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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.
Screenshot
http://static.quickmediasolutions.com/media/screenshots/audsmdi.png
About
This project was born out of a ...
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Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider
About
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.
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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 ...
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sorting ascending vs descending
I don't understand the difference between ascending and descending?
Surely ascending means the most active/recent/popular/A first, and descending means the least active/recent/popular/Z first?
But it ...
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Optionally Anonymised Short Links
Description
This is a resurrection of the (now no longer accessible) UserScript Anonymize short links.
Specifically, this script implements this proposal by adding a checkbox (toggle switch) to each ...
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Add the 'people reached' count to the API?
Can we have the people reached statistic added to the /users/{ids} method?
The response could simply be:
"people_reached": 1000
I'm asking because it would be cool to get a network-wide number.
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Stack 10 - UWP App for Windows 10 & Windows 10 Phone
Update
Stack 10 is now V 19.5.25 with new fluent design and few bug fixes. Screenshots will be updated shortly.
About
Stack 10 is a UWP Stack Exchange client for Stack Exchange Network.
Some of ...
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Stack Overflow app for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 and Android
About
Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 don't have a Stack Overflow app and I would like to create one for both the platforms.
Aim:
To create an app that can be used to browse through the questions on ...
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The Unofficial Wheel of Blame
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About
The chat room Tavern on the Meta (MSO), in its early days, developed a habit of /blameing someone (anyone!) whenever something relatively significant went wrong. When something ...
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OBSOLETE - achivy.com, track all your statistics, reputation and badges in one place (now also supports coderwall)
About
Time to collect your achivies
Achivy adds some fun to your life. It supports Stack Overflow and all Stack Exchange applications, GitHub,Coderwall Ohloh as well as many other applications to your ...
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Guidelines on app and library thumbnails
We now have better, user-friendlier display for apps and libraries and scripts:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/stack-exchange-api-1-1-and-improved-app-gallery/
We infer a number of things ...
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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?
Back in version 1.1 of the API, we used to be able to do:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?help
...which would return information about the method in JSON format. However, attempting to ...
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Convert Stack Exchange posts to your own website
Screenshot - Website Home Page
When you visit the Pippim Website, which you can quickly rebrand as your own, the Home Page on GitHub Pages looks like this:
Screenshot - Convert Stack Exchange to ...
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Node.js/ChatExchange - An API for Chat
About
ChatExchange is a node.js API for talking to Stack Exchange chat (Largely based on ChatExchange for python). This is still very much in the works, but currently provides a working API for those ...
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Get reputation changes across all sites without querying each one individually
I'm looking to make an app that shows your reputation changes throughout the network. /me/reputation-history/full almost accomplishes this, but it's on a per-site basis. I only want one query to get ...
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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,
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More Share Links (Markdown / HTML / BBCode)
Description:
As of 1.04, this now also works with Firefox / Greasemonkey.
Adds share links in additional formats, and also lets you omit user ID from links:
Features:
Adds Markdown, HTML, and ...
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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 (...
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OBSOLETE - StackAd Scroller
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About
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 open ...
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API usage triggering 503 (Too Many Requests)
Update:
I generally try to back any claims of bugs and shortcomings with evidence.
I have prepared a test page which you, dear Stack Overflow staff and my fellow developers, can use to ascertain ...
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Filter doesn't consistently return comment bodies
I've been trying to set up a filter I can use with /questions/{id}/answers/ (using the UI at this link), which returns the following fields:
answer:
answer_id
body_markdown
comments
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Calling SE APIs with Nushell (basic overview)
While I still prefer a more "traditional" shell for day-to-day use, I'm finding Nushell's structured data capabilities to be a fantastic companion to the SE API (among others). It's been ...
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Please provide a way to get Post Edits, filtered by user
I recently discovered from this question that the API does not support filtering revisions by user. I am interested in looking at a user's edit history programmatically (with their permission) and at ...
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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 ...
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Toasty: A better chat antifreeze bot
About
Toasty is an antifreeze bot for the Stack Exchange chat system. It automatically sends messages in low-activity rooms to keep the system from freezing them for inactivity. Toasty is usable by ...
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The API Key does not work
I have registered an app at https://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 ...
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Can we not limit requests based on the first one?
According to the answer given to this question, it seems like the API limits requests based on the first one. (Regardless of the presence of a key.)
Can this please be changed? It really hinders ...
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Getting started: /users/{id} [duplicate]
I am trying to get the amount of reputation that a user has. I have established that I need to use this url: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/1272330?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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The API /questions/{ids}/timeline path doesn't return several items that occurred after the fromdate parameter
I need to get all the question activity after some particular time. I am using the timeline API, like so:
/questions/20032212/timeline?fromdate=1384705610&site=stackoverflow.com
But it ...
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Platforms Supported by the API and Response Compression
What platforms are supported for use with the Stack Exchange API?
In short, anything that can make a GET request to the API servers and supports JSON/JSONP & GZIP. (JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, ...
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What's an example of the backoff field? Is there some way I can simulate it to test appropriate behavior?
In reading about the API rate limiting, the documentation talks about a method responding with an ominous backoff field, and states that the client should cease from calling that method for that many ...
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Is there a way to programmatically access chat?
I'm thinking about starting a project where I'd like to have access to the "chat" feature of the stack exchange sites. I saw this project: IRC access for the chat?
But I don't believe that it works ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Java wrapper for Stack Exchange
I am interested in building an Android or Java ME application. Is there a Java wrapper?
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Can we get a sandbox please?
I think that we should have some sort of a sandbox site where we can post questions, answers and comments in a controlled environment.
Currently I'm working with Stack Overflow but I can't post "...
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Is Stack Apps the place to suggest applications?
Is StackApps.com the place to suggest applications you would like to see created?
I sometimes receive suggestions along the lines of "Is it possible add [feature-suggestion] to Stack Exchange?" I ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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go-sechat - Go package for interacting with the Stack Exchange chat network
The Stack Exchange chat network does not currently have an API. However, after spending a bit of time in Chrome's Inspector, I was able to reverse-engineer most of the requests and responses ...
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`redirect_uri` is not under the registered domain for this application
I am trying to implement Stack Exchange authorization in my RoR application.
But I get the error :
redirect_uri is not under the registered domain for this application
in Gemfile use:
gem '...
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Limiting the number of items returned by a request?
How can I limit the amount of items returned to me when performing an API call?
I only want the top 10 most commonly used tags, by default I'm sent back 30. EG:
api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags?order=...
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Getting an API key for an application without a server
When I go to register my application, it asks me my OAUTH application URL. But I don't have an OAuth server and I just want to get the api-key without my server.
How can I fill out the form required ...
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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);
Soapi....
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Stack Me First - Highlight & List all the linked answers, comments & linked questions related to the current user
Stack Me First
A browser extension to Highlight, Sort & display a list of all questions, comments or links answered and upvoted by the current user.
About
This Plugin has 3 components to it
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Login using Google fails saying OpenID 2.0 accounts for Google has gone away
Recently I have received complaints about my app suggesting that logging in with a Google account shows a warning message that OpenID authentication has gone away. When I tried to log in with my own ...
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Why have recent dev-tip posts been forced into community wiki without explanation despite ongoing community self-regulation?
Preface
Please note that this question is neither about community wiki nor reputation, rather about acceptable moderation, (to stress that I've made it community wiki in itself). Therefore I need to ...
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/users/{id}/reputation != xxx.com/reputation
I realize that the shape of the data coming from the API may be different than that reported by the xxx/reputation url, but there seem to be some striking disparities.
see 08/12 and 08/11 in both ...
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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". ...
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