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Could the /tags API return minimal information about synonyms?
It would be very helpful if the /tags API could provide at least a bare minimum of information about tag synonyms. Either:
Number of synonyms the tag has, if any.
Or a true/false flag for tags which ...
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What are the possible errors returned from authentication?
The title pretty much says it all,
I couldn't find in the Authentication doc much about the errors (other than the HTTP code will be 400)?
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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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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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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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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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Why do some Stackauth associated queries fail?
This query fails:
http://stackauth.com/0.8/users/137b94e5-050c-4dd5-82c1-aeb2af0814f5/associated
In Python for a jason.loads call, I get an error: 'ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")'.
I ...
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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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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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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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Permission request form is broken, approve button is hidden, css variables are missing
You can check that form doesn't work with this link https://stackoverflow.com/oauth?client_id=17581&scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri=http://functional.localdomain:3449/login/github
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"backoff" missing when updating questions
I updated a couple of questions with the questions/{id}/edit method and got the following error:
{
"error_id": 407,
"error_message": "You cannot perform this action for another 14 seconds",
...
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Why is the API giving a different response for preview true/false with POST requests?
Update
This expression will evaluate to show the cause. The only requirement is an emacs with url. As you can see, the result from using curl and that from using the url package is different. ...
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API returns the last activity date even if asked not to
Using the /questions method, I tried to get upvote and downvote counts, along with question Ids. This is the request I sent:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/857455%3B857454?site=math&...
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OAuth redirect not completing
This is the URL that I'm entering (in Safari, cleared website data and cache; my app, uses own Cookie jar; and incognito chrome)
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=23&scope=...
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What happens when sites or the whole network go offline
Now that the API is all done on stackexchange.com. What happens if say just certain sites go offline (eg just Stackoverflow). Will the API continue to return results or will it return the HTML offline ...
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What's the simplest way to detect if a question was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
What's the minimum filter and simplest way to detect if a question (by its ID) was asked by a user whose account has been deleted?
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Can we get write access to user favorites?
I'd like users of my app to be able to add questions to their favourites.
Will this be added to the API as an authenticated call?
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Is it possible to get daily reputation change for a user via the API?
I'm trying to fetch a user's daily reputation change history for a project that's still early in the planning stages. I've been trying to use the "reputation" endpoint, but it seems like I can query ...
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Documentation has broken link (JSONP)
On Wikipedia, JSONP now has its own article, instead of being part of the JSON article.
The documentation links JSONP to Wikpedia:JSON#JSONP. It should link to Wikipedia:JSONP.
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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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What happened to the /stats method?
I can't find the /stats method in the new usage documentation.
A quick run of http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/stats reveals that the method is still there. However, it is not documented.
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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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pagesize=0 on /search throwing error
http://api.stackapps.com/0.9/search?intitle=a&pagesize=0
{
"error": {
"code": 4001,
"message": "The 'pagesize' query parameter is invalid."
}
}
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both /revisions methods are spotty
These are the urls for a couple of my valid endpoint tests of the /revisions methods.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/revisions/2688191 (?key=xxx)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/revisions/2350874/...
- 12.1k
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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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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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The Faq Has a Broken Link
Currently the first link in the FAQ points to http://dev.stackapps.com/?tab=apps. It should link to https://stackapps.com/?tab=apps.
Simple fix, but it confused me for a short time.
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Alignment issue in the Apps, Scripts tabs
There is an alignment issue in the Apps and Scripts tabs. The user name and the tag are not aligned right indent.
Screenshot for reference:
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Pluralisation bugs in /apps/oauth
In the Manage your applications page, if 1 user has authorized and has been given an access token, the site shows 1 users instead of user:
In addition, if you have one application, it shows 1 ...
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API 404's when I try to fetch related tags for the `bin` tag
If you query the API for tags related to [bin]: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/bin/related?site=stackoverflow
this simply returns:
Invalid JSON returned and a 404.
(live demo)
But it ...
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Tags are not returned when querying /users/{ids}/answers
I'm querying the API for answers-by-user, and I want the tags belonging to the parent questions. I seem to be seeing intermittent results: sometimes the tags attribute of the response includes the ...
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/synonyms sorting is majorly broken
I'm requesting /tags/synonyms data in descending order by creation date, but the order is jumbled up:
The first date is 2017-08-22 where as the second one is 2018-03-16. The same can be observed for ...
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"users" link lands on the answer page
On the /users/moderators documentation site, the following link is wrong:
This method returns a list of users.
The users link mistakenly points to the answers object instead of to the users object....
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Authorization dialog shows wrong API version
If you go on this doc page and click on Get Token, you'll see this:
Minor bug, but still, I thought it would be nice to fix this inconsistency :)
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The tags array is missing from answer results
I'm probably missing something very obvious but it seems like /users/{ids}/answers forgets to include the tags badge in the resulting answer object:
tags (2.1) an array of strings
Nowhere does ...
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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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Types missing from the "Member Types" section
The following types are not listed on http://api.stackexchange.com/docs?tab=category#docs under the Member Types section:
network_post
closed_details
original_question
Note that it's a nonexhaustive ...
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It's taking two calls to /oauth/dialog/ to get an access_token? [duplicate]
When we send this request:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog/?client_id=`client_id`&scope=read_inbox%2cno_expiry%2cwrite_access%2cprivate_info&redirect_uri=https%3a%2f%2fstackexchange....
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Login screen without web browser
I'm playing around with the Stack Exchange API, and have just received my first response from the server using the "Hello World" example.
The next step is to allow the user to log in somehow. From ...
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error description: could not parse proxy url
I have seen the answers to the existing two questions on this topic but it has not helped. And the problem still persists so I am re-posting this question.
Here is my code
$(function(){
SE.init({
...
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/answers API request returns no tags if body_markdown is included [duplicate]
This API request to /answers has the filter set to return the tags field for the corresponding question. It works fine:
api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers#filter=!9YdnSPElz
But, when the filter is ...
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Buggy HTTP header behavior with the `site` parameter. Improper caching?
In sx.el we are using url-request-extra-headers to pass API requests to Stack Exchange.
When performing multiple queries in quick succession, we end up receiving the same JSON response even when the ...
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bounties_offered are not being returned correctly from /users/{ids}/reputation
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, reputation changes for bounties_offered are not being returned correctly.
In my own results, I see a reputation object with a reputation_change ...
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SSL handshake error after Stack Overflow back on - anything related to SSL certification changed?
I'm building a Stack Overflow app for BlackBerry10. Earlier today (Feb 16, 2014), Stack Overflow was down and after it came back up my app starts to have this issue.
My app works fine when it's in LTE,...
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Why is there a difference between "questions" and "search" in API?
I have a query to find the number of questions tagged java from 2012-08-01 to 2013-08-01. Running this using both /questions and /search produces different results:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2....
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Incorrect link parameter on the "Complex Queries" documentation page
The "Complex Queries" documentation page has this link:
Of these three posts on Server Fault, the one with the most recent activity
where "the one with the most recent activity" links to
https://...
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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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How to get network profile username?
I was thinking I could just get the username from the response of /users/{ids}/associated (where {ids} is the not-site-specific id). But then realised that it returns only network_user (even though we ...
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OAuth Dialog rendering problems in iPad
I'm using the implicit OAuth flow for our native iPad app. We're calling the standard URLs in a UIWebView. The Stack Exchange login renders with several UI glitches.
The first screen looks correct:
(...
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