Indicates that a feature request has been implemented, a bug has been fixed, or another type of request has been processed.
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questions method returns error 4000
I'm getting error 4000 on every endpoint on questions method (with key):
http://api.superuser.com/1.0/questions?sort=votes&pagesize=30&page=1&key=stackprinterkey
the only endpoint not ...
4
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1answer
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http://stackauth.com/0.8/sites down
I realize you may be shaking something out but in case you are not aware:
http://stackauth.com/0.8/sites is returning
{ "api_sites": [] }
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2answers
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Document fields that may be not be included in responses
I'd like to see documentation on what fields may not be included in responses or, alternatively, which fields are guaranteed to be included. Currently it's a little confusing because some fields may ...
4
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1answer
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Getting error 4002 when calling tags method without a sort parameter
According to the documentation, calling the tags method without a sort parameter should return the recently used tags, since the default sort is by activity.
Instead, I get an error 4002 with the ...
4
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1answer
184 views
Why do I get a throttle violation after 300 requests while using a key but no access_token?
I'm doing some testing on my app, and I let it run on a machine this afternoon while I was away. When I got back, I was geting 503 throttle violation errors from my API calls.
I was calling the ...
4
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You can gain reputation from edits to tag wikis, although they are not accessible through the API.
Reputation gain from edits to tag wikis appear through the API; the API reports them as answers, but fetching them via the /answers route does not work.
Case in point:
My accepted edit (+2 rep)
My ...
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1answer
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/user/{id}/timeline results leaking template used for badge information
From my elections statistics page:
I inserted in the detail field as plain text because I wasn't sure if the results would be HTML, but the $ChatUrl left in the anchor's href is surely a bug.
4
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update crossdomain.xml on stackauth.com and api endpoints to work with current Flash
I am implementing a javascript client that uses the Flash based XHR replacement Flensed in the interest of providing more robust api communication than that provided by JSONP.
Apparently the current ...
4
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Encoding inconsistency on /users/{id}/reputation
Take these two calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/180784/reputation?todate=1278854265&pagesize=1
"title": "Save a custom ListView's instance state?",
...
4
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184 views
all api endpoints except api.stackoverflow.com are failing paged requests with HTML 503
UPDATE:
I am being told that this is by design.
I could not disagree more.
The inconsistent 503 throttling issue aside, the API is JSON based. HTML errors serve no purpose in response to an API ...
4
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1answer
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StackApps is not being reported by StackAuth
The stackauth.com sites query is not returning stackapps.com at all:
http://stackauth.com/0.8/sites?type=jsontext
{
"api_sites": [
{
"name": "Stack Overflow",
"logo_url": ...
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votes
2answers
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Possible bug in the help page?
There are some weird dot things in this help page:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/badges
What's up?
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Questions method does not return answers
I think questions method also return answers too and the help page says so
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=questions
....
"answers": [
{
"answer_id": {
...
4
votes
1answer
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Two minor typos in the API help
In http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help
/users/{id}/answers Gets answer summary informatino for the user with 'id'.
and in the Returns section of ...
4
votes
2answers
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Request with Invalid key still return the content and rate limit stepped down into No Key Limit
For example
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=TEST1234&type=jsontext
Request with Invalid key still return the content and rate limit stepped down into No Key Limit
...
3
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2answers
57 views
Sorting comments by votes doesn't return 0 score comments
I have a query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/16822/comments?sort=votes
This doesn't return comments with no votes, setting min to 0 doesn't work. This query includes them all, but isn't ...
3
votes
1answer
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Accept rate not available in the 2.0 API
Would it be possible to add the accept_rate field to both the user and shallow_user objects?
For example, using the 1.0 API, I can see that Jon Skeet has an accept rate of 95%.
...
3
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3answers
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Negative voting questions?
I'm trying to, for humorous purposes, check out some of the worst scoring questions ever on SO.
I'm pretty much expecting them to all be "heeeeelp homework" or "plz send me teh codez" or something to ...
3
votes
1answer
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Problem with /search tagged and max
Seems like a problem with /search when max is not set to today, and tagged is given:
...
3
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1answer
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Typo in the docs for /me
The doc says:
Returns the user associated with the passed auth_token.
This method returns a user.
It should say "access_token" instead of "auth_token".
3
votes
1answer
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Querying “standard meta tags” for their tag wikis wrongly says they have none
I'm checking which tags have tag wiki excerpts in my code. It looks like /tags/{tags}/wikis is the right API since the tag info API doesn't even give a boolean for tag wiki excerpt presence.
But ...
3
votes
1answer
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tagged and min max creation gives wrong total
I am trying to get the total number of question with a specific tag AND created within a specific date span.
For example, the number of questions tagged as 'java' created between 16 and 17 Jan 2012:
...
3
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1answer
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“Authentication Statistics” graph y-axis labels are overly granular
Yesterday there was a spike in my app's authentication requests (thanks for that, by the way ;) which has caused my authentication graph to show a much wider range of Y values than it did previously. ...
3
votes
1answer
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Why is my quota constantly decreasing?
