Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behavior in the Stack Exchange API, or the Stack Exchange HTML or CSS, that needs to be fixed.
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display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
usually in the owner dictionary there is a display_name value to give the username. But in a few questions it simply doesn't exist and I can't see why only those questions: eg, this excerpt from the ...
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Make www a subdomain.
Try going to
http://www.stackapps.com
Apparently www is not a subdomain of stackapps.com
Anyone who tries to get to the site by prepending the www will be confused, as it is standard to point that ...
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Error retrieving question using a filter that includes question.notice
I have created a filter to include the question.notice field. It seems to be OK as returned by
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/filters/-9xc1l%2Au-JEsf_Q
Then if I want to fetch this question using ...
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Does /invalidate work for no-expiry tokens?
It seems that tokens created with no_expiry scope are immune to requests to invalidate them with /access-tokens/.../invalidate. Is this by design or by bug?
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Events: field request
The "Event" object doesn't have an easy way for getting at the object relating to the event. There's a link field, but I don't fancy having to parse the information out of that (although I could).
...
2
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1answer
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HTTP 500 error when calling /apps/{accessTokens}/de-authenticate with an access_token argument in GET
For almost all API calls, I pass both my key and my access_token. This doesn't exactly make sense for the "de-authenticate" endpoint, as the access token is already in the URL. Passing one anyway ...
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The “/tags/{tags}/wikis” API does not return the proffered “body_last_edit_date” or “excerpt_last_edit_date” fields
The API for /tags/{tags}/wikis offers body_last_edit_date and excerpt_last_edit_date fields.
Both are selected in the default filter. But neither are actually returned even for tags I'm 100% sure ...
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Guid inconsistency in 2.0?
question timeline returns
"revision_guid": "335659EE-8983-4BEC-BACC-CC95784A4465"
revisions by guid return
"revision_guid": "335659ee89834becbacccc95784a4465"
Is there any particular reason for ...
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What is the “inname” parameter to the /tags 2.0 API?
I'm just playing with the new 2.0 API and in /tags there is a field inname that I can't find any description or documentation for.
What does it do? Is it like the old filter parameter on the old API?
...
2
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/comments?fromdate is broken?
The following url should return 0 comments:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/comments?fromdate=9999999999
Instead it returns all comments, not actually filtering by fromdate at all.
It happens ...
2
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What happened to the unique users count?
When visiting http://stackapps.com/apps, I used to be able to see how many unique users were using my application - but now all I see is zeroes for all of the apps.
Were the numbers reset or is this ...
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Method /users/{id}/top-answer-tags is returning wrong results
I'm trying the following request:
(555004 happens to be my user id)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/555004/top-answer-tags
and I'm a bit confused by the result:
{
top_tags: [
{
...
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Authorized requests: auth parameter seems broken
I'm having problem with authorized requests.
Every requests with a valid auth token get:
error: {
code: 4009
message: "The 'auth' query parameter is not a valid auth token."
}
Renewing the ...
2
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1answer
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Comments in user timeline are returning Markdown
In users/{id}/timeline, the detail field for comment events is formatted with Markdown and not HTML. Is it normal?
I saw in the question Comments are returning markdown that the API should return ...
2
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The associated accounts are broken once again for this same user
As I reported before (and which was fixed) and again (which was also fixed), the associated accounts are broken once again for for Joel Coehoorn using this query.
What's the deal?
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1answer
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/questions/{id}/answers missing title attribute
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=questions/{id}/answers (it won't linkify properly!):
"title": {
"description": "title of this post, in plaintext",
"values": "string",
...
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2answers
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Why are 5 IP addresses using my API key?
I have an app that resides on a server. It has only ever accessed the API from 2 IP addresses. The API key has not been shared and there is no client-side code.
When I go to /apps however, it says "5 ...
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StackApps API is down.
It seems to not be responding to any request.
* at least according to downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Update: seems like all the SE sites are down :(
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1answer
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Why do some Stackauth associated queries fail?
This query fails:
http://stackauth.com/0.8/users/137b94e5-050c-4dd5-82c1-aeb2af0814f5/associated
In Python for a jason.loads call, I get an error: 'ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")'.
I ...
2
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2answers
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Order parameter not functional
Consider these two API calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?pagesize=1&sort=votes&order=desc
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?pagesize=1&sort=votes&order=asc
...
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Why my /mentioned page return 404?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/213464/mentioned?type=jsontext
{
"error": {
"code": 404,
"message": "The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI."
}
}
Its ...
2
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1answer
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The users/{id}/timeline method is returning an extra result.
The users/{id}/timeline method is returning 31 results by default, and one more result than specified by the pagesize parameter.
Example:
...
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1answer
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questions/{id} help page sort parameter description is inconsistence with others
The description of the Sort parameter in questions/{id} help page is inconsistent with those of other pages.
On the questions/{id} help page:
sort (optional):
How a collection
should ...
