Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that a feature request has been implemented, a bug has been fixed, or another type of request has been processed.
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The new implicit authentication dialog doesn't handle comma-delimited scopes
The authentication docs state that the scopes parameter of the URL to which a user should be directed to, for implicit authentication, should be a list of scopes that are delimited by either commas or ...
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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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Why answers don't have a "locked" attribute?
When looking at an answer, I can see that there is no locked_date attribute, like there is for questions. IIRC, answers can be locked by moderators.
Also, if a post is unlocked, is that field ...
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SIlverlight 3 ClientHttp vs BrowserHttp stack: no cross domain policy means no gzip for Silverlight
I notice that even if I send accept-encoding=gzip the response does not seem to be compressed. ( it is late and i was conflating 'accept' with 'accept-encoding')
Should we expect, in the 1.0 ...
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top-answerers / top-askers documentation bug: number of results returned incorrect
The top-answerers-on-tags and top-askers-on-tags documentation claim:
Returns the top 30 answerers active in a single tag, of either all-time or the last 30 days.
and
Returns the top 30 askers ...
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Paging fails at 10K items for /search on any site but Stack Overflow
There's a problem with requesting more than 10,000 items.
With Stack Overflow it works just fine.
But with Super User, Server Fault, etc. no items are returned for requests for items after the 10,...
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/questions returns wrong markdown when a suggested edit is improved
The /questions API method returns wrong markdown when the last revisions were made by a suggested edit improved in the review queue. This event leads to two revisions (one for the suggested edit and ...
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"What is meta" should be rephrased
Stackapps.com/help/whats-meta tells that there is "Meta Stack Apps". However there isn't.
Stack Apps is its own meta and meta is used to ask meta questions here.
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New questions on live home page display improperly
I was browsing Stack Apps earlier today and a little box popped up indicating that there were new questions. It looked something like this:
After clicking the provided link, here is what was displayed:...
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"text/plain" content type header for x-www-form-urlencoded content? [duplicate]
I'm getting the following response body and header from https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token when attempting to
exchange an oauth code for a token:
<DEBUG> [00:30:03] my-app - content-...
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OBSOLETE - /tags fromdate and todate does nothing
Although the help/documentation lists todate and fromdate parameters for tags they do not work. This may be related to tags not having a creation_date. It would be great if we could filter tags by ...
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"Informed" badge shown as Next badge, but doesn't exist on this site
On my profile page, the Informed badge is shown as the next badge to obtain:
Clicking it even shows a popup with a link to the Tour page, but it looks quite different from other SE sites. Looking at ...
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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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Typos on api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib
Under the Authentication section on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib, there are a few typos (emphasis mine):
scope (optional) – an array of scopes to request during authentication, valid ...
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The /users/{id}/timeline route is reporting incorrect totals
It seems that the /users/{id}/timeline route is returning an incorrect total. For example, the following URL is reporting a total of 1607 items:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/users/7789/timeline
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Moderation request: Please make `app-key` a synonym of `api-key`
Refer to Are "api-key" and "app-key" the same thing?.
Although I've now retagged the questions that used app-key, there are still plenty of places where the redundant term is ...
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Moderation request: Make [user] a synonym of [users]
Please make user a synonym of users.
I proposed a synonym but there aren't enough high-rep users active here for that mechanism to work.
Currently*:
user has 5 questions, no tag wiki and no tag ...
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Invisible text in Markdown syntax help
Some text is invisible in the How to Format help block because of a bad combination of text and background color:
That's meant to read
► backtick escapes `like _so_`
but the backquoted portion is ...
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
I have run into some confusion over the presence of the body attribute in an inbox-item returned by the /inbox method.
When item_type is set to "careers_invitations", the body attribute appears to be ...
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Add Twitter accounts on the /sites route?
Would it be possible to add references to the site Twitter accounts in the /site listing?
If your wondering what I'm talking about:
blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/twitter-question-feeds-for-stack-...
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Bug with `badges/name` endpoint
Last night I had a programme running and it errored on the first call to the badges/name endpoint on the API, exact API endpoint call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/badges/name?order=asc&sort=...
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JavaScript SDK-based workflow never pushes message back from OAuth login_success page on Stack Exchange side
I'm using the JavaScript SDK by Stack Exchange provided with the latest API, and despite following the official instructions & examples it doesn't work - it seems there is a bug which breaks the ...
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Can we not limit requests based on the first one?
According to the answer given to this question, it seems like the API limits requests based on the first one. (Regardless of the presence of a key.)
Can this please be changed? It really hinders ...
