vary from post to post and user to user.
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Get Question Comments
Tool to retrieve comments on a set of questions from Stack Exchange. Use when you have question IDs and need to fetch their associated comments. If you know you have an answer ID instead, use the answers endpoint. If…
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Get Question Flag Options
Tool to fetch valid flag options, including close reasons, for a specific question. Returns flags that the authenticated user can create for the question. Available flags vary from post to post and user to user.
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Get Question Timeline
Tool to retrieve timeline events for specified questions on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to see the history of events (votes, comments, edits, etc.) that have happened to questions. Voting data is scrubbed…
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Get Questions
Tool to retrieve a list of questions from a Stack Exchange site without requiring tags or keywords. Use when you need to list newest questions overall, most voted questions, or apply date filters across the entire site…
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Get Questions by Answer IDs
Tool to retrieve questions that specific answers belong to on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you have answer IDs and need to find the parent questions they were posted on.
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Get Questions by IDs
Tool to retrieve a set of questions by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch specific questions by ID (up to 100 semicolon-delimited IDs) for fresh data or polling changes. Supports filtering…
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Get Related Tags
Tool to retrieve tags most related to the specified tags on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find related or similar tags. Including multiple tags is equivalent to asking for 'tags related to tag #1 and tag…
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Get Revisions by IDs
Tool to retrieve revisions for specific posts by their IDs. Use when you need to examine the edit history of posts by providing semicolon-delimited IDs.
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Get Site Info
Tool to retrieve comprehensive statistics and information about a Stack Exchange site. Returns data including site customization details, related sites, aggregate statistics (total questions, answers, users, votes)…
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Get Sites
Retrieves a comprehensive list of all Stack Exchange network sites with detailed information including site names, URLs, styling, and api_site_parameter values needed for other API calls. Use this to discover available…
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Get Suggested Edits by IDs
Tool to retrieve suggested edits by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch specific suggested edits (up to 100 semicolon-delimited IDs). Supports filtering by date, sorting by…
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Get Tag FAQ
Tool to retrieve frequently asked questions for a set of tags on Stack Exchange. Use when you need to find the most common or important questions for specific tags (max 5 tags).
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Get Tag Info
Tool to retrieve tag objects representing specified tags on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to get detailed information about specific tags, including usage count, synonyms, and activity.
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Get Tag Synonyms
Tool to retrieve all synonyms that point to the specified tags on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to discover tag synonyms for specific tags (up to 20 per request).
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Get Tag Top Answerers
Tool to retrieve the top 30 answerers active in a single tag, of either all-time or the last 30 days. Use when you need to identify the most active or highest-scoring answerers for a specific tag on a Stack Exchange…
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Get Tag Top Askers
Tool to retrieve the top askers active in a single tag. Use when you need to find the most active users who ask questions in a specific tag, either for all-time or the last 30 days.
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Get Tag Wikis
Tool to retrieve wiki content for specified tags on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need detailed documentation about tags including body content, excerpts, and edit history. Note that not all tags have wikis.
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Get User Answers
Tool to retrieve answers posted by specific users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list answers from one or more users, analyze their contributions, or filter by date/score ranges.
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Get User Associated Accounts
Tool to retrieve all Stack Exchange accounts associated with specified users by their account IDs. Use when you need to discover which Stack Exchange sites users participate in, along with their reputation, activity…
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Get User Badges
Tool to retrieve badges earned by specified users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch badge collections for one or more users, optionally filtered by date or sorted by rank/name/type/award date.
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Get User Comments
Tool to retrieve comments posted by specified users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find all comments from specific users, analyze their comment activity, or track their contributions. Supports up to 100…
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Get User Comments to User
Tool to retrieve comments that specific users have posted in reply to a single user. Use when you need to extract conversations between users, especially over time or across multiple posts on Stack Exchange.
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Get User Favorites
Tool to retrieve the questions that users have favorited/bookmarked. Use when you need to view a user's favorite questions or analyze what questions users have bookmarked.
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Get User Featured Questions
Tool to retrieve questions with active bounties offered by specified users. Use when you need to check which questions specific users have placed bounties on.
