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.
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Reputation query doesn't match that on SO
This morning, at 2011-04-06 00:22:38Z, I received a question upvote for this question. That shows up as giving me 5 reputation when looking at the Stack Overflow reputation page.
However, when I use ...
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Comments in user timeline are returning Markdown
In users/{id}/timeline, the detail field for comment events is formatted with Markdown and not HTML. Is it normal?
I saw in the question Comments are returning markdown that the API should return HTML ...
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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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What's the relation between access_token, key, quota_max, and throttling?
From How API Keys Work (FAQ) I read that the limit of requests per day per IP is 300 without a registered key, or 10000 with it.
And this is what I see by experimenting myself: since I've not ...
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Wrong results for fetch timeline from offset
To get the timeline for a question I am sending this request:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/63299112/timeline?site=stackoverflow&fromdate=1597649222
I am getting empty results:
{&...
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Paging fails at 10K items for /search on any site but Stack Overflow
There's a problem with requesting more than 10,000 items.
With Stack Overflow it works just fine.
But with Super User, Server Fault, etc. no items are returned for requests for items after the 10,...
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The /tags query is not giving me the correct results between two dates?
I'm trying to get the yearly total number of questions that have the tag browserify.
I can see that there are questions tagged from this year like this one and that one.
The site reports that there ...
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link in post_id in /me/notifications/unread is wrong
I have run /me/notifications/unread. The response contains post_id and there is a link to it.
This link is wrong. The post is on Stack Apps but the link directs to Stack Overflow:
I have ...
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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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Trying to get the Total results count crashes the /notifications path
I am trying to use the filter !9ciXfDSYM (same as default but with total) with the /notifications request and the response is:
{ "error_id": 500, "error_name": "internal_error",
"error_message"...
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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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API documentation console unsuccessfully tries to load MiniProfiler results
All of the documentation pages (example) with the test console currently attempt to load MiniProfiler result data, which fails with a 404:
POST https://api.stackexchange.com/mini-profiler-resources/...
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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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Does stackexchange provide https access to its API?
Requests I make appear to be redirected back to plain http URLs and the certs seem questionable:
% curl -O 'https://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/?key=oxXcnoD51kKE crj7TadaA&tagged=...
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Update the default filter editor to use the API key
When I run a sample query using the SE API browser (is that right term?), say against /questions for example (here), I'll always see something to the effect of:
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"quota_remaining": 9424,
"...
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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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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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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/...
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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 should ...
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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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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 this ...
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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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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 ...
