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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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Why is /questions API returning deleted questions?

This is a feature, not a bug. And this kind of feature has been requested many times. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
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. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
6 votes
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API throws improper error when "date" parameters are the same

Yes, that bug is annoying, especially since specifying a todate that's before the fromdate returns a valid result set, EG: { "items": [], "has_more": false, "quota_max": 10000, "quota_remaining …
Brock Adams's user avatar
6 votes
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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
6 votes
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Badge numbers are wildly erroneous for meta accounts returned by the /associated query

There is a serious problem with badge counts on meta sites as returned by the /users/{ids}/associated route. Consider this user (chosen for high volume of meta activity). On Meta Stack Overflow, h …
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
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
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
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? …
4 votes

Why is my API quota not resetting after UTC reset?

Update: Evidence now suggests that the API quota rolls over at a unique time for each app. 24 hours after that app-key, plus IP, combination made its first API call. See this chat message. The …
Brock Adams's user avatar
4 votes
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“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
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
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
3 votes

Field "comment_count" is not always returned by API

This appears to be closely related to the bug: Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?. …
Brock Adams's user avatar
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

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