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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?
It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
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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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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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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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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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/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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/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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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/{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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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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The API Key does not work
I have registered an app at https://stackapps.com/apps/register, got a Key right away after I have submitted.
But now when I request http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY, I got ...
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Two minor typos in the API help
In http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help
/users/{id}/answers Gets answer summary informatino for the user with 'id'.
and in the Returns section of http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=...
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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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errors/{id} documentation : 500 Internal Server Error
On Documentation page, clicking on
errors/{id}
returns 500 Internal Server Error
EDIT:
Fixed!
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My reputation graph is messed up.
See here:
https://stackapps.com/users/18?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top
Go to my rep graph and notice that it only shows about 350 points...
Where's my other 4100?
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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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Help on help results in HTTP 500 Internal Server Error
A request to http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help?help results in an HTTP 500 with Content-Type: application/json and an HTML body.
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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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Possible Bug With positive_rep Field?
I'm looking through my /users/{id}/reputation and I think I see a possible bug regarding how positive_rep is calculated when someone upvotes your question.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/...
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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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Getting error 4002 when calling tags method without a sort parameter
According to the documentation, calling the tags method without a sort parameter should return the recently used tags, since the default sort is by activity.
Instead, I get an error 4002 with the ...
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Keep getting HTTP 406
Not sure if this is a user or an API problem, but I keep getting HTTP 406 Not Acceptable when making API calls (for example http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats) from either IE 8 or Chrome 6.
Here ...
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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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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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API Documentation and Help
Method List
All API methods can be found at https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
Global Method Parameters
All methods accept the following parameters:
type=jsontext: responds with mime-type text/json.
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