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App/Script to track answers/comments for specific questions?
Is there any app that tracks answers or comments to a specific question and provides an rss feed (or email digest or similar)? I'm only interested in keeping track of certain questions. Can I use ...
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Unread messages in inbox query shows older inbox messages
I am using the /inbox/unread route to get the unread messages in a user's inbox. Recently (over the last couple of months, perhaps) I have noticed that the entries returned from this route initially ...
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The 1.0/sites API call is not returning all stackexchange sites
Version 1 of the /sites API call does not appear to be returning all sites currently in the StackExchange network.
Compared to calling version 2 of the API with a large page size, the list of sites ...
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Get tags from question through an answer
I'd like to use this function: http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers-on-users to get a list of answers from a user.
The key element that I need though is what the question was tagged as, is there ...
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Super User Dark Theme
Get the CSS for your extension
Stylish for Firefox
Stylebot for Chrome
Additional linkage
GitHub Project page
StyleBot with full regex in URL matching (Prefix pattern with ^ to use regex)
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QuickStack - A Simple Browser Extension
About QuickStack
QuickStack allows you to quickly view StackOverflow questions without visiting the question page. This was inspired by the Reddit Enhancement Suite and it's feature that allows quick ...
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Using Stack2RSS, why can I get feeds for some SE sites and not others?
I can use Stack2RSS to easily get RSS feeds of some StackExchange sites but not others:
The pattern if I understand the API is http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/{SiteName}/questions
Substituting ...
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How should we announce updates to our apps, scripts, libraries, etc?
Is there a recommended best way to let the stackapps community know that we've released an updated version of one of our projects?
We can edit the project's page and bump the version number, but this ...
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Stackstabilizer - A Windows 8 Metro Stackoverflow app (version 4, 11-09-2012)
About Stackstabilizer
Stackstabilizer is a Stackoverflow reader for Windows 8. It helps you browse content on Stackoverflow, and allows you to sign in.
In-app search
It provides in-app search ...
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WordPress Plugin to Display SE Activity?
Is there a WordPress plugin that will display a users activity from any of the StackExchange sites (i.e. display their answers and questions, etc.)?
If there isn't a WordPress plugin for this, is ...
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How to add stackoverflow api to ruby on rails app
I created ruby on rails app. And i want to crawl data form stackoverflow, i know to use stackoverflow api but i don't know to add it to my app. Please help me, add it to ruby on rails app.
I user ...
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Is there a difference between the API search and the search from within the site?
I'm curious if the search results from the API is calculated the same way as the searches from within the sites themselves? Is there a difference between the two? If so, what are the difference?
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How to get the site name from document to pass to API?
Most APIs take a parameter site which must be set to the name of the site your queries are about.
For meta.travel or travel.
But of course sites have various names, for example ...
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More Global Methods?
Consider the following scenario: I need to retrieve a list of the latest questions asked on three different Stack Exchange sites. I throw together an application that hits up the following routes:
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Calibre recipe for StackExchange recent question feeds
The Calibre ebook manager has a recipe system to generate ebooks from websites/news feeds in order to read them offline.
The following recipe creates an ebook from all StackExchange news feeds:
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Error Copying Source File in Audio Spectrum Visualizer [closed]
Good afternoon, my name is David and I have a question regarding on the Gtomee.com website. You see, I'm testing this code using LibGDX, Java, and Eclipse to test the music player that detects the ...
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StackIRC - Posting Questions from Stack Exchange Sites to IRC Channels
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About
Similar to the Twitter feeds for each Stack Exchange site, this small IRC bot retrieves questions from any Stack Exchange site and regularly posts them to an IRC channel of ...
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API docs titled “v2.0”; should be “v2.1”
The documentation is titled "StackExchange API v2.0"... this should be updated to "v2.1" as it's not readily obvious that version 2.1 has been published otherwise.
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs
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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 ...
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Suggestion Status - a userscript to view the status of your suggested edits
Suggestion Status is a small userscript which displays the status of your suggestions using color codes; , and yet to be reviewed. This allows you to immediately see the status of your ...
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How to register a wordpress plugin
I am about to implement a wordpress plugin to include some of your information in a wordpress blog. In the first version this plugin will display a very limited set of profile information, in further ...
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A way to mimic the “share a link to this answer” dialog from a user script?
I would like to make a browser "user script" (like Greasemonkey etc) that can pop open a window with a text field for the user to select and copy so they can paste it elsewhere.
I want to match the ...
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Stackwise: a beautiful way to browse Stack Exchange sites
Stackwise: a new Stack Exchange browser for iOS devices.
New features
(v1.2) Now you can scroll through images embedded in questions and answers with standard pan gestures. See all the ...
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How do I know what apps on my stackexchange account I have already authorized?
I'm developing an app using the stackexchange oauth, I want to revoke my permissions to this app for testing the overall process, but I can't find which apps I have authorized.
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is there a way to use my app to authenticate users with only a StackOverflow account with the stackExchange oauth api 2.1?
