Retrieve Question Information

You can use this API request to retrieve detailed information about a question posted to your AnswerHub site.

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/services/v2/question/[questionId].json

You can use the following parameters in your retrieve question information request:

Projection: include, exclude, includeOnly
Other options: wrap, v1

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Permissions & Notes:

  • You must have the View the question page permission under Anonymous Roles in the Advanced Editor.

  • With the includeOnly parameter set to id and name (/services/v2/question.json?includeOnly=id,name) to the AnswerHub REST API.

  • We added this request in version 1.6.3.

Sample Request

A GET retrieve question information request for a question (questionId: 4) sent to https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com using a human-readable Username/Password (answerhub/test123) would look like this:

curl -u answerhub:test123 -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X GET "https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/question/4.json"

Sample Response

Successful Response:

  • HTTP Status 200 - OK
{ "id": 4, "type": "question", "creationDate": 1545231735000, "creationDateFormatted": "12/19/2018 03:02 PM", "title": "Where is the safest place to stand outside in a thunderstorm?", "body": "", "bodyAsHTML": "", "author": { "id": 22, "username": "confused", "realname": "Confused User", "reputation": 0 }, "lastEditedAction": 29, "activeRevisionId": 4, "revisionIds": [ 4 ], "lastActiveUserId": 22, "lastActiveDate": 1545231735000, "attachments": [], "childrenIds": [ 5 ], "commentIds": [], "marked": false, "topics": [ { "id": 1, "creationDate": 1545231736000, "creationDateFormatted": "12/19/2018 03:02 PM", "name": "science", "author": { "id": 22, "username": "confused", "realname": "Confused User", "reputation": 0 }, "usedCount": 36, "getImmediateChildren": [], "getParents": [] }, { "id": 2, "creationDate": 1545231736000, "creationDateFormatted": "12/19/2018 03:02 PM", "name": "weather", "author": { "id": 22, "username": "confused", "realname": "Confused User", "reputation": 0 }, "usedCount": 7, "getImmediateChildren": [], "getParents": [] }, { "id": 3, "creationDate": 1545231736000, "creationDateFormatted": "12/19/2018 03:02 PM", "name": "storm", "author": { "id": 22, "username": "confused", "realname": "Confused User", "reputation": 0 }, "usedCount": 3, "getImmediateChildren": [], "getParents": [] } ], "primaryContainerId": 11, "containerIds": [ 7, 11 ], "slug": "where-is-the-safest-place-to-stand-outside-in-a-th", "wiki": false, "score": 0, "depth": 0, "viewCount": 3, "upVoteCount": 0, "downVoteCount": 0, "nodeStates": [], "answers": [ 5 ], "answerCount": 1 }
Path Params
int32
required
Defaults to 4

required

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