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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.
On the 181st call I get:
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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names
Recently the user name truncation issue has been fixed in the Stack Apps site, now it is looking good.
Screenshot for reference:
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5
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"Informed" badge shown as Next badge, but doesn't exist on this site
The Informed badge is removed from the "Next badge" tracking. Previously it was listed in the Available badges section. Now it is not available under the Available or Bronze section. So the bug has ...
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400 - Bad Request - Invalid URL errors with HTML response
This is fixed.
I was able to pin down the issue two web servers. After SRE verified that the URL length settings were fine, I was able to narrow the issue to individual path components over the IIS ...
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Suddenly getting "Couldn't parse `client_id`"
I expect this to be solved by Cloudflare protection is triggering on Stack Overflow authentication API routes
To reproduce and/or verify this you can use this glitch app for which you can find the ...
rene♦
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'Informed' badge doesn't exist on site, but is still being promoted
I agree it is weird that you get teased for a badge you're unable to earn.
It is worth mentioning that Stack Apps is a bit special as a Question and Answer site within the Stack Exchange family of ...
rene♦
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StackApps Captcha doesn't work: "Invalid domain for site key"
Captcha wasn't configured correctly for Stack Apps on our end. The issue has been fixed.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for the report!
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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 ...
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'Informed' badge doesn't exist on site, but is still being promoted
The button won't be shown after the next production build.
Thanks for the report!
The status-review tag will become red at the same time.
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Items response empty after article POST request
The API for Teams behaves differently depending on the tier you're paying for:
Free tier - No API access
Basic tier - Read-only API access
Business tier - Read/Write API access
Additionally, only ...
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API stopped allowing CORS requests
The bug has been fixed:
Thanks for reporting. We're working on porting our websites to ASP.NET Core, and those errors you've seen were a result of this.
We caught the first error ourselves on a ...
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Please migrate the question templates to CommonMark
It looks like this has been fixed. Here's how the templates currently look like:
<!-- thumbnail: https://example.com/some-image.png -->
<!-- version: 1.0 -->
<!-- tag: a-tag-on-the-...
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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.
A user is fully responsible for his or her content, it doesn't, and shouldn't, matter how that ...
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Few typos in the documentation pages
The fixes for this were just pushed in the latest build. Thanks for reporting it.
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Even though status-review has been made a moderator-only tag, it remains blue on this post
Yes, an edit will fix that.
This is because posts are stored as HTML. At the time the answer was submitted the build wasn't live. Therefor the tag wasn't a mod-only tag yet. It got no special handling....
rene♦
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Collectives Articles endpoint broken
The endpoint was for Stack Overflow for Teams and the Articles feature within that product. It returned Collectives Articles as an unintended side effect. When Teams moved over to a separate API, this ...
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Typos on api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib
Fixed, thanks to ᔕᖺᘎᕊ, for bringing it to my attention, rolling out in next API build.
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top-answerers / top-askers documentation bug: number of results returned incorrect
Ok, this'll be corrected after the next API build.
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Stack Exchange OAuth2, explicit access-token response format does not adhere to RFC6749 standard
I had the same problem. According to the authentication docs‡:
In order to get access_token and expires (if applicable) wrapped in a
JSON object, POST to https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/...
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Paging fails at 10K items for /search on any site but Stack Overflow
This was a search issue in elastic (max_result_window) that has now been tuned across the network.
See, also, this related Q&A on Meta SE.
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Misaligned label "Stack Apps Post (optional)" on app information page
This is fixed with the new Stacks design:
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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).
Anyway, the timeline does show all your events as can be seen with this ...
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/questions returns wrong markdown when a suggested edit is improved
This was an old, old bug: a bit of logic assumes that revisions can be ordered by their creation date. This is not true for Improved edits, as both the suggested edit and subsequent Improvement share ...
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Wrong results for fetch timeline from offset
It looks like a bug in the API. It looks like it filters on the creation date of the question, not the timeline events themselves. The question has a timestamp of 1596793060, and using a fromdate of ...
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What's the relation between access_token, key, quota_max, and throttling?
Without a key the daily quota per IP-address is 300.
With a key the daily quota per IP-address is 10,000.
With an access_token and key (you can't use an access_token without a key) the daily quota per ...
rene♦
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Why are these answers dated before the question was asked?
It's consistent with the timeline - the 'asked' event is usually at the very bottom, but here it's in the middle:
What happened here is that the question was merged - the answers were originally ...
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Apps page blank not showing
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we've made a fix to this issue. It should resolve on your next hard reload.
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Question templates don't fill the question body anymore
We are not implementing this bug fix right now because this Ask page flow will soon be replaced with a new version.
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Bugs in API 2.2 "/search/advanced" with a "q" parameter
There's indeed no difference between order=asc and order=desc; perhaps this is a limitation of Elasticsearch which powers the Stack Exchange search engine (both the API and on the sites). To be fair, ...
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