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Stack Overflow Get Questions Example

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Stack Overflow Get Questions Example is an example object payload from Stack Overflow, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

itemshas_morequota_maxquota_remaining

Example Payload

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{
  "items": [
    {
      "question_id": 11227809,
      "title": "Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?",
      "score": 26234,
      "view_count": 1893456,
      "answer_count": 27,
      "accepted_answer_id": 11227902,
      "is_answered": true,
      "creation_date": 1345224568,
      "last_activity_date": 1745800000,
      "owner": {
        "user_id": 997372,
        "display_name": "GManNickG",
        "reputation": 100234,
        "user_type": "registered",
        "profile_image": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/example",
        "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/997372"
      },
      "tags": ["java", "c++", "performance", "cpu-architecture", "branch-prediction"],
      "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809"
    }
  ],
  "has_more": true,
  "quota_max": 300,
  "quota_remaining": 297
}

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