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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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
1answer
87 views
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?
2
votes
1answer
73 views
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 ...
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 ...
5
votes
3answers
305 views
Get Site Icon or Icon Url
Is there a way to get the icon or the IconUrl of the site so I can put it in my app like the DisplayName?
4
votes
2answers
101 views
Add optional parameter to get only paging information?
On methods that support total/page/pagesize add an optional parameter to get just those fields when making a request. (pageInfo=true).
I am thinking specifically in apps that have real-time like ...
3
votes
1answer
74 views
Add moderator-only flag to tags API?
Currently there is no way to distinguish between normal and moderator only tags.
3
votes
3answers
152 views
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 ...
1
vote
3answers
135 views
API not returning anything near the actual website
The API /questions page is not returning anything like the list of questions on the actual SO site.
This is the first question of the 0.8/questions
{
"total": 705769,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": ...
2
votes
2answers
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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
votes
1answer
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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 ...
4
votes
2answers
73 views
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?
8
votes
2answers
135 views
Plans to expose details from the “accounts” tab of the user page?
One thing that I noticed was missing from the /users/ api was an ability to see what other StackExchange sites the user is associated with (what's usually available from the "accounts" tab of the user ...
1
vote
1answer
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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
2
votes
1answer
87 views
help page suggestion: indication of integral values vs real numbers
number is an very ambiguous term.
It would be helpful if there was an indication of values that can return as non-integral.
In a javascript context this is not an issue, but most devs, myself ...
1
vote
1answer
65 views
help page suggestion: position required parameters at top
in the case of id, it is now placed at the bottom of the page.
It makes sense to place required parameters at the top of the page with a slight separation, perhaps an <hr> or an icon.
1
vote
1answer
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help page format issue: missing parameter
/users/{id}/tags is missing id parameter
fixing this will remove one more special case from my parser.
0
votes
1answer
32 views
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).
0
votes
1answer
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Favorites api gives wrong results when sorted by added
For example, please compare http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/111391/favorites?sort=added with ...
3
votes
1answer
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Minor typo on help page
On the API Routes help page, this:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets summary information for the questions that have been favorited a set of users.
should probably be:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets ...
2
votes
3answers
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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 ...
2
votes
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:
...
1
vote
2answers
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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?
For the type "string", I think there is some upper limit of character count.
For example,
post title : 200 characters
post body : 30000 characters
In the help page, currently like this
"body": {
...
1
vote
1answer
70 views
Retrieving a post with a specific ID
According to this question (and its answer), questions and answers are using the same index to determine their ID. In other words:
Question with ID #1
Answer with ID #2
Answer with ID #3
Answer ...
4
votes
1answer
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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": {
...
7
votes
1answer
65 views
Get the Site Display Name from the API
Is there a way to get the Site Name, like StackOverflow or ServerFault, etc.? In my app I let the user enter a url with a api for a Site and I will be great If I can tell him something like: "You Are ...
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
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Can API stats return real revision number instead of 1234.5678?
Currently it returns like this
"revision": "1.0.1234.5678"
And looks like that number never changed.
So, Can API return real revision number whenever there is an update?
It will be very useful ...
1
vote
1answer
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Last activity date
It would be useful if the API allowed you to return items based on their last activity date. Let's take a question for example.
/questions/fromlastactivitydate=XYZ&tolastactivitydate=XYZ
All ...
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
5
votes
2answers
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Users timeline help claims to be pageable but isn't
The help page for the users timeline call claims that the timeline can handle paging but it doesn't seem to be able to. The output doesn't have the total count of pages, etc and the page attribute ...
1
vote
1answer
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Revision help URL contains wrong header
There are two revision urls listed on the help page but they both seem to contain the same detailed information. The header for the non-guid version contains the url for the one that takes a guid. ...
2
votes
1answer
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/users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline - filter parameter?
Both /users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline say they take a filter parameter for users' names, but it seems to do nothing. Are they not supposed to be there?
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
2answers
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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 ...
4
votes
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
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/questions/unanswered and /tags allow id parameter, but it does nothing
The /questions/unanswered and /tags queries both document (as required) and allow an "id" parameter. You can use it as /questions/unanswered?id=1;2;3, but it does nothing (that I can tell) and doesn't ...
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, ...
0
votes
1answer
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questions/{id}/timeline documentation: timeline_type values not listed
The timeline_type for post timelines just says "string" for the "values". From a cursory look at a few questions, I've seen the following types of events:
question
answer
comment
revision
votes
...
2
votes
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
votes
2answers
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Key Limit is 10k or 100k?
Getting Started FAQ Question says 10k
http://stackapps.com/questions/2/getting-started-with-the-api
But I see 100k on Response Header
X-RateLimit-Max 100000
X-RateLimit-Current 99993
Just typo in ...
2
votes
1answer
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Why answers don't have a “locked” attribute?
When looking at an answer, I can see that there is no locked_date attribute, like there is for questions. IIRC, answers can be locked by moderators.
Also, if a post is unlocked, is that field ...
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 ...
5
votes
1answer
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Exclude help requests and redirects from the API limit
Help API requests probably should not count towards the no-key API limit. The most likely usage scenario of the API without a key is when people are trying to learn it, which means reading the help a ...
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vote
2answers
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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!
2
votes
1answer
2k views
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.
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
...
6
votes
1answer
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Support - Another thing from Meta
We really need to have the support tag as a required tag.
Why? Well...
http://stackapps.com/questions/87/what-is-the-syntax-for-specifying-parameters
...
0
votes
1answer
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“Get an API key” on stackapps.com/about page is incorrect
the "Get an API key" link listed on the stackapps about page is incorrect. It points to http://stackapps.com/app/register and a lovely picture of Zardoz instead of the correct ...
4
votes
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 ...
