This is a Python wrappers for the Stack Exchange API <http://api.stackexchange.com/>__. This library supports Stack Exchange API v2.3.

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This library has support for:

• The Stack Exchange backoff parameter. It will automatically force a delay to match the parameter.
• Read and write functionality via the API.
• Can retrieve multiple pages of results with a single call and merges all the results into a single response.
• Throws exceptions returned by the API for easier troubleshooting.
• Utilizes Requests <http://docs.python-requests.org/>__.
• Stack Overflow for Teams <https://stackoverflow.co/teams/>_ API

Example usage:

Establish a connection to Stack Overflow and gather some comments

::

from stackapi import StackAPI
SITE = StackAPI('stackoverflow')
comments = SITE.fetch('comments')

The above, will issue a call to the |comments|_. end point on Stack Overflow.

.. |comments| replace:: comments .. _comments: http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/comments

Much more detailed documentation is available on ReadTheDocs <http://stackapi.readthedocs.io/>__.