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Can I use “StackOverflow” in the title of my website?
According to the little tooltip I get when registering an app,
Do not: Use any of the full names for our websites in the name of your website or application.
By full name, do you mean ...
9
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0answers
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Code Golf UserScript Enhancement Pack
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This small UserScript is designed to enhance the Code Golf SE site by making it easier to see the length of each entry and the ...
8
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0answers
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StackList - List Your Apps, Track Bugs, and More!
StackList
http://stacklist.quickmediasolutions.com/
Update: There are already quite a few apps and libraries listed and the number is growing by the day. Don't put off listing yours!
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1answer
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pyso.py - Python Stack Overflow library
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import pyso
# Install the Server Fault API version 1.0.
pyso.install_site(pyso.APISite("api.serverfault.com", "1.0"))
# Get all the names of the moderators.
print ...
13
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1answer
331 views
Real-time desktop notifications for Stack Exchange inbox ( Chrome / Firefox )
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Get real-time desktop notifications for your inbox at the Stack Exchange.
After installing and setting your Stack Exchange account ID, you will get desktop notifications ...
12
votes
1answer
194 views
Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Currently, the only way to call the API from javascript is to use JSONP, but this can be cumbersome and has security issues. If the following header was included in all API responses, the API could be ...
10
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3answers
501 views
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 ...
8
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6answers
407 views
MathJax Buttons
Adds some math/science buttons to the editor on science SE sites. These buttons are useful for converting selected text to math, formatting SI units, and formatting chemical equations. There are ...
7
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0answers
632 views
Ask Ubuntu Data Server - Blazing Fast Searches from the Data Dump and API
Note: a special thank-you to Jacob for hosting this application on his server.
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This project was born out of a need to get data from the Ask Ubuntu API with little ...
6
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2answers
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Acceptable Use of Copyrighted Logos/Names?
Are any/some/all of the following considered acceptable use of the site names and logos?
I know that there is no "official policy" yet regarding this, but I figured I would show some examples of what ...
3
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2answers
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The API Key does not work
I have registered an app at http://stackapps.com/apps/register, got a Key right away after I have submitted.
But now when I request http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY, I got ...
2
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8answers
524 views
How to format reputation numbers similar to Stack Exchange sites.
UPDATE
For JavaScript, see CMS's implementation below. It is much more elegant than the one i provide in the body of this Q.
// formats a number similar to the way stack exchange sites
...
13
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1answer
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Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?
Twitter has the ability as part of its API to query the current rate limit status. Going to this url will show you how many requests can be made before the limit is reached:
{"remaining_hits":150,
...
10
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0answers
348 views
StackTagz - Track the topics you are interested in over time
StackTagz
http://stacktagz.com
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StackTagz analyses your participation in StackExchange sites by looking at which tags you are active in. A question, an answer or a ...
8
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1answer
267 views
Should we add a “this site is not affiliated to Stack Overflow..” disclaimer to our website app?
I've checked legal section but it does not say anything specific of this aspect apart from:
Do feel free to explain that your product is built on the Stack Exchange platform so people understand your ...
8
votes
1answer
239 views
Keep getting HTTP 406
Not sure if this is a user or an API problem, but I keep getting HTTP 406 Not Acceptable when making API calls (for example http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats) from either IE 8 or Chrome 6.
Here ...
7
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1answer
90 views
Add close-vote information to the questions object
Would it be possible to add close/reopen vote information to the questions object?
For example, you usually see something along the lines of:
close (3)
when a question has three (current) ...
4
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2answers
672 views
API compliant request throttle implementations
Balancing compliance with Request Throttling Limits with maximum allowable throughput in our applications and libraries with any reliability requires self-throttling.
This post is meant to be a repo ...
4
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1answer
199 views
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 ...
4
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0answers
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How to call the API via JSONP in Plain Old JavaScript
This tips demonstrates how to call the API in JavaScript without the need of jQuery or other frameworks.
In a lot of cases you will find that the JSONP implementations provided in various frameworks ...
2
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1answer
235 views
Strange encoding for JSON output
I'm trying to create an R API. Here's some basic code for processing JSON:
library(rjson)
fromJSON(readLines("http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/stats/", warn=F))
As I look into this, the output of ...
26
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0answers
613 views
FlackBot - Making Conversation in the Chat Rooms
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FlackBot (whose name was inspired by this app) is a chat bot for the Stack Exchange network of chat sites. It currently hangs out in the Sandbox but it it designed for the Ask ...
11
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2answers
158 views
Detecting StackExchanges with non-standard “plugins” (e.g. MathJax)
Some recent StackExchanges are starting to include site specific 3rd party JavaScripts - for example, cstheory.stackexchange.com (and math.stackexchange.com) both use what I think is MathJax to render ...
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7answers
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API V2 Musings: What would you like to see
Answers should take the form of feature requests/modifications that are either obviously beyond the scope of v1 and or have been status-declined or status-deferred
They will be indexed here in the Q.
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6
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1answer
199 views
Why these questions do not have a title?
