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Accessing Authenticated User's Close/Delete History
I'm working on the PHP chatroom's cv-pls backlog UI. Many users and myself would like the ability to track which questions we have already handled though close/delete votes. To be able to do that I ...
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OBSOLETE - StackAd - An Easy Way to Display Open-Source Ads on Your Site/Blog
Note:
This page is due for an update but until then you can add StackAd to your site by adding:
<script type='text/javascript'
src='http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/stackad/stackad.min....
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What's with the reputation here on Stack Apps?
This site is only a couple of hours old, yet there are 33 users with over 2000 rep and 9 with over 4000. Are these values holdovers from dev.meta.stackoverflow.com, where everyone started out with ...
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Is it appropriate to register for a "Dev" app key?
When an app is in early development stages, it is quite common not to have an Icon, a Name, a Website, or even a description.
I'm considering registering one key which I could use in all my Alpha ...
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OBSOLETE - SOAPI-DIFF: Your app broke? Check SOAPI-DIFF to find out what changed in the API
OBSOLETE - the website soapi.info is down.
SOAPI-DIFF
Soothe your beta api blues with a DIFF view of the entire API compared to the last changed version.
Instantly identify added/removed/changed ...
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Stack.JS - Powerful Event-driven Library for Accessing the Stack Exchange API in JavaScript.
About
Stack.JS is the JavaScript equivalent of Stack.PHP and aims to replicate the request structure of that library as much as possible. The library is still a long ways from being complete but is ...
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OBSOLETE - StackX - Android application for Stack Exchange (Free) (UI and optimization upgrade)
Update: 4/15/2013: Screenshots updated according to latest layout
An android application that will allow the user to browse through all of stack exchange websites using API v2.1.
Browse any of the ...
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Metro Stack - A Windows Phone Stack Exchange app
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I’m pleased to announce MetroStack: A Windows Phone 8.1 app to interact with any website part of the Stack Exchange Network.
Sort, search and view questions, answers, tags and users.
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SOAPI-REST: Complete Stack Overflow API specification in machine readable format
SOAPI-REST Services
At four hour intervals, SOAPI-WATCH parses the complete Stack Overflow API documentation and generates a complete object graph representing the API including all routes, ...
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My registered apps are not showing in my profile; where can I find them?
I registered two apps in Stack Apps, but when I access my account, it shows no registered apps.
How can I mark them as my apps and how can access app settings (client id, key), etc?
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Could/Should the API evolve more agile rather than being blocked by v2 writing (and authentication) features?
The activity on Stack Apps has dwindled noticeably; this might be a topic for its own discussion, however I'd like to revisit the API roadmap beforehand to set a proper stage and expectations in this ...
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Stack Exchange userscript template / boilerplate
I find it annoying to have to type the entire list of Stack Exchange sites to include every single time I make a new userscript. Furthermore, jQuery isn't automatically included by default.
Is there ...
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Convert share links to markdown [title](url)
v1.4 Share post links with markdown
Replaces the original URL shown by the share link dialog
and converts http://share-url to [question-title](http://share-url).
The script opens with Markup as ...
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Generate Headers - a utility package for validating and auto generating userscript manager headers
About
Tired of writing out userscript headers by hand? Of small typos in your @match headers leading to wasted time? Generate Headers to the rescue: this utility package automates header generation ...
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OAuth procedure for standalone user?
Background:
I will be using the Stack Exchange API to make queries to stack overflow for a list of questions along with their details for a particular month etc for analysis purposes.
So this would be ...
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Stack Users Lite: Search for users on all Stack Exchange sites and view their associated accounts
Stack Users Lite
About
Stack Users Lite is a simple single page JavaScript application that searches all Stack Exchange sites for users by partial or complete username and allows you to view the ...
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Are there any high resolution/scalable (SVG) icons or images available?
It would be nice to give community-developed apps a familiar look and feel. With that in mind, do the SE sites have any high-resolution or scalable icons and images that we can use?
I'm not really ...
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How to use min/max with sort
While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.
Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.
Aggregated sort ...
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After successfully retrieving 180 pages, the API gracelessly, semi-silently, fails
I'm trying to synchronize tags using the Stack Exchange API and this works for about 180 pages, but around 180 pages it always ends with an exception that seems to indicate that there is no HTTP ...
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Does a closed and/or deleted Stack Apps post still provide access to the API?
Registering your application as a Stack Apps app is necessary in order to obtain a higher request quota, authentication and write access to the API.
What happens if the question is closed because of ...
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What is the Errors endpoint used for?
I am trying to figure out what the errors endpoint is used for, so I can I can implement it in my API.
I have been trying things like:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/errors/404
http://api....
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API throws improper error when "date" parameters are the same
When using the Stack Exchange /questions API using the same date for fromdate and todate I get a 500 internal server error.
Using different dates appears to work OK but specifying the same value ...
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Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3
I was playing around a bit with Fiddler to capture traffic from the Stack Exchange iOS app. To my surprise, it uses version 2.3 of the Stack Exchange API:
I noticed here that it has some extra ...
