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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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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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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Is the display name meant to be escaped HTML in the 2.0 version of the API?
The display_name field of a user is HTML escaped. See here for example.
Is this expected behavior or a bug? The documentation doesn't mention it.
user451
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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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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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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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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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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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Associated accounts is broken for this user
When I retrieve associated accounts for Joel Coehoorn using this query it only includes Programmers.SE and Webmasters.SE despite the fact that I retrieved the association key from a query to SU. The ...
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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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Suddenly, some entries on /questions route are missing display_name
An odd bug has developed this morning. At the moment, api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions is returning a question of the format...
... },
{
"tags": [
"jsf-2.0"
],
"...
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StackAuth needs crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml
These would be helpful to have. Absence breaks Silverlight apps.
http://stackauth.com/crossdomain.xml
http://stackauth.com/clientaccesspolicy.xml
http://stackauth.com/0.8/crossdomain.xml
http://...
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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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/users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers returning answers by other users
According to the description, /users/{id}/tags/{tags}/top-answers should return answers by the user on that particular tag.
Returns the top 30 answers a user has posted in response to questions with ...
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nottagged only works when tagged is set (/search)
On the /search route, the nottagged parameter doesn't work properly (at least it isn't specially documented to only work at certain times)
For example:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?pagesize=...
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Mismatch between user_id as reported in StackAuth 1.1 (invalid) and 1.0 (valid)
For the association id 1de2e2b0-2fb6-4db6-b90d-d0244ed5d13a, the StackAuth 1.1 call returns an invalid user_id of 73203 for Server Fault whereas the StackAuth 1.0 call returns the correct user_id of ...
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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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The associated accounts are broken once again for this same user
As I reported before (and which was fixed) and again (which was also fixed), the associated accounts are broken once again for for Joel Coehoorn using this query.
What's the deal?
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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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An associated query is returning a partial record for a particular user
This query returns (in addition to several complete records) this incomplete one:
{
"user_id": 2196,
"user_type": "registered",
"display_name": "Wil",
"reputation": 151,
"email_hash": "...
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The inname parameter does not work with multiple parameters
I am trying to get details by passing semicolon delimited list in inname paramter but it is not working.
I tried below API call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/tags?order=desc&sort=popular&...
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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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Unanswered questions API does not work
The /questions/unanswered API returns the full list of questions (same as /questions).
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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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read item in unread inbox method again
I'm getting a read item in the inbox/unread method, again. This happened before, but I can't find the post about it (I'm pretty sure you fixed/explained it). But the item is very old, not a cache ...
- 3,108
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Minor typo in /tags/{tag}/top-askers/{period}
The discussion for the above method says "Returns the top 30 answerers active in a single tag, of either all-time or the last 30 days." It should be corrected as askers.
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Problem getting a users answers within a date range
This issue is similar to Problem getting a users questions within a date range. Only this time I'm calling a different api and getting unexpected results.
I'm calling
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/...
user424
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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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tag colors incorrect
the tag color for english site seem incorrect, the dark grey color is the background while the yellow colour is the foreground. This is contradictory to other sites which have the darker colours as ...
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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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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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Answer vote counts are not correct
I was trying to figure out the total number of answers I have that have been downvoted, and at first everything seemed awesome since the total was zero.
However, I knew this wasn't correct. For ...
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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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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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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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Failed beta sites are showing up in the /sites method.
3D Graphics and Game of Go are both failed beta sites. I would not expect them to show up in the /sites list - but they do. Indeed, attempting to list questions on one of the sites fails:
http://api....
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There is a small discrepancy in the docs for users-id-associated
The main doc page, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs, shows /users/{id}/associated while the method page, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/associated-users, uses /users/{ids}/associated.
It's ...
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There is a typo in the authentication documentation
There is a typo on this documentation page.
It says "The explcit OAuth 2.0 flow" but it should say "The explicit OAuth 2.0 flow".
user451
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Documentation of /users/{id}/top-answer-tags conflicts with implementation.
According to the documentation:
/users/{id}/top-answer-tags or /me/top-answer-tags – Get the top 30 tags (by score) a single user has posted answers in.
However in practice, when retrieving data ...
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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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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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Error occurs when retrieving timeline for this question
Here is the question:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/51812/the-api-sandbox
Here is the API URL:
http://api.meta.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions/51812/timeline?pagesize=100?page=2
Here is ...
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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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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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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.
user1749
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Pro Webmasters Meta API not working.
Try this:
http://api.meta.webmasters.stackexchange.com/0.9/questions?type=jsontext
I can't get it to work, even though it's listed in StackAuth.
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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 when ...
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question_id missing from migration_info for this question.
Consider the following API request:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/questions/3064?site=stackapps
This question was migrated from Stack Apps to Stack Overflow. However, the migrated_to field is ...
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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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Guid inconsistency in 2.0?
question timeline returns
"revision_guid": "335659EE-8983-4BEC-BACC-CC95784A4465"
revisions by guid return
"revision_guid": "335659ee89834becbacccc95784a4465"
Is there any particular reason for this ...
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