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Get User Full Reputation History
Tool to retrieve a user's full reputation history on a Stack Exchange site, including private events. Use when you need the complete reputation history with all event types. This method requires an access token with a…
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Get User Inbox
Tool to retrieve a user's inbox from Stack Exchange. Returns inbox items including comments, answers, questions, and chat messages directed at the specified user. Use when you need to check a specific user's…
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Get User Mentions
Tool to retrieve comments that mention specific users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find where specific users have been mentioned in comments. A comment only counts as a mention if it is "in reply to"…
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Get User Merge History
Tool to retrieve account merge history for specified user account IDs across the Stack Exchange network. Returns records of merges involving the provided accounts. Use when you need to track account ID changes, map…
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Get User No Answer Questions
Tool to retrieve questions asked by specified users that have zero undeleted answers. Use when you need to find unanswered questions from specific users on a Stack Exchange site. These questions are completely disjoint…
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Get User Notifications
Tool to retrieve notifications for a specific Stack Exchange user by ID. Returns unread and read notifications including comments, answers, badges, and other activity. Requires an access_token with 'read_inbox' scope…
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Get User Posts
Tool to retrieve posts (questions and answers) posted by specific users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list all posts from one or more users, analyze their contributions, or filter by date/score ranges.
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Get User Privileges
Tool to retrieve privileges a specific user has on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to check what permissions or capabilities a user has earned based on their reputation. Applications are encouraged to…
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Get User Questions
Tool to retrieve questions asked by specific users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to analyze a user's question history, check their recent contributions, or compare question patterns across multiple users…
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Get User Reputation
Tool to retrieve reputation changes for users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to track reputation history for specific users, including gains and losses from votes, accepts, and other reputation-affecting…
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Get User Reputation History
Tool to retrieve public reputation history for specified Stack Exchange users. Use when you need to track reputation changes over time, understand how users gained or lost reputation, or audit reputation events.
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Get User Suggested Edits
Tool to retrieve suggested edits submitted by specified users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch suggested edits from specific users (up to 100 semicolon-delimited user IDs) with filtering by date…
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Get User Tags
Tool to retrieve tags that specified users are active in on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch tag activity for specific user IDs, filter by date, or sort by popularity/activity/name.
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Get User Timeline
Tool to retrieve a timeline of actions taken by specified users on a Stack Exchange site. Returns users' posts, edits, and earned badges in chronological order. Use when tracking activity history for specific users or…
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Get User Top Answer Tags
Tool to retrieve a single user's top tags by answer score on Stack Exchange. Use when you need to discover which topics a user is most active in answering.
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Get User Top Answers in Tags
Tool to retrieve the top 30 answers a specific user has posted in response to questions with given tags. Use when you need to fetch a user's best answers filtered by tags (maximum 5 tags), sorted by activity, creation…
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Get User Top Question Tags
Tool to retrieve a single user's top tags by question score on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to analyze which tags a specific user has the most expertise in based on their question activity.
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Get User Top Questions in Tags
Tool to retrieve the top 30 questions a user has asked with the given tags. Use when you need to find a user's most successful or highly-voted questions in specific topic areas (limited to 5 tags maximum).
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Get User Top Tags
Tool to retrieve a single user's top tags by combined question and answer score on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to discover a specific user's areas of expertise based on their participation in topics.
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Get User Unaccepted Questions
Tool to retrieve questions asked by specified users that have at least one answer but no accepted answer. Use when you need to find unresolved questions from specific users or track which of their questions still need…
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Get User Unanswered Questions
Tool to retrieve questions asked by specific users that the site considers unanswered. Use when you need to find a user's questions that lack upvoted or accepted answers.