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'Informed' badge doesn't exist on site, but is still being promoted
The issue of a non-existent badge being promoted has been brought up before, but the following still happens:
This will likely disappear once I get another badge (soon after posting this question :), ...
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Should status-review be made a mod tag?
On most other meta sites, status-review is a moderator tag, however on stack apps (which is it’s own meta) it is not a moderator tag. Since there is no status-review moderator tag on stack apps, ...
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The /search route is ignoring the answers parameter.
The answers parameter was recently added to most of the requests that return a list of questions. See: Don’t include answers in question lists by default
It looks like the /search request got left ...
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Javascript SDK channelUrl for local development [duplicate]
I am trying to get started with the Javascript SDK. I am developing on a web server on my local machine. I get a channelUrl-related error when calling SE.init.
My code:
SE.init({
clientId: ...
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Can revisions be returned from the API, filtered by user?
I see that question or answer revisions can be returned from the API either by post ID or by GUID.
I'd like to obtain this data filtered by user, e.g. "all revisions made by user X". However, I ...
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How do I parse the dates from the API?
I see that JSON returned by the API contains dates in the following format:
"creation_date":1364546475
^^^^^^^^^^
What's the meaning of it? How can I parse it to get the date in the ...
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OBSOLETE - SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM: A flat sortable, filterable list of all parameters in the Stack Overflow api
OBSOLETE: the soapi.info website is down
SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM
SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM is a little scooby snack of a tool that lets you get your eyes on all of the parameters in the api.
This is useful for ...
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StackHose: live real-time event stream in your browser
About
StackHose is a continuously updated stream of new content from Stack Overflow. It uses the Firehose JSON streaming event service to get a "push" stream of new event notifications. The newest ...
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How to create API filters?
I used the following request link to extract data from the Stack Exchange API. But I have no idea how to create "filter" as used in the request line.
Please help me understand the creation of such ...
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OAuth redirect not completing
This is the URL that I'm entering (in Safari, cleared website data and cache; my app, uses own Cookie jar; and incognito chrome)
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=23&scope=...
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Stack Exchange OAuth2, explicit access-token response format does not adhere to RFC6749 standard
I'm using the Stack Exchange v2.1 API. I'm using the explicit OAuth 2.0 flow, but it seems that the access token response step does not adhere to the RFC 6749 standard. Specifically, the Stack ...
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Given that stackapps has no "meta" is it OK to ask "discussion questions" with no "one right answer" here?
Sometimes I want to ask questions about using the API that don't necessarily have "one right answer" or might be subjective.
I've looked in the chat room but it's not very active.
I've looked for a ...
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Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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How to access my App info
I've registered for an app yesterday, but I'm not finding where should I go to see/edit its info again.
I've search through profile, at stackexchange.com but couldn't find it.
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Do I need permission to use the SE API for a commercial app?
I recently developed a mobile app using the publicly available API of one of the Stack Exchange sites.
Do I need to obtain permission from Stack Exchange before releasing the app to the public? Can I ...
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How to search answers like is:answer
How can I use the API to search for answers containing particular text or with particular properties? For example, this link allows me to search for is:answer foo, that is, answers containing foo. Can ...
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Implicit Flow Isn't Redirecting
I'm using the WebAuthenticationBroker to allow users to log in to their account:
var accessToken = "";
var uri = "https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?redirect_uri=https://localhost.com&...
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1
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Stack Exchange API not realtime?
I was testing the inbox/unread API but noticed that there is a big delay between one gets a message, and this message gets included in the API response. Like one minute or more.
Is this API not real-...
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Column 80 - Plain Text optimised Stack Exchange
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
Browsing the existing Stack Exchange family of websites was OK in a text-based browser, but when you're stuck in a Linux shell with no way out and no other computers ...
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StinkingBadges - Track your progress towards long-term badges
Introduction
I was curious how far away I was from Generalist, and there are some data explorer queries that can show you your progress, but I thought it should be possible to make this work with the ...
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"Reply" links on comments
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About
This user script adds a little "reply" link to each comment. Clicking this link will
fetch the rest of the comments, if some of them were hidden
show the "add comment&...
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StacksGuru: a near realtime bot for all Stack Exchange sites
UPDATE
Stacksguru address is now [email protected] (in the plural form) remove the old contact ([email protected]) and use the new one.
StacksGuru is a Jabber/XMPP bot which gives you a ...
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Better handling of indentation and the TAB key when editing posts
About
This user script changes the behavior of a few keys (most notably the Tab key) within the post editor to behave more like it does in IDEs or text editors:
When multiple lines are selected, Tab ...
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SE Comment Link Helper
About
This userscript automatically converts raw Stack Exchange question URLs into the form [title](link) before submitting comments by grabbing their titles from the API. This is similar to ...
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Stack Exchange Global Flag Summary
This is a userscript that provides a networkwide flag summary for all Stack Exchange sites.
If you are logged into the Stack Exchange network and you have this script installed, you can visit the ...
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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 ...
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StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa
About
StackKit is a library for accessing the Stack Exchange API from within Cocoa/Cocoa Touch applications. It is under active development, but the major core functionality is present.
Code ...