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The user and owner objects appear to be optional in the question timeline result.

This is probably just a simple documentation fix and not really a bug. The doc for the /questions/{id}/timeline method says that the user and owner objects are not optional, but they aren't always ...
Bill the Lizard's user avatar
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Unanswered questions API does not work

The /questions/unanswered API returns the full list of questions (same as /questions).
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questions/{id} API method: pagesize parameter?

I'm trying to get the lightest data about a given question id because i just need the question's title. With this call: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1598715?pagesize=1 i get "pagesize":...
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Wrong sorting parameter in documentation for question/{ids}/answers

It looks like that in the question/{ids}/answers documentation, there is a mistake: votes – score Shouldn't this be votes – votes
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Why am I getting an "Access token sent over non-HTTPS request, it has been invalidated" message?

I've been using the Stack Overflow for Teams API for a while now, but since yesterday it stopped working for one of the Teams; that Team also wasn't listed in the Applications (https://stackoverflow....
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Why doesn't the API return a 'locked date' for this locked answer?

This answer has been locked, yet when I ask the API about this post it fails to return a locked_date: It's a rather old lock, but I can't see anything suspicious in the timeline or the Post History.
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Stack API doesn't return json with encoding of UTF-8

Here is the query RESULT { "items": [ { "badge_counts": { "bronze": 2, "silver": 1, "gold": 0 }, ...
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The API /tag stats are notably different from the site totals

Why this discrepancy? --Sep 10 2015 11:26:09 GMT+0530 (IST)-- At that time, the API shows 42010 tags. But the same thing computed on the Stack Overflow tags page is 44496. Is it because of caching?
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Most of the url are missing the protocol

Maybe you were trying to fix the other "bug" I've pointed out, but now most of the url for the icons are missing the protocol! { "site_type": "main_site", "name": "Stack Overflow", "...
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CDN redirect for the API's JavaScript SDK is incorrect

The API's JavaScript SDK is listed as https://api.stackexchange.com/js/2.0/all.js. However, GET request produces the following response: Status Code: 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://api-...
Andrey Shchekin's user avatar
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Inbox and Notifications aren't being filtered by site

I'm using the API get inbox messages and notifications for various sites on the StackExchange network, but it doesn't seem to matter what site parameter I pass in the query string. I always get my ...
Spencerooni's user avatar
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Off-by-one error in fromdate processing

When running a query with a given fromdate value, values which match fromdate - 1 are returned. An example: When using fromdate=1367715851 results will be returned which have a creation_date of ...
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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Questions returned by /questions/{ids}/related do not contain link properties

The API docs claim that /questions/{ids}/related return question objects, but I can't find a link property on the returned questions at all. Is there some sort of workaround to find the link for a ...
Asad Saeeduddin's user avatar
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Question count missing from network_user

Docs state that you get an int question_count from a network_user object but I'm not getting these fields back anymore - even when testing from https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-associated-users ...
petenelson's user avatar
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/me API endpoint returning 500 error

I'm making an authenticated call to /me: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/me?access_token=[redacted]&site=stackoverflow&key=[redacted] But it's returning: {"error_id":500,"error_name":"...
Michael Waterfall's user avatar
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Typo in throttle violation error message

I was just playing around with the API locally and got throttled for the questions and answers methods (the only two I was using). Anyway, I noticed there’s a small typo in the error message that’s ...
Mathias Bynens's user avatar
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Running queries from the Documentation pages hangs browser for minutes at a time

I've been playing with some queries on the documentation page, and I've noticed that it's taking an abnormally long time to load even reasonably sized API call results: https://api.stackexchange.com/...
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Minor typo in /tags/{tag}/top-askers/{period}

The discussion for the above method says "Returns the top 30 answerers active in a single tag, of either all-time or the last 30 days." It should be corrected as askers.
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Documentation of /users/{id}/top-answer-tags conflicts with implementation.

According to the documentation: /users/{id}/top-answer-tags or /me/top-answer-tags – Get the top 30 tags (by score) a single user has posted answers in. However in practice, when retrieving data ...
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read item in unread inbox method again

I'm getting a read item in the inbox/unread method, again. This happened before, but I can't find the post about it (I'm pretty sure you fixed/explained it). But the item is very old, not a cache ...
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No award_count field on any badges

The docs say the default filter includes award_count, and I've made a filter with it in. But no award_count is returned on any badge route. The exception being when a badge item is returned in ...
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Authentication Statistics are the same for all apps

I know the stats are new, I'm not sure if they are still in development. But they are identical for the 3 apps I have registered, given that the app's id is in the URL of the stats page, I guess the ...
Jonathan.'s user avatar
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Quota remaining is negative

I think I must be doing something very stupid, that I just can't see I just registered an app, in the last ~10 minutes. I have just been going to the /info route, no authentication or anything else. ...
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/stats is broken on OnStartups

The following URL is returning an object that is missing some data: http://api.onstartups.stackexchange.com/1.1/stats The entire site object is missing from the returned data. Other sites, such as ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
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Incorrect Wordpress and Electronics icons

