Stack Overflow search API

Search Stack Overflow Q&A (Stack Exchange API) by query and optional tag, with score and whether the question is answered/accepted. For coding agents. Answers 'Stack Overflow answers for X', 'how do people solve Y', 'top SO question about Z'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/dev/stackoverflow

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache600s public

devstackoverflowstack-exchangecodingqaprogrammingsearchanswers

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/dev/stackoverflow

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "async await deadlock",
  "tag": "node.js",
  "limit": 1
}

Example response

{
  "query": "async await deadlock",
  "quotaRemaining": 290,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Avoiding deadlocks with async/await",
      "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/q/123",
      "score": 412,
      "answers": 6,
      "answered": true,
      "hasAcceptedAnswer": true,
      "tags": [
        "javascript",
        "async-await"
      ],
      "createdAt": "2018-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "async await deadlock"
      ]
    },
    "tag": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "node.js"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 10
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}