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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Get the Site Display Name from the API
Is there a way to get the Site Name, like StackOverflow or ServerFault, etc.? In my app I let the user enter a url with a api for a Site and I will be great If I can tell him something like: "You Are ...
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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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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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Issue with JavaScript SDK
When using the JavaScript SDK to enable client side OAuth flow, I'm running into this issue: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'postMessage')
And the page gets stuck with the ...
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(Should we) add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs?
This answer is posted by a staff member, but you have to go to the user's profile to actually see that.
Can we add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs like on all meta sites? [♦ Mod] labels aren't ...
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Does the [ruby-on-rails] tag add relevant context on top of [ruby]
We have the tag ruby-on-rails (7 questions) which is
... an open source full-stack web application framework written in Ruby. It follows the popular MVC framework model and is known for its "...
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
Our site is a bit special and different in some places compared to "regular" sites in the Stack Exchange network.
For example:
We are are both a Meta and a Main site.
We have a special API ...
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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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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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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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Permission request form is broken, approve button is hidden, css variables are missing
You can check that form doesn't work with this link https://stackoverflow.com/oauth?client_id=17581&scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri=http://functional.localdomain:3449/login/github
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
A couple of days ago I answered a question about the Stack API.
As my answer could be illustrated with a working code example I went ahead to create a Stack Snippet. To my surprise that feature isn'...
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Stack Exchange OAuth2, explicit access-token response format does not adhere to RFC6749 standard
I'm using the Stack Exchange v2.1 API. I'm using the explicit OAuth 2.0 flow, but it seems that the access token response step does not adhere to the RFC 6749 standard. Specifically, the Stack ...
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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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400 - Bad Request - Invalid URL errors with HTML response
Since a few weeks, I'm getting 400 - Bad Request errors now and then, on pretty standard API calls like fetching post details. This is the response I get:
<DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
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'Informed' badge doesn't exist on site, but is still being promoted
The issue of a non-existent badge being promoted has been brought up before, but the following still happens:
This will likely disappear once I get another badge (soon after posting this question :), ...
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Should status-review be made a mod tag?
On most other meta sites, status-review is a moderator tag, however on stack apps (which is it’s own meta) it is not a moderator tag. Since there is no status-review moderator tag on stack apps, ...
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Why is my quota constantly decreasing?
I registered an app today (API v2) for the first time (App ID 47, LaServ), and let it run a bit with its new key. It's the only API app running on this IP (I rent the IP as part of a VPS package). ...
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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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The 'should be closed' description in the flag dialog is missing a word
The 'should be closed...' reason has this description (emphasis mine):
This question is completely unclear, incomplete, overly-broad, primarily opinion-based or is not about Stack Exchange API, app,...
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Misaligned label "Stack Apps Post (optional)" on app information page
When editing the application information (from https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/), the label for the optional Stack Apps Post is misaligned:
It should be left-aligned like the other labels; the only ...
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Please migrate the question templates to CommonMark
We have three templates for new questions (for apps, libraries and scripts):
They'll insert a body like this:
<!-- thumbnail: https://example.com/some-image.png -->
<!-- version: 1.0 -->
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Error invalid_request "OAuth request must be over HTTPS" when starting oauth flow
I'm building an application on top of StackExchange's API for a month now. While I was building the OAuth flow to allow users to authenticate using their StackExchange account, everything was working ...
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Add close-vote information to the questions object
Would it be possible to add close/reopen vote information to the questions object?
For example, you usually see something along the lines of:
close (3)
when a question has three (current) close-...
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StackApps Captcha doesn't work: "Invalid domain for site key"
The Captcha page on this site doesn't seem to be set up correctly, it shows an error message:
ERROR for site owner:Invalid domain for site key
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API stopped allowing CORS requests
I'm currently using the API via JavaScript AJAX calls and it all of a sudden stopped allowing CORS requests.
I'm on localhost and I tried uploading my code to live and am still getting:
Access to ...
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"Javascript" typo on documentation pages
On page Usage of /sites, it should be JavaScript, not Javascript, in the right sidebar:
This obviously also applies to (most/all) API documentation pages, since they share the sidebar.
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Few typos in the documentation pages
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/vectors
When passing a vector, sepeate each id with a semicolon. For example, /users/1;2;3;4;5?site=somesite would fetch users with ids 1 through 5 on somesite.
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Typos in API documentation
From the /posts documentation:
Most applications should use the question or answer specific methods, but /posts is available for those rare cases where any activity is of intereset.
intereset => ...
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API docs titled "v2.0"; should be "v2.1"
The documentation is titled "StackExchange API v2.0"... this should be updated to "v2.1" as it's not readily obvious that version 2.1 has been published otherwise.
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs
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Spelling mistake in API Documentation's "Authentication" page
Can you find the spelling mistake in "Unregistered Users" (last section) of the Authentication page?
In case you're not in the mood for games, here is it:
This is actually a correct spelling - of ...
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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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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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Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?
The Stack Apps topic help makes it clear that all questions here must pertain to Stack Exchange in some way:
If your question is about …
the Stack Exchange API
applications built on the ...
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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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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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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names
A picture says more than a thousand words:
These users aren't called "Bhargav Rac" and "Tunak", but Bhargav Rao and Tunaki.
This happens on both the 'apps' and 'scripts' tabs of the Stack Apps ...
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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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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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Only Stack Overflow has documentation, but the API erroneously lists documentation privileges for all sites
Privileges related to Stack Overflow Documentation are displaying in every other site's API data.
Using Meta Stack Exchange, for example, /2.2/privileges?site=meta returns the following documentation ...
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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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Why am I getting an "Access token sent over non-HTTPS request, it has been invalidated" message?
I've been using the Stack Overflow for Teams API for a while now, but since yesterday it stopped working for one of the Teams; that Team also wasn't listed in the Applications (https://stackoverflow....
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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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Strange pagination behaviour of /search/excerpts [duplicate]
In an attempt to (automatically) restore broken images* which have originally been included as HTTP links, I've tried to use /search/excerpts to look for candidate posts; specifically, I'm setting the ...
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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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