/stackexchange/answers

POST /api/stackexchange/answers

Price: 1 credit

Get Stack Exchange answer details by id

How to use it

Get full details of a Stack Exchange answer by its numeric id. Returns body, score, accepted flag, parent question id, owner, and timestamps. Specify the network site via the 'site' parameter (default stackoverflow).

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• site string — Stack Exchange network site to query (e.g. stackoverflow, superuser, serverfault, math) (default: "stackoverflow"; examples: "stackoverflow"; minLength: 1)
• answer integer required — Answer id (examples: 53645883; >: 0)

Response

• @type string (default: "StackexchangeAnswerDetail")
• id integer required
• question_id integer nullable
• body string nullable
• score integer nullable
• is_accepted boolean (default: false)
• owner object nullable
  • @type string (default: "StackexchangeOwner")
  • user_id integer nullable
  • account_id integer nullable
  • display_name string (default: "")
  • reputation integer nullable
  • image string nullable
  • user_type string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
• created_at integer nullable
• last_activity_at integer nullable
• last_edit_at integer nullable
• content_license string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Answer not found. Verify the id and site. Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.