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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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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Retrieving a post with a specific ID
According to this question (and its answer), questions and answers are using the same index to determine their ID. In other words:
Question with ID #1
Answer with ID #2
Answer with ID #3
Answer with ...
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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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Icons of beta sites
Icons of beta sites are different form the icons given in the http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites . As example:
Original icon of the English Language and Usage is
where http://stackauth....
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Expose the contents of the "accounts" tab of the SE network profile as machine-readable data
It would be really nice if there were a way to get all the data that is displayed on the accounts tab of the Stack Exchange network profile for a user (e.g. mine) as machine-readable data with a ...
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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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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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fromdate is ignored for /posts/{id}/comments requests
The api docs:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=posts/{id}/comments
The test request.
You can see comment itself here, it's four months old, while cutoff date in request is less than ...
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Why does this Stack Overflow API query return binary data?
The Stack Overflow API query
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?tagged=javascript&intitle=%3Cdiv%3E
returns what appears to be binary data:
���I�%&/m�{J�J��t��$ؐ@�������iG#)�*��eVe]f@�...
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please expose stackauth via a url that is consistent with the api
Most libraries and apps need to version themselves by adding the version number to the url and subsequently most of the http request code includes this information in the url building process.
the ...
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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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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 ...
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
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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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Stack Exchange API is returning boolean(false) For 'is_answered' On Question With Accepted Answer
When you view this question you see a closed question which has an accepted answer.
When you get the API info for it you get this:
["question_id"]=>
int(17466804)
["creation_date"]=>
int(...
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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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API endpoints do not set Access-Control-Allow-Origin, so CORS requests fail
This looks like it might have been requested before:
Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
In order for CORS to work, the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header (and related headers) must be set. With ...
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OAuth redirect not completing
This is the URL that I'm entering (in Safari, cleared website data and cache; my app, uses own Cookie jar; and incognito chrome)
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=23&scope=...
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Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Currently, the only way to call the API from javascript is to use JSONP, but this can be cumbersome and has security issues. If the following header was included in all API responses, the API could be ...
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"OAuth request must be over HTTPS" when request is over https
I had a bug reported to me that I was able to reproduce. When authorizing to my Badges webapp, we get the following error:
error: invalid_request
error description: OAuth request must be over ...
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Default listing images aren't served from CDN, fail to load because of certificate error
The default images used on the app/script/library pages aren't pointing to the CDN, so their use of HTTPS causes a certificate error that prevents the image from loading:
Could the image sources be ...
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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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Detecting StackExchanges with non-standard "plugins" (e.g. MathJax)
Some recent StackExchanges are starting to include site specific 3rd party JavaScripts - for example, cstheory.stackexchange.com (and math.stackexchange.com) both use what I think is MathJax to render ...
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OAuth Dialog rendering problems in iPad
I'm using the implicit OAuth flow for our native iPad app. We're calling the standard URLs in a UIWebView. The Stack Exchange login renders with several UI glitches.
The first screen looks correct:
(...
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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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Increase the pagesize limit from 100
Can we increase this limit to something more reasonable (other than 100).
The cap of 100 for posts seems reasonable, however I cannot return the entire site list in one request. Due to the rapid ...
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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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Reputation losses aren't reflected in the API
This includes reputation recalculations (e.g., the latest) and (speculative) when people take upvote back.
First case you can see on standard stackauth/users query: it displays meta reputation before ...
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API usage triggering 503 (Too Many Requests)
Update:
I generally try to back any claims of bugs and shortcomings with evidence.
I have prepared a test page which you, dear Stack Overflow staff and my fellow developers, can use to ascertain ...
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Where can I find the reputation black market?
Apparently there is one around, at least I can't explain the recent jump in reputation of 4k for user 1026 by any other means (just kidding of course, no offense please ;)
The API Beta badge accounts ...
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SE API V1.1 documentation, date errata
The Stack Exchange API, version 1.1, documentation is ever so slightly confusing wherever Unix timestamps are mentioned (perhaps any ranges, I haven't dug too deeply)
For instance:
todate – Unix ...
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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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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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MetaStackApps: "Library" Tab
Not sure if this is appropriate here (no Meta site yet), but here goes...
I think it'd be a good idea to have a "Library" navigation tab (next to the "Apps tab"), so that people can easily see ...
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Oddity with migration data from questions
Take a look at this question on SuperUser. Apparently, it was migrated from ServerFault, and was originally asked by user 3d1l. However, now look at the API result: http://api.superuser.com/1.0/...
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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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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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Why do I get a throttle violation after 300 requests while using a key but no access_token?
I'm doing some testing on my app, and I let it run on a machine this afternoon while I was away. When I got back, I was geting 503 throttle violation errors from my API calls.
I was calling the "...
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When does the judging take place?
I am planning to work some more on my apps tomorrow and get some last minute changes implemented. However, I notice that:
The API Contest winners will be picked the first week of August.
...which ...
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Incorrect Wordpress and Electronics icons
Currently Meta Icon
Currently Main Icon
With all the other sites (except electronics, which has the same icon for both), Meta has the B&W or sepia icon, while the main site's icon is coloured.
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Make site icons have transparent backgrounds
This is a request to make the site's icons have transparent backgrounds. They are already PNGs, so they support that. This would make applications such as Droidstack look much better.
Although ...
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Moderation request: Make "scripts" and "user-script" into synonyms of "script"
We currently have three tags that are essentially the same thing -- especially in a stackapps context. They are scripts, user-script, and script.
script is one of the "required tags" and has a nice ...
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Moderation request: Flags unhandled for months, please approve
Note that Stack Apps is its own meta site.
Sorry for nagging the mods, but I have flags that have sat in the "active" state since June 29th, and these flags apparently don't expire.
Can a moderator ...
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Get Site Icon or Icon Url
Is there a way to get the icon or the IconUrl of the site so I can put it in my app like the DisplayName?
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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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Stack Exchange API is not returning the close vote counts for questions
When you visit this question (with proper privs) you can see that there are 2 close votes cast for it.
However, if you access the information for this question using the Stack Exchange API you get ...
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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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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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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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Problem accessing API endpoints from Google App Engine
I'm experiencing a weird problem on StackPrinter hosted on Google App Engine.
It seems that the application can't reach several endpoints like Super User or Server Fault; Stack Overflow and other ...