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I'm testing out the Stack Exchange API with a tiny script that fixes a typo.

It's written in PHP and used the implicit client-side OAuth flow to get the access token.

a fixed title

Lessons learned

{"error_id":400,
 "error_message":"POST methods expects all parameters to be submitted as a form, not on the query string","error_name":"bad_parameter"}

Do not send JSON but a application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST request.

The write API is seriously underdocumented as noted in 2013 already: Tell us that POST is required to write

{"error_id":400,
 "error_message":"body","error_name":"bad_parameter"}

Even if you just want to change the title, you need to send the body. The body must be markdown, and your filter to fetch the body must be unsafe.

{"error_id":400,
 "error_message":"tags","error_name":"bad_parameter"}

You also have to set the tags, even if you only change the title.

{"error_id":403,
 "error_message":"Applications must have a registered Stack Apps post to write","error_name":"access_denied"}

This post here exists because of this message. Add the post URL to your stack apps entry.

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