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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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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:
from ...
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stack overflow data dump utility error - mysql
I have the SODDI v.11 utility (although the screen says v.10)
I also have the SODD from 092011.
When I try to import the SF/MSF data, I get:
Table 'SF.VoteTypes' doesn't exist.
It creates the SF ...
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Stack Exchange Alexa Skill
An Amazon Alexa skill to browse hot questions across Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Q&A network. With account linking enabled, you can even cast upvotes and downvotes and check your global ...
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Can we specify more than one OAuth Domain?
I would like to use the API from a browser extension. With WebExtensions, I should be able to support Firefox and Chrome with the same code.
Chrome provides an identity API for OAuth2, and so does ...
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-430 rep - why?
I just lost 430 rep. from 6777 earlier today to 6347.
This seems to be localized to my account only.
Why?
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When does the judging take place?
I am planning to work some more on my apps tomorrow and get some last minute changes implemented. However, I notice that:
The API Contest winners will be picked the first week of August.
...which ...
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Stack Tunnel - WebGL Visualization for Stack Exchange
Stack Tunnel
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StackTunnel is a WebGL visualization which displays the latest questions from any Stack Exchange site interactively within your web browser. You can click on the ...
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Would it be possible to create a script that could be run manually to unprotect questions that meet certain parameters?
One of the sites I use has in excess of 10% of their questions protected. It's a small site but this seems like a huge amount, largely due to questions being on the HNQ regularly and attracting many ...
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Stack Monthly - Best questions in the month
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This website allows user to unearth gems which are hidden due to popular community questions. This is done by only showing most voted questions asked in that month.
It allows a user to follow ...
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Suggested Edits Queue for Mere Mortals
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This Java command-line app gives you access to the Suggested
Edits queue using the
Stack Exchange 2.0 API. It is ideally
suited for users in the 2000 <= reputation < 5000 ...
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How to use /me to display my profile data in StackExchange API?
So I'm able to use API calls like:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?pagesize=30&order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
to display a list of questions. This is easy as it ...
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Could/Should the API evolve more agile rather than being blocked by v2 writing (and authentication) features?
The activity on Stack Apps has dwindled noticeably; this might be a topic for its own discussion, however I'd like to revisit the API roadmap beforehand to set a proper stage and expectations in this ...
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topstack.io - Learn from some of the most popular questions and answers on Stack Overflow (beta)
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http://topstack.io
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It uses the most popular Stack Overflow questions, and sprinkles it with some spaced recall algorithms. The goal of this spaced recall is to help the student ...
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Retrieving list of c# questions
I am trying to retrieve list of C# questions using http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions?title=true&tagged="c#".
But I get JSON response related to c questions.
Response :
{
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OBSOLETE - Code Consultant: Jabber bot to help you work through your coding problems
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Have you ever noticed that simple act of describing a problem you can't get past to a co-worker will help you solve the problem, even if they don't say a thing?
The ...
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags using the Stack Overflow API?
The advanced search (/search/advanced) API can search for questions by tags.
But /users/{ids}/answers API doesn't take tags.
I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is ...
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Vertically Resizable Textareas
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// ==UserScript==
// @name Stack Exchange: Vertically Resizable Textareas
// @description Makes Stack Exchange's textareas vertically resizable.
// @version 1.2
// @include http://...
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Soapi.LastSeen - List users by last access time
Soapi.LastSeen
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Soapi.LastSeen lists the top 3,000 users of any Stack Exchange site by last access time.
License
GPL - source code in Soapi.CS demos and provided below.
Download
Soapi.LastSeen ...
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Stackboard for iOS wants beta testers!
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I'm an iOS developer who likes to make beautiful things. I'm also an avid Stack Exchange user, who has over 13k network rep. I was looking for a nice SE client for my ...
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Pretty StackOverflow
This userscript provides a prettier interface to StackOverflow.
(Click for larger image)
Installation
Stylebot page
Userscript install link
It also hides notifications. To bring them back, you can ...
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Stack Bragger (facebook app to post questions badges)
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Stack Bragger lets you brag to your Facebook friends whenever you ask new questions or earn new badges at StackOverflow, SuperUser or ServerFault.
I was looking for a ...
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all api endpoints except api.stackoverflow.com are failing paged requests with HTML 503
UPDATE:
I am being told that this is by design.
I could not disagree more.
The inconsistent 503 throttling issue aside, the API is JSON based. HTML errors serve no purpose in response to an API ...
