action stackexchange_get_answers_ids { label: "get_answers_ids" description: "Gets the set of answers identified by ids.\n \nThis is meant for batch fetcing of questions. A useful trick to poll for updates is to sort by activity, with a minimum date of the last time you polled.\n \n{ids} can contain up to 100 semicolon delimited ids, to find ids programatically look for answer_id on answer objects.\n \nThe sorts accepted by this method operate on the follow fields of the answer object:\n - activity - last_activity_date\n - creation - creation_date\n - votes - score\n activity is the default sort.\n \n It is possible to create moderately complex queries using sort, min, max, fromdate, and todate.\n\n \nThis method returns a list of answers.\n" provider: stackexchange method: GET path: "/answers/{ids}" encoding: json input: { type: "object" properties: { callback: { type: "string" } filter: { type: "string" } fromdate: { type: "integer" } ids: { type: "string" } max: { type: "string" } min: { type: "string" } order: { type: "string" enum: ["desc", "asc"] } page: { type: "integer" } pagesize: { type: "integer" } site: { type: "string" } sort: { type: "string" enum: ["activity", "creation", "votes"] } todate: { type: "integer" } } required: ["ids", "site"] additionalProperties: false } output: { type: "object" additionalProperties: true } }