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Stack Exchange connector for Okou

Connect Stack Exchange to read its complete API-key-accessible public API v2.3 surface, including Q&A, users, tags, badges, Collectives, and network metadata.

Docs & knowledge · Stack Apps API Key

Use Stack Exchange in Okou

Search and read the complete API-key-accessible public Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow API v2.3 surface, including questions, answers, posts, comments, users, badges, Collectives, tags, revisions, suggested edits, sites, and API metadata.

Once connected, supported Stack Exchange actions can become steps in a reusable workflow alongside the other services your team uses. Run the workflow once, on a schedule, or when an event starts it.

What you can do with Stack Exchange

  • List answers and read answers, their comments, and questions.
  • List badges and badge recipients.
  • Read Collectives and their questions, answers, tags, and users.
  • Discover Stack Exchange sites and read per-site statistics.
  • Read site privileges and public user privilege status.
  • Search, advanced-search, match similar questions, and read excerpts.
  • Read tags, synonyms, related tags, wikis, and top users.
  • List documented Stack Exchange API errors.

How the Stack Exchange connector works

A connected service becomes one permissioned step in the work you hand off.

  1. 1

    Connect Stack Exchange

    Choose Stack Apps API Key.

  2. 2

    Choose the work

    Use only the supported actions your workflow needs.

  3. 3

    Run it your way

    Start it once, schedule it, or attach an event trigger.

Connect Stack Exchange securely

Use the connection method that fits your account and grant only the access the workflow needs.

  • Stack Apps API Key

Connector access is controlled per service and per action, so a workflow does not need broader access than the work you ask it to do.

Stack Exchange connector questions

What can Okou do with Stack Exchange?
Connect Stack Exchange to read its complete API-key-accessible public API v2.3 surface, including Q&A, users, tags, badges, Collectives, and network metadata. Documented actions include: List answers and read answers, their comments, and questions. List badges and badge recipients.
How do I connect Stack Exchange to Okou?
Connect Stack Exchange using Stack Apps API Key. The connection controls which supported actions a workflow can use.
Can Stack Exchange run in an automated workflow?
Yes. After it is connected, supported Stack Exchange actions can run in reusable Okou workflows on demand, on a schedule, or from an event trigger.

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