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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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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/{id}/badges id parameter clarification
On /users/{id}/badges, the description of the id parameter
a semicolon delimited list of user ids
diverges from the inferred standard for multi-valued parameters:
A single primary key identifier or ...
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`type=jsontext` JSON results for help pages
It would greatly simplify machine reading if we could apply type=jsontext to API help pages, including the index.
Update: Here's an unofficial JSON schema for v1.x.
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Position required parameters at the top of help pages
The required id parameter for ...a lot of API routes... is now placed at the bottom of the page.
It makes more sense to place required parameters at the top of the page with a slight separation, like ...
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help page format issue: revisionGuid
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=revisions/{id}/{revisionguid}
revisionGuid is inconsistent.
revisionguid seems appropriate (and will remove one special case from my api parser).
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Can we have all possible closed reasons in help page?
Can we have all possible closed_reasons in help page and if possible, closed_reason_id, too?
For example
closed_reason_id=1, closed_reason="exact duplicate",
closed_reason_id=2, closed_reason="off-...
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Accessibility issue on app registration page
Page containing bug
https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register
Reproduce the issue
Go to the page above. Whether you click on Application Website or Application Icon, it focuses the OAuth domain input.
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Typo in API docs /numbers)
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/numbers
The motivation for this is to prevent any unpleasant floating point confusion, especially across technologies that offering different floating point ...
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Userscript to disable responsiveness on SE
I would like to make a user script to disable the responsiveness on Stack Exchange sites. My main reason is that I would like to resize my browser to half my screen size (705px) and still get the ...
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Extension; Access to layout and javascript of stackexchange network site instead of inject (Stacks is not defined)
Note: last update at the end of POST
I am developing an extension for community users.
Introduction:
The extension is under development on this github: https://github.com/IcarosNetSA/atsu
and these ...
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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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StackExchange Hot Network Questions page icon size fix
As you might have noticed, some icons are huge and others are tiny on the StackExchange HNQ page (aka the main page). Here's a userscript that fixes this issue:
// ==UserScript==
// @name ...
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Get Token button in "Try it" doesn't give me a key in IE11
When I visit for example the timeline docs to try that api I need to get a token first by clicking 'Get Token'.
In IE11 (win 7/x64) this is broken. A window does pop-up but there is never a key ...
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Stack Apps "Welcome Back" banner text isn't centered
This appear to be specific to Stack Apps. The text is centered on every other site I've tried. See below:
Compared to how it should appear:
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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".
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Please supply working example URLs for each route
It would take a lot of the guess work out of understanding the API if each route's page provided a small handful of working URLs.
This would also serve to provide authoritative examples of the ...
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help page format issue: missing parameter
/users/{id}/tags is missing id parameter
fixing this will remove one more special case from my parser.
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Are the "body", "comments" and "answers" parameters supported in the API version 2.x?
Earlier with version 1.x, the parameters: body, comments and answers etc. were available. But these don't seem to be supported with API version 2.x.
Are these parameters not supported in new API? Are ...
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Ajax get questions by tags ERROR
i'm trying getting questions by tags.
this is my simple code and i'm running this from my http://localhost:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$.ajax({
url:'http://api....
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Support for OR constraint when querying questions based on tags [duplicate]
Right now, there is no way (as far as I know) to query for questions based on multiple tags using an OR constraint.
You can query for questions tagged with multiple of these tags, but not with one or ...
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Make API query to only one Stack Exchange site
Is there a way to limit a /search or a /similar query to a specific site or sites?
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API console always queries Stack Overflow
On any Stack Exchange site (well, I tried Super User (trilogy), Unix (SE-2.0 launched) and SFF (SE-2.0 beta)), the console (“Show Console” button) in the 1.1 API queries http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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/questions/tagged/{tags} - tags param clarification
This API method has been removed as of Jul 16 '10. The original question is preserved below for posterity.
It is not clear what a "list" of {tags} looks like.
Does this parameter follow the ...
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questions/{id}/timeline documentation: timeline_type values not listed
The timeline_type for post timelines just says "string" for the "values". From a cursory look at a few questions, I've seen the following types of events:
question
answer
comment
revision
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The ...
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