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Implicit Flow Isn't Redirecting
I'm using the WebAuthenticationBroker to allow users to log in to their account:
var accessToken = "";
var uri = "https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?redirect_uri=https://localhost.com&...
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Please add tags to answers
Update: This was completed as of API version 2.1.
When querying any API method which returns answers (/users/ids/answers, /answers/ids, etc.) the result does not include the tag information for the ...
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The /questions/{id}/linked method is returning extra questions
Consider the following question on ServerFault:
https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names
Linked questions:
Note that there's only two listed. However, querying:
http://api....
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The /top-answer-tags method is not working
I tried the new /top-answer-tags method on Ask Ubuntu, but it isn't working:
URL:
http://api.askubuntu.com/1.1/users/5/top-answer-tags
Output:
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
"message": "A ...
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Method /users/{id}/top-answer-tags is returning wrong results
I'm trying the following request:
(555004 happens to be my user id)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/555004/top-answer-tags
and I'm a bit confused by the result:
{
top_tags: [
{
...
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Key Limit is 10k or 100k?
Getting Started FAQ Question says 10k
API "Hello World" code
But I see 100k on Response Header
X-RateLimit-Max 100000
X-RateLimit-Current 99993
Just typo in nginx setting or something ...
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Descriptions of tag-based badges are incorrect
The descriptions associated to tag-based badges are wrong, they always show 0 instead of actual thresholds:
Earned at least 0 total score for at least 0 non-community wiki answers in the … tag
See ...
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Login using Google fails saying OpenID 2.0 accounts for Google has gone away
Recently I have received complaints about my app suggesting that logging in with a Google account shows a warning message that OpenID authentication has gone away. When I tried to log in with my own ...
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Plans to expose details from the "accounts" tab of the user page?
One thing that I noticed was missing from the /users/ API was an ability to see what other Stack Exchange sites the user is associated with (what's usually available from the "accounts" tab of the ...
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Should there be a discovery API?
It would seem to me that a simple API that return an array of the API base URL and perhaps the common name of the sites that support the API would be valuable. Is this sensible?
EDIT:
This is what I ...
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Bug in the StackExchange Api ? getting "could not parse proxy url" when user not logged in
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in the Stack Exchange JS API
I'm having a problem getting its authentication to work properly, and I just discovered that the same problem exist in the official ...
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After a throttle violation, could the error message include the time when the block will be lifted?
I got my first throttle violation error after running in jsFiddle some example code given to me by a library author in response to a question of mine about how to use their library.
This is the error ...
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When will the API allow posting of questions and answers? [duplicate]
I am planning on building a client for the Stack Exchange Sites, but it seems you cannot post any information via the API yet.
Is this going to happen at any time soon? It seems a pain to force users ...
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Any news of more write APIs?
It's been a while since I was last here. Is there any news on further updates to the API? (I'm specifically thinking about adding more write methods.)
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Byte Order Mark suddenly appearing in query results
Query results seem to have started including BOMs sometime today. I had to add code to handle it.
I don't see this documented anywhere.
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What is the "inname" parameter to the /tags 2.0 API?
I'm just playing with the new 2.0 API and in /tags there is a field inname that I can't find any description or documentation for.
What does it do? Is it like the old filter parameter on the old API?
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/stats is broken on OnStartups
The following URL is returning an object that is missing some data:
http://api.onstartups.stackexchange.com/1.1/stats
The entire site object is missing from the returned data. Other sites, such as ...
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Authentication Statistics are the same for all apps
I know the stats are new, I'm not sure if they are still in development. But they are identical for the 3 apps I have registered, given that the app's id is in the URL of the stats page, I guess the ...
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Remove API 1.x menu from the sidebar
Now that version 1.x of the API is on its way out the door permanently, can we go ahead and drop the associated menu from the sidebar?
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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 for ...
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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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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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API documentation pages match some site names incorrectly
The bug is not in the API itself, but in the pages documenting its methods. To reproduce, follow the link http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/info#filter=default&site=math and observe that the page ...
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Allow post type to optionally return title field
Currently, it's possible to get the title field from the question type returned by /questions/{ids} and from the answer type returned by /answers/{ids}, using the appropriate filters.
Unfortunately, ...
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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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"Try it" facility suffers a double-encoding bug
As you can clearly see from the above, the ampersand in the site name in the "Try It" section of the API method documentation has been double-encoded. This affects any site with an ampersand in the ...
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Google’s OAuth redirect broken
We just tried to authenticate with our application without being logged into anything on StackExchange. This is best tested in a private browser session without any cookies etc.
So after starting the ...