The [API Documentation and Help][1] states: > If the help URL is requested in a > common web browser, a HTML styled > version of the JSON help will be > returned. Otherwise, the JSON help > will be returned. However, I would expect that adding `?type=jsontext` would override that behavior. Also, making that request from my app also results in HTML instead of JSON. [1]: http://stackapps.com/questions/1/api-documentation-and-help