Gets the set of answers identified by ids.
This is meant for batch fetching of questions. A useful trick to poll for updates is to sort by activity, with a minimum date of the last time you polled.
{ids}
can contain up to 100 semicolon delimited ids. To find ids programmatically look for answer_id
on answer objects.
The sorts accepted by this method operate on the following fields of the answer object:
last_activity_date
creation_date
score
activity
is the default sort.sort
, min
, max
, fromdate
, and todate
.
This method returns a list of answers.
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