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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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Is there an RSS feed or question that has API changes?
Is there someplace that we can find notifications of API changes? I noticed today that a new property has been added to user along with a couple new method (and maybe other changes).
Is there an ...
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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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2
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1
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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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79
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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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Possible problem calling users/?filter method searching username with tilde
I'm testing curious usernames and I am searching their user_id by:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/?filter=username_filter
I'm trying to get information about this particular user:
http://...
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API Help Suggestion: /search - can we make tagged,nottagged description consistent with other list params
on most other params that accept a semi-colon delimited list we see
list of tags questions must have, semicolon delimited
A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, semicolon-delimited list of ...
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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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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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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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Stats not showing the same values as the Site
I get less values in the api method that in the site, is this posible?
Example: form the API I get that SO has 709980 questions from site 701005
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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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Negative voting questions?
I'm trying to, for humorous purposes, check out some of the worst scoring questions ever on SO.
I'm pretty much expecting them to all be "heeeeelp homework" or "plz send me teh codez" or something to ...
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API not returning anything near the actual website
The API /questions page is not returning anything like the list of questions on the actual SO site.
This is the first question of the 0.8/questions
{
"total": 705769,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,...
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Why my /mentioned page return 404?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/213464/mentioned?type=jsontext
{
"error": {
"code": 404,
"message": "The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI."
}
}
Its returning ...
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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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Possible bug in the help page?
There are some weird dot things in this help page:
api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/badges
{Dead link to missing image: http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/stackbug.png}
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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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/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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Indicate in documentation whether "numbers" can be non-integral
"number" is an very ambiguous term. Integral or non-integral?
For developers in more dynamically-typed languages like JavaScript, this is not an issue; but when using more statically-typed languages ...
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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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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 issue: revisions by revisionguid example needed
/revisions/{id}/{revisionguid} - usage of this route is not clear to me.
can someone provide a working url and perhaps a simple use case.
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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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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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1
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Favorites api gives wrong results when sorted by added
For example, please compare http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/111391/favorites?sort=added with https://stackoverflow.com/api/userfavorites.html?userid=111391&page=1&pagesize=30&sort=...
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Minor typo on help page
On the API Routes help page, this:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets summary information for the questions that have been favorited a set of users.
should probably be:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets ...
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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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display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
usually in the owner dictionary there is a display_name value to give the username. But in a few questions it simply doesn't exist and I can't see why only those questions: eg, this excerpt from the 0....
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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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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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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?
For the type "string", I think there is some upper limit of character count.
For example,
post title : 200 characters
post body : 30000 characters
In the help page, currently like this
"body": {
...
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How to sort answers to question?
If I retrieve a question like so:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes
I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not.
How can I do this?
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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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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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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 ...
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