Questions tagged [chat]

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

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
69 votes
4 answers
2k views

SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat

Screenshot Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks: See message history inline: Easily preview replied-to messages: And much, much more... About Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack ...
Tim Stone's user avatar
  • 4,686
44 votes
0 answers
2k views

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 ...
Zirak's user avatar
  • 541
41 votes
9 answers
4k views

Pronoun Assistant

Screenshot / Code Snippet About It's hard to miss these days - the Code of Conduct is about to change. It will emphasize the importance of using the correct pronoun when referring to a user in third ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,762
37 votes
0 answers
1k views

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 ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
  • 23.3k
36 votes
0 answers
647 views

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 ...
fredley's user avatar
  • 1,369
35 votes
1 answer
853 views

SE Chat custom notification sound

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Someone found the current *beep* sound annoying and asked for a way to change the sound. Such a feature did not exist, so I created this UserScript which adds a ...
Lekensteyn's user avatar
32 votes
1 answer
2k views

OBSOLETE - ChatSEy - An Android App for SE Chat

App removed Now that we have a mobile chat that doesn't suck, I've taken this down. Screenshot About Completely overhauled styles, including default and dark themes Reply to, star and flag ...
fredley's user avatar
  • 1,369
30 votes
0 answers
1k views

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 ...
Floern's user avatar
  • 1,093
30 votes
0 answers
3k views

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 ...
Graham Chiu's user avatar
24 votes
1 answer
401 views

Will the API support the chat system?

Having read through come of the questions on here it's my understanding that v 1.0 of the API is for read-only access to real-time data, pretty much what's available in the data dump. Write support is ...
Josh's user avatar
  • 563
22 votes
0 answers
2k views

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. ...
rlemon's user avatar
  • 811
21 votes
1 answer
338 views

sechatr - adding Hangouts-style avatars to chat

New And Improved! I have rewritten the application and fixed a ton of bugs that were causing issues (and extremely high memory usage). If you ran into trouble before, give the new version a spin! ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
  • 23.3k
21 votes
0 answers
660 views

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 ...
Jason C's user avatar
  • 591
16 votes
0 answers
640 views

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 ...
ProgramFOX's user avatar
16 votes
0 answers
304 views

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 ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
  • 23.3k
14 votes
2 answers
481 views

Porkchat: A Chrome extension with lots of chat tweaks!

Install Install from the Chrome Web Store About Porkchat is a Chrome extension that bundles together a lot of scripts I have written for Stack Exchange chat over the years. It is fully configurable - ...
fredley's user avatar
  • 1,369
13 votes
7 answers
297 views

Make your own custom oneboxes for Chat!

Screenshot About Oneboxing is when you post a link to a supported site on SE Chat and it automatically shows extra information. An example is when you post a link to a question in Chat and it ...
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ's user avatar
  • 4,365
13 votes
2 answers
505 views

ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!

Screenshot / Code Snippet About I like Stack Exchange Chat, and with the feedbots it tends to be pretty easy to keep up with what's going on with the site. Except for one thing - my inbox. So I wrote ...
agent86's user avatar
  • 3,277
13 votes
0 answers
160 views

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 ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
  • 6,762
13 votes
0 answers
414 views

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 ...
michaelpri's user avatar
13 votes
0 answers
219 views

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 ...
Madara's Ghost's user avatar
13 votes
0 answers
190 views

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, ...
jmort253's user avatar
  • 753
13 votes
0 answers
359 views

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. ...
Sterno's user avatar
  • 231
13 votes
0 answers
1k views

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 ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
  • 23.3k
12 votes
1 answer
1k views

ThirdPlace JavaScript chat library

Screenshot / Code Snippet var room = ThirdPlace.Room.GetCurrentRoom(); var message = new ThirdPlace.Message; message.room_id = room.id; message.content = "ThirdPlace.js is a library which abstracts ...
Josh's user avatar
  • 563
12 votes
0 answers
900 views

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 ...
Tristan Wiley's user avatar
12 votes
0 answers
186 views

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 ...
Doorknob's user avatar
  • 1,299
12 votes
0 answers
476 views

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 ...
doppelgreener's user avatar
11 votes
0 answers
144 views

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 ...
g3rv4's user avatar
  • 211
11 votes
0 answers
449 views

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 ...
ArtOfCode's user avatar
  • 473
11 votes
0 answers
242 views

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 ...
poke's user avatar
  • 707
9 votes
0 answers
356 views

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 ...
Blue's user avatar
  • 321
9 votes
0 answers
88 views

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 & ...
Quill's user avatar
  • 251
9 votes
0 answers
236 views

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 + ...
rlemon's user avatar
  • 811
8 votes
1 answer
388 views

Drag+Drop image uploader for Chat

Drag and Drop images into chat! In any chat window, simply drag and drop an image to anywhere in the window to upload it. Bonus! - the image will not be automatically sent, allowing you to edit your ...
fredley's user avatar
  • 1,369
8 votes
1 answer
442 views

PONIES: Hide unwelcome images in chat

Don't like it when chat is flooded with ponies? Too lazy to burn them all? You need PONIES: Protect Oneboxed Nuisance Images Everywhere Safely. All oneboxed images are displayed with 0.1 opacity ...
fredley's user avatar
  • 1,369
8 votes
0 answers
62 views

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 ...
rene's user avatar
  • 2,492
8 votes
0 answers
228 views

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 ...
CalvT's user avatar
  • 183
8 votes
0 answers
134 views

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 ...
OnoSendai's user avatar
  • 181
8 votes
0 answers
403 views

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 ...
rlemon's user avatar
  • 811
7 votes
0 answers
173 views

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 ...
Jason C's user avatar
  • 591
7 votes
0 answers
94 views

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 ...
Manishearth's user avatar
  • 2,725
7 votes
0 answers
158 views

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 ...
Nathan Osman's user avatar
  • 23.3k
6 votes
1 answer
189 views

Github link oneboxer for Chat

Oneboxes links to Github repos, issues or pull requests in Chat This userscript will automatically detect new and existing messages in chat that link to Github and onebox them, just like it is done ...
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ's user avatar
  • 4,365
6 votes
0 answers
117 views

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 ...
Spectric's user avatar
  • 1,665
6 votes
0 answers
104 views

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 ...
lois6b's user avatar
  • 171
6 votes
0 answers
386 views

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 ...
Blue's user avatar
  • 321
6 votes
0 answers
147 views

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 ...
Quill's user avatar
  • 251
6 votes
0 answers
190 views

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 ...
David Freitag's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
104 views

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 ...
rekire's user avatar
  • 185