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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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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should min/max for alpha-numeric cases be case-insensitive?
I am having a hard time coming up with a use case in which case-sensitive min/max parameters make sense and several solid cases for a case-insensitive min/max.
Example:
With case insensitive min/max:...
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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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'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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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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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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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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Typos in the API 2.0 Documentation
Typo #1:
There are two different objects that represent a user in the Stack Exchange API, the full user object and the smaller shallow_user object. Which is returned depends on the method being ...
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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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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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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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/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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API Help's CSS is missing
The API Help page's CSS file, located at http://sstatic.net/so/all.css, is current returning 404 for me:
<div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
<div id="content">
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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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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 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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API calls that return select post bodies throw JSON errors
When calling the Stack Exchange API to get the post body, it will return an error for some posts. EG:
/docs/questions#page=13&pagesize=100&fromdate=2013-09-01&todate=2013-09-02&order=...
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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 ...
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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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You can gain reputation from edits to tag wikis, although they are not accessible through the API.
Reputation gain from edits to tag wikis appear through the API; the API reports them as answers, but fetching them via the /answers route does not work.
Case in point:
My accepted edit (+2 rep)
My ...
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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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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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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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User's display name field omitted?
If a user doesn't have a username "set" for an account, then the display_name field is omitted.
This is similar to a few other questions, but the only official answer says that "display_name should ...
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/user/{id}/timeline results leaking template used for badge information
From my elections statistics page:
I inserted in the detail field as plain text because I wasn't sure if the results would be HTML, but the $ChatUrl left in the anchor's href is surely a bug.
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Empty results for associated queries
Queries such as this
http://stackauth.com/1.0/users/f5388585-c0b9-417f-99c5-f1a58fda3e83/associated
have started giving empty results
{
"associated_users": []
}
Expected results:
SiteUrl ...
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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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StackApps is not being reported by StackAuth
The stackauth.com sites query is not returning stackapps.com at all:
http://stackauth.com/0.8/sites?type=jsontext
{
"api_sites": [
{
"name": "Stack Overflow",
"logo_url": "http://...
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Users timeline help claims to be pageable but isn't
The help page for the users timeline call claims that the timeline can handle paging but it doesn't seem to be able to. The output doesn't have the total count of pages, etc and the page attribute ...
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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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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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"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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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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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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Add optional parameter to get only paging information?
On methods that support total/page/pagesize add an optional parameter to get just those fields when making a request. (pageInfo=true).
I am thinking specifically in apps that have real-time like ...
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The API has stopped allowing CORS requests
I just noticed that a script I have that makes CORS requests to the API stopped working on Meta Stack Overflow, claiming that the domain isn't allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin, which is true ...
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Typo in the docs for /me
The doc says:
Returns the user associated with the passed auth_token.
This method returns a user.
It should say "access_token" instead of "auth_token".
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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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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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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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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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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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API usage "Try It" form for linked questions queries meta.tex.stackexchange instead of Stackoverflow
I was wondering why the form at http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/linked-questions did not return the questions I was expecting. Then I noticed that it is calling http://api.meta.tex....
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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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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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"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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In API 2.0, what happened to questions sorted by "featured?"
I was looking for a way to grab the list of "featured" questions via the API, and I stumbled across several answers that all point to the same solution:
Shouldn't there be a separate call for ...
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Unable to sort /search results by creation_date
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in /search and I'll try to describe it as best as I can.
What works:
Create a /search query with the following parameters:
fromdate: 2012-01-24
order: desc
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Documentation sorted by return type
Right now the documentation is pretty terribly organized. For example, consider the things under the "Users" heading:
/users => returns Users
/users/{ids} => returns Users
/users/{ids}/answers => ...
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API ignores jsonp callback after initial request - erroneous caching?
This bug is still prevalent, appears to be cache related. Two identical requests return different data: first request respects jsonp query parameter, all subsequent requests ignore it until (I presume)...
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