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Getting started: What kind of thing can we do with the SE-API that we can't do with the SE Data Explorer?
I want to know if my slender grasp of the latter will help me learn about the former.
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StackStatus - Monitor the status of the Stack Exchange API
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This service is temporarily offline. The original version was having some problems, and I am also migrating a number of tools from PHP to Python - so expect to see this tool come back to ...
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Best way to calculate total badge count in Javascript?
I'm using Javascript and JSONP and want to find-out a user's total badge-count (i'm not using any libraries).
At first I naively added up the badge counts individually, but some user's have no badges....
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Suggested Edit Queue v2.0
The Sales Pitch
This user script enhances the suggested edit queue to remove the usability annoyances we all know and love hate.
Suggested Edits will not jump to the top when casting the deciding ...
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rate-limit per endpoint per IP VS. server apps in hosted environments
I was wondering if the scenario of a server based app that lives in a hosted environment, where a single IP can be shared by many web sites.
As I understand the rate-limit as it stands, every site on ...
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Stack Snippets Console
SE recently added "Stack Snippets" -- running JavaScript, CSS, and HTML code snippets. These are great, except for one problem.
I made a request for a console to be added, so that we don't have to ...
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How can my app authenticate users with only a Stack Overflow account, using the Stack Exchange OAuth API 2.1?
Recently I registered an app in stackapps.com to provide a way to authenticate users with their Stack Overflow account.
Then I noticed that Stack Exchange OAuth only works for users with a Stack ...
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Get favorited tags of user
This was requested in 1 and declined because of a missing authentication method.
Now that authentication is in place, is there a way to retrieve the favorited tags of a user (myself)?
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After a throttle violation, could the error message include the time when the block will be lifted?
I got my first throttle violation error after running in jsFiddle some example code given to me by a library author in response to a question of mine about how to use their library.
This is the error ...
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API V2 Musings: What would you like to see
Answers should take the form of feature requests/modifications that are either obviously beyond the scope of v1 and or have been status-declined or status-deferred
They will be indexed here in the Q.
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Do I need Stack Overflow's permission to launch my iOS app for Stack Overflow?
I have a Stack Overflow app for iOS that doesn't use the API. It just uses search and web (scraping?) to display questions.
Do I need to get approval the from Stack Overflow team?
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Key Limit is 10k or 100k?
Getting Started FAQ Question says 10k
API "Hello World" code
But I see 100k on Response Header
X-RateLimit-Max 100000
X-RateLimit-Current 99993
Just typo in nginx setting or something ...
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Why am I getting a 404 when trying to post a comment?
I'm dabbling around in /posts/{id}/comments/add, and I'm trying this query:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/posts/144890/comments/add?site=meta.stackoverflow&key=ArbQthisismykeyjyecuJQ((&...
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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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MEHF - tool for quickly testing code snippets, with StackOverflow support
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MEHF is partway between an IDE and a REPL. (The name "MEHF" is partway between "IDE " and "REPL.") It's designed to offer quick testing of code ...
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Which nested objects and arrays are optional?
I am handcrafting a JSON Schema for the API, and there is some meta missing from the nested 'returns' objects and arrays.
The relevant information I need is:
if it is an array, can it be undefined (...
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Can we have some sort of notification system?
It seems like the only way to get notified of certain events is to poll the site continuously. And as per the current policy, it seems like there should be at least a 2 minute delay between requests.
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Can I apply the API Key first and do the application later?
I don't have an application to submit at the moment, but can I apply the key first?
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Get Key for my application
I am creating Stack Overflow client application and have reach limit to request. So I decided to get the Key from my application, but got a little confused.
When I requested the Key I provided ...
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Server Fault 10k Challenge - Keep Track of Your Progress
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At the beginning of the year, a group of people made an agreement to each try to earn 10k rep. on Server Fault in the next year. This webpage is designed to make it easy to view progress and ...
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Why does the API lack any POST methods?
Why aren't any POST methods available?
Being able to post new questions and answers would be very interesting.
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How to calculate a list of users ranked by question favorite count totals.
The API provides methods to sort and filter individual questions by favorite count.
In order to calculate the question favorite count totals per User, some grouping and set operations are required.
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A Grails application demoing the Stack Exchange API
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I created this mostly for fun, with a little bit of learning thrown in. It's a
super-simple implementation of a client for the Stack Exchange API written in Grails.
It ...
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Format a list of questions
The following quickie command line application formats a list of questions obtained from search results.
Requirements:
Perl, JSON
Usage:
