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Building an app using a wrapper
To be considered for the contest must our app use 100% self made code or can we use someones wrapper.
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Document fields that may be not be included in responses
I'd like to see documentation on what fields may not be included in responses or, alternatively, which fields are guaranteed to be included. Currently it's a little confusing because some fields may ...
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Revision help URL contains wrong header
There are two revision urls listed on the help page but they both seem to contain the same detailed information. The header for the non-guid version contains the url for the one that takes a guid. ...
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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-...
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Can we have subdomains under stackapps.com with application or library names?
For example,
http://stackmobile.stackapps.com (George Edison)
http://stackdeck.stackapps.com (iconiK)
http://stackapplet.stackapps.com (George Edison)
for application or library owners?
I think ...
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“Get an API key” on stackapps.com/about page is incorrect
the "Get an API key" link listed on the stackapps about page is incorrect. It points to https://stackapps.com/app/register and a lovely picture of Zardoz instead of the correct https://stackapps.com/...
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questions/{id}/timeline documentation: timeline_type values not listed
The timeline_type for post timelines just says "string" for the "values". From a cursory look at a few questions, I've seen the following types of events:
question
answer
comment
revision
votes
The ...
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questions/{id} help page sort parameter description is inconsistence with others
The description of the Sort parameter in questions/{id} help page is inconsistent with those of other pages.
On the questions/{id} help page:
sort (optional):
How a collection
should be ...
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Methods that return comments document body and comments parameters but they do nothing
Methods that return comments document the "body" and "comments" parameters, but they have no effect on the results, which cannot include comments and always include the body.
Specific methods:
/...
5
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1answer
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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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API Key limit 10k is Per IP Address or Globally?
Getting started FAQ says No Key limit is IP Address based, but it does not say for with API Key.
When I test my API Key from different IP Addresses, I noticed that 10k limit is globally, limit is ...
4
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Confirmation on sort, order and min/max
I'd like confirmation, if possible, that the following chart of sort types is correct:
sort |orderable|min/max |min/max type
------------------------------------------
activity | yes | ...
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Creation of an API 'about' method for the application key being passed
Hi there!
Because the API uses a key, I'd like to ask if a request can be created so that, on application start (and, during runtime), you can ask whether your key is valid, and get back information ...
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Inconsistency in the handling of multiple IDs with a duplicate
There appears to be some inconsistency in the way multiple ids are being handled, especially when a duplicate exists.
Duplicate ID is significant
For example, when requesting a timeline of multiple ...
2
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1answer
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/users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline - filter parameter?
Both /users/{id} and /users/{id}/timeline say they take a filter parameter for users' names, but it seems to do nothing. Are they not supposed to be there?
2
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Two minor typos in the “Register your Application” form
In the help text (on the right hand side) for the Application Name field on https://stackapps.com/apps/register:
I think this should be changed: " ... is built on the our platform ...". For example, ...
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1answer
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/questions/unanswered and /tags allow id parameter, but it does nothing
The /questions/unanswered and /tags queries both document (as required) and allow an "id" parameter. You can use it as /questions/unanswered?id=1;2;3, but it does nothing (that I can tell) and doesn't ...
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Feature Request to Include Gravatar URL for Users API
The result set for the users API does not return the URL for the user's Gravatar.
For reference: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return “about_me” if the user has never modified it
See title. When a user never modified their "about me" section the API doesn't return that, which then causes my parser to go wild returning errors. However, when a user has modified their "about me"...
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API methods that return a single Item by id: unnecessary parameters to remove?
On methods that return a single item by id like the following:
/badges/{id}
/answers/{id}
/questions/{id}
/comments/{id}
/users/{id}
is it correct to have these parameters on Documentation?...
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Is there a way to discover what versions are available?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help works.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help does not.
Is there something that returns 0.8 as the most recent version? And/or is there something that lists every ...
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Can the server side of the API be open sourced?
I would like to see the open source Stack Exchange clones (OSQA/Shapado) to implement the same API, and this would help considerably.
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Provide a “latest” version for apps that want to keep up
By pointing my application at
http://api.stackoverflow.com/n.n/...
or possibly http://api.stackoverflow.com/latest/...
I could keep up with all the version changes released.
Alternate forms to stay ...
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1answer
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questions/{id} API method: pagesize parameter?
I'm trying to get the lightest data about a given question id because i just need the question's title.
With this call:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1598715?pagesize=1
i get "pagesize":...
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How to get a User Id
Is there a way to get the user id so I can use the method /users/{id}
I guess that for security you cannot asked the API give the id of a user with this openid Identification but is there another way?...
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1answer
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Featured questions API
Can we get an API to get the list of featured questions (/questions/featured)?
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1answer
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What is the syntax for specifying parameters?
How do I specify a parameter in the URL?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions works as expected.
Then I would like to pass parameter body with a value of true (that is available according to ...
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3answers
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What's with the reputation here on Stack Apps?
This site is only a couple of hours old, yet there are 33 users with over 2000 rep and 9 with over 4000. Are these values holdovers from dev.meta.stackoverflow.com, where everyone started out with ...
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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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2answers
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What are the min and max parameters?
Several of the api methods (e.g. questions) have min and max parameters with the following description:
min (optional)
Minimum of the range to include in the current .
number
...
4
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2answers
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Official Status Site/Page/Banner
It would be useful to have an official status displayed somewhere.
A banner on all stackapps.com pages, or a specific page that we could view to see the status of the API.
Just now I tried to view ...
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Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?
Twitter has the ability as part of its API to query the current rate limit status. Going to this url will show you how many requests can be made before the limit is reached:
{"remaining_hits":150,
...
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Verifying and linking SE users from external sites.
It would be great if you could allow your sites user base to link too their SE userId and this could then be verified.
Not sure if there are privacy issues here, but one way would be too include the ...
8
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Count of API Daily limits on different family sites
API daily limits:
Key: 10,000
No Key: 300
How these caps are calculated daily, hitting different family sites?
300/10,000 requests on Stack Overflow
+
300/10,000 requests on ...
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0answers
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Api-specific tags
It might be useful to have auto-generated tags for each API and add a link to the tag feed to the help page for that API. This would link directly the API documentation with the relevant discussions ...
2
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1answer
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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 ...
3
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1answer
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Is dev.meta.stackoverflow.com gone?
Sorry If I am posting in wrong place, but when I try to login to dev.meta.stackoverflow.com today, I got password protected page and looks like previous password is not valid anymore.
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What category does a website fit under?
I developed a mobile front end to StackOverflow... and I was wondering what category it fit under...
I mean, is it an app? Something else?
I think we need an additional category: services.
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Shared app ownership between multiple StackApps users
It would be nice to have the ability to allow multiple SA users to share ownership over one application. Is this something coming down the line?