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Questions about, or scripts/apps/libraries that enhance Stack Exchange's Chat rooms/feature.

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ChatBot, a bot. For the chat

About Lurks in the shadows of the chat. It executes commands at the request of the user, sending messages as the user who runs it. You can talk to it the StackOverflow SandBox room if you want to ...
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George the Dev - Making Conversation in the Chat Rooms

Screenshot About George the Dev is a chat bot for the Stack Exchange network of chat sites. He currently hangs out in the Sandbox and is capable of understanding a few commands and those commands ...
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Set fire to people in chat

How many times have you been overwhelmed by your desire to set fire to people in Stack Exchange chat? Well now you can! Arqade Fire Get Chrome Extension Get Grease Monkey User Script Arqade Fire is a ...
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Generic Bot – A Moderation Chatbot

Generic Bot is a chatbot meant to help with moderation tasks on Stack Overflow. You can find the bot in the SOBotics chatroom. Flag Tracker (Userscript) When you flag a post, this userscript will ...
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RebolBot - a chat bot for the chat rooms

RebolBot is a chat bot with a natural English dialect interface, specifically targeting the StackOverflow chat rooms. Yet it has a modular design, can post tweets to Twitter, and could be modified ...
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Chat Easy Input Tools - Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands

About Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands, reducing the dependency on mouse usage. Current version does not have a configurable set of hotkeys but later versions will. ...
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Top Bar for Chat Rooms

As of 1.12, thanks entirely to Shog9's efforts, this now works on Firefox as well as Chrome! Description: Provides a fully functional top bar, including realtime notifications, easy chat server ...
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SE-Chatbot, a bot for the chat rooms

I created a chat bot for the Stack Exchange chat rooms. The bot is open-source and the code is hosted on GitHub. The bot is licensed under CPOL (The Code Project Open License) v1.02. You can find a ...
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Frequent Message Manager - Easily store and send frequently used messages in chat?

Screenshot About Have you ever said something in chat that made you think "I know I've said this many times before?" Perhaps you have a few common links that you reply to questions with on a ...
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Add link to network and chat profiles

Screenshot / Code Snippet About The recent design update to the profile page removed the ability to easily navigate to a user's network profile, even though they chose to hide their profile. Since ...
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WelcomeBot - a bot to welcome you

WelcomeBot A Stack Exchange chatbot written in Python that uses ChatExchange. Many parts of this were modeled after SmokeDetector, another Stack Exchange chatbot. Features Welcomes new users ...
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Chat Starred Images Expander (aka StarScript)

The Thing This handy little userscript will turn images starred in chat into little thumbnails under the star list. Current features: Oneboxed images in chat will become thumbnails. Add or remove ...
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Diamond Chat Aware - Helping you be aware of your audience when moving from private to public chat rooms

Screenshot / Code Snippet About While very subtle, in the above screenshot, you see a diamond watermark in the textbox. As someone who spends time in private rooms, mostly for moderation purposes, ...
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More Stars - Userscript that frees up room so you can see more starred messages

Since I've never written a GreaseMonkey script before, I borrowed heavily from this script and basically played around with it until I got what I wanted. So credit to them for helping me get there. ...
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Clear Chat - Clears all of the messages in the chat window.

Screenshot About Ever wish you could simply clear all of the messages from the chat window (similar to a terminal)? Well now you can with this UserScript! Simply install it using the link below and ...
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Open Source Chat Android Application for StackExchange/StackOverflow

A while back a fellow member of Room 15 (Android) started creating an Android application for the StackOverflow/StackExchange chat. I recently picked it up and revived it and it is open to community ...
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Chatception - quickly chat in different rooms from a single page (v0.3)

TL;DR I got fed up with having 11 chat tabs open all the time and made a userscript to fix it. Screenshot Description A tiny widget that allows you to quickly chat in different Stack Exchange ...
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RPG.SE Chat Fudge dice: a userscript for Fate & Fudge games

RPG.SE's chat rooms support dice rolls as an easter egg. This script will convert d6 rolls that you see into Fudge dice, using the ordinary conversion rules: 1–2 = minus, 3–4 = blank, 5–6 = plus. You ...
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Bonfire Unread Count: Add the unread messages count to the favicon

About: I wanted to be able to pin the chat rooms I'm on, but I wouldn't know how many unread messages there were. With this extension, I can pin the tab. Screenshot: Download / Install: You can ...
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ArtOfChatbot + Chat API - a customisable chatbot

Stack Exchange chat has no API. While this is not a complete chat API, it introduces a level of control that makes it far easier to run chatbots. About ArtOfChatbot is a two-part creation: a basic ...
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Chat mass-unstar script

We from the Python room like to have a clean list of starred messages, so only relevant and really liked messages stay on the starred list forever. In order to do that, we unstar messages from time to ...
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SpotDetector - A bot designed to seek out potentially bad first post/late answer reviews

Spotdetector About A bot designed to seek out and provide feedback to moderators about potentially bad reviews. Check it out You can find it currently active in the SOBotics Room currently running ...
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Badge oneboxer for chat

This script makes it possible for badges to onebox in Chat. Example format: that's a [badge:nice-answer] on a powershell bountied question The only somewhat custom one you can use is Strunk & ...
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Chat Dark Theme Plus

About Work in progress theme for StackExchange chats, also includes 'plugins' for additional features. Features include: Inline webm/gifv User colours code-mode (see here) activated with Ctrl + ...
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Unstar/unpin for room owners from a transcript

In a chat room room owners can unstar or unpin messages. However, they can't do that from their chatroom transcript. If they want to cancel stars from way back they are forced to load older messages ...
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ModColorFix for Chat

