The Stack Family (StackOverflow, SuperUser, etc) gets OData’d via Stack Exchange Data Explorer

Stack Overflow - Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer

“Everything contributed to the Stack Exchange network of websites is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike. This means it belongs to everyone, and can be freely reused (even commercially!), so long as it is follows our simple rules of attribution. That’s our contract with the community — it’s your generously contributed content that makes these websites worth visiting in the first place!

Thus, we provide dumps of all the public data in the current Stack Exchange network (Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, and Meta) every month, like clockwork.

But if you just want to play with the data, it’s kind of tedious: you have to download the entire 700 plus megabyte archive, import it into some kind of database system — and only then can you even begin thinking about how to query out the results you’re looking for.

Well, I’m pleased to announce that we now officially support a web tool for sharing, querying, and analyzing the Creative Commons data from every website in the Stack Exchange network — the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.

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The Stack Exchange Data Explorer, or SEDE:

1. provides easy web-based access to the latest and greatest monthly Stack Exchange website data dumps*
2. gives us an Open Data Protocol (odata) endpoint
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We’ve been working with Sam Saffron to build this out, and even though this is only a public beta, it’s already amazing! But don’t take my word for it — check out the Stack Exchange Data Explorer yourself at …

http://odata.stackexchange.com

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That’s pretty cool… Go OData! :)

I love how the Jeff and team are so open with the Stack* data. It’s just great to see them “walk the walk.”

 

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