Usage of /similar GET
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Returns questions which are similar to a hypothetical one based on a title and tag combination.
This method is roughly equivalent to a site's related questions suggestion on the ask page.
This method is useful for correlating data outside of a Stack Exchange site with similar content within one.
Note that title
must always be passed as a parameter. tagged
and nottagged
are optional, semi-colon
delimited lists of tags.
If tagged
is passed it is treated as a preference, there is no guarantee that questions returned
will have any of those tags. nottagged
is treated as a requirement, no questions will be returned with those
tags.
The sorts accepted by this method operate on the following fields of the question object:
- activity –
last_activity_date
- creation –
creation_date
- votes –
score
-
relevance – order by "how similar" the questions are, most likely candidate first with a descending order
- Does not accept
min
ormax
- Does not accept
activity
is the default sort.It is possible to create moderately complex queries using
sort
, min
, max
, fromdate
, and todate
.
This method returns a list of questions.
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