Recently I registered an app in http://stackapps.com/ to provide a way to authenticate users with their stackoverflow account. but I notice that https://stackexchange.com/oauth only works for users ...
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is there a way to use my app to authenticate users with only a StackOverflow account with the stackExchange oauth api 2.1?
Recently I registered an app in http://stackapps.com/ to provide a way to authenticate users with their Stack Overflow account.
Then I noticed that https://stackexchange.com/oauth only works for ...
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API documentation console unsuccessfully tries to load MiniProfiler results
All of the documentation pages (example) with the test console currently attempt to load MiniProfiler result data, which fails with a 404:
POST ...
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HTTP 400 “Bad Request” while using “access_token” in request Url
I registered an app, obtained a key and I have implemented the implicit OAuth 2.0 flow in a Windows 8 desktop app (as per the documentation available here). After receiving and storing the access ...
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Using an existing Java oAuth implementation to access the Stack Exchange 2 Api?
I found the Scribe oAuth api and I was wondering how a call would work with the Stack Exchange API, since that uses oAuth. I'm sorta green when it comes to oAuth but I'm planning on writing an ...
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Typo in the docs for /me
The doc says:
Returns the user associated with the passed auth_token.
This method returns a user.
It should say "access_token" instead of "auth_token".
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Thinking about making a cross-platform app [closed]
I am looking at developing an app for my company. Initially I was just thinking about the iPhone but then realised I should consider the Android OS and the Windows phone and also probably access via ...
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Could we add “has_tag_wiki” and “has_tag_wiki_excerpt” flags to the tag info API?
Currently the only way to check for existence of tags wikis and tag wiki excerpts is to fetch their actual contents using the tags wikis API
/tags/{tags}/wikis
But this returns the entire text ...
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Querying “standard meta tags” for their tag wikis wrongly says they have none
I'm checking which tags have tag wiki excerpts in my code. It looks like /tags/{tags}/wikis is the right API since the tag info API doesn't even give a boolean for tag wiki excerpt presence.
But ...
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Confusing documentation re vectorized requests limits
The documentation for vectorized requests says this:
Most methods that take ids in the Stack Exchange API will take up to 100 of them in a single go. This allows applications to batch work and ...
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Do the terms “key” and “access_token” refer to the same thing?
I'm trying to get my head around all the limits and throttles but some terminology is confusing me:
If an application does not have an access_token, then the application shares an IP based quota ...
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Best strategies for calling the API with full throttling support?
I know this would be subjective on a normal SE site but as the relevant chat rooms are mostly dormant, we have no meta site, and nobody noticed when I asked if this kind of question is OK here, I'm ...
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How should we test the new write-mode comments functionality?
Endpoints which write public content are much harder to test. What's the best way to test the new comments functionality without having to post to real threads?
I have seen the Charles web proxy ...
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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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The “Get Started” section in the sidebar only mentions API 2.0 and API 1.1
Now that API 2.1 is "public, frozen, and out the door" shouldn't we update the "Get Started" section in the sidebar on the right side of the screen.
It talks about API 2.0 and API 1.1 but doesn't ...
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No token field in the docs test page for /me/reputation-history
There is no form field for an access token at:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-reputation-history
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-full-reputation-history
After attempting to Run the ...
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Bug in the StackExchange Api ? getting “could not parse proxy url” when user not logged in
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in the StackExchange JS API
I'm having a problem getting its authentication to work properly, and I just discovered that the same problem exist in the official ...
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Typo in API filter documentation
When using unsafe filters, the API returns the highest fidelity data is can reasonably access for the given request.
should be
When using unsafe filters, the API returns the highest fidelity ...
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ProStack Lite - StackOverflow inbox notifier and quick accessor for OS X (in Mac App Store)
About
Tired of manually checking Stackoverflow.com for new answers and comments?
Ever wished to access the new Stackoverflow questions with one click?
ProStack Lite is the solution.
ProStack ...
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OverflowMonthly
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About
OverflowMonthly is a monthly collection of the most popular questions on the Stack Exchange Network,published as ebooks(pdf and kindle format).
People can now ...
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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 ...
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Logging out so another user can log in
Just in the process of final testing for an iPad SE browser, and uncovered some odd behaviour.
I'm using Google for authentication. If I deploy a clean version of the app, and authenticate, I get the ...
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Stackdump, an offline browser for StackExchange sites
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Stackdump was conceived for those who work in environments that do not have easy access to the StackExchange family of websites. It allows you to host a read-only instance of ...
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Error retrieving question using a filter that includes question.notice
I have created a filter to include the question.notice field. It seems to be OK as returned by
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/filters/-9xc1l%2Au-JEsf_Q
Then if I want to fetch this question using ...
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Is the “link” URL enough to uniquely identify an “inbox_item”?
I've been looking at the documentation on the inbox_item type, and I was wondering what is the correct way to uniquely identify an inbox_item?
Is the "link" URL enough to uniquely identify an ...
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When will the “site” field be absent from an “inbox_item”?
According to the documentation on the inbox_item type, the site field "may be absent". Under what circumstances will this occur?
