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Stackexchange API for Python

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##StackExchange

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##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.

```python
pip install stackexchange

```

##Usage

###searching

We can use the stackexchange search api to search in various titles

```python

from stackexchange import search

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

for item in g:
print item.title
# will help you to see all properties it contains
print dir(item)

```

### answers

Let's look at the answer api now.

```python

from stackexchange import Answer

a = Answer()
g = a.get_all_answer(site="stackoverflow", 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

```python

from stackexchange import Question

q = Question()

g = q.get_all_questions(site="stackoverflow", order="desc")

for item in g:
question_id = item.question_id
ques = q.get_by_id(question_id)

#for getting unanswered questions

g = q.get_unanswered()

#for getting featured questions

g = q.get_featured()

```


##License

<h4> MIT </h4>

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