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Question pertaining to the documentation provided with the API.
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API Documentation and Help
Regarding paged results:
The API's handling of empty paged results seems inconsistent. Some methods return empty sets, some throw a 404.
It is my opinion that an empty set should be returned for an …
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Where is the API located?
Look to your right------> (where it says Get Started)
Api is a REST implementation and as such has no 'download'
You may access it right from your browser address bar or leverage one of the many cl …
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API Help Suggestion: /search - can we make tagged,nottagged description consistent with othe...
on most other params that accept a semi-colon delimited list we see
list of tags questions must have, semicolon delimited
A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, semicolon-delimited list of …
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API Documentation and Help
Issues:
The revisions routes' date keys diverge from the established naming convention.
e.g. all other routes use todate and fromdate whereas the revisions use toDate and fromDate.
Are keys case se …
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type related_site not listed in 'by type' tab list
The type "related_site" is not listed in the 'by type' tab in documentation. …
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integer and decimal are used to describe fields in return types but not in method parameters
Integer and Decimal designations are useful in creating an accurate model of API methods and types.
These specific 'number' subtypes are used when describing types but the method parameter lists all …
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There is a small discrepancy in the docs for users-id-associated
The main doc page, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs, shows /users/{id}/associated while the method page, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/associated-users, uses /users/{ids}/associated.
It's mino …
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Indicate in documentation whether "numbers" can be non-integral
"number" is an very ambiguous term. Integral or non-integral?
For developers in more dynamically-typed languages like JavaScript, this is not an issue; but when using more statically-typed languages …
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Include range [1, 100] on pagesize
I see that "range" is being used to indicate valid range on most numeric parameters, e.g.
32-bit integer, range [0, 2,147,483,647]
32-bit integer, range [1, 2,147,483,647]
The smaller valid range f …
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AND searching for tags?
It seems to me that questions allows you to be more exclusive with your filter while search allows you to be more inclusive with your filter.
this flexibility is a good thing and, right now, I would …
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?
As long as the content is properly attributed you are free to use it as you like.
as per Robert, a visible, not necessarily prominent, attribution of the content source, e.g. the site, and the poster …
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help page format issue: revisionGuid
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=revisions/{id}/{revisionguid}
revisionGuid is inconsistent.
revisionguid seems appropriate (and will remove one special case from my api parser).
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help page format issue: missing parameter
/users/{id}/tags is missing id parameter
fixing this will remove one more special case from my parser.
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help page issue: revisions by revisionguid example needed
/revisions/{id}/{revisionguid} - usage of this route is not clear to me.
can someone provide a working url and perhaps a simple use case.
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Please supply working example URLs for each route
It would take a lot of the guess work out of understanding the API if each route's page provided a small handful of working URLs.
This would also serve to provide authoritative examples of the expec …
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