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Why does /users/{id}/answers, which returns an array of answers, have an optional 'answers' flag?
I would assume that if you are requesting the route '/users/{id}/answers' that you wish to receive some answers.
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min/max parameters are incorrectly documented as date - confusion and crippled libraries ensue
I have noticed this on all sorted routes.
The min/max say that they are context sensitive to the sort type yet are documented as date.
How is a date min/max valid when sorting by, for instance votes?...
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The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags
Take these two API calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?tagged=php;rant
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/tagged/php;rant
A couple of problems:
Shouldn't they return the same ...
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/search intitle arg is case sensitive
This seriously cripples any search capabilities.
Consider:
http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/search?intitle=soapi&order=desc&sort=activity
vs
http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/search?intitle=Soapi&...
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The /search route is ignoring the answers parameter.
The answers parameter was recently added to most of the requests that return a list of questions. See: Don’t include answers in question lists by default
It looks like the /search request got left ...
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Answers suddenly not getting returned.
Try:
http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/questions/212
None of the answers are present.
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Answers parameter not functional
For example the following:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?answers=true
doesn't return answers.
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Order parameter not functional
Consider these two API calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?pagesize=1&sort=votes&order=desc
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?pagesize=1&sort=votes&order=asc
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Include range [1, 100] on pagesize
I see that "range" is being used to indicate valid range on most numeric parameters, e.g.
32-bit integer, range [0, 2,147,483,647]
32-bit integer, range [1, 2,147,483,647]
The smaller valid range ...
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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:
http://api....
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Possible problem calling users/?filter method searching username with tilde
I'm testing curious usernames and I am searching their user_id by:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/?filter=username_filter
I'm trying to get information about this particular user:
http://...
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OBSOLETE - New Q! - Google Chrome Extension notifies you of new questions of interest and inbox messages
Obsolete. Code last updated 7 years ago. Chrome store links are long dead. Source code still available though.
Screenshots
A new question notification in Chrome 6 in Windows XP
A new answer and ...
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Inconsistent sort ordering on users?
I'm trying to get a list of the 10 oldest users. This is the endpoint I'm using:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?key=(key)&order=asc&sort=creation&pagesize=10&page=0
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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 /...
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Stats not showing the same values as the Site
I get less values in the api method that in the site, is this posible?
Example: form the API I get that SO has 709980 questions from site 701005
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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 ...
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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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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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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 returning ...
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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 ...
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Possible bug in the help page?
There are some weird dot things in this help page:
api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/badges
{Dead link to missing image: http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/stackbug.png}
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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 Stack Exchange sites the user is associated with (what's usually available from the "accounts" tab of the ...
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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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help page format issue: missing parameter
/users/{id}/tags is missing id parameter
fixing this will remove one more special case from my parser.
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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).
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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 https://stackoverflow.com/api/userfavorites.html?userid=111391&page=1&pagesize=30&sort=...
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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 ...
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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 0....
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The user and owner objects appear to be optional in the question timeline result.
This is probably just a simple documentation fix and not really a bug. The doc for the /questions/{id}/timeline method says that the user and owner objects are not optional, but they aren't always ...
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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:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/1288/timeline?pagesize=...
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How to sort answers to question?
If I retrieve a question like so:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes
I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not.
How can I do this?
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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": {
"...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?
It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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:
/...
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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 ...
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Don't allow requests with No Key to use existing session with valid API Key
Once I did a request with a valid API key
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY
Every requests (from that IP) later on without key will use existing session with API key, limit counter ...
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API Key limit 10k is Per IP Address or Globally?
Getting started FAQ says No Key limit is IP Address based, but it does not say for with API Key.
When I test my API Key from different IP Addresses, I noticed that 10k limit is globally, limit is ...
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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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Two minor typos in the "Register your Application" form
In the help text (on the right hand side) for the Application Name field on https://stackapps.com/apps/register:
I think this should be changed: " ... is built on the our platform ...". For example, ...
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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
The ...
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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 be ...
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it
See title. When a user never modified their "about me" section the API doesn't return that, which then causes my parser to go wild returning errors. However, when a user has modified their "about me"...
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StackPrinter: The Stack Exchange Printer Suite
UPDATE:
Version 1.1 - MySE section, PrettyPrint, StackPrinter API
Screenshots:
App Homepage
Printable view
Logo:
https://www.stackprinter.com
StackPrinter is a website that pulls the main details ...
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The API Key does not work
I have registered an app at https://stackapps.com/apps/register, got a Key right away after I have submitted.
But now when I request http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY, I got ...
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