Just a very very simple userscript that changes the moderator usernames in chat from blue to green. Requested by and built for @doppelgreener on becoming a mod. Link to Github Repo Link to install ...
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SOClearChat -- Helpful Chat functions

A Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script packing some helpful functions for Stack Overflow chat. To install, click: Install SO ClearChat Source: github.com/lbotinelly/SOClearChat It adds four ...
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GIF Killer! Stop animated gifs in the Chat

About Bookmarklet that stops GIFs in their tracks! until you refresh.. GIFs are replaced with the following image: How to use. Depending on your browser you create a new bookmark, copy and paste ...
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Chat Move Helper / Bot Cleanup Tool

Description: Extends the room-owner move message tool in chat to make it easier to quickly clean up after bots by moving their messages, commands, and replies to them. Adds a couple visualization ...
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Is a deobfuscated version of chat js available?

The dev portion of the CDN hosts unminified JS for the main SE sites (you can find it via http://dev.stackoverflow.com ). However, I can't seem to find the same for chat. Is there any link for ...
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Highlight Code in Chat - Highlights <code> elements contained in chat messages

Screenshot About Inspired by this question, I have developed a UserScript that highlights code elements in chat messages so that they stand out more on the page. Simply install the script and your ...
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Dark Mode 4 Chats

A userscript that adds Dark Mode to Stack Exchange Chats, while also allowing you to customize themes and colors! Version 0.2: still beta Screenshot / Code Snippet About Since the introduction of ...
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Minimize pics in Chat

I made a script that allows you to minimize pictures, gifs, youtube preview, tweets or wikipedia articles. It's useful if you don't want the image to be always shown. For example at the office. It ...
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Node.js/ChatExchange - An API for Chat

About ChatExchange is a node.js API for talking to Stack Exchange chat (Largely based on ChatExchange for python). This is still very much in the works, but currently provides a working API for those ...
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Smoke the SmokeDetector

SmokeTheSmokeDetector Over in Tavern on the Meta, our spam detector, SmokeDetector has been the topic of an ongoing argument between those who believe SmokeDetector fills the chatroom, and those who ...
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Google Chrome Chat Faces

SE-Chat-Faces Love using faces in chat? Are ASCII faces just a little too boring? Is the unicode entry keystroke too complicated? Tired of having to copy-paste unicode faces from Notepad++ (or ...
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SmokePreview - A chat addon for the SmokeDetector

SmokePreview A Greasemonkey script to add a preview to chat messages of the SmokeDetector. Messages which are deleted while loading the preview will get a opacity of 50% to make clear that this is not ...
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Remove chat room description and tags

Chat room description and tags may only be useful a first couple of times you come by a chat room. After that, they are just wasting space. To hide them from the view, you can install the following ...
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Killit - Bookmarklet to replace single images from the page

About Bookmarklet that replaces any selected image on the page with: How to use. You first need to "install" the bookmarklet by visiting the project homepage and dragging the button to your ...
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stackchat.cpp - a C++20 library for Stack Exchange chat

Code snippet #include "stackchat/StackChat.hpp" #include "stackchat/chat/ChatEvent.hpp" #include "stackchat/chat/Command.hpp" #include <iostream> #include <...
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Stack Exchange Chat API Documentation and Bot Boilerplate (finally)

Chat Documentation GitHub Link: https://github.com/jbis9051/JamesSOBot/blob/master/docs/CHAT_API.md Description: I know many people have created bots in different languages. Thats why I need your help ...
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TACUC - The ATaco ChatExchange Userscript Collection

A collection of Userscripts focused around Stack Exchange's chat. To install these, you need TamperMonkey, although GreaseMonkey apparently works. GitHub Auto Chat Jax This userscript simply ...
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Minimize chat input area − remove links and site logo, no auto width

Chat input area background takes up all the horizontal space it can get. It's time to stop this greedy nonsense! This script removes the width:auto rule and hides the site's logo and links at the ...
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ChatExchange - It is an API for Chat

Code Snippet sendMessage('chat.meta.stackexchange.com', 721, 'Hello @Sha', fkey().fkey) //Sends the message 'Hello @Sha' to Shadow's Den //Must be run in a chat site, due to @Balpha not wanting CORS ...
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Hide Unnecessary Info in SE Chat

Hide Unnecessary or Cluttering Information in the Sidebar of an SE Chatroom Description A small userscript to help avoid clutter on the sidebar of any Stack Exchange chat room. The chat room will ...
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EasterEggExchange: Enable all easter eggs in chat

About This script will enable all easter eggs in chat, namely: Cthulhu Send <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> and quotes from this answer fly around your ...
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Request for chat bot to restore "translate" functionality in chat

A while ago, SE briefly introduced a built-in feature where a user can type: translate: [words in any language] ...and the Feeds user would respond with an English translation of whatever was typed. ...
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ChatX: A ruby library for SE Chat

Screenshot / Code Snippet Here's some sample usage: cb = ChatBot.new(ENV['ChatXUsername'], ENV['ChatXPassword']) cb.login cb.gen_hooks do room 63296 do # Room ID of The Closet, a testing room for ...
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RO Chat Message Delete Option

Description: Gives room owners the ability to delete other users' chat messages from the message popup menu: On confirmation, the message will be deleted. The ability is available for up to 2 ...
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go-sechat - Go package for interacting with the Stack Exchange chat network

The Stack Exchange chat network does not currently have an API. However, after spending a bit of time in Chrome's Inspector, I was able to reverse-engineer most of the requests and responses ...
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