Ensure rebolbot uses official APIs to access stack overflow where available

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Ensure rebolbot uses official APIs to access stack overflow where available

Opened this issue 11 years ago · 1 comments

Though there is no API for chat itself, StackExchange does have an API for many functions related to getting information about users/etc:

https://api.stackexchange.com/docs

It would be good to go over the code and make sure that if there does exist an official API for some piece of functionality, that it is used rather than reverse-engineering chat for that purpose.

Answer 1 · 2013-10-08T22:46:10.000Z

We can get reputation, display_name and user_id from
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/users-by-ids

e.g.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/1864998