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StacMan - .NET client for Stack Exchange API v2

Features Supports all Stack Exchange API V2 methods through version 2.1 Easy to use: one-to-one mapping between StacMan and API methods/params Async is easy: methods return Task<T> so ...
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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?

For the type "string", I think there is some upper limit of character count. For example, post title : 200 characters post body : 30000 characters In the help page, currently like this "body": { ...
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AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments, ...
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Add Timeline and Revisions links

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Add revision links, and timeline links on all questions post menus. Intended for development features, probably useless when the feature is actually ...
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Waffle vote counter

It is my firm belief that every +10 vote after reaching the repcap can be redeemed for free waffles{*}. I often hit the cap on MSO, and I like to see how many waffles SE Inc owes me. So I have a ...
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Parameter `tagged` in `search/advanced` seems to use `AND` instead of `OR`

It seems that search/advanced has the same problem as in "The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags" question. When I select c#; .net I only get results tagged both c# and .net: ...
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How can I get a list of favorite/ignored tags?

I can not find an API method method that would provide me with a set of favorite/ignored tags for a given user. Is there such a method? If not, is there a recommended way to get this information?
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StackFilter: alternative homepage for StackOverflow, with some specific filters

Screenshot / Code Snippet About This is an alternate homepage for StackOverflow with stronger filtering options. I made it because default homepage often provided me with questions that were ...
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SeAnswers.com - alternative search utility for stackoverflow and linux users

Screenshot About Simple Search utility, that intends to show answers instead of just a list of links. It aims to be an alternative for standard stackoverflow search. It will (hopefully) be ...
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What is the right way to create a stackexchange API filter?

I'm trying to create a filter following the documentation, but a few things are quite unclear: How to create a filter without a base? What are mandatory the fields to include in any filter? How to ...
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RebolBot - a chat bot for the chat rooms

Screenshot / Code Snippet @Adrian I respond to these commands: (do|do/2|do/red|do/boron) expression "evaluates Rebol/Rebol-like expression in a sandboxed interpreter" (hello|goodbye|morning) ...
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List of object types on SE API v2.0+

Beware: The API is Huge!! Below is the list of all the "types" of objects returned by the API v2.0+ :- Note: v2.1 specific types are noted in a seperate box Type | Field ...
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CDN redirect for the API's JavaScript SDK is incorrect

The API's JavaScript SDK is listed as https://api.stackexchange.com/js/2.0/all.js. However, GET request produces the following response: Status Code: 301 Moved Permanently Location: ...
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Link Only Answer Automatic Flagging

Thank you to Manishearth for giving me the idea here Autonavigate/autocomment "close/flag offtopic" for MSO As a very avid user of the Stack Exchange, I try to make this place ...
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Certain users aren't showing up in /users when filter is applied

NB: The filter parameter in v1.x of the API had a different meaning to the filter parameter in v2.0 Consider the following query: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users?filter=jon%20skeet ...
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View Post Timeline

Inspired by this MSO question. This tiny userscript will add a link to the timeline for any post, just below the "favorite question" star button. Example image: This is the code: // ...
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SOAnswerDate - answer dates in user profiles!

Notice: This feature has been officially rolled out, and so this user-script is no longer necessary. It shall remain here, though, for reputation's sake :) Simply put, this adds answer dates to the ...
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Add Timeline and Revisions Links

Screenshot About This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds both timeline and revision links to questions and answers in many of the different question views. Within a question view, ...
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Comment Box Close Button

About Every time I accidentally open the comment box on Stack Overflow questions/answers, I always look for a way to close it, but there never is one. After doing that several times, I decided it ...
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How do I find a user by their `display_name`?

I am using Serel (the Ruby wrapper) and would like to be able to find a user by their display_name. As it stands right now, I can only find them via an ID - like Serel::User.find(1,2,3). I tried ...
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Maximum length of “about me” in the Stack Exchange API?

What is the Maximum length of "about me" in the Stack Exchange API? The one from the /me path. And in general, where are the length limits published? If anywhere?
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“View Vote totals” without 1000 rep

Screenshot About The vote counts are a great tool to determine whether an answer is disputed or not. Unfortunately, not many of us have enough time to join all Stack Exchange websites and get ...
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SymbolHound: Search Stack Overflow for special characters

About http://symbolhound.com/ SymbolHound is a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. I was always frustrated that I couldn't search for symbols like >> and && using ...
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Ruby wrapper for stackoverflow api - Serel, Pilha

Serel and pilha are good ruby wrappers for stackexchange api. But i am not able to access the body method for question and answers. The body method returns nil. I want the content of questions and ...
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Thumbnail Uploader

Sparked off by http://meta.gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/251/better-image-embeddeding-and-viewing, ...
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stackapplet and Google account

I am trying to use Stack-Applet for Ubuntu (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/stackapplet-1-4-released-ubuntu-indicator/) and I have registered on Stack Overflow using my Google account. I guess ...
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How to search my threads based on some key words?

