stack_search: Search a Stack Exchange site via the API

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Description

Access the Stack Exchange search functionality.

Usage

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stack_search(intitle, tagged, nottagged, q, accepted, answers, body, closed,
  migrated, notice, title, user, url, views, wiki, ...)

Arguments

intitle

string to use for searching title

tagged

vector of tags that must be included in questions

nottagged

vector of tags to be excluded from questions

q

free form text parameter that matches questions based on Stack Exchange's (undocumented) algorithm

accepted

boolean to filter for accepted or unaccepted questions

answers

minimum number of answers

body

text that must appear in the body of questions

closed

boolean to filter for open or closed questions

migrated

boolean to filter for questions that were, or were not, migrated to another site

notice

boolean to filter for questions with a post notice

title

text which must appear in a title; redundant with intitle above

user

the id of the user to filter for

url

url that must be included in the question

views

the minimum number of views a question can have

wiki

boolean to filter for questions that are (or are not) community wiki

...

Additional arguments to API (see below)

Details

API querying methods allow the following additional options:

site

ID of Stack Exchange site (by default, Stack Overflow)

sort

field to sort by

order

whether the sort field should be arranged in descending ("desc") or ascending ("asc") order

min

Minimum value of the sort field

max

Maximum value of the sort field

fromdate

Starting date

todate

Ending date

page

Which page to start from

pagesize

Size of each page to extract (max 100)

num_pages

Number of pages to extract

Value

A data.frame of questions.

A question object is documented in full here:

https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/question

It comes with the following columns:


dgrtwo/stackr documentation built on May 15, 2019, 8:20 a.m.