2
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1answer
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Stack Apps graph time filters make pretty much no sense
When viewing the Query Statistics graphs for an application, you have the option of choosing 'Week', 'Month', 'Year', or 'All Time'.
When hovering over 'week' it states "view stats for the last 7 ...
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/answers endpoint is error-500-ing against many sites
Just calling the "/answers" endpoint, no specific arguments, and I'm getting 500 errors:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=gaming
...
2
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1answer
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/users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers returning answers by other users
According to the description, /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers should return answers by the user on that particular tag.
Returns the top 30 answers a user has posted in response to questions ...
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1answer
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Answer vote counts are not correct
I was trying to figure out the total number of answers I have that have been downvoted, and at first everything seemed awesome since the total was zero.
However, I knew this wasn't correct. For ...
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1answer
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link attribute is missing from questions in /tags/{tags}/faq
Check the following requests, the link attribute is missing from questions objects in responses. I checked with the default filter and also with custom filters (both safe and unsafe).
...
2
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1answer
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Update the default filter editor to use the API key
When I run a sample query using the SE API browser (is that right term?), say against /questions for example (here), I'll always see something to the effect of:
...
"quota_remaining": 9424,
...
2
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1answer
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type related_site not listed in 'by type' tab list
The type "related_site" is not listed in the 'by type' tab in documentation.
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1answer
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TLS security warnings from api.stackexchange.com
Each time an API request is made over HTTPS, Firefox generates the following message in the error console:
Curious, I looked up RFC 5746 and the document covers the following:
Transport Layer ...
2
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1answer
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Minor spello/typo on the “Complex Queries” documentation page
The documentation page
Complex Queries
has a minor typo or spello:
The ?filter=total build-in filter is provided for just this purpose.
Should instead be:
The ?filter=total built-in ...
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The 'total' field of /comments result is showing up as 0.
Running the following query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/comments
Yields:
{
"total": 0,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,
"comments": [
...
Notice that the total entry indicates there are ...
2
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1answer
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?
Visiting the page: http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites yields the following headers:
Notably absent are the X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current headers that show up in API queries to the sites ...
2
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1answer
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Something's changed about user timelines
Six to Eight's user display has just broken, as the /user/id/timeline route seems to have started returning different data. Previously, timeline_type of entries in the user_timelines array used to be ...
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1answer
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/questions/id route problem: comments section is not returned when there aren't comments on question
Something is changed on questions route called with comments= True:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/1940243?body=True&comments=True&pagesize=1&page=1
It does not return the ...
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1answer
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Suddenly, some entries on /questions route are missing display_name
An odd bug has developed this morning. At the moment, api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions is returning a question of the format...
... },
{
"tags": [
"jsf-2.0"
],
...
2
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1answer
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AskUbuntu API returns wrong colours
Calling the stats method of the AskUbuntu API returns the wrong colours.
2
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1answer
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API is completely down? content encoding is broken?
all requests have no content-encoding or have 'gzip,gzip', both of which fail to decompress browser side.
note: the content-encoding header, when it is present, does not seem to be included in the ...
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1answer
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Badges with zero count no longer returning zero
For queries such as http://api.{sitename}.com/1.0/users/{id} if a badge count is zero, the API is no longer returning "gold": 0, for example.
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stackauth is not serving gzip to silverlight3/phone7
I ported all of my integration tests to phone 7, which is a flavor of silverlight 3, and found that stackauth is not forcing gzip as expected.
while this simply means that I need to check the first 2 ...
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Oddity with migration data from questions
Take a look at this question on SuperUser. Apparently, it was migrated from ServerFault, and was originally asked by user 3d1l. However, now look at the API result: ...
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1answer
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/answers/{id} summary incorrect
/answers/{id}
Gets a set of questions enumerated in id
should probably be
Gets a set of answers enumerated in id
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1answer
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Answers parameter not functional
For example the following:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?answers=true
doesn't return answers.
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1answer
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Question sort: change active to activity?
I noticed the sort newest for /questions, /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/unanswered was changed to creation recently, making it more consistent with other methods. Could the sort active for ...
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/users/{id}/badges - multiple identical results
Each badge returned in the list of results from /users/{id}/badges already contains an award_count indicating how many times the badge was awarded for the particular user attached to the badge. In ...
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Don't allow requests with No Key to use existing session with valid API Key
Once I did a request with a valid API key
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY
Every requests (from that IP) later on without key will use existing session with API key, limit ...
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Help on help results in HTTP 500 Internal Server Error
A request to http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help?help results in an HTTP 500 with Content-Type: application/json and an HTML body.
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Stack Apps “Welcome Back” banner text isn't centered
This appear to be specific to Stack Apps. The text is centered on every other site I've tried. See below:
Compared to how it should appear:
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/suggested-edits “Try it”: Link for “suggested_edit_id” is broken
When using the "Try it" feature on /suggested-edits, the link for the suggested_edit_id points towards stackexchange.com and not towards the respective site.
For example, retrieve data using the ...