Hitting the following /questions route:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/74?pagesize=1&page=1
the endpoint returns this JSON data:
{
"total": 1,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 1,
...
5
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1answer
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StackAd Scroller
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StackAd Scroller is a small web application that scrolls the open source ads from this Meta question. It is highly configurable and makes a nice page to leave your web browser ...
4
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2answers
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Prefered way to retrieve all search results
I'm trying to figure out a reliable way to retrieve all the results from a search query (in subsequent pages. My use case includes cases with more than 100 results (the maximum page size).
Looking at ...
4
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1answer
563 views
StackScript JavaScript Wrapper
Code Snippet
Demonstrates the StackUser class:
// Global object
var ss = new StackScript('');
function GetInfo()
{
// The provided callback will be called
// when the data arrives
var ...
3
votes
2answers
288 views
What is the throttle interval or threshold?
Resolution:
I have confirmed that a constant interval of 170 ms will run without error.
// 30 per 5 sec = 6 per sec = interval 166.6 ms
Soapi.RequestQueue.setInterval(170);
...
2
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1answer
91 views
Script to add a “Related Tags” module for search on all Stack Exchange sites
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Back in May A.Danesh asked "How can I see related tag for a search query?". I didn't actually see this question at the time but by September I started wondering ...
2
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0answers
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Autonavigate/autocomment “close/flag offtopic” for MSO
On MSO, there are plenty of questions that should be on SO asked every day.
The procedure with dealing with these is:
Copy-paste boilerplate comment saying "This belongs on SO blah". Alternatively, ...
1
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1answer
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Can we add a creation_date to the /sites method?
I think we really need a way to determine when one of the new sites went live so that they can be ordered by date.
Something like:
{
"name": "Gaming Meta",
"logo_url": ...
5
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2answers
199 views
Url length limits have been increased
There's been some grumbling in the past about the unreliability of really ludicrously long URLs sent to the API.
We've always considered this suboptimal, but the underlying technical constraints ...
4
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0answers
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Selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs Code Camp Video Interview.
This is a very selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs Code Camp Video Interview:
Purpose
Please note that this transcript fragment is mainly a supporting post to decrease the length of ...
4
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2answers
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Odd String Format Result from API Call
I'm just getting started messing around with the SO api, I haven't worked with JSON before, and I am getting a strange result from a basic call (No API Key).
WebClient stackClient = new WebClient();
...
3
votes
1answer
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Stack Override: Rank answers by usefulness
Stack Override
This extension is a part of my final year project for a computer science degree. It displays notifications when the browser loads a Stack Overflow question page. Once clicked, the ...
3
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1answer
119 views
Global Inbox uses the API?
Just wondering if the GI uses the APIto work, it could but it would require a lot of requests (though it won't take up [internet] bandwidth because it's done inside the server cluster (that is ...
3
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1answer
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Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I'm having a problem returning a list of users questions within a given timespan. I understand that the documentation ( http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/questions ) that ...
3
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1answer
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
2
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1answer
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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 ...
2
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0answers
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Stack Overflow offline PDF question reader
About
Using a keyword, the Stackoverflow Offline Reader WinForm app loads all the questions
and their answers into a single pdf file and displays the pdf (if you have a reader installed). ...
2
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1answer
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How to filter getAnswersForUser by tag?
I'm using Stackexchange java client lib I wanted to get a little more statistics but the following snippet returns only 30 answers.
Do I need to to register for an API key, or just use ...
2
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3answers
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display_name isn't always there (should have OpenID name if needed)
usually in the owner dictionary there is a display_name value to give the username. But in a few questions it simply doesn't exist and I can't see why only those questions: eg, this excerpt from the ...
1
vote
1answer
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Is there an authentication component to the API?
Is there an authentication component with the API? Same as logging in with Facebook or Google etc?
1
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1answer
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Associated accounts is broken for this user
When I retrieve associated accounts for Joel Coehoorn using this query it only includes Programmers.SE and Webmasters.SE despite the fact that I retrieved the association key from a query to SU. The ...
1
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2answers
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Post questions using API [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an api to post questions without using the websites interface?
Can I use the API for posting any question to StackOverflow? I have a internal sharepoint site ...
1
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2answers
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Is there a way to determine total number of upvotes and downvotes (etc) for a user (regardless of reputation cap)?
For example, if you use the /users/<id>/reputation call, you get a list of reputation changes for the user, but it takes the daily reputation cap into account. What I would like is an API call ...
1
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1answer
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Filter support for regex or wildcards
Filter would be significantly more useful it it supported Regex or wildcards. Ideally under a different parameter. Wildcard could be with the * or the %. This would allow for "starts-with" or ...
0
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1answer
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min/max parameters are incorrectly documented as date - confusion and crippled libraries ensue
I have noticed this on all sorted routes.
The min/max say that they are context sensitive to the sort type yet are documented as date.
How is a date min/max valid when sorting by, for instance ...
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6answers
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Official keyboard shortcuts
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This is the official keyboard shortcuts script for the Stack Exchange sites, as announced on Meta Stack Overflow. It is still in active development, and will eventually move ...
