Hot answers tagged api-v2.1
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First of all, I'm guessing the HTTP 400 errors are directly related to the fact that you are transmitting the access_token over standard HTTP instead of HTTPS. The API (if I remember correctly) throws an error if you try to pass an access token over standard HTTP and immediately invalidates the token.
You actually don't need to include an access_token to ...
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migrated is equivalent to searching with migrated:1 or migrated:0 on the site itself.
In other words, migrated=true returns questions that have migrated_to (questions that have been migrated away from the site they were originally asked on). migrated=false returns questions that don't have migrated_to, but may have migrated_from.
There was a bug (fixed in ...
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This has been fixed in the latest deploy (it also affected body turns out).
We've got some changes to our search infrastructure in the pipeline, and API v2.1 is being used to test them out. You might have noticed it's had some... issues. Better to find them in an API beta than after the rollout to the Q&A sites though.
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backoff isn't used to indicate when you're breaking api limits (we start returning errors when you break contracts).
The typical cause of a backoff is a request that takes unusual resources to run. These are normally either complicated queries or high page values; however, backoff is applied dynamically so the exact definition of "complicated" and "high" ...
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As described in the /me/inbox documentation, the route is
...effectively an alias for /inbox. It is provided for consumers who make strong assumptions about operating within the context of a single site rather than the Stack Exchange network as a whole.
Since it's just more or less a convenience route for the global /inbox method, it doesn't actual ...
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Notifications typically contain links within their bodies. They're considerably more free-form than inbox_items, in that they're not typically attached to a post.
Notifications only even have directly attached posts (at time of writing) in the bounty and edit cases.
Note that if there's a post_id present, you can query /posts/{ids} to get a link. ...
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