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nottagged only works when tagged is set (/search)

On the /search route, the nottagged parameter doesn't work properly (at least it isn't specially documented to only work at certain times) For example: ...
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rep losses aren't reflected in api

This includes rep recalcs (e.g., the latest) and (speculative) when people take upvote back. First case you can see on standard stackauth/users query: it displays meta reputation before recalc. ...
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Meta Stack Overflow API Try-It form sends request to Stack Overflow API instead of Meta API

Meta Stack Overflow API Try-It form sends request to Stack Overflow API instead of Meta API
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Reputation query doesn't match that on SO

This morning, at 2011-04-06 00:22:38Z, I received a question upvote for this question. That shows up as giving me 5 reputation when looking at the Stack Overflow reputation page. However, when I use ...
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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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StackAuth 1.1 API reports a site without a site_name

Calling the StackAuth 1.1 API associated method for a particular user returns one site with no site_name property (the one for which the user_id is 349). I cannot find a matching account in ...
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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 ...
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Mismatch between user_id as reported in StackAuth 1.1 (invalid) and 1.0 (valid)

For the association id 1de2e2b0-2fb6-4db6-b90d-d0244ed5d13a, the StackAuth 1.1 call returns an invalid user_id of 73203 for Server Fault whereas the StackAuth 1.0 call returns the correct user_id of ...
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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 ...
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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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API ignores jsonp callback after initial request - erroneous caching?

This bug is still prevalent, appears to be cache related. Two identical requests return different data: first request respects jsonp query parameter, all subsequent requests ignore it until (I ...
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Provide a way to discover associated meta sites

Currently, the API doesn't specify what the associated Meta site is for a certain site (I'm talking about the stackauth.com/1.0/sites route). Sure, we could just prepend "meta." to the domain name, ...
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Add 'linked' question data to the API

SE sites show linked questions on the right column. It would be great to add an array of ids to the question response called 'linked'. Example Linked Question
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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: ...
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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.
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The /questions/{id}/linked method is returning extra questions.

Consider the following question on ServerFault: http://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names Linked questions: Note that there's only two listed. However, querying: ...
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The /top-answer-tags method is not working.

I tried the new /top-answer-tags method on Ask Ubuntu, but it isn't working: URL: http://api.askubuntu.com/1.1/users/5/top-answer-tags Output: { "error": { "code": 500, "message": "A ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Changing the display of the apps tab

We're looking at changing the front page of Stack Apps to look more like a proper app "marketplace" and less like a run of the mill Stack Exchange site. Proposal (third draft) This would replace ...
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User's display name field omitted?

If a user doesn't have a username "set" for an account, then the display_name field is omitted. This is similar to a few other questions, but the only official answer says that "display_name should ...
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API 'search' method with 'tagged' parameter

From the docs for tagged paremeter: List of tags delimited by semi-colons of which at least one must be on a question Yet, when I execute this query ...
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User's Comments: returning 500 error?

It looks like when I try to get the comments of a user that has "a huge number" of comments, I get a 500 error. Jon Skeet's comments, 500 error: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/22656/comments ...
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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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/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.
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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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Let's delete the off topic questions?

There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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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 ...
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tag colors incorrect

the tag color for english site seem incorrect, the dark grey color is the background while the yellow colour is the foreground. This is contradictory to other sites which have the darker colours as ...
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MSO is not being returned in StackAuth's /users/{id}/associated route

In looking into a StackFlair issue, I have discovered that MSO is not being returned as part of a user's associated accounts. Please see my associated accounts according to the api. Note that there ...
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Problem accessing API endpoints from Google App Engine

I'm experiencing a weird problem on StackPrinter hosted on Google App Engine. It seems that the application can't reach several endpoints like Super User or Server Fault; Stack Overflow and other ...
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An associated query is returning a partial record for a particular user

This query returns (in addition to several complete records) this incomplete one: { "user_id": 2196, "user_type": "registered", "display_name": "Wil", "reputation": 151, "email_hash": ...
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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 ...
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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": { ...
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API Help's CSS is missing

The API Help page's CSS file, located at http://sstatic.net/so/all.css, is current returning 404 for me: <div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div> <div id="content"> ...
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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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/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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StackAuth returning 404?

http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites http://stackauth.com/1.0/help Both of these are currently returning 404 Not Found. What's up with that?
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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 ...
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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" ], ...
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AskUbuntu API returns wrong colours

Calling the stats method of the AskUbuntu API returns the wrong colours.
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Icons of beta sites

Icons of beta sites are different form the icons given in the http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites . As example: Original icon of the English Language and Usage is where http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites ...
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stackapps favicon inconsistent rendering

A lot of us are using the favicon in our apps as it is a quite convenient size. It seems that IE does not like the stackapps favicon palette and renders the background black. While I do cache the ...
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Empty results for associated queries

Queries such as this http://stackauth.com/1.0/users/f5388585-c0b9-417f-99c5-f1a58fda3e83/associated have started giving empty results { "associated_users": [] } Expected results: SiteUrl ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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API selectively ignores jsonp parameter - havok ensues

UPDATE: this is happening on all routes now and seems to be getting worse. Whatever it is just started this morning. compare url to json response GET ...
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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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key not being recognized by api.meta.stackoverflow.com?

I have been testing a throttle implementation against meta today and suddenly got shut down with a key violation. It is possible that I have used enough requests to prompt this but I doubt it. In ...
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How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]

Update: All of our grumblings and the unbearable beauty of our workarounds resulted in this issue being fixed last week. You can now send 100 id in one request and receive 100 responses. See ...