As I have already many threads in some StackExchange sites, sometime I would like to be able to search among them, for instance, based on some key words. Does anyone know how to do that? Thank you!
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StackOverflow android application to answer questions

I am a regular answerer on StackOverflow and I have been trying to use my Android phone for my workflow, but unfortunately the mobile Web application is very cumbersome to use: for example, the ...
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What are the best tools to use for inspecting JSON?

I am curious which tools people use for inspecting the JSON results when calling API methods from their browser. I am using Google Chrome, and it displays results such as this for the stats method: { ...
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Stack Activity: Last activity of every question on the homepage and active tab

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Dice Stack - Find a random question

DiceStack Screenshot About Fetches a random question from a StackExchange site of your choice. I may add some filtering options later. License Free-to-use webapp. Source not available. ...
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Stack Alert [Opera] - Keep tabs on your inbox without needing to have a Stack Exchange site open

Not using Opera? Don't worry, Stack Alert is available for other browsers as well. Visit the appropriate page for your browser below: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox ...
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Are there any API's to get details from careers stack exchange site?

Planning to create a blog widget which shows data from careers page. This can be done using an iframe but was looking at other avenues as well.
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Showr for Android

Screenshot About Put artwork and information at your fingertips, or make your Android device truly personal, with Showr. Showr adds pictures to your home screen or lock screen: picked from ...
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OAuth 2.0 implementation

Code Snippet from sanction.client import Client from sanction.adapters.google import Google client = Client(Google, { "google.client_id": "myclientid", "google.client_secret": ...
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StacksGuru: a near realtime bot for all Stack Exchange sites

UPDATE Stacksguru address is now stacksguru@appspot.com (in the plural form) remove the old contact (stackguru@appspot.com) and use the new one. StacksGuru is a Jabber/XMPP bot which gives you a ...
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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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Newt - question, answer and comment and rep change notifications for Mac OS X

Newt is a simple Mac OS X utility that notifies you about new questions, answers, comments and reputation changes. Now, everyone can become a Jon Skeet! Screenshot / Code Snippet ...
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Hide Low Rep Questions

About Inspired by this heavily downvoted Meta SO question, this user script hides all questions on the new questions page where the OP has < 20 rep. Personally, I don't like the idea of this - ...
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Stack Exchange Notifier Chrome Extension

About Stack Exchange Notifier is a handy extension for Google Chrome browser that displays your current reputation, badges on Stack Exchange sites and notifies you on reputation's changes. You ...
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How can I use the Stack Exchange API to get the total number of upvotes on answers to questions with a specific tag?

I want to use the API to get the sum of all scores of my answers to questions having a specific tag. I started using top-user-answers-in-tags method, but it only returns the top 30, whereas I want ...
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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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SE Editor Toolkit

There's been an onslaught of rather difficult to read questions on SO lately. A lot of them are just plain close-fodder, but many are just from d ppl ,who spk teh internetz lingo and hence make my ...
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Stack 8 - Metro Style Stack Exchange Reader for Windows 8

Description Make the most of all Stack Exchange sites in one place. Stack 8 helps you to keep track of all your favourites Stack Exchange sites making easier to find questions and answers. Features ...
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Chat Reply Helper for Stack Exchange sites

Press : to start replying to a previous message. Press ↑ as many times as you need to mark the desired message. What does it do? First of all, the Chat Reply Helper for Stack Exchange sites ...
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Enhanced Ctrl + L and URL templates for comments, answers and questions

Shortcut Ctrl + L to add links to a comment. Define URL templates to make it easier to insert links to documentation. Screenshot Edit the source code of the script to configure it (edit this ...
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StackApplet - Bringing Stack Exchange Notifications to Your Desktop [1.6 alpha for Windows released using v2.0 of the API!]

StackApplet 1.6 Alpha for Windows Available Just in time for the API contest, I have created an alpha release of StackApplet 1.6 for Windows (it may run on other operating systems but I ...
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No award_count field on any badges

The docs say the default filter includes award_count, and I've made a filter with it in. But no award_count is returned on any badge route. The exception being when a badge item is returned in ...
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List of example questions

Since it's hard to find examples of questions with various attributes, maybe we can turn this into a reference? Here's the problem: I want to try out the locked_date attribute in one of my apps, but ...

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