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api 2.0 - any plans to bring SE sites closer together?
I've been re-reading api 2.0 roadmap and thinking what might be useful to have there.
I don't care much about authentification, and even less about write access. But what would really reduce amount ...
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Bring back the accounts tab
The accounts tab has been removed from all SE sites. Here's how to get it back for those of you with muscle memory:
Installation
Click to install (Chrome or Firefox+Greasemonkey only)
Source code
I'...
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Shouldn't the API help be consistent with the trademark guidance?
The description for the two StackAuth Routes within the API help both contain the phrase StackExchange network - shouldn't this rather be Stack Exchange Network to be consistent with the recently ...
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Rather than remove site from /sites set status close, at least temporarily
I noticed today, due to some exceptions, that sites that do not perform in beta can be closed and thus removed from /sites.
If you persist data, you will need to check your data every time you pull /...
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App to monitor a beta site for all questions
The only notification app I could find that lets you monitor all questions on a site is soapi-notify, but it doesn't let you monitor beta sites. Is there an application that will let me monitor all ...
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Something's changed about user timelines
Six to Eight's user display has just broken, as the /user/id/timeline route seems to have started returning different data. Previously, timeline_type of entries in the user_timelines array used to be ...
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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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User to de-authorise app?
The API makes use of OAuth to allow queries such as /inbox/unread. In the documentation however, I cannot seem to find a way for the user to control actively the authentication:
Is there a place for ...
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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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Comments are returning markdown.
Look at the output of the following:
http://api.askubuntu.com/1.0/questions/12218?comments=true
Output:
{
"comment_id": 12713,
"creation_date": 1289269467,
"owner": {
"user_id": ...
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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 returned by /questions/{ids}/related do not contain link properties
The API docs claim that /questions/{ids}/related return question objects, but I can't find a link property on the returned questions at all.
Is there some sort of workaround to find the link for a ...
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more styling info on stackauth
Each site has it's own colour, like Stackoverflow has orange, SuperUser has blue and Serverfault has red, not entirely sure StackApps (dark orange?).
Would it be possible to provide these colours in ...
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How to retrieve notifications for a given user.
There seems to be a few of these "dev-tips" so I'll share a problem I have.
To notify a user of comments directed to them, we use the users/{id}/mentioned method.
However, notifying a user of ...
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?
Visiting the page: http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites yields the following headers:
Notably absent are the X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current headers that show up in API queries to the sites ...
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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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Problems with the Site Icons
I'm having trouble with the WebApps icon being returned from the /sites method.
Namely, the image is composed of a larg white rectangle with a very small guy in the middle.
Why can't the guy take up ...
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Better Call /me maybe?
I am using implicit OAuth 2.0 flow, hence requesting for a token first.
Now when I want to know which user has logged in, I have to make request to /me endpoint to get all of the data about the user, ...
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API 'search' method with 'min' parameter
If you search for questions posted on time 1296897085 or later (by specifying sort=creation and min=1296897085), it may still return questions posted before that date:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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Answers information with tags
I am trying to chart the up votes on answers received by a user by tags. Something like:
I am running into the same situation as this question: How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag?.
If the answers ...
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Why my /mentioned page return 404?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/213464/mentioned?type=jsontext
{
"error": {
"code": 404,
"message": "The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI."
}
}
Its returning ...
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/questions/{id}/timeline throwing 500 instead of 404
Kevin, you fixed this bug some time ago, would you like to tag it as status-complete?
Sometime last week, this route stopped throwing 404 like the rest of my 'bad id' tests and started throwing 500. ...
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/questions/{id}/answers missing title attribute
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=questions/{id}/answers (it won't linkify properly!):
"title": {
"description": "title of this post, in plaintext",
"values": "string",
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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:
/...
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Link field on notification type
There is no link field on notification. Is this by design or a bug? If it's by design can it be changes so it's included, I can't see how to build the URL with only a post id, and not know what type ...
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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?
Going over the API, there seems to be some overlap when it comes to expressing a predicate in a URL.
For example, let's say I want to fetch some questions from stackoverflow.com that have the tag "...
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Inconsistency in sort order
If I execute the following API call:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?sort=newest&body=True&pagesize=5&min=1275575777&order=desc
versus one that does not include the min ...
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Missing on_site in Stack Apps site data in associated_users from stackauth query
This is what I get for Stack Apps:
{
"display_name": "user",
"email_hash": "11aa11...22bb22...",
"reputation": 101,
"user_id": 0000,
"user_type": "...
