Questions tagged [revisions]
For questions about how the API returns revisions of posts.
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Belisarius - Detecting vandalism on Stack Overflow
Background:
This bot has been developed in an attempt to help capture possible vandalism. This includes:
Removing all code
Replacing all content with nonsense/repeated words
Adding solutions to ...
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Show revision diff color toggle
Sparked by this feature request on meta.SO, I created a quick user script that offers a toggle to show or hide diff colors.
Look at the following screenshot to see it in action. The upper view is how ...
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Revisions API doesn't return all revisions if post has had multiple edits made in quick succession
I am pulling information from the posts API and then checking the revisions API for some of these posts. I am noticing that on posts which have had multiple revisions done in quick succession that the ...
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Please provide a way to get Post Edits, filtered by user
I recently discovered from this question that the API does not support filtering revisions by user. I am interested in looking at a user's edit history programmatically (with their permission) and at ...
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OBSOLETE - revisions/{id} is returning an error for locked posts
The API is returning the following error message when I request the revision history for locked posts.
Example URL: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/revisions/194812
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
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/revisions/{ids} returns wrong body
Since a couple of days, the /revisions/{ids} method returns a wrong value for the body field. An example is this Ask Different post. When viewing the (only) revision on the website, you see that the ...
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Clickable Links in Revision Comments
Description:
This is a really simple userscript that turns URLs in revision history comments into clickable links:
Features:
Works in both revision list and single revision links.
Download:
Github
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Enhanced revision view
When visiting an individual post revision page, this script adds:
buttons that allow switching to a view showing how the revision differed from the previous one, just like on a full post history page;...
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/revisions/{ids} returns results where revision_number is always 1
As of now, Code Review Question 59285 has three revisions, excluding the original question.
If I fetch those three revisions using the API, I see that all of them have revision_number set to 1.
That'...
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Add Timeline and Revisions Links (v2)
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About
This is a simple Tampermonkey script which adds both timeline and revision links to questions and answers in many of the different question views.
Within a question view, a timeline ...
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