What real world application does the Stack API have?

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This is such a noob question, but its simple, so hopefully someone can answer for me please:

If you skill up in the Stack API, what purpose does it serve? What can you do with the API, how can you apply it in real world scenarios?

Examples please. thanks!

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 09:16

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There were a couple of old questions on Meta that had a lot of good ideas.

edited Mar 20 '17 at 09:16

Community

answered Jun 23 '10 at 16:24

Bill the Lizard

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Clippy: "I noticed you're trying to parse HTML with regular expressions. Are you sure that's a good idea?" ;) – Bill the Lizard Jun 23 '10 at 16:49
@JL01 - I actually started on one of those last night, but I gave up after struggling with VS's plugin scheme for 4 hours (VS/C# is not my primary development environment). – Mark Henderson Jun 25 '10 at 01:38

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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For some examples, look at the postings under the apps and library tags.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

Community

answered Jun 23 '10 at 15:19

Dennis Williamson

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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You can write applications that leverage the so body of content.

There is a whole 'apps' tab full of 'real-world' examples.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

Community

answered Jun 23 '10 at 15:16

Sky Sanders

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