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API stopped allowing CORS requests
I'm currently using the API via JavaScript AJAX calls and it all of a sudden stopped allowing CORS requests.
I'm on localhost and I tried uploading my code to live and am still getting:
Access to ...
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0
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Only Stack Overflow has documentation, but the API erroneously lists documentation privileges for all sites
Privileges related to Stack Overflow Documentation are displaying in every other site's API data.
Using Meta Stack Exchange, for example, /2.2/privileges?site=meta returns the following documentation ...
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Bug with `badges/name` endpoint
Last night I had a programme running and it errored on the first call to the badges/name endpoint on the API, exact API endpoint call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/badges/name?order=asc&sort=...
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3
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top-answerers / top-askers documentation bug: number of results returned incorrect
The top-answerers-on-tags and top-askers-on-tags documentation claim:
Returns the top 30 answerers active in a single tag, of either all-time or the last 30 days.
and
Returns the top 30 askers ...
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SE API V1.1 documentation, date errata
The Stack Exchange API, version 1.1, documentation is ever so slightly confusing wherever Unix timestamps are mentioned (perhaps any ranges, I haven't dug too deeply)
For instance:
todate – Unix ...
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3
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1
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Stack Exchange OAuth2, explicit access-token response format does not adhere to RFC6749 standard
I'm using the Stack Exchange v2.1 API. I'm using the explicit OAuth 2.0 flow, but it seems that the access token response step does not adhere to the RFC 6749 standard. Specifically, the Stack ...
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3
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Querying "standard meta tags" for their tag wikis wrongly says they have none
I'm checking which tags have tag wiki excerpts in my code. It looks like /tags/{tags}/wikis is the right API since the tag info API doesn't even give a boolean for tag wiki excerpt presence.
But ...
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Bug in the StackExchange Api ? getting "could not parse proxy url" when user not logged in
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in the Stack Exchange JS API
I'm having a problem getting its authentication to work properly, and I just discovered that the same problem exist in the official ...
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1
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1
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/me API endpoint returning 500 error
I'm making an authenticated call to /me:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/me?access_token=[redacted]&site=stackoverflow&key=[redacted]
But it's returning:
{"error_id":500,"error_name":"...
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Typo in API docs: "temporarility_unavailable"
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication
"temporarility" should probably be "temporarily"
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1
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Typo in throttle violation error message
I was just playing around with the API locally and got throttled for the questions and answers methods (the only two I was using).
Anyway, I noticed there’s a small typo in the error message that’s ...
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The /users/{id}/timeline route is reporting incorrect totals
It seems that the /users/{id}/timeline route is returning an incorrect total. For example, the following URL is reporting a total of 1607 items:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/users/7789/timeline
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Wrong API response?
Well, if you look here, you'll see i have
"down_vote_count": 94,
But if you look here on my Stackoverflow profile, you see that my down vote count is 64.
For those who would ask if I'm sure ...
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2
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1
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Reputation losses aren't reflected in the API
This includes reputation recalculations (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 ...
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3
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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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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 presume)...
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1
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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 than ...
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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 (http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/search?tagged=...
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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 src='http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/badges?jsonp=...
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1
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1
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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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2
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2
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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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1
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3
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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": 30,...
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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
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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 ...
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