Questions tagged [status-completed]
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335 questions
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Advanced search by title doesn't filter on the title
Searching by title on the advanced search method doesn't restrict the results to posts containing the specified text as a word or even substring. Varying the string has some influence, but I can't ...
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API 'search' method with 'tagged' parameter
From the docs for tagged paremeter:
List of tags delimited by semi-colons of which at least one must be on a question
Yet, when I execute this query (http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/search?tagged=...
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CDN redirect for the API's JavaScript SDK is incorrect
The API's JavaScript SDK is listed as https://api.stackexchange.com/js/2.0/all.js.
However, GET request produces the following response:
Status Code: 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://api-...
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all api endpoints except api.stackoverflow.com are failing paged requests with HTML 503
UPDATE:
I am being told that this is by design.
I could not disagree more.
The inconsistent 503 throttling issue aside, the API is JSON based. HTML errors serve no purpose in response to an API ...
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Add 'linked' question data to the API
SE sites show linked questions on the right column.
It would be great to add an array of ids to the question response called 'linked'.
Example Linked Question
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/posts/{id}/revisions breaks for posts with [tag:*] content
Attempting to access (at least) the revisions route for a post with a revision involving the [tag:*] syntax causes an error:
Example on Meta Stack Overflow (Post History)
Example on Mathematica (Post ...
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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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Sorting comments by votes doesn't return 0 score comments
I have a query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/16822/comments?sort=votes
This doesn't return comments with no votes, setting min to 0 doesn't work. This query includes them all, but isn't ...
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Stack Apps graph time filters make pretty much no sense
When viewing the Query Statistics graphs for an application, you have the option of choosing 'Week', 'Month', 'Year', or 'All Time'.
When hovering over 'week' it states "view stats for the last 7 ...
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/suggested-edits "Try it": Link for "suggested_edit_id" is broken
When using the "Try it" feature on /suggested-edits, the link for the suggested_edit_id points towards stackexchange.com and not towards the respective site.
For example, retrieve data ...
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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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Support - Another thing from Meta
We really need to have the support tag as a required tag.
Why? Well...
What is the syntax for specifying parameters?
Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?
Can I apply ...
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Let's delete the off topic questions?
There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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HTTP 500 error when calling /apps/{accessTokens}/de-authenticate with an access_token argument in GET
For almost all API calls, I pass both my key and my access_token. This doesn't exactly make sense for the "de-authenticate" endpoint, as the access token is already in the URL. Passing one anyway ...
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In the timeline the ability to know what events belong to what question
Take this example:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/questions/3165492;3182016/timeline
Would it not make sense to have the question_id as a parameter on each timeline object? It makes the timeline ...
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update crossdomain.xml on stackauth.com and api endpoints to work with current Flash
I am implementing a javascript client that uses the Flash based XHR replacement Flensed in the interest of providing more robust api communication than that provided by JSONP.
Apparently the current ...
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filter=total is returning 0?
I'm running a very simple (and contrived) call of:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users/115730?site=stackoverflow&filter=total
I'm expecting a response of:
{"total":1}
But am getting a ...
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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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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated no longer returning email_hash for some sites
I'm not getting email_hash for some sites from stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated since sometime after midnight CDT (UTC-0500).
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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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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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"Authentication Statistics" graph y-axis labels are overly granular
Yesterday there was a spike in my app's authentication requests (thanks for that, by the way ;) which has caused my authentication graph to show a much wider range of Y values than it did previously. ...
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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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/me API endpoint returning 500 error
I'm making an authenticated call to /me:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/me?access_token=[redacted]&site=stackoverflow&key=[redacted]
But it's returning:
{"error_id":500,"error_name":"...
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Exclude help requests and redirects from the API limit
Help API requests probably should not count towards the no-key API limit. The most likely usage scenario of the API without a key is when people are trying to learn it, which means reading the help a ...
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Authorized requests: auth parameter seems broken
I'm having problem with authorized requests.
Every requests with a valid auth token get:
error: {
code: 4009
message: "The 'auth' query parameter is not a valid auth token."
}
...
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How do you retrieve list of users sorted by reputation?
I am failing in my attempt to retrieve results sorted by reputation. For example, the following query sorts the results by ID. Is there an error in the URI?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/...
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Several staff members are incorrectly listed as elected moderators
Several employees are being reported as elected moderators on sites they haven't been elected on, according to /2.0/users/moderators/elected. I think there was a similar issue reported before during ...
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Error retrieving question using a filter that includes question.notice
I have created a filter to include the question.notice field. It seems to be OK as returned by
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/filters/-9xc1l%2Au-JEsf_Q
Then if I want to fetch this question using ...
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Events: field request
The "Event" object doesn't have an easy way for getting at the object relating to the event. There's a link field, but I don't fancy having to parse the information out of that (although I could).
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stackauth throwing 503 (in html format) after just a few /users/{id}/associated requests
After 5-8 successful requests 503 error, in html format, are being thrown.
The requests are unique and consecutive, no api abuse is occurring.
A related, but critical, concern is that any error ...
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tagged and min max creation gives wrong total
I am trying to get the total number of question with a specific tag AND created within a specific date span.
For example, the number of questions tagged as 'java' created between 16 and 17 Jan 2012:
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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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User's Comments: returning 500 error?
It looks like when I try to get the comments of a user that has "a huge number" of comments, I get a 500 error.
Jon Skeet's comments, 500 error: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/22656/comments
...
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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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No award_count field on any badges
The docs say the default filter includes award_count, and I've made a filter with it in. But no award_count is returned on any badge route.
The exception being when a badge item is returned in ...
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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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Mistake in API 2.0 Documentation - Wrong item type for Careers Message
On https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/inbox-item the Careers Message example shows the wrong item type.
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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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No token field in the docs test page for /me/reputation-history
There is no form field for an access token at:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-reputation-history
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-full-reputation-history
After attempting to Run the API ...
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Intermittent bug in the /search route when providing both tagged and nottagged parameters.
I'm getting the wrong number of results back from the /search route depending on what combination of values I provide for the tagged and nottagged parameters.
Examples:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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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-Current ...
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Querying "standard meta tags" for their tag wikis wrongly says they have none
I'm checking which tags have tag wiki excerpts in my code. It looks like /tags/{tags}/wikis is the right API since the tag info API doesn't even give a boolean for tag wiki excerpt presence.
But ...
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Minor spello/typo on the "Complex Queries" documentation page
The documentation page
Complex Queries
has a minor typo or spello:
The ?filter=total build-in filter is provided for just this purpose.
Should instead be:
The ?filter=total built-in filter is ...
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/answers endpoint is error-500-ing against many sites
Just calling the "/answers" endpoint, no specific arguments, and I'm getting 500 errors:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=gaming
{"error_id":500,"...
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API not returning anything near the actual website
The API /questions page is not returning anything like the list of questions on the actual SO site.
This is the first question of the 0.8/questions
{
"total": 705769,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,...
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Typo in API filter documentation
When using unsafe filters, the API returns the highest fidelity data is can reasonably access for the given request.
should be
When using unsafe filters, the API returns the highest fidelity data it ...
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Does /invalidate work for no-expiry tokens?
It seems that tokens created with no_expiry scope are immune to requests to invalidate them with /access-tokens/.../invalidate. Is this by design or by bug?
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Typo in API docs: "temporarility_unavailable"
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication
"temporarility" should probably be "temporarily"
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TLS security warnings from api.stackexchange.com
Each time an API request is made over HTTPS, Firefox generates the following message in the error console:
Curious, I looked up RFC 5746 and the document covers the following:
Transport Layer ...