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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/users/{id}/associated - inconsistent behavior
/users/{id}/associated occasionally returns empty for an association even though there are definitely associated users. Calling it again immediately returns expected results.
GET /1.0/users/e58345f5-...
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated not returning display_name for some sites
The problem with email_hash seems to be fixed, but now display_name is not getting returned in some cases.
For example: This Super User /users/{id} query returns a display_name, but the corresponding ...
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated no longer returning email_hash for some sites
I'm not getting email_hash for some sites from stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated since sometime after midnight CDT (UTC-0500).
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On Stackauth /sites new meta sites have wrong name
This should be the correct behaviour:
name: "Stack Overflow Meta"
name: "Web Apps Meta"
name: "Gaming Meta"
..
For the newcomers Server Fault and Super User, Meta is before the parent site in the ...
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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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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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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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New Meta sites out of order in /sites
I don't know if this is by design, but the ServerFault and SuperUser Meta sites don't follow their main sites in the response for the sites API route. Having linked_meta sites follow their main (...
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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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nottagged parameter not documented
It appears that the /questions method still takes the nottagged which specifies a list of tags to exclude questions by but this parameter is not mentioned in the documentation. Is this parameter ...
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Oddity with migration data from questions
Take a look at this question on SuperUser. Apparently, it was migrated from ServerFault, and was originally asked by user 3d1l. However, now look at the API result: http://api.superuser.com/1.0/...
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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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Need some help verifying 503 throttle issue
Update:
We've confirmed the issue... fixing it
is taking more time than anticipated.
– Kevin Montrose
Color me happy.
The throttle is now applied to api.stackoverflow.com so we have an ...
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Game developer's logo isn't working.
See here:
http://stackmobile.com/ - towards the bottom
Neither the main logo, nor the meta logo is workin.
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should min/max for alpha-numeric cases be case-insensitive?
I am having a hard time coming up with a use case in which case-sensitive min/max parameters make sense and several solid cases for a case-insensitive min/max.
Example:
With case insensitive min/max:...
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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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stackauth throwing 503 (in html format) after just a few /users/{id}/associated requests
After 5-8 successful requests 503 error, in html format, are being thrown.
The requests are unique and consecutive, no api abuse is occurring.
A related, but critical, concern is that any error ...
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Problems with the Site Icons
I'm having trouble with the WebApps icon being returned from the /sites method.
Namely, the image is composed of a larg white rectangle with a very small guy in the middle.
Why can't the guy take up ...
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How far behind is the data returned by calls supposed to be?
I understand that the data sourced to the API are cached, but I'm seeing some fairly extreme discrepancies between reputation reported by the API and apparent activity on the site.
For example:
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Shouldn't the API help be consistent with the trademark guidance?
The description for the two StackAuth Routes within the API help both contain the phrase StackExchange network - shouldn't this rather be Stack Exchange Network to be consistent with the recently ...
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StackApps API is down.
It seems to not be responding to any request.
* at least according to downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Update: seems like all the SE sites are down :(
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Site in closed beta but api working
Webapps has been added yesterday, website is in closed beta and it's not possible to see something on the website when you are not logged.
But if you use the API you can get information.
http://api....
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Intermittent bug in the /search route when providing both tagged and nottagged parameters.
I'm getting the wrong number of results back from the /search route depending on what combination of values I provide for the tagged and nottagged parameters.
Examples:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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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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/questions/{id}/timeline throwing 500 instead of 404
Kevin, you fixed this bug some time ago, would you like to tag it as status-complete?
Sometime last week, this route stopped throwing 404 like the rest of my 'bad id' tests and started throwing 500. ...
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The /questions/{id}/timeline route isn't working.
I'm getting a response code 500 for the /questions/{id}/timeline route. I've tried it in Firefox and by fetching a response in Java.
Example URL: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/59294/...
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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/...
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crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml needed on sstatic.net
Silverlight image loading from Uri fails due to lack of xdomain permission files.
Needed:
http://sstatic.net/clientaccesspolicy.xml
http://sstatic.net/crossdomain.xml
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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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/users - fromdate/todate broken
consider:
All users on meta : "total": 18923,
http://api.meta.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?sort=creation&order=desc
Users created on meta in the last month: "total": 18923,
http://api.meta....
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Missing on_site in Stack Apps site data in associated_users from stackauth query
This is what I get for Stack Apps:
{
"display_name": "user",
"email_hash": "11aa11...22bb22...",
"reputation": 101,
"user_id": 0000,
"user_type": "...
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StackApps is not being reported by StackAuth
The stackauth.com sites query is not returning stackapps.com at all:
http://stackauth.com/0.8/sites?type=jsontext
{
"api_sites": [
{
"name": "Stack Overflow",
"logo_url": "http://...
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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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Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I'm having a problem returning a list of users questions within a given timespan. I understand that the documentation ( http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/questions ) that ...
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/stats meta data missing
So am I to assume that since we can make an extra call to another site to get meta that site node in stats has been deemed redundant data.
If so, I have to suggest a reality break. This is one of ...
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http://stackauth.com/0.8/sites down
I realize you may be shaking something out but in case you are not aware:
http://stackauth.com/0.8/sites is returning
{ "api_sites": [] }
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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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Question's title attribute is not HTML encoded
Question's title attribute is not HTML encoded.
Examples:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/456815?body=true&answers=true
title: "Problems with HTML <marquee> tag"
http://api....
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Server has stopped obeying Accept-encoding header
Either today or yesterday, besides /questions/tagged having disappeared, the server started ignoring the Accept-encoding header:
Ligação estabelecida com 69.59.196.211 na porta 80
GET /0.8/questions/?...
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/answers/{id} summary incorrect
/answers/{id}
Gets a set of questions enumerated in id
should probably be
Gets a set of answers enumerated in id
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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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