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Typo in API docs /numbers)
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/numbers
The motivation for this is to prevent any unpleasant floating point confusion, especially across technologies that offering different floating point ...
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Wrong sorting parameter in documentation for question/{ids}/answers
It looks like that in the question/{ids}/answers documentation, there is a mistake:
votes – score
Shouldn't this be
votes – votes
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What happened to the links to a Stack App mentioned in the documentation about write access?
The documentation about write access states:
The application responsible for creating content via the API may be indicated with a link to an app's Stack Apps post. The exact manner of display is ...
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List /network-activity methods under Network Methods in the documentation
The API methods /users/{id}/network-activity and /me/network-activity, both return a summary of a user's activity across the Stack Exchange network and do not take a site parameter.
They are ...
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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.com, ...
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"Javascript" typo on documentation pages
On page Usage of /sites, it should be JavaScript, not Javascript, in the right sidebar:
This obviously also applies to (most/all) API documentation pages, since they share the sidebar.
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.wrapper not sorted correctly in filter edit popup
When editing the filter, e.g. on this API documentation page, all types are sorted alphabetically except for .wrapper which is always shown below answer, instead of above it (or at the end):
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Typos in API documentation
From the /posts documentation:
Most applications should use the question or answer specific methods, but /posts is available for those rare cases where any activity is of intereset.
intereset => ...
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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 ...
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Spelling mistake in API Documentation's "Authentication" page
Can you find the spelling mistake in "Unregistered Users" (last section) of the Authentication page?
In case you're not in the mood for games, here is it:
This is actually a correct spelling - of ...
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"users" link lands on the answer page
On the /users/moderators documentation site, the following link is wrong:
This method returns a list of users.
The users link mistakenly points to the answers object instead of to the users object....
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Authorization dialog shows wrong API version
If you go on this doc page and click on Get Token, you'll see this:
Minor bug, but still, I thought it would be nice to fix this inconsistency :)
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
On API doc pages, the “link” link at the top-right of the “Try It” sections presents a URL with the wrong domain name:
For example, on docs/similar, the URL displayed will be:
https://api....
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'search_excerpt' type issues
On the search_excerpt page:
community_owned_date should be marked as may be absent
locked_date should be marked as may be absent
search/excerpts should be listed in the Methods That Return This Type ...
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Types missing from the "Member Types" section
The following types are not listed on http://api.stackexchange.com/docs?tab=category#docs under the Member Types section:
network_post
closed_details
original_question
Note that it's a nonexhaustive ...
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