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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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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 ...
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When does the judging take place?

I am planning to work some more on my apps tomorrow and get some last minute changes implemented. However, I notice that: The API Contest winners will be picked the first week of August. ...
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated no longer returning email_hash for some sites

I'm not getting email_hash for some sites from stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated since sometime after midnight CDT (UTC-0500).
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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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Url length limits have been increased

There's been some grumbling in the past about the unreliability of really ludicrously long URLs sent to the API. We've always considered this suboptimal, but the underlying technical constraints ...
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Paging /users by rep is on sites with low user count unpredictable

Resolution Fix confirmed: Tests.SortDupBug Page 1 #100 Total 11066 api.serverfault.com /users?max=2147483647&min=99&page=1&pagesize=100&key=qgAq_KfDu0KYzlNG-qaTuw Page 2 #100 Total 11066 ...
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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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Confusion over my API key

This is directed at the team, since nobody else will be able to help. The key I took out for StackMobile is behaving strangely. I make a few requests, and then the limit resets to 0. (By limit, I'm ...
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Need some help verifying 503 throttle issue

Update: We've confirmed the issue... fixing it is taking more time than anticipated. – Kevin Montrose Color me happy. The throttle is now applied to api.stackoverflow.com so we have an ...
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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.
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Can we get access to key-usage metrics?

Will developers ever get a chance to see how often their app key is being used? Or how many unique IPs are used the key? Or any other random metrics that might be interesting?
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should min/max for alpha-numeric cases be case-insensitive?

I am having a hard time coming up with a use case in which case-sensitive min/max parameters make sense and several solid cases for a case-insensitive min/max. Example: With case insensitive ...
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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.
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In the timeline the ability to know what events belong to what question

Take this example: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/questions/3165492;3182016/timeline Would it not make sense to have the question_id as a parameter on each timeline object? It makes the timeline ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Problems with the Site Icons

I'm having trouble with the WebApps icon being returned from the /sites method. Namely, the image is composed of a larg white rectangle with a very small guy in the middle. Why can't the guy take ...
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Shouldn't the API help be consistent with the trademark guidance?

The description for the two StackAuth Routes within the API help both contain the phrase StackExchange network - shouldn't this rather be Stack Exchange Network to be consistent with the recently ...
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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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Intermittent bug in the /search route when providing both tagged and nottagged parameters.

I'm getting the wrong number of results back from the /search route depending on what combination of values I provide for the tagged and nottagged parameters. Examples: ...
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pagesize=0 on /search throwing error

http://api.stackapps.com/0.9/search?intitle=a&pagesize=0 { "error": { "code": 4001, "message": "The 'pagesize' query parameter is invalid." } }
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/questions/{id}/timeline throwing 500 instead of 404

Kevin, you fixed this bug some time ago, would you like to tag it as status-complete? Sometime last week, this route stopped throwing 404 like the rest of my 'bad id' tests and started throwing 500. ...
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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 ...
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The /questions/{id}/timeline route isn't working.

I'm getting a response code 500 for the /questions/{id}/timeline route. I've tried it in Firefox and by fetching a response in Java. Example URL: ...
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Problem getting a users answers within a date range

This issue is similar to http://stackapps.com/questions/768/problem-getting-a-users-questions-within-a-date-range. Only this time I'm calling a different api and getting unexpected results. I'm ...
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Make site icons have transparent backgrounds

This is a request to make the site's icons have transparent backgrounds. They are already PNGs, so they support that. This would make applications such as Droidstack look much better. Although ...
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crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml needed on sstatic.net

Silverlight image loading from Uri fails due to lack of xdomain permission files. Needed: http://sstatic.net/clientaccesspolicy.xml http://sstatic.net/crossdomain.xml
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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) ...
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/users - fromdate/todate broken

consider: All users on meta : "total": 18923, http://api.meta.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?sort=creation&order=desc Users created on meta in the last month: "total": 18923, ...
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Missing on_site in Stack Apps site data in associated_users from stackauth query

This is what I get for Stack Apps: { "display_name": "user", "email_hash": "11aa11...22bb22...", "reputation": 101, "user_id": 0000, "user_type": ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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/stats meta data missing

So am I to assume that since we can make an extra call to another site to get meta that site node in stats has been deemed redundant data. If so, I have to suggest a reality break. This is one of ...
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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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StackAuth needs crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml

These would be helpful to have. Absence breaks Silverlight apps. http://stackauth.com/crossdomain.xml http://stackauth.com/clientaccesspolicy.xml http://stackauth.com/0.8/crossdomain.xml ...
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please expose stackauth via a url that is consistent with the api

Most libraries and apps need to version themselves by adding the version number to the url and subsequently most of the http request code includes this information in the url building process. the ...
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Where did the “apps” tab disappear?

I may just be missing something, but there used to be an "apps" tab on the main page, which showed you a (sorted by vote) list of all the apps and libraries. I can't find it anymore. Where did it ...
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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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SIlverlight 3 ClientHttp vs BrowserHttp stack: no cross domain policy means no gzip for Silverlight

I notice that even if I send accept-encoding=gzip the response does not seem to be compressed. ( it is late and i was conflating 'accept' with 'accept-encoding') Should we expect, in the 1.0 ...
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Why does /users/{id}/answers, which returns an array of answers, have an optional 'answers' flag?

I would assume that if you are requesting the route '/users/{id}/answers' that you wish to receive some answers.
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min/max parameters are incorrectly documented as date - confusion and crippled libraries ensue

I have noticed this on all sorted routes. The min/max say that they are context sensitive to the sort type yet are documented as date. How is a date min/max valid when sorting by, for instance ...
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The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags

Take these two API calls: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?tagged=php;rant http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/tagged/php;rant A couple of problems: Shouldn't they return the ...
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/search intitle arg is case sensitive

This seriously cripples any search capabilities. Consider: http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/search?intitle=soapi&order=desc&sort=activity vs ...
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API Suggestion: suppress http error code when jsonp is specified

Conclusion: fast response by Kevin enables the JSONP functionality of the API to assume it's rightful description of awesome. http://soapi.info/Code/JS/Stable/ErrorTest.htm The JSONP functionality ...
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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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Don't include answers in question lists by default

Right now, question list API queries (such as /questions, /questions/unanswered, /user/{id}/questions and so on) also return at most 30 answers (apparently) for each question. While this might be ...
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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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API Help Suggestion: include range [1, 100] on pagesize

I see that range is being used to indicate valid range on most numeric parameters e.g. 32-bit integer, range [0, 2,147,483,647] 32-bit integer, range [1, 2,147,483,647] The valid range for ...