I want to retrieve the 'tag usage count' of a language like Ruby or Java via the StackExchange API.
Basically I want to retrieve these numbers via API call: https://stackoverflow.com/tags
e.g. how do I get the 780k for Java as seen in the link via StackExchange API call?
Does anyone know?
I tried this: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search/advanced?order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=java&site=stackoverflow
but that doesn't give me the total count
It seems to be easy with the Stack Exchange Data Explorer http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/229727
But how to retrieve these counts via API?
ok found the answer myself:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags?order=desc&sort=popular&inname=java&site=stackoverflow
just replace java with whatever tag you need.
The Tag count then is included in the json response.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28004445/how-to-retrieve-stackoverflow-tag-usage-count-via-stackexchange-api-call