Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behavior in the Stack Exchange API, or the Stack Exchange HTML or CSS, that needs to be fixed.
75 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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The fieldnames in the error message do not match the names used on the form
When you register an app here there are 4 fields that are required:
Application Name
Description
OAuth domain
Application Website
Leaving those fields empty returns this error message:
Image from I ...
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Can I have more than one OAuth Domain?
I tried to set more than one OAuth Domain, but seems to it's not working. I tried to set them separated by comma or space, but got redirect_uri - must be under an apps registered domain error message.
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Wrong error message when attempting to edit a locked answer
When attempting to edit a locked answer like this one via the /answers/{id}/edit API method, I get an error message:
Account is not allowed to suggest edits
I have the privilege to edit the post, so ...
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window.opener is null in Stack Exchange login_success page
I am using the JavaScript SDK to authenticate Stack Exchange users in our application. But the dialog stays in "Authorizing Application" page, as I found there is a error thrown in this page:...
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Stack Exchange search API not returning results with min, max vote count
Query to search for all question with perl6 tag created between Oct 1 - Oct 5 2019. I'm sorting the results by votes.
/2.2/search?fromdate=1569888000&todate=1570233600&order=desc&sort=...
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List /network-activity methods under Network Methods in the documentation
The API methods /users/{id}/network-activity and /me/network-activity, both return a summary of a user's activity across the Stack Exchange network and do not take a site parameter.
They are ...
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Linked questions API call fails for frequently asked questions on Stack Overflow
The Linked Questions API fails for some of the Frequently Asked Questions on Stack Overflow, maybe because of the sheer amount of linked questions they have.
As an example, take What is a ...
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.wrapper not sorted correctly in filter edit popup
When editing the filter, e.g. on this API documentation page, all types are sorted alphabetically except for .wrapper which is always shown below answer, instead of above it (or at the end):
Obviously,...
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Spelling mistake in API Documentation's "Authentication" page
Can you find the spelling mistake in "Unregistered Users" (last section) of the Authentication page?
In case you're not in the mood for games, here is it:
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'search_excerpt' type issues
On the search_excerpt page:
community_owned_date should be marked as may be absent
locked_date should be marked as may be absent
search/excerpts should be listed in the Methods That Return This Type ...
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New line missing between 'notice' and 'related_site' member types
At the bottom of http://api.stackexchange.com/docs?tab=type#docs under the Member Types section, notice and related_site are on the same line. A <br> is missing between the items.
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The Authentication Problem of WebAuthenticationBroker Class in .NET 4.6
I have a problem when you test the Stack Exchange Authentication API to WebAuthenticationBroker.
If you proceed with authentication, such as screenshots it will continue to appear only in progress.
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quota_remaining is decreasing much faster than expected
I registered an app and tried to make a couple of requests via Chrome (without actually creating any application yet). The thing that is really confusing is that with making a single request, ...
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Login problem on devices pre Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1
I have recently published an app for browsing Stack Exchange websites and a major feedback I received from users was about the inability to use oauth login form while logging into the app. The ...
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/me/inbox is not returning most recent items
Looks like /me/inbox is either a bit behind or it's not supposed to be realtime.
Explanation: for a comment that I received 4 hours ago
It's not returned in the API:
https://api.stackexchange.com/...
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Max score with tagged works incorrectly for /questions, correctly for /search
When I look for questions tagged java from the first week of September 2014 with a minimum score of 10 like this:
/2.2/questions?fromdate=1409529600&todate=1410134400&min=10&sort=votes&...
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/revisions/{ids} returns results where revision_number is always 1
As of now, Code Review Question 59285 has three revisions, excluding the original question.
If I fetch those three revisions using the API, I see that all of them have revision_number set to 1.
That'...
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Sorting and filtering is broken on /questions
Sorting error
When querying /questions and sort them by creation in descending order, the creation_date drops very rapidly.
I was looking for questions in the [php] tag on Stack Overflow. There are ...
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The reputation_change field is missing from the reputation results on some CW posts
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, the reputation_change field is missing from the results on community-wiki answers. I think the reputation type should always include this field, ...
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Secure OAuth pages contain insecure content.
I noticed that some of the OAuth pages use insecure content (http:// content on an https:// page):
I'm not sure how easy this is to fix but it could potentially scare off some users who don't ...
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The authentication doc gives a wrong domain for authentication
The authentication doc page now lists URL's like:
https://stackoverflow.com/oauth
https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token
etc.
While these seem to work, the correct domain is stackexchange.com, ...
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OAuth login fails for Stack Exchange and Facebook, but not Google
I'm integrating with Stack Exchange API on iOS 6 & 7. To authenticate, I load up a UIWebView with the OAuth page. Google login works well, but Stack Exchange and Facebook do not. Are these ...
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/oauth/access_token not redirecting back to my redirect_uri
I am trying to implement Stack Exchange using oAuth 2.0. I am able to get CODE but, when I try to get access_token through this code:
<?php
if(isset($_GET['code']))
{
?>
<form method="...
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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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API does not return stackoverflow user_id?
When I visit
http://stackauth.com/1.1/users/aa1073f7-7e3b-4d4d-ace5-f2fca853f998/associated
it returns my user_id on many stackexchange sites, but not
stackoverflow itself!
I'm sure this is by ...