Stack Exchange
Developer Q&A network for questions, answers, users, tags, comments, reputation, and community content.
Tracks developer Q&A activity around questions, answers, users, tags, and keyword-specific discussions.
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Example Use Cases
These are the Stack Exchange actions Snow can use when building apps with you. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these on its own.
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. Supports free-form text search and multiple tag filters.
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 filter.
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 similar to a site's related questions feature.
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 activity/creation/votes, and pagination.
Tool to retrieve questions associated with the specified collective. Use when you have a collective ID and need its questions for a site.
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 used within specific collectives (e.g., 'aws', 'google-cloud'). Requires collective slugs (string identifiers) - obtain these first via the Get Collectives action.
Tool to retrieve all collectives on a Stack Exchange site in alphabetical order. Use when you need to list collectives for display or filtering.
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.
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, profile, etc.), and reply information. Supports pagination, date filtering, and sorting by creation date or vote score. Use this when you need to browse recent activity, find comments by specific users, or analyze comment patterns on Stack Exchange sites. Monitor `quota_remaining` in responses; paginated requests can exhaust the daily API quota.
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.
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 engagement.
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 a specific Stack Exchange community.
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 authentication via access token.
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 reputation-affecting actions.
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 semicolon-delimited IDs.
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 useful for polling for new or updated answers (with sort=activity).
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 unsure whether you have an answer or question ID, use the posts endpoint. Supports filtering by date range, sorting by creation date or votes, and pagination. Returns comment metadata including body, score, owner details, and timestamps.
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 corpus.
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 by date, sorting by activity/creation/votes, and pagination.
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.
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 sites (Stack Overflow, Math, Gaming, etc.) and get their API identifiers before making site-specific queries. Responses include has_more field; increment page until has_more=false to retrieve all sites.
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.
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 links, and activity statistics.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 questions with only non-upvoted answers will appear in results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 responses when paginating to avoid exhausting API quota.
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.
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 unsure whether you have an answer or question ID, use the posts endpoint. Supports filtering by date range, sorting by creation date or votes, and pagination. Returns comment metadata including body, score, owner details, and timestamps.
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 flags a user can raise before submitting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Accepts up to 100 semicolon-delimited comment IDs at once. Supports sorting by creation date or vote score, and filtering by date ranges.
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 occurred, and by default only events in the last 5 minutes are returned. Use the 'since' parameter to specify older events within the 15-minute window.
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.
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 Stack Exchange site.
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, and links. Supports pagination for browsing through achievement history. Use this when you need to view the user's recent activity and accomplishments across the Stack Exchange network.
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 badges on each site.
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.
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 application, or understand which account ids were equivalent in the past. Account merges happen for various reasons and should not be assumed to have particular causes.
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 Stack Exchange sites.
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.
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.
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 answers, etc.). Use when you need to track reputation gains and losses over time.
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 date, and paginate through results.
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.
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.
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 across questions, answers, comments, badges, and edits.
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.
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, or votes.
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.
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 areas.
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 topics.
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.
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.
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 is a question, use get_question_comments; if you know it's an answer, use get_answer_comments. This method handles both cases and accepts up to 100 semicolon-delimited post IDs.
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 sorting by creation, approval, or rejection dates, and filtering by date ranges.
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.
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.
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 to prevent voter identification.
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.
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 #2' (AND logic, not OR).
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), activity rates (questions/answers per minute), and metadata. Use this to discover site-specific information, aggregate statistics, and configuration details. This data is heavily cached; query sparingly (ideally no more than once per hour).
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 creation/approval/rejection date, and pagination.
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).
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).
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 site.
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.
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.
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.
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 stats, and badges on each site.
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.
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 semicolon-delimited user IDs at once. Can filter by date range, sort by creation date or votes, and paginate through results for users with many comments.
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.
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.
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.
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 scope containing "private_info".
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 notifications, mentions, or recent activity. Requires an access_token with 'read_inbox' scope.
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" a user, and a comment can only be in reply to a single user.
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 invalid account IDs to their current valid IDs, or confirm if an account_id is new to your application. This is a network-wide endpoint and does not require a 'site' parameter.
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 from unanswered or unaccepted questions which have at least one answer.
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. Use when you need to check another user's notification feed or monitor their activity.
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.
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 calculate privileges themselves by comparing results from /privileges with user.user_type.
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 (up to 100 user IDs).
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 actions. Reputation changes are intentionally scrubbed to make it difficult to correlate votes on particular posts with user reputation changes.
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.
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, sorting by creation/approval/rejection date, and pagination support.
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.
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 monitoring their contributions across questions, answers, comments, badges, and edits.
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.
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 date, or votes.
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.
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).
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.
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 an accepted answer.
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.
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 access token with the "read_inbox" scope.
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 access_token with 'read_inbox' scope.
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 awarded, they will have the user property set.
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 elected before employment.
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.
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.
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.
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 badges awarded site-wide, as opposed to tag-based badges.
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 is the union of questions and answers, returning common fields for both.
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.
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.
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 paginate through results.
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 search for badges by name.
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 tags by tags endpoint.