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"OAuth request must be over HTTPS" when request is over https

I had a bug reported to me that I was able to reproduce. When authorizing to my Badges webapp, we get the following error: error: invalid_request error description: OAuth request must be over ...
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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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Ruby Client Library

I've started a Ruby client library project on GitHub. There's no code there, but I will be hacking on it all weekend and welcome contributions. Sample Code client = StackOverflow::Client.new(version,...
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MSOEngine Objective-C library

MSOEngine Basically MSOEngine (Matt's Stack Overflow Engine) is an Objective-C library that communicates with Stack Overflow. It uses the MIT License. You can find (the new and improved ...
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Automate the process of flagging non constructive comments from User Supplied data

Warning While entering a comment ID, you should be careful because some comments may be removed with a single flag (if it already have some flags). Some comments may still constructive even if it ...
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How can I write (edit) one of my answers?

I started to love the Python black formatter and I want all my code on Stack Overflow to be formatted like that. So I wanted to go over the answers and apply black / blacken-docs, check if anything ...
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Having Trouble Setting Up OAuth for App

I am trying to build an app but I can't get the authentication right. I have been following the steps here: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication I keep getting the below error no matter ...
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SEStandard - A .NET Standard 1.1 compliant Stack Exchange client library that supports API v2.2

Please note that SEStandard is still under development. It is currently at version 1.0.0-rc, and is a release candidate. While you can expect the API not to change, you might come across bugs. Please ...
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Code Golf UserScript Enhancement Pack

Screenshots          About 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 current ...
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Stacktacular: Stack Exchange client for WebOS

Screenshots About Stacktacular is a Stack Exchange client for WebOS. I created it mainly to scratch my own itch: viewing Stack Overflow using the phone browser was a bit painful, and no one had built ...
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Angular StackOverflow Activity, a module for showing off your public activity

Screenshot About AngularJS directive module for showing off your public StackOverflow activity. Works well with responsive frameworks including Bootstrap 3. Customizable templates and iconography. ...
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sostats - Stack Overflow latest metrics and charts

About I wondered how many questions, answers or comments are being posted on Stack Overflow every day. How many users get registered? How does it depend on the day of the week? When are users most ...
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Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions

First there was Natty - looking for new answers to old questions that aren't actually answers, and posting them in a chatroom. Then there was Sentinel. Sentinel is the web dashboard for Natty. The ...
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Ruby SE API: A Ruby wrapper for the Stack Exchange API

Screenshot / Code Snippet An excerpt from the README: First, initialize your client. You can omit the API key, but it's strongly recommended that you use one because it increases your request ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Stack Exchange Electron app

Stack Exchange Client. I created this post for getting write access to testing my application for desktop application. Language: JavaScript Technology Electron v1.8.2 beta-2 Source code: https://...
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Comment Flagger - Automated comment flagging made easy

A utility to automatically flag "thank you" comments from SEDE queries like this one. Are you looking to improve your flagging stats? Have a list of comments you are certain need to be flagged as "...
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Google’s OAuth redirect broken

We just tried to authenticate with our application without being logged into anything on StackExchange. This is best tested in a private browser session without any cookies etc. So after starting the ...
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The Authentication Problem of WebAuthenticationBroker Class in .NET 4.6

I have a problem when you test the Stack Exchange Authentication API to WebAuthenticationBroker. If you proceed with authentication, such as screenshots it will continue to appear only in progress. . ...
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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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How to use min/max with sort

While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not. Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference. Aggregated sort ...
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StackWatch - Glitch app to send Web Push Notifications on new questions

I made a very simple node app to give me chrome push notifications when new questions are posted in tags I am interested in: I have tested it working in Chrome and Firefox. Demo Site This is a ...
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Array boolean values are returning empty

I am trying to convert a JSON array to a PHP array, and the boolean values are being lost. I think I need to loop round using foreach() and cast the items as they are placed in to the new array, but I ...
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Stack Dash Application

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Stack Dash is a Mac OSX dashboard widget for Stack Exchange for displaying reputation, questions, answers and badges for a specified user and site. This widget was ...
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Stack Info: a Chrome extension to display information from Stack Overflow and help you follow your reputation

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Chrome Extension to display information from Stack Overflow and help you follow your reputation. It is fairly simple project (especially compared to other chrome ...
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Stack Reputational: User rankings in detail

About Let me present my app to you, "Stack Reputational" (available at http://sr.ericbae.com). Stack Reputational is a Stack Overflow leaderboard unlike any other! It gives you the most detailed ...
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Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?

Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? : http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens (This is the most promising API call I found for verifying the validity of ...
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Stacky JSON error

I'm trying to use Stacky to grab a question from Stackoverflow, however I always an error. The error thrown is: JsonReaderException was unhandled - Unexpected character encountered while parsing ...
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AskUbuntu Add-on for Firefox, Opera and Chrome

Screenshots Firefox Opera Chrome About The extension, called AskUbuntu Add-on, allows to easily track user info and questions from askubuntu.com. This extension displays user reputation and badges ...
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Where is "Stack Exchange API Documentation" listed?

I have followed How to list your application/library/wrapper/script here to list my application. In https://stackapps.com/users/apps/{my-user-id} , I find that I have given it access to "Stack ...
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How do I get a GreaseMonkey/UserScript to interact with the Live Preview?

I've converted a script that I hope to get embedded on a StackExchange site (Lego Answers) to a GreaseMonkey/Userscript but I'd like to get it interacting with the live preview when creating or ...
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A way to keep the "user bar" on the top of the site stuck there ~ StickyBar

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Since people keep asking for a way to stick the userbar at the top of the screen, I'm working on a userscript to do so. Because of the way each site is fashioned and ...
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Stack Overflow as Web Component

Background This project was developed to address the following issues: Simplify the process of using Stack Exchange API in a websites, for starter we simplify the process of displaying the most ...
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Will the Stack Exchange API work with an org-specific Stack Overflow site?

We have a company-specific Stack Overflow site for folks to ask questions with the company. It has a *.stackoverflow.com domain/URL. Would I be able to use the Stack Exchange API to access the ...
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Can not request info after OAuth

I am following The implicit OAuth 2.0 flow Guide: My client ID is 4709 while key is RoZwtHUrhMP088oVGCMlxA(( I appended my URL as: https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=4709&scope=...
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Trying to get Stack Overflow Access token Using "RestAssured"

I have been trying to create an access token for a Stack Exchange app (already created). I am not even sure if I am using the correct URL https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token. RestAssured....
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Stack Exchange gadget for Gmail and iGoogle

About This handy gadget can be added to iGoogle or left-hand nav panel of any Gmail account. It displays your current reputation on selected StackExchange sites and notifies you of reputation changes....
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What is the correct way to get the stackoverflow.com URL for an answer via the API?

A while ago I made a little "Recently answered on Stack Overflow" sidebar widget for my homepage. Currently this works by filtering answers out of the user feed however I thought I'd update it to make ...
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How do you get the association_id from the CC data dump?

I am working with Stack Exchange /users/ data and trying to get a user's "united" profile, to see what sites they're active in other than the queried site. As an example: http://...
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OBSOLETE - RoboStack: A Google Wave robot for the Stack Exchange API

OBSOLETE - Google Wave doesn't exist anymore. Screenshot / Code Snippet For a video snapshot visit http://code.google.com/p/robostack/. About Unlike a Jabber/XMPP robot, this application is a Google ...
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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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Suggestion for new Stack App or SE UI feature: Reopen queue status

Summary This is a suggestion to create one, possibly two, indicators relating to Reopen Review Queue status. The purpose is to alert users to the requirement for intervention outside the normal ...
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Is there an offline copy of the API documentation?

I'm trying to find a way to get all the information in the API in one printable PDF, complete with the examples given in the documentation. Is there anyway I can do this?
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RO Chat Message Delete Option

Description: Gives room owners the ability to delete other users' chat messages from the message popup menu: On confirmation, the message will be deleted. The ability is available for up to 2 ...
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Offline cache of the API - for when the developer has no internet.

Is there some fake API program that "simulates" the API? Just I'm going on a long car journey tomorrow, and I won't have an internet connection on my laptop and don't want to waste the whole journey ...
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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(); ...
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Stack Overflow UI Translation via Greasemonkey

What is it? Why this project? Every so often, somebody asks on meta "can we allow foreign language contributions to StackOverflow" and a huge debate ensues. However, once upon a time, somebody ...
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Rebuilt as another app / Full-featured reputation loader

This version of app is obsolete. I've just started rebuilding it, will be life approximately today or tomorrow (Feb 5-6, 2023). New version is live! Check it there: Voting activity tracker v2: check ...
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geek score calculator - SO + Github on Rail

I am learning Rails and this is my first application built on Rails 2.3.8. http://g33k.heroku.com License: Free to use Code: http://github.com/utkarsh2012/g33k-score-calculator Platform: Hosted on ...
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Intent for official SE Android app?

Does the official SE Android app export intents? If not, can they be added? My app, for example, allows users to click on many UI elements to let them see the original question, users profile, site ...
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OBSOLETE - Search Stack Exchange Network of Q&A sites instantly with SEInstant

#Obsolete - Site long dead; no source code available. Was written for decommissioned version of the API. About Stack Exchange search results are now fast, faster, instant! :) Following on the heels ...
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