How can I get the answers for specific users via the Stack Exchange API?

Question

I want to count the number of answers for some specific users within a certain time range.I can't find the answers for those, though. The following script doesn't return anything:

from stackapi import StackAPI
from pprint import pprint
user_list = [12153576, 11148139]
SITE = StackAPI('stackoverflow')
answers = SITE.fetch('answers',fromdate=1591488000, todate=1591747200)
user_ids = SITE.fetch("users/{ids}", ids=user_list)
for user in user_ids['items']:
    for ans in answers['items']:
        if user['user_id'] == ans['owner']['user_id']:
            pprint(ans['owner']['display_name'])

Answers do exist, however, for example: user 12153576's answer and user 11148139's answer.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '20 at 15:51

You should use the answers on users (aka users/{ids}/answers) as you mentioned. After passing the fromdate parameter to the request, you should get the length of the items returned.

Currently, there is a bug with Stack Exchange and total will always be 0. You can use len, though instead of a counter and a for loop, since those make the script inefficient.

from stackapi import StackAPI

user_list = [12153576, 11148139]
fromdate = 1591488000
SITE = StackAPI('stackoverflow')

answers = SITE.fetch('users/{ids}/answers', ids = user_list, fromdate = fromdate)
print(len(answers['items']))

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '20 at 13:08

Came up with following solution

from stackapi import StackAPI
from pprint import pprint
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
user_list = [12153576, 11148139]
fromdate=1591488000
cnt = 0    
SITE = StackAPI('stackoverflow')

answers = SITE.fetch('users/{ids}/answers', ids=user_list)
for ans in answers['items']:
    if (ans['creation_date']) > fromdate:
        cnt = cnt + 1
print("cnt:", cnt)

How can I get the answers for specific users via the Stack Exchange API?

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