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Stack Alert [Mozilla Firefox Add-on] - Keep tabs on your inbox without needing to have a Stack Exchange site open.
Not using Firefox?
Don't worry, Stack Alert is available for other browsers as well. Visit the appropriate page for your browser below:
Google Chrome
Opera
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Belisarius - Detecting vandalism on Stack Overflow
Background:
This bot has been developed in an attempt to help capture possible vandalism. This includes:
Removing all code
Replacing all content with nonsense/repeated words
Adding solutions to ...
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FireAlarm: detecting low-quality questions with machine learning
There are two versions of FireAlarm. One version is written in C, and the other is written in Swift. This post is about the Swift version.
FireAlarm is a chatbot Ashish Ahuja and I have been ...
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Overflow7 - Stack Exchange sites on Windows Phone 7
Video of 1.0
On YouTube - http://bit.ly/stackoverflowforwp7
About
This is a Stack Overflow app for Windows Phone 7 - it allows you to browse, read and bookmark Stack Exchange sites
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Follow your friends on StackOverflow with FriendOverflow
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Video of app in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zflMRXt2c&hd=1
About
I created this app because I wanted to see what my friends and co-workers were doing on StackOverflow. I ...
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'Saviour' of Lost Souls
'Saviour' of Lost Souls
Meta sites, but especially Meta Stack Exchange, see a lot of 'lost souls', users who have no idea that they're on Meta (e.g. because of a suboptimal email or a Stack Overflow ...
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Deleting an application key? [duplicate]
There should be delete buttons on stackapps.com/apps https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/ so we can delete API-keys.
Or at least de-activate them? I mean, cancelled projects, etc...
A deletion button ...
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My app has to be published first? But it's still under development
Okay, I want to build an App that allows me to create questions on Stack Exchange. I registered it here on Stack Apps but now when I want to create a question I get this message:
{
"error_message": ...
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Add keyboard shortcuts to comments
Question code is obsolete.
But the answer code and the code linked in the comments still work.
About
This script adds Ctrl+B (bold), Ctrl+I (italic), Ctrl+K (code), and Ctrl+L (link) shortcuts to ...
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Stack Exchange Post Editor - Performing Basic Corrections on Posts Automatically
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This script was originally inspired by SE Editor Toolkit. Unfortunately, the toolkit is packaged as a Safari extension and as such is unusable in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. I had ...
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StackInbox - a Chrome/Firefox Extension that Preserves New Stack Exchange Inbox Messages Until They Are Actually Read
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Below is a screenshot of the inbox with two viewed yet unread messages:
About
Preserves new Stack Exchange Inbox messages until they are actually read, not just viewed in ...
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Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted
Could you please provide a way to retrieve deleted questions/answers?
Your database contains that data, until you hard delete it, so it would be useful for us to have the chance to play with it.
I'm ...
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Stack Exchange Side-By-Side Edit and Preview
Note: the new inline editing breaks this user script pretty seriously, so it doesn't work at the moment. I will be working on fixing it to work with the new system when I get a chance, but it may take ...
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OBSOLETE - Soapi.JS : fluent JavaScript client library for the Stack Exchange API
OBSOLETE
This library uses the old API, and the soapi.info domain doesn't work anymore. There's still an archive on CodePlex.
Soapi.js
If you are looking for a full featured, compact JavaScript ...
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Duplicate Target Manager
Description
This is a userscript that lets you mark questions as commonly used duplicate targets, and replaces the default question search in the close dialog with one that searches through your ...
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OBSOLETE - Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes
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Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes is a UserScript for any Stack Exchange site that makes it extremely simple to check for duplicate questions for a post. In the left side it shows ...
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Bring back the Bold!
Our insidious overlords have made some numbers on the page thinner. This script feeds the numbers a sandwich to get them back to normal size.
Installation
Click here to install. Will work in Chrome ...
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StackUnderflow.js: A JavaScript Library and Mashup Application
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About
StackUnderflow.js is a lightweight JavaScript library that makes retrieving and rendering question summary information from Stack Exchange sites simple. It supports ...
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SOwhat Stack Overflow browser
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About
SOwhat is a Qt-based application that attempts to mimic the Stack Overflow website.
License
SOwhat is released under the MIT license.
Download
Currently, this is what I can offer:
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StackUsers.com - everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask. (about an SE user. almost.)
About
http://stackusers.com
All Stack Exchange users at your fingertips.
The core of this application is a robust data acquisition and maintenance platform based on Soapi.CS that reliably and ...
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Freehand Circles Drawing Tool
What is it?
A userscript that lets you draw directly onto images on any Stack Exchange site to add freehand circles (or anything else you might like to add).
It has been designed to work like ...
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Ask Ubuntu Toolbar Buttons - A set of toolbar buttons for Ask Ubuntu that make it easy to insert links to packages, PPAs, etc
Update:
This script was previously called "Insert APT Link" but has now been renamed. As such, you need to uninstall any previous versions before installing the new one.
