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Asked: 2026-06-05T21:11:08+00:00

Is there anyway to get access to stackoverflow’s awesome tagging system? I would like

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Is there anyway to get access to stackoverflow’s awesome tagging system? I would like to borrow Stack’s awesome auto-suggest and tag mini-explanation boxes for my own site. Obviously, I can use the jQuery UI auto-suggest for tags but I would really like to also include the cool little tag descriptions as well. If not, can someone tell me where all these explanation/descriptions came from so that I can implement a similar system? enter image description here

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    tageditornew.js

    Line 308:

    $.get("/filter/tags", {q: a,newstyle: !0}, "json").done(function(c) {
    C["t_" + a] = c;
    StackExchange.helpers.removeSpinner();
    b(c)
})

    This might help you out!

    It turns out that,

    the API url is this:

    https://stackoverflow.com/filter/tags?q=STRING&newstyle=BOOLEAN
    •  q – Query text.
    •  newstyle – Require new style or not. Result in new style will be returned in JSON with additional information such as synonyms and excerpt.

    DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/bXXb7/ (with Cross Domain Requests jQuery plguin)

    For example:

    https://stackoverflow.com/filter/tags?q=htm

    would give you:

    "html|99829\nhtml5|16359\nxhtml|4143\nhtml-parsing|1461\nhtml-lists|1328\nhtml5-video|949"

    where 99829 is the amount of questions. It took me 15 minutes looking at the source code to find out this api. -_-“

    Putting in javascript in new style gives you this: here

    [{"Name":"javascript","Synonyms":"classic-javascript|javascript-execution","Count":223223,"Excerpt":"JavaScript is a dynamic language commonly used for scripting in web browsers. It is NOT the same as Java. Use this tag for questions regarding ECMAScript and its dialects/implementations (excluding ActionScript and JScript). If a framework or library, such as jQuery, is used, include that tag as well. Questions that don't include a framework/library tag, such as jQuery, implies that the question requires a pure JavaScript answer."},{"Name":"javascript-events","Synonyms":"javascript-event","Count":5707,"Excerpt":"Creating and handling JavaScript events inline in HTML or through a script."},{"Name":"facebook-javascript-sdk","Synonyms":"","Count":992,"Excerpt":"Facebook's JavaScript SDK provides a rich set of client-side functionality for accessing Facebook's server-side API calls. These include all of the features of the REST API, Graph API, and Dialogs."},{"Name":"javascript-library","Synonyms":"","Count":675,"Excerpt":"A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript which allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies."},{"Name":"javascript-framework","Synonyms":"","Count":563,"Excerpt":"A JavaScript framework is a library of pre-written JavaScript which allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies."},{"Name":"unobtrusive-javascript","Synonyms":"","Count":340,"Excerpt":"Unobtrusive JavaScript is a general approach to the use of JavaScript in web pages."}]

    What you can get from there:

    • All tags start with javascript
    • Synonyms
    • Tag counts
    • Nice tag descriptions
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