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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.

7 votes

After successfully retrieving 180 pages, the API gracelessly, semi-silently, fails

Yes, this is a serious bug. You can replicate it from any browser using the code below. Every time I run it, it fetches 180 pages at an average rate of 5.51 calls per second. …
double-beep's user avatar
4 votes

503 errors on batch get questions endpoint

So, you are making up to 150 requests in a 30 second period (10 "parallel requests", with a 2 second pause in between). And failing at 80 to 100+ seconds of operation and 400 to 500 total requests? …
Community's user avatar
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3 votes

What happened to the links to a Stack App mentioned in the documentation about write access?

This is a documentation bug in my opinion. The "via Example App" was never included, nor should it be. …
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
0 votes

Incorrect Wordpress and Electronics icons

This bug was written against a now decommissioned version of the API (Version 1.1) but was fixed long ago and never a problem in the current API version. …
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 …
1 vote
Accepted

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
Accepted

The new implicit authentication dialog doesn't handle comma-delimited scopes

This appears to have been silently fixed, sometime in the last year. Now, both: https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=1515&scope=read_inbox,write_access,private_info&redirect_uri=https:/ …
Brock Adams's user avatar
1 vote

Why doesn't the API return a 'locked date' for this locked answer?

Also, additional bug feature-request: The post object should also return a locked_date. A sample locked question does return a locked_date as expected. …
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
6 votes
0 answers
72 views

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 …
3 votes

Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?

The documentation was updated sometime in the last 2 years and the API docs (version 2.2) now state that the property may be absent:
Brock Adams's user avatar
4 votes
Accepted

“Try It” URL has wrong URI

The link is correct. The purpose of that control is to provide a URL to the doc page with all the parameters prefilled. This is what most users expect and is similar to how that link control works o …
Brock Adams's user avatar
6 votes

The answer object returns an empty array for tags

This is a bug and seems (based on a series of A/B tests) to be linked with the body_markdown property. …
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

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