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Hexadecimal user rep
About
Displays user reputation in hexadecimal. The code is quite simple if you want to do any tweaks. For users with rep >= 0x10000, it switches the font to Arial Narrow to prevent breaking layouts.
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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 ...
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Self-destructing comments
I've made a userscript that allows you to self-destruct comments that you've made.
You can get it at Github.
Get started
install Tampermonkey, or Greasemonkey
get an access token
install the script
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Google App Engine [app]s - We are all on the same quota!
Noticing a couple of "This IP has exceeded the request-per-day limit" errors on StackPrinter log, I asked for a verification and the prompt answer was:
There are a number of [app]s using
Google ...
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VoteCounts: bookmarklet to display up/down votes even for rep less than 1000
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About
This small bookmarklet will allow anyone to use the "vulnerability" of the API that it allows you to check the up/down vote count - a feat you could normally achieve ...
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Shit SE Says - Stack Exchange chat stars out of context
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About
The first thing you need to know is that it took me about 5 minutes of refreshing that the app to find two screenshots that were Safe For Work (and as a bonus, ...
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What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
Now that we have a Community Bulletin, we use it to highlight questions (more precisely scripts/apps/libraries) which deserve to be highlighted. All we ♦ moderators need to do is slap a featured tag ...
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Stack Exchange thinks that Shog is a elected moderator
I was browsing the API for the list of elected moderators, The API URL is
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/elected-moderators#pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow&...
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Changing the display of the apps tab
We're looking at changing the front page of Stack Apps to look more like a proper app "marketplace" and less like a run of the mill Stack Exchange site.
Proposal (third draft)
This would ...
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StackLINQ: A StackExchange LINQ Provider
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var questions = from q in ctx.Questions
where q.OwnerID == 34796
select q;
var multiQuestion = from q in ctx.Questions
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Burnaki: tracking progress and helping burnination efforts on Stack Exchange
Burnaki
The purpose of this project is to monitor burnination efforts on the Stack Exchange network. The goals are threefold:
tracking the progress by watching for close votes / reopen votes / ...
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OBSOLETE - Stackwise: a beautiful way to browse Stack Exchange sites
Obsolete: App not available, nor maintained for years. Source code not available.
Stackwise: a new Stack Exchange browser for iOS devices.
New features
(v1.3) Now with full iOS 7.0 support! Also, ...
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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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Conscientious use of the API
What constitutes abuse?
Making an undue number of requests in a short span of time, or regularly exceeding a request quota during "normal" use.
Guidelines for polling
We realize that a great ...
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Should there be a discovery API?
It would seem to me that a simple API that return an array of the API base URL and perhaps the common name of the sites that support the API would be valuable. Is this sensible?
EDIT:
This is what I ...
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RankOverflow: A website to calculate your Stack Overflow reputation rank in all leagues
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Rank Overflow is a website to calculate your Stack Overflow reputation rank in all leagues easily and with one click.
I created this page because I wanted to know my percentage of my ...
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Stackpop — Stack Exchange meets OS X Notification Center
Stack Exchange meets OS X Notification Center. Keep up to date with all the most recent activity regarding your questions, answers, and more with Stackpop, an OS X application that lives in the menu ...
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Close Reason Editor: Customize your off-topic close reasons
About
The Close Reason Editor allows you edit the off-topic close reasons which are normally editable only by the site moderators.
Show or hide the default off-topic close reasons
If, for some ...
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Copy Question Link Markdown - Making it easier to copy links to questions!
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About
This small UserScript makes it easier to copy the URL of the current question into pre-formatted Markdown. Once installed, it adds a 'copy' link to the question.
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StackTray: The Stack Overflow tray application
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Icon on left
Hover over icon
Context menu
Reputation Alerts
About
This application sits in your system tray and periodically checks Stack Overflow for any new badges or ...
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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!
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Stackathlon 2.5: Leader board for users active on multiple sites
tl;dr New! See "More Athlons" below.
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It's surprising how few people are active on multiple Stack Exchange sites. Well, maybe not so surprising. But it's a big world; you'd ...
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OBSOLETE - A Stack of Twits - Tweeting all over your stack
OBSOLETE - Domain is no longer working and Twitter account hasn't been active since 2010.
Get tweets about new questions on Stack App sites
About
I am fed up sitting all day refreshing the home ...
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Can we have some debug endpoints for testing corner cases?
After encountering a throttle violation today (which I posted in another question), it occurred to me that although I've put together code to handle "backoff" conditions, and potentially throttle ...
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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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StackRating – Tracks skill of Stack Overflow users!
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About
StackRating.com tracks user ratings which is a measure of users “skill”. It does so by comparing the number of upvotes on the answers of each question and uses the formula of the ...
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Dice Stack - Find a random question
DiceStack website
(www.isimonbrown.co.uk/dicestack/)
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About
Fetches a random question from a Stack Exchange site of your choice.
License
Free-to-use webapp. Source not available.
Features
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Hide all pointless user data (avatar, badges, and reputation)
Hide pointless user data on userscripts.com
When I look at answers, I often take the user's reputation points into account on whether I upvote them or not. This is a terribly bad thing to do as you ...