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Is there an app for searching Stack Overflow?
I was thinking about how I often use the Stack Overflow "ask a question" area as a search engine, rather than searching Google first. I know I'm more likely to find my answer by doing this. I was ...
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Client Side Flow security problem
I'm not pretty sure, but if my app is enabled to Client Side Flow Authentication, then anyone with my client ID (easily found for being embedded or by sniffing the initial request) would be able to ...
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Badges displayed incorrectly?
It seems that there's something odd going on with badges. If we take some random user, say 1719, which has one account, and check the user page http://stackexchange.com/users/1719/jelon, then we can ...
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How to sort answers to question?
If I retrieve a question like so:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes
I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not.
How can I do this?
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Add information to badges/{id} method.
Currently, there is no practical way to retrieve badge information given its ID. I would like to see title and description added at the very least.
Current method for retrieving the data:
call the /...
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Same redirect URL for Approve and Reject
Why, when I'm requesting /oauth/dialog and selecting either of the options I get redirected to the same URL with different hash values? It's not a bug per-se, just an observation I made while ...
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The "Get Started" section in the sidebar only mentions API 2.0 and API 1.1
Now that API 2.1 is "public, frozen, and out the door" shouldn't we update the "Get Started" section in the sidebar on the right side of the screen.
It talks about API 2.0 and API 1.1 but doesn't ...
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StackAuth 1.1 API reports a site without a site_name
Calling the StackAuth 1.1 API associated method for a particular user returns one site with no site_name property (the one for which the user_id is 349). I cannot find a matching account in ...
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Bold and colorful area tags
About:
This script is written for cstheory.SE and MathOverflow. It modifies the way the area tags (tags having . in their names) are displayed.
The script is based on Hexadecimal user rep.
Download:
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Add careers link and info to StackAuth
It might be nice to have access to a user's linked careers information via StackAuth if at all possible. One use I had in mind was integration into a sidebar widget.
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated not returning display_name for some sites
The problem with email_hash seems to be fixed, but now display_name is not getting returned in some cases.
For example: This Super User /users/{id} query returns a display_name, but the corresponding ...
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Please add accepted_date to answers/{id}
The reputation timeline aggregates activity so that only one instance of each answer or question is returned for a given timeframe. This makes it difficult to tease out reputation awarded for ...
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Implement Simple Update Protocol (SUP) endpoint
http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/
The basic concept is that instead of polling individual API calls for changes, you make a single call to a 'SUP endpoint' which indicates any changes ...
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Stylistic error on the JavaScript SDK documentation page
There is a small stylistic error on the JavaScript SDK documentation page.
Your application must have the client side OAuth flow enabled, and must not have disabled the desktop application redirect ...
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Can you please return the reputation scores in addition to the reputation changes?
As by far and large (one of) the (two) largest consumer of /users/*/reputation1 , I humbly request an addition to this route.
What I'd love to see is getting the reputation score in addition to the ...
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Request a method to get the number of people following a tag
How do I use the API to get the number of followers for a given tag?
On Stack Overflow, if you hover your mouse over a Tag a DHTML popup displays the number of followers for that tag.
I have used ...
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crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml needed on sstatic.net
Silverlight image loading from Uri fails due to lack of xdomain permission files.
Needed:
http://sstatic.net/clientaccesspolicy.xml
http://sstatic.net/crossdomain.xml
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What happened to the /stats method?
I can't find the /stats method in the new usage documentation.
A quick run of http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/stats reveals that the method is still there. However, it is not documented.
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Documentation has broken link (JSONP)
On Wikipedia, JSONP now has its own article, instead of being part of the JSON article.
The documentation links JSONP to Wikpedia:JSON#JSONP. It should link to Wikipedia:JSONP.
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Add moderator-only flag to tags API?
Currently there is no way to distinguish between normal and moderator only tags.
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Why does adding fromdate=<long time ago> return a different set than without it?
I've been trying to get some stats for the Windows 8 challenge over on Super User. I've noticed that there are some questions missing if I add fromdate=0. Why is this?
Without fromdate:
http://api....
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bounties_offered are not being returned correctly from /users/{ids}/reputation
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, reputation changes for bounties_offered are not being returned correctly.
In my own results, I see a reputation object with a reputation_change ...
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