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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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V2.1 API body HTML has unclosed li tags

The code in question was not generated by Stack Exchange. It was generated by a user. So, yes, quite often, the HTML (and all other code samples generated by users) will be malformed. However, in th …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote

API returns the last activity date even if asked not to

As a partial workaround for this bug, always specify a sort key that doesn't rely on a field not returned by the filter. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
3 votes
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Search function in the API doesn't work as expected

Although it doesn't appear to say so in the doc page, intitle expects an exact phrase, not a list of words. You can currently see this by: /2.2/search?intitle=get column array&site=stackoverflow whi …
Brock Adams's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
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Docs say the API returns a user's age, but it doesn't (anymore)

The doc page says that the user object returns an age property (for those users that specified an age). But the API  no  longer  does.   (Plus spot checks of users that had age in their profiles at o …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote

Comments have incorrect `can_flag` values for at least 2 different API routes

I can't replicate the bug as stated; both /questions/{ids} and /comments/{ids} give the same results which are: can_flag is false for my comments.   …
Brock Adams's user avatar
3 votes
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Stack Exchange API is returning boolean(false) For 'is_answered' On Question With Accepted A...

Update: Per Kevin Montrose's answer and its comments: The bug has now been fixed and the is_answered property will return true if either of these is true: The question has an accepted answer The question … has an answer with a score > 0 To detect just whether a question has an accepted answer, merely check that the accepted_answer_id property is present and has an integer value This looks like a bug
Brock Adams's user avatar
5 votes

The API /questions/{ids}/timeline path doesn't return several items that occurred after the ...

This is a bug. The timeline path seems to have several problems. More on these below. … This is a bug. At the very least, it should be disclosed in the documentation. Summary, Multiple bugs: Answer creation event is not returned!!! Comments (¿and possibly other items?) …
Brock Adams's user avatar
3 votes
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What does `total` in the /notifications route represent?

This is a bug. I've tagged your question accordingly. total, in the wrapper object, should always be the length of the items array, after concatenating all pages of results. … This is clearly a bug, total should be 382 in my case. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
2 votes
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link in post_id in /me/notifications/unread is wrong

This is a very minor bug in the documentation page. The online doc page adds a convenient hyperlink to the post (The link part is not in the API's JSON response). That's a good thing. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
5 votes
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Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?

Confirmed the bug on a post that accrues comments much slower than a typical Stack Overflow question does. Currently, the OP's filter returns "comment_count": 1 on that post. There are no comments. … I believe this is a side-effect/bug/quirk with how the API appears to be counting the comments. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
3 votes
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Descriptions of tag-based badges are incorrect

This seems to have been silently/magically fixed in the last 7 months (Date of Nicos Karalis' comment). Descriptions seem correct now. I had verified that they weren't correct when I upvoted this q …
Brock Adams's user avatar
2 votes

Notice field on questions may be absent?

Yes, officially this is a documentation bug. From the Absent Fields doc: Fields that are not always guaranteed to be set... are indicated in the per-type documentation. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote
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Why am I getting an "Access token sent over non-HTTPS request, it has been invalidated" mess...

Teams API access still works for me. Does it still fail for you? There were some recent hiccups. If it still fails, reset your Client Secret and try again. You didn't provide an MCVE. What API ro …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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The authentication doc gives a wrong domain for authentication

The authentication doc page now lists URL's like: https://stackoverflow.com/oauth https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token etc. While these seem to work, the correct domain is stackexchange.co …
Brock Adams's user avatar
2 votes
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Timeline activities appear to be missing (because creation_date has wrong and useless values)

This is probably a variation of this bug and a variation or repeat of this bug that was partially fixed (once upon a time). …
Brock Adams's user avatar

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