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Introduction

Answerable is a Python program that learns from your answers in Stack Overflow and use them to recommend you questions that you could answer.

Features

• Get information about your public profile in Stack Exchange.
• Elaborate statistics on your answers on Stack Overflow.
• Access the feed of new questions and sort them by similarity with questions you've already answered.

User ID and tags

Answerable needs your user ID to do this. You can optionally take into account your followed and ignored tags, to filter the recommendations. Th

Where to get the user ID and tags file

You can find your user ID in the URL of your profile, that has the following form:

https://stackoverflow.com/users/{ID}/{name}

The tags information requires few extra steps. For now, I won't be implementing the use of the authentication_token for the Stack Exchange API, so the program must scrap the page to obtain the tags.

This page is private, so you must download its contents following this steps:

1. Go to the following page in your browser (tested in Firefox and Chrome):

   view-source:https://stackoverflow.com/users/tag-notifications/{ID}
   

2. Select all (Ctrl+A).

3. Copy and paste in a new file in your system.

   That will be the tags file.

Contents

This wiki contains the detailed documentation on each of the Answerable commands

• save

• summary

• tags

• answers

• recommend