Currently Meta Icon Currently Main Icon With all the other sites (except electronics, which has the same icon for both), Meta has the B&W or sepia icon, while the main site's icon is coloured. ...
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Error occurs when retrieving timeline for this question

Here is the question: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/51812/the-api-sandbox Here is the API URL: http://api.meta.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions/51812/timeline?pagesize=100?page=2 Here is ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
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The /questions/{id}/linked method is returning extra questions

Consider the following question on ServerFault: https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names Linked questions: Note that there's only two listed. However, querying: http://api....
Nathan Osman's user avatar
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fromdate is ignored for /posts/{id}/comments requests

The api docs: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=posts/{id}/comments The test request. You can see comment itself here, it's four months old, while cutoff date in request is less than ...
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Associated accounts is broken for this user

When I retrieve associated accounts for Joel Coehoorn using this query it only includes Programmers.SE and Webmasters.SE despite the fact that I retrieved the association key from a query to SU. The ...
Dennis Williamson's user avatar
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Comments are returning markdown.

Look at the output of the following: http://api.askubuntu.com/1.0/questions/12218?comments=true Output: { "comment_id": 12713, "creation_date": 1289269467, "owner": { "user_id"...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
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user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small

the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000. it is apparent that this is the server-side field length. the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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question.migrated.to_site null

http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/322108?sort=activity&order=desc { "total": 1, "page": 1, "pagesize": 30, "questions": [ { "tags": [ "discussion", "fun"...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
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new throttle does not differentiate between api requests and requests made from viewing the site

Update: I am unable to reproduce the case of interactive browsing affecting app quota. And will concede that the failures that prompted this post were likely far edge cases. The remaining issue of a ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
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nottagged parameter not documented

It appears that the /questions method still takes the nottagged which specifies a list of tags to exclude questions by but this parameter is not mentioned in the documentation. Is this parameter ...
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Game developer's logo isn't working.

See here: http://stackmobile.com/ - towards the bottom Neither the main logo, nor the meta logo is workin.
Nathan Osman's user avatar
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Pro Webmasters Meta API not working.

Try this: http://api.meta.webmasters.stackexchange.com/0.9/questions?type=jsontext I can't get it to work, even though it's listed in StackAuth.
Nathan Osman's user avatar
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stackauth throwing 503 (in html format) after just a few /users/{id}/associated requests

After 5-8 successful requests 503 error, in html format, are being thrown. The requests are unique and consecutive, no api abuse is occurring. A related, but critical, concern is that any error ...
Sky Sanders's user avatar
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Inconsistent sort ordering on users?

I'm trying to get a list of the 10 oldest users. This is the endpoint I'm using: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?key=(key)&order=asc&sort=creation&pagesize=10&page=0 ...
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/users/{id}/tags - broken

looks like touching the id parameter description broke the internet. http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/242897/tags should/was working 6/1/2010 -1:11AM - working
Sky Sanders's user avatar
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help page format issue: revisionGuid

http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=revisions/{id}/{revisionguid} revisionGuid is inconsistent. revisionguid seems appropriate (and will remove one special case from my api parser).
Sky Sanders's user avatar
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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?

It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
Jim McKeeth's user avatar
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errors/{id} documentation : 500 Internal Server Error

On Documentation page, clicking on errors/{id} returns 500 Internal Server Error EDIT: Fixed!
systempuntoout's user avatar
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Possible Bug With positive_rep Field?

I'm looking through my /users/{id}/reputation and I think I see a possible bug regarding how positive_rep is calculated when someone upvotes your question. http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/...
Nick Presta's user avatar
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Accessibility issue on app registration page

Page containing bug https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register Reproduce the issue Go to the page above. Whether you click on Application Website or Application Icon, it focuses the OAuth domain input. ...
Lakshya Raj's user avatar
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Typo in API docs /numbers)

https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/numbers The motivation for this is to prevent any unpleasant floating point confusion, especially across technologies that offering different floating point ...
Lakshya Raj's user avatar
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StackExchange API explicit oauth2 json doesn't return status 400

It is said here that if the request failed, it will return error with HTTP status code 400 but I'm getting HTTP status code 200 even when it is returning an error. I'm hitting https://stackoverflow....
Kevin King's user avatar
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"edited" key always return false. even though it shows edited on site

CommentID: 1193255 On site Meta Stack Exchange The Api returns edited as false However if you see the comment itself, you can see it has been edited. Is there something that I am missing here?
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API returns flags options for election comments while flagging them isn't possible

When trying to retrieve the flag options on a comment, e.g. on the currently active one on Skeptics.SE (but it works for any election): https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/comment-flag-options#id=...
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The authentication doc gives a wrong domain for authentication

The authentication doc page now lists URL's like: https://stackoverflow.com/oauth https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token etc. While these seem to work, the correct domain is stackexchange.com, ...
Brock Adams's user avatar
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Stack Exchange Javascript SDK implicit OAuth2 bugs in `SE.authenticate`

I've tried to set up an implicit authorization workflow with JavaScript SDK version 2.0: <script type='text/javascript' src='https://api.stackexchange.com/js/2.0/all.js'></script> I was ...
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