Stack Overflow Users API
Operations for managing users in a Teams workspace.
Stack Overflow Users API is one of 10 APIs that Stack Overflow publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include User. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, rate-limit docs, and an engineering blog.
This API exposes 7 operations across 7 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.stackoverflowteams.com/v3, https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Stack Overflow Users API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 3 scopes.
bearerAuth— Personal Access Token (PAT) authentication. Pass your PAT as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. Generate tokens from your Stack Overflow for Teams acc…oauth2— OAuth 2.0 authentication. Register an application at http://stackapps.com/apps/oauth to obtain credentials.
Paths & Operations 7
Across 7 paths, the API surfaces 7 operations — 7 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations for managing users in a Teams workspace.
Schemas 11
The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Question (15 properties), User_2 (13 properties), Answer (9 properties), User (7 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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