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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Changing the display of the apps tab
We're looking at changing the front page of Stack Apps to look more like a proper app "marketplace" and less like a run of the mill Stack Exchange site.
Proposal (third draft)
This would ...
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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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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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Can we get access to key-usage metrics?
Will developers ever get a chance to see how often their app key is being used?
Or how many unique IPs are used the key?
Or any other random metrics that might be interesting?
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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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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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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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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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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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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]...
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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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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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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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Where did the "apps" tab disappear?
I may just be missing something, but there used to be an "apps" tab on the main page, which showed you a (sorted by vote) list of all the apps and libraries.
I can't find it anymore. Where did it ...
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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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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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Whatever happened to closed_reason?
When pulling back info on a closed question, I have come to expect closed_reason to be a present key if there's a closed_date. It seems that as of recently this is no longer true.
Proof: https://api....
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/search intitle arg is case sensitive
This seriously cripples any search capabilities.
Consider:
http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/search?intitle=soapi&order=desc&sort=activity
vs
http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/search?intitle=Soapi&...
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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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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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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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How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]
Update:
All of our grumblings and the unbearable beauty of our workarounds resulted in this issue being fixed last week.
You can now send 100 id in one request and receive 100 responses.
See Url ...
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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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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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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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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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Don't include answers in question lists by default
Right now, question list API queries (such as /questions, /questions/unanswered, /user/{id}/questions and so on) also return at most 30 answers (apparently) for each question. While this might be ...
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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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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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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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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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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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(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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Accept rate not available in the 2.0 API
Would it be possible to add the accept_rate field to both the user and shallow_user objects?
For example, using the 1.0 API, I can see that Jon Skeet has an accept rate of 95%.
http://api....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/users/{ids}/timeline creation_date missing or incorrect
I am writing a small widget that displays the time since I was awarded my last badge on Stack Overflow. I noticed that my most recent badge was missing from the timeline data (/users/{ids}/timeline).
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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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Url length limits have been increased
There's been some grumbling in the past about the unreliability of really ludicrously long URLs sent to the API.
We've always considered this suboptimal, but the underlying technical constraints (...
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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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The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags
Take these two API calls:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?tagged=php;rant
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/tagged/php;rant
A couple of problems:
Shouldn't they return the same ...
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API Suggestion: suppress http error code when jsonp is specified
Conclusion: fast response by Kevin enables the JSONP functionality of the API to assume it's rightful description of awesome.
http://soapi.info/Code/JS/Stable/ErrorTest.htm
The JSONP functionality ...
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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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