StackExchange

Description

A Friendly wrapper for StackExchange public API used to harvest information about Questions, Answers and even search for questions.

Installation:

you can install StackExchange from its official PyPI repository.

$ pip install stackexchange

Usage

searching

We can use the StackExchange search API to search in various titles

from stackexchange import search

g = search("python", site="stackoverflow", order="desc")

for item in g:

print item.title

print dir(item)

answers

Let's look at the answer API now.

from stackexchange import Answer

a = Answer('stackoverflow')

g = a.get_all_answer(order="desc", page=1)

for item in g:

answer_id = item.answer_id

ans = a.get_by_id(answer_id)

comments = a.get_comments(answer_id)

print (comments)

questions

On Questions API

from stackexchange import Question

q = Question('stackoverflow')

g = q.get_all_questions(order="desc")

for item in g:

question_id = item.question_id

ques = q.get_by_id(question_id)

g = q.get_unanswered()

g = q.get_featured()

License

MIT