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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Unanswered questions API does not work
The /questions/unanswered API returns the full list of questions (same as /questions).
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Last activity date
It would be useful if the API allowed you to return items based on their last activity date. Let's take a question for example.
/questions/fromlastactivitydate=XYZ&tolastactivitydate=XYZ
All ...
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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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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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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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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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Can't get JSON representation for the help
The API Documentation and Help states:
If the help URL is requested in a
common web browser, a HTML styled
version of the JSON help will be
returned. Otherwise, the JSON help
will be ...
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Don't allow requests with No Key to use existing session with valid API Key
Once I did a request with a valid API key
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY
Every requests (from that IP) later on without key will use existing session with API key, limit counter ...
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Document fields that may be not be included in responses
I'd like to see documentation on what fields may not be included in responses or, alternatively, which fields are guaranteed to be included. Currently it's a little confusing because some fields may ...
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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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Request with Invalid key still return the content and rate limit stepped down into No Key Limit
For example
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=TEST1234&type=jsontext
Request with Invalid key still return the content and rate limit stepped down into No Key Limit
X-Ratelimit-...
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"Get an API key" on stackapps.com/about page is incorrect
the "Get an API key" link listed on the stackapps about page is incorrect. It points to https://stackapps.com/app/register and a lovely picture of Zardoz instead of the correct https://stackapps.com/...
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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
votes
The ...
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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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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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API Key limit 10k is Per IP Address or Globally?
Getting started FAQ says No Key limit is IP Address based, but it does not say for with API Key.
When I test my API Key from different IP Addresses, I noticed that 10k limit is globally, limit is ...
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Confirmation on sort, order and min/max
I'd like confirmation, if possible, that the following chart of sort types is correct:
sort |orderable|min/max |min/max type
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activity | yes | ...
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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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/users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline - filter parameter?
Both /users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline say they take a filter parameter for users' names, but it seems to do nothing. Are they not supposed to be there?
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Two minor typos in the "Register your Application" form
In the help text (on the right hand side) for the Application Name field on https://stackapps.com/apps/register:
I think this should be changed: " ... is built on the our platform ...". For example, ...
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/questions/unanswered and /tags allow id parameter, but it does nothing
The /questions/unanswered and /tags queries both document (as required) and allow an "id" parameter. You can use it as /questions/unanswered?id=1;2;3, but it does nothing (that I can tell) and doesn't ...
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it
See title. When a user never modified their "about me" section the API doesn't return that, which then causes my parser to go wild returning errors. However, when a user has modified their "about me"...
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questions/{id} API method: pagesize parameter?
I'm trying to get the lightest data about a given question id because i just need the question's title.
With this call:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1598715?pagesize=1
i get "pagesize":...
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Make www a subdomain.
Try going to
http://www.stackapps.com
Apparently www is not a subdomain of stackapps.com
Anyone who tries to get to the site by prepending the www will be confused, as it is standard to point that ...
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