StackExchange

This page collects some notes about integration of StackExchange tags. See StackExchange API documentation.

A tag is identified by its name and a StackExchange site. For instance https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grammar could be mapped to "Japanese Grammar".

Sites

First get a list of all sites:

• https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/sites#filter=default&run=true

Sites can be mapped to JSKOS concept schemes because each site has its own tag vocabulary.

Sites are grouped e.g. https://stackexchange.com/sites#science

Tag info

Get tag info (the latter with synonym)

• https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/related-tags#tags=electromagnetism&filter=default&site=physics&run=true

Get related tags

• https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/related-tags#tags=electromagnetism&filter=default&site=physics&run=true

Get tag wiki excerpt

• https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/wikis-by-tags
• https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/electromagnetism/wikis?site=physics&filter=!20Npv2q3OH6K*ytcpqCKy

Tag wiki may further contain links to Wikipedia etc.

list all tags of a site / search/typeahead tags

• https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/tags#order=desc&sort=popular&inname=ph&filter=default&site=stackoverflow&run=true
• add parameter inname