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Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behavior in the Stack Exchange API, or the Stack Exchange HTML or CSS, that needs to be fixed.

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The API Key does not work

I have registered an app at https://stackapps.com/apps/register, got a Key right away after I have submitted. But now when I request http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY, I got RequestLim …
1 vote
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Meta Stack Overflow API Try-It form sends request to Stack Overflow API instead of Meta API

Meta Stack Overflow API Try-It form sends request to Stack Overflow API instead of Meta API
2 votes
2 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 returnin …
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API not returning anything near the actual website

Adding dummy parameter min=-1000 give me correct results (also with answers :D), you could use it as work-around at the moment. But definitely this should be fixed. http://api.stackoverflow.com/0. …
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Negative voting questions?

Adding max=-10 will only show score with -10 or lower questions http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions?sort=votes&order=asc&max=-10&type=jsontext
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Why my /mentioned page return 404?

Probably fixed, now I got following { "total": 0, "page": 1, "pagesize": 30, "comments": [] }
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4 votes
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Questions method does not return answers

I think questions method also return answers too and the help page says so http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=questions .... "answers": [ { "answer_id": { "descrip …
1 vote

display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)

There is 2 questions in your JSON, First one, question id : 2932214, userid : 353236, and display_name : Gary is correct You could check at actual post here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ …
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Can API stats return real revision number instead of 1234.5678?

It will be very useful when we do bug reports or asking for support. …
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Help page for search is missing

Now, I could able see search on help page. Fixed! http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=search
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2 votes
1 answer
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Don't allow requests with No Key to use existing session with valid API Key

Once I did a request with a valid API key http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY Every requests (from that IP) later on without key will use existing session with API key, limit counte …
4 votes
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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-Current …
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errors/{id} documentation : 500 Internal Server Error

I am also getting error here, and Rate-Limit counter is decreasing even with that error page. Edit: Fixed!
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2 votes
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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 b …
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Request with Invalid key still return the content and rate limit stepped down into No Key Limit

Now, requesting with invalid API key returns following { "error": { "code": 4000, "message": "The 'key' query parameter containing your application's public key is missing or invalid." } …
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