I registered an app today (API v2) for the first time (App ID 47, LaServ), and let it run a bit with its new key. It's the only API app running on this IP (I rent the IP as part of a VPS package). ...
3
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1answer
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Is there an API to fetch tags related to a given tag?
I'm interested in making a tool that explores the tags of a site for tags which should be merged or mention each other in tag wikis etc.
On the page of any given tag there is a column on the right of ...
3
votes
1answer
70 views
How do you retrieve list of users sorted by reputation?
I am failing in my attempt to retrieve results sorted by reputation. For example, the following query sorts the results by ID. Is there an error in the URI?
...
3
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1answer
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
3
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2answers
54 views
Inconsistency in the handling of multiple IDs with a duplicate
There appears to be some inconsistency in the way multiple ids are being handled, especially when a duplicate exists.
Duplicate ID is significant
For example, when requesting a timeline of multiple ...
3
votes
1answer
60 views
API documentation console unsuccessfully tries to load MiniProfiler results
All of the documentation pages (example) with the test console currently attempt to load MiniProfiler result data, which fails with a 404:
POST ...
3
votes
1answer
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Typo in API docs: “temporarility_unavailable”
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication
"temporarility" should probably be "temporarily"
3
votes
1answer
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After a throttle violation, could the error message include the time when the block will be lifted?
I got my first throttle violation error after running in jsfiddle some example code given to me by a library author in response to a question of mine about how to use their library.
This is the error ...
3
votes
1answer
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Could the /tags API return minimal information about synonyms?
It would be very helpful if the /tags API could provide at least a bare minimum of information about tag synonyms. Either:
Number of synonyms the tag has, if any.
Or a true/false flag for tags which ...
3
votes
1answer
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API search page size limit mismatch
The 1.1 API help text for search says that the pagesize parameter can go up to 100. Indeed, passing a value up to 100 returns some results, while passing pagesize=101 yields an HTTP 400 status (Bad ...
3
votes
3answers
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API usage triggering 503 (Too Many Requests)
Update:
I generally try to back any claims of bugs and shortcomings with evidence.
I have prepared a test page which you, dear Stack Overflow staff and my fellow developers, can use to ascertain ...
3
votes
1answer
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The search method is returning an extra result.
By default the /search method is supposed to return 30 results per page, but it's returning 31. I only tested a few other values for pagesize but it looks like it always returns one extra result.
In ...
3
votes
1answer
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Help page for search is missing
It looks like search is available in the current API but there is no help page for it.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/search?intitle=test
3
votes
1answer
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Methods that return comments document body and comments parameters but they do nothing
Methods that return comments document the "body" and "comments" parameters, but they have no effect on the results, which cannot include comments and always include the body.
Specific methods:
...
3
votes
1answer
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Two minor typos in the “Register your Application” form
In the help text (on the right hand side) for the Application Name field on http://stackapps.com/apps/register:
I think this should be changed: " ... is built on the our platform ...". For example, ...
3
votes
1answer
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Stylistic error on the JavaScript SDK documentation page
There is a small stylistic error on the JavaScript SDK documentation page.
Your application must have the client side OAuth flow enabled, and must not have disabled the desktop application ...
3
votes
1answer
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What happens when sites or the whole network go offline
Now that the API is all done on stackexchange.com. What happens if say just certain sites go offline (eg just Stackoverflow). Will the API continue to return results or will it return the HTML offline ...
3
votes
1answer
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Unable to sort /search results by creation_date
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in /search and I'll try to describe it as best as I can.
What works:
Create a /search query with the following parameters:
fromdate: 2012-01-24
order: desc
...
3
votes
1answer
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What happened to the /stats method?
I can't find the /stats method in the new usage documentation.
A quick run of http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/stats reveals that the method is still there. However, it is not documented.
3
votes
1answer
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site twitter acounts on stackauth.com/sites
Would it be possible to add references to the site twitter accounts in the site listing on stackauth?
If your wondering what I'm talking about:
...
3
votes
1answer
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Wrong content-type in JSONP calls
When passing jsonp parameter, the API returns "application/json" instead of "application/javascript".
I found this because if you do:
<script ...
3
votes
1answer
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server fault and super user rate limit bonus?
Looks like SF and SU are granting Int.MaxValue rate limit. Not that I mind, but it would be nice to have on the other sites too. ;-)
Thought you would like to know.
GET /1.0/users/173?key=mykey ...
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both /revisions methods are spotty
These are the urls for a couple of my valid endpoint tests of the /revisions methods.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/revisions/2688191 (?key=xxx)
...
3
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1answer
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Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I'm having a problem returning a list of users questions within a given timespan. I understand that the documentation ( http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/questions ) that ...
3
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2answers
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On /users method id parameter does not work
Calling /users method with id parameter returns a list of users and not the user expected.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?id=23234
Could be a documentation "bug" on help page:
...
3
votes
2answers
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Inconsistency in sort order
If I execute the following API call:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?sort=newest&body=True&pagesize=5&min=1275575777&order=desc
versus one that does not include the min ...
3
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Add moderator-only flag to tags API?
Currently there is no way to distinguish between normal and moderator only tags.
