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API error responses

Every 4xx from the UseQR API is an RFC 9457 application/problem+json document with one extra field: fix, a corrected call you can paste straight back into your terminal or hand to an agent. There are no API keys, so there are no auth errors — only input problems, and each one teaches its own solution.

Example: an unsupported format
$ curl "https://useqr.app/api/v1/qr?data=hello&format=nope"
{
  "type": "https://useqr.app/errors",
  "title": "Invalid parameter",
  "status": 400,
  "detail": "format \"nope\" is not supported",
  "field": "format",
  "fix": "use format=png, format=svg, format=svg-tiny (SVG Tiny 1.2 for Illustrator and cutters), format=json (the module matrix), or format=base64"
}

Batch calls never fail as a whole because one item is wrong: request-level problems (bad JSON, too many items) come back as problem+json, while per-item problems come back inside results[] with their own error and fix.

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