Questions tagged [script]
Use this tag to post a userscript that operates on Stack Exchange sites and/or uses the Stack Exchange API. For questions about user scripting and Stack Exchange, or its API, use the [scripts] tag instead. Scripts are usually JavaScript and usually browser extensions/userscripts. For other tools, the [app] tag may be more appropriate.
Duplicate list edit diffs in post timeline
The native post timeline displays "duplicate lists edited" event as an unreadable mess of links. This userscript diffs the changes and displays them as easy to visually parse lists of items.
A service to help people to download their Dev Stories before the Stack Overflow DS sunset
Manfred launches a website that allows any StackOverflow user to download their Developer Story data as a JSON file, without requiring registering or providing any email address. For free. Open Sou…
Faster Answer Links
This is a convenience user script. It prevents page reloading when following links to answers that happen to be present on the same page, and to their comments; instead, it simply scrolls to the l…
Control Chat Volume of ping sound in any chatroom
Control the volume of the ping sound in any SE chatroom
Rejoin Favorite Chatrooms
Adds a link to rejoin favorite chatrooms, even if you're in multiple ones already
Add link to network and chat profiles
Adds a link to the network profile for all user profile pages (even if they've hidden the current community) and a link to the chat profile
Stack Overflow /questions design reversion to pre-2022 layout
This set of user styles, written in Stylus, adjusts the CSS of the /questions page (on Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow only) to appear as it did before the recent New post summary designs. T…
Fix excessive underlines in high contrast mode
Stack Exchange introduced some excessive underlining in high contrast mode. This is visually very busy and overzealous application of underlines. Literally every link will be matched by their CSS, …
DEPRECATED - Bookmark users - Fetch the list of users that bookmarked a question on any Stack Exchange website
This userscript no longer works because Stack Exchange has replaced bookmarks with "saves" in October 2022. Saves are private and so can't be queried via the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.…
All Communities Loader - making better use of the /users/hidecommunities page
All Communities Loader enhances the /users/hidecommunities page by making better use of the available space and returning all communities instead of 12 at a time
LegacyQuestions - Bringing back the old questions design
Brings back the old questions design changed in a recent redesign
Reopen/Delete Vote Rename - Clarify whether you've voted to delete/undelete already
Ever forget you voted to delete something and ended up retracting your vote accidentally? Well, so have a bunch of other people, myself included, so let's make that a bit more obvious. This script …
Garbage (litter) filters - delete custom filters from the "more" dropdown
Garbage filters is a userscript that allows users to delete custom filters from the top dropdown directly without scrolling down to the "custom filters" sidebar.
Question close, reopen, and delete votes in the post sidebar
This is for users that cannot normally see these votes. On Stack Overflow that is less than 3,000 reputation points for close and reopen votes, and 10,000 reputation points for delete votes. The sc…
CollapsibleBanners - Save screen space when viewing questions
Collapses the closed banner to save screen space
Community Diamond Restorer - Add the diamond back to Community's profile!
Restore Community user's diamond.
OBSOLETE - Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages
Restore syntax highlighting on revision and review pages
Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
Activity Indicator is a userscript that displays a, well, indicator and some useful stats about your interactions with a given post.
Answer accept indicator
With Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow, I find that it would be nice to have an indicator. Some posts have multiple pages, and searching for the one post among man…
Accepted Answer Pinner
Pins the accepted answer on top, as was the case before September 2021
Turning meta off
Based on Is there any way I can turn Stack Overflow Meta off?, this will give anyone a break from a site meta. It removes: The home page, both "Featured on Meta" and "Hot Meta Posts…
Simply makes the review overview stuff bigger
When Visual design changes to the review queues was introduced, the review overview page seemed to change to having a smaller font size on post number and very small avatars. I think the white spac…
The cute little blue box on flag dialogs
Based on Use the same location for Submit button in the comment flag dialog as in the post flag dialog which asked for the buttons to go on the right side, and Question Close Updates: Phase 1 which…
LinkPreview - Protection against hazardous links
Protection against hazardous links on SE
Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider
Ever since the Visual design changes to the review queues suggested edits have been too narrow. Especially when containing code blocks. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore. Screenshots Befor…
Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
Ever wondered what if Stack Exchange's title character counter could actually count? Unicode Char Counter aims to answer this exact question
Answer delete votes in the post sidebar
Users with more than 1000 reputation points can see delete votes in the post timeline, but it's much more convenient to have this information fetched and added to the sidebar: Note that the script…
Answer link titles in user profiles deserves closed status too
User profiles show post closed status on the "Questions" tabs, but not on the "Answers" tabs. As noted, partially by me, in Should “duplicate” and “closed” attributes be added t…
Show the protected banner to everyone
According to What is a "protected" or "highly active" question?, users with more than 10 earned but less than 15,000 reputation points aren't shown the protected banner: It see…
Make better use of the space in profiles, like profiles used to be
The change to user profiles discussed in Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive has introduced some empty space. It can be seen directly in Profile page is very empty, revert to ol…
Bring back the layout!
Making the best out of screen real estate on Stack Exchange
LegacyProfiles - Bringing back the old profile stats
Brings back the 'Member since', 'Profile views' and 'Last seen' stats removed in a recent profile change using the Stack Exchange API
Save the waffles! Bringing back custom 404 pages to Stack Exchange
The userscript brings back custom 404 page images to sites of the Stack Exchange network
Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons
This script implements the suggestion from user1306322 to Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE, which was the original request that led to New St…
ChatOvercharged - making inserting markdown links in chat convenient
ChatOvercharged makes inserting markdown-formatted links in chat convenient
Don't let me interact with this user's posts (for sockpuppets, mostly)
The main purpose of this script is to prevent one from accidentally interacting with questions/answers posted by a sock of their own (but it can also be used to avoid interacting with posts from ot…
CDNSaver - never look for a CDN link twice
Never look for a CDN link more than once - CDNSaver allows you to save library CDN links for stack snippets.
Removing Collectives™ from Stack Overflow
Inspired by the reaction to Beta release of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, I decided to create a small practical solution in the form of a user script. It will remove almost all traces of Collecti…
Add a color highlight to closed questions in the question lists
Highlights Closed questions in the question list
Tab4SE - the TAB key in your post
Enables the tab key in the answer textarea for Stack Exchange sites
CommentAssist - Making comments just got easier
A tool that makes writing comments easier by introducing the toolbar found in the answers form over to the comments form
View vote counts without 1k rep automatically
Loads vote counts automatically without requiring 1k reputation
StackMarks™ - Better bookmarks for a better experience
Bookmark management system introducing categories for Stack Exchange
TeamMod v1.1-alpha - Enables moderation features in Teams
Enables moderation features in Teams
User script to auto flag NLN (no longer needed) comments
The user script uses multiple search keyword combinations via RegEx to catch NLN (no longer needed) comments and send them to the chat room. Currently, the script is running in this room. License M…