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Stack Exchange integration
Stack Exchange is a network of Q&A communities where users ask questions, share knowledge, and collaborate on topics like coding, math, and more
Connect Stack Exchange to Xenition and work with it from chat, from an agent, or on a schedule — alongside every other app you have connected, in one workspace.
What you can do with Stack Exchange
Ask in plain language and Xenition calls the right one:
- Create Filter — Tool to create a custom filter for Stack Exchange API responses. Use when you need to customize which fields are included/excluded in API responses to reduce payload size or include additional data not in the default filter.
- Find Similar Questions — Tool to find questions similar to a hypothetical one based on a title and optional tag combination. Use when you need to correlate external data with similar content within a Stack Exchange site, or to get suggestions similar to a site's related questions feature.
- Get Access Tokens — Tool to read the properties for a set of access tokens obtained via OAuth 2.0. Use when you need to verify token validity, check expiration dates, review granted scopes, or identify the account associated with tokens.
- Get Answers By IDs — Tool to retrieve a set of answers by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch specific answers by ID (up to 100 semicolon-delimited IDs). Supports filtering by date, sorting by activity/creation/votes, and pagination.
- Get Answer Comments — Tool to retrieve comments on a set of answers from Stack Exchange. Use when you have answer IDs and need to fetch their associated comments. If you know you have a question ID instead, use the questions endpoint. If unsure whether you have an answer or question ID, use the posts endpoint. Supports filtering by date range, sorting by creation date or votes, and pagination. Returns comment metadata
- Get Answer Flag Options — Tool to fetch valid flag options for a specific answer. Returns flags that the authenticated user can create for the answer. Available flags vary from post to post and user to user. Use when you need to know which flags a user can raise before submitting.
- Get Badges By IDs — Tool to retrieve badges by their IDs on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to get details about specific badges using semicolon-delimited badge IDs.
- Get Badge Recipients By IDs — Tool to retrieve recently awarded badges constrained to a specific set of badge IDs. Use when you need to track who has received specific badges (up to 100 badge IDs) within an optional date range.
- Get Collectives — Tool to retrieve all collectives on a Stack Exchange site in alphabetical order. Use when you need to list collectives for display or filtering.
- Get Collectives By Slugs — Tool to retrieve Collective objects by their slugs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to fetch specific collectives by their identifier slugs.
- Get Collective Answers — Tool to retrieve answers belonging to the specified collective(s) on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find answers associated with a specific collective or multiple collectives.
- Get Collective Questions — Tool to retrieve questions associated with the specified collective. Use when you have a collective ID and need its questions for a site.
- Get Collective Tags — Retrieve tags associated with specified Stack Overflow collectives. Returns tag information including usage count, moderator status, and collective membership details. Use this when you need to discover what tags are used within specific collectives (e.g., 'aws', 'google-cloud'). Requires collective slugs (string identifiers) - obtain these first via the Get Collectives action.
- Get Collective Users — Tool to retrieve users who are members of the specified Collectives on Stack Exchange. Use when you need to list members of a collective (e.g., google-cloud, azure) on a Stack Exchange site.
- Get Comments — Retrieves comments from a Stack Exchange site (e.g., Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault). Returns recent comments with full metadata including comment body, score, creation date, owner details (reputation, profile, etc.), and reply information. Supports pagination, date filtering, and sorting by creation date or vote score. Use this when you need to browse recent activity, find comments by s
- Get Comments By IDs — Tool to retrieve specific comments by their IDs from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you have a cache of comment IDs obtained through other means (such as /questions/{id}/comments) but suspect the data may be stale. Accepts up to 100 semicolon-delimited comment IDs at once. Supports sorting by creation date or vote score, and filtering by date ranges.
- Get Comment Flag Options — Tool to fetch valid flag options for a given comment. Use when you need to know which flags a user can raise before submitting. Requires authenticated access.
- Get Events — Retrieves a stream of recent events that occurred on a Stack Exchange site. Events include posting questions, answers, comments, editing posts, and creating users. Events are only accessible for 15 minutes after they occurred, and by default only events in the last 5 minutes are returned. Use the 'since' parameter to specify older events within the 15-minute window.
- Get Filters By IDs — Tool to retrieve the fields included by the given filters and the safeness of those filters. Use when you need to debug or understand what fields a filter includes before using it in other API calls.
- Get Linked Questions — Tool to get questions which link to those questions identified in the ids parameter. Use when you need to find questions that reference or are related to specific question IDs by explicit hyperlinks within a single Stack Exchange site.
- Get Me — Tool to retrieve the authenticated user's profile information from Stack Exchange. Use when you need details about the current user associated with the access token.
- Get My Achievements — Retrieves the authenticated user's recent network-wide achievements across all Stack Exchange sites. Returns achievements including badges earned and reputation changes with metadata like site information, timestamps, and links. Supports pagination for browsing through achievement history. Use this when you need to view the user's recent activity and accomplishments across the Stack Exchange netwo
- Get My Associated Accounts — Tool to retrieve all Stack Exchange accounts associated with the authenticated user. Use when you need to discover which Stack Exchange sites the user participates in, along with their reputation, activity stats, and badges on each site.
- Get My Featured Questions — Tool to retrieve questions with active bounties offered by the authenticated user. Use when you need to check which questions the user has placed bounties on. Requires authentication.
- Get My Mentions — Tool to retrieve comments mentioning the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to find where the user has been mentioned in comments, track discussions involving the user, or monitor user engagement.
- Get My Merge History — Tool to retrieve account merge history for the authenticated user. Returns records of merges involving the user's accounts. Use when you need to track account id changes, confirm if an account_id is new to your application, or understand which account ids were equivalent in the past. Account merges happen for various reasons and should not be assumed to have particular causes.
- Get My Network Activity — Tool to retrieve a summary of the authenticated user's activity across the Stack Exchange network. Returns recent activity including questions posted, answers given, badges earned, and other user actions across all Stack Exchange sites.
- Get My No Answer Questions — Tool to retrieve questions owned by the authenticated user that have no answers. Use when you need to find unanswered questions asked by the current user on a Stack Exchange site.
- Get My Posts — Tool to retrieve posts (questions and answers) owned by the authenticated user from a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to list the user's own content, review their posting history, or track their contributions to a specific Stack Exchange community.
- Get My Privileges — Tool to retrieve privileges for the authenticated user on a Stack Exchange site. Use when you need to check what permissions or capabilities the current user has earned based on their reputation.
…and 20 more Stack Exchange actions available in the workspace.
Give an agent access to Stack Exchange
An agent you create can use Stack Exchange on your behalf and keep working while you do something else. Every action an agent takes goes through an approval gate first, so nothing touches your Stack Exchange account without you agreeing to it.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Stack Exchange to Xenition?
Open the connectors directory in Xenition, find Stack Exchange, and sign in when the authorisation window opens. The connection is managed for you — there is no API key to create, paste or rotate.
What can Xenition do with Stack Exchange?
Xenition can run 50 different Stack Exchange actions, including Create Filter, Find Similar Questions, Get Access Tokens. You ask in plain language and the right one is called for you.
Can an agent use Stack Exchange on my behalf?
Yes. Agents can use Stack Exchange while you do something else, and every action passes through an approval gate before it runs.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Xenition starts free with 25,000 credits a month and no credit card, and all connectors are available on every plan.