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Get User Unread Inbox
Tool to retrieve unread items in a specific user's Stack Exchange inbox. Use when you need to check for new notifications, comments, answers, or other inbox activity for a particular user. This method requires an…
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Get User Unread Notifications
Tool to retrieve unread notifications for a specific user on Stack Exchange. Use when you need to check unread activity notifications, badge awards, comment replies, or other alerts for a particular user. Requires an…
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Get Users by IDs
Tool to retrieve user profiles by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you have obtained user IDs from other sources (e.g., /questions) and need detailed user information including reputation, badges, profile…
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List Answers
Tool to retrieve all undeleted answers from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list recent answers, most voted answers, or apply date/score filters across the entire site.
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List Badge Recipients
Tool to retrieve recently awarded badges from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to see recent badge activity, track specific badge awards, or analyze badge distribution over time. As these badges have been…
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List Badges
Tool to retrieve all badges available in a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to browse available badges, search for specific badges by name, or filter by rank (gold/silver/bronze) or type (named/tag-based).
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List Elected Moderators
Tool to retrieve users who have moderator powers and were actually elected on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to get the list of elected moderators, excluding Stack Exchange Inc. employees unless they were…
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List Errors
Tool to retrieve the various error codes that can be produced by the Stack Exchange API. Use when you need to discover, document, or test error handling, or to understand what error codes mean.
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List Featured Questions
Tool to retrieve all questions with active bounties in the system. Use when you need to find questions with bounties, filter by tags, or sort by activity/creation/votes.
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List Moderator Only Tags
Tool to retrieve tags that only moderators can use on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to discover moderator-only tags, filter by name substring, or sort by popularity/activity/name.
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List Moderators
Tool to retrieve users who can exercise moderation powers on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to identify site moderators, including Stack Exchange employees granted moderation abilities.
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List Named Badges
Tool to retrieve all explicitly named badges from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to discover available badges, filter badges by name, or rank badges by type (gold, silver, bronze). Named badges are general…
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List No Answer Questions
Tool to retrieve questions that have received no answers from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find unanswered questions across the site, optionally filtered by tags, dates, or score.
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List Posts
Tool to retrieve all posts (questions and answers) from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list recent posts across all content types, most voted posts, or apply date/score filters across the entire site. This…
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List Privileges
Tool to retrieve all earnable privileges on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to discover what abilities users can earn based on reputation, including the reputation thresholds required for each privilege.
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List Required Tags
Tool to retrieve tags found on a site that fulfill required tag constraints on questions. Use when you need to discover which tags are required for certain question types on a Stack Exchange site.
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List Suggested Edits
Tool to retrieve all suggested edits in a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list all pending, approved, or rejected edit suggestions with filtering by date range, sort by creation/approval/rejection date, and…
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List Tag Badges
Returns badges awarded for participation in specific tags on Stack Exchange sites. Use when you need to discover tag-specific badges (like language or topic badges), filter badges by rank (gold/silver/bronze), or…
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List Tag Synonyms
Tool to retrieve all tag synonyms found on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to discover which tags are synonyms of other tags (e.g., 'js' -> 'javascript'). For synonyms of specific tags, prefer using the get…
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List Tags
Tool to retrieve tags found on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to browse available tags, search for tags by name substring, or filter by popularity, activity, or alphabetically.
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List Unanswered Questions
Tool to retrieve questions the site considers to be unanswered. Use when you need to find questions that lack upvoted answers. Note: a question must have at least one upvoted answer to be considered answered, so…
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List Unanswered Questions My Tags
Tool to retrieve unanswered questions within the authenticated user's favorite or frequented tags. Use when you need to find questions the site considers unanswered that match the user's tag interests.
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List Users
Tool to retrieve all users on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to browse users on a site, search for users by name substring, or filter by reputation, creation date, or modification date with sorting options.
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Render Answer
Tool to render a preview of an answer given its body and the question it's on. Use when you need to see how an answer will look after markdown is converted to HTML without actually posting it to Stack Exchange.
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Search Excerpts
Tool to search a Stack Exchange site for items matching given criteria with excerpt snippets. Use when you need search results with highlighted excerpts showing matching text from questions and answers.
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Search Questions
Tool to search the site for questions meeting certain criteria. Use after defining tags or keywords to locate relevant questions. At least one of 'tagged' or 'intitle' must be set. Monitor `quota_remaining` in…
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