Displaying Stackoverflow rating/ reputation/ badges in website

Question

Earning reputation in Stackoverfow is a hard job, and somewhere i'll feel happy if i can get the Reputations Displayed in my website. Is it possible?

Does stackoverflow exposes any API with respect to user?

[UPDATE]

When i simply type in

http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/{user-id}/

it gives me a JSON data, which seems fine to me. Is it OKAY to use it like this?

Got it from stackapps.com replied by Nathan Osman

Thanks.

Answer 1

Stackoverflow provides an Option to display your Reputations in your website . we can do it via two way's(as per my knowledge):-

Hard Way(doing everything from your own)

• Hit the URL http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/{User-Id}/
• The above returns JSON data, which can be consumed via Ajax, and we can extract Reputations, Badges etc.
• Create your User Interface and bind the values according to your need.

Easy Way(using Flair)

• Go go User profile and look for hyperlink as "flair" shown below:-

• Click on it and you'll be redirected to Flair Page. Shown below:

• It gives HTML snippet, just copy and paste it where you need.

thanks.

Answer 2

There is indeed a Stackoverflow API! V1.1 is now obsolete, so it's best to use V2.1, otherwise your code may stop working as things are deprecated.

There's a V2 example on StackApps here:

Hello World Example