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AskUbuntu API returns wrong colours
Calling the stats method of the AskUbuntu API returns the wrong colours.
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user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small
the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000.
it is apparent that this is the server-side field length.
the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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What happened to nothingtoinstall.com?
This is weird:
{
"name": "Web Applications",
"logo_url": "http://sstatic.net/webapps/img/logo.png",
"api_endpoint": "http://api.webapps.stackexchange.com",
"site_url": "http://...
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question.migrated.to_site null
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/322108?sort=activity&order=desc
{
"total": 1,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,
"questions": [
{
"tags": [
"discussion",
"fun"...
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Empty results for associated queries
Queries such as this
http://stackauth.com/1.0/users/f5388585-c0b9-417f-99c5-f1a58fda3e83/associated
have started giving empty results
{
"associated_users": []
}
Expected results:
SiteUrl ...
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Sorting comments by votes doesn't return 0 score comments
I have a query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/16822/comments?sort=votes
This doesn't return comments with no votes, setting min to 0 doesn't work. This query includes them all, but isn't ...
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API usage triggering 503 (Too Many Requests)
Update:
I generally try to back any claims of bugs and shortcomings with evidence.
I have prepared a test page which you, dear Stack Overflow staff and my fellow developers, can use to ascertain ...
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new throttle does not differentiate between api requests and requests made from viewing the site
Update:
I am unable to reproduce the case of interactive browsing affecting app quota. And will concede that the failures that prompted this post were likely far edge cases.
The remaining issue of a ...
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issues with 'edit_count' field
Update
other than the nullable issue, which is under review, the rest of this question is based on a mistake I made reading the nesting depth of the json result.
Disregard. Deletion is considered.
...
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Why are 5 IP addresses using my API key?
I have an app that resides on a server. It has only ever accessed the API from 2 IP addresses. The API key has not been shared and there is no client-side code.
When I go to /apps however, it says "5 ...
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/users/{id}/reputation != xxx.com/reputation
I realize that the shape of the data coming from the API may be different than that reported by the xxx/reputation url, but there seem to be some striking disparities.
see 08/12 and 08/11 in both ...
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API selectively ignores jsonp parameter - havok ensues
UPDATE: this is happening on all routes now and seems to be getting worse. Whatever it is just started this morning.
compare url to json response
GET /1.0/users/14/badges?key=qgAq_KfDu0KYzlNG-qaTuw&...
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API is completely down? content encoding is broken?
all requests have no content-encoding or have 'gzip,gzip', both of which fail to decompress browser side.
note: the content-encoding header, when it is present, does not seem to be included in the ...
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key not being recognized by api.meta.stackoverflow.com?
I have been testing a throttle implementation against meta today and suddenly got shut down with a key violation.
It is possible that I have used enough requests to prompt this but I doubt it.
In ...
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Possible Bug With positive_rep Field?
I'm looking through my /users/{id}/reputation and I think I see a possible bug regarding how positive_rep is calculated when someone upvotes your question.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/...
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My reputation graph is messed up.
See here:
https://stackapps.com/users/18?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top
Go to my rep graph and notice that it only shows about 350 points...
Where's my other 4100?
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/users/{id}/tags - 504 Gateway Timeout
this url is technically valid but generates 504.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/242897/tags?filter=c%23&fromdate=0&max=1577836800&min=0&page=1&pagesize=100&sort=...
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1
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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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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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What's the difference between tags soapi.cs and soapi.js to get a bug triggered by the former?
Right now questions tagged soapi.cs returns a HTTP status code 404 (for various HTTP clients) while questions tagged soapi.js does not.
Interestingly though, soapi.cs seems to work just fine in other ...
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Where can I find the reputation black market?
Apparently there is one around, at least I can't explain the recent jump in reputation of 4k for user 1026 by any other means (just kidding of course, no offense please ;)
The API Beta badge accounts ...
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Badges with zero count no longer returning zero
For queries such as http://api.{sitename}.com/1.0/users/{id} if a badge count is zero, the API is no longer returning "gold": 0, for example.
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Encoding inconsistency on /users/{id}/reputation
Take these two calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/180784/reputation?todate=1278854265&pagesize=1
"title": "Save a custom ListView's instance state?",
http://api.stackoverflow....
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1
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/users/{id}/associated - inconsistent behavior
/users/{id}/associated occasionally returns empty for an association even though there are definitely associated users. Calling it again immediately returns expected results.
GET /1.0/users/e58345f5-...
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/users/{id}/answers - broken
Have not checked other routes, as I am busy with other things, but a failing test pointed this out...
GOOD: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/242897/answers?min=4&sort=votes
{
"total": 37,...
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Bug - Getting partial results for questions
When processing http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/1156985 I only get partial results. Many of the missing fields are mandatory fields, including the owner of the question.
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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 HTTP/...
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api.money.stackexchange.com returning questions from 2009?
http://api.money.stackexchange.com/1.0/questions/?pagesize=1&fromdate=1254960000&todate=1255564793
body => question[0] => [creation_date] => 1254969799
1254969799 == Thu, 08 Oct ...
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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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answers
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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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On Stackauth /sites new meta sites have wrong name
This should be the correct behaviour:
name: "Stack Overflow Meta"
name: "Web Apps Meta"
name: "Gaming Meta"
..
For the newcomers Server Fault and Super User, Meta is before the parent site in the ...
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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 ...
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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:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated not returning display_name for some sites
The problem with email_hash seems to be fixed, but now display_name is not getting returned in some cases.
For example: This Super User /users/{id} query returns a display_name, but the corresponding ...
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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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api.meta.stackoverflow.com has state:normal - is this correct
i am not sure what the origin and exact meaning of the term 'linked_meta' is, but I would guess that it is a term created for area 51 meta sites and the implied meaning is clear.
Perhaps stack meta ...
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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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Where are the new Metas?
According to the most recent blog post, ServerFault and SuperUser each got their own Meta.
Shouldn't this be showing up in StackAuth?
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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 api....
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New Meta sites out of order in /sites
I don't know if this is by design, but the ServerFault and SuperUser Meta sites don't follow their main sites in the response for the sites API route. Having linked_meta sites follow their main (...
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Will there be another contest when Stack API 2.0 is close to release?
Considering Stack API 2.0 will probably focus a lot on administration and write features, I think it would be a good idea to have another contest.
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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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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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nottagged parameter not documented
It appears that the /questions method still takes the nottagged which specifies a list of tags to exclude questions by but this parameter is not mentioned in the documentation. Is this parameter ...
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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.
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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 up ...
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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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errors/{id} documentation : 500 Internal Server Error
On Documentation page, clicking on
errors/{id}
returns 500 Internal Server Error
EDIT:
Fixed!
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How far behind is the data returned by calls supposed to be?
I understand that the data sourced to the API are cached, but I'm seeing some fairly extreme discrepancies between reputation reported by the API and apparent activity on the site.
For example:
...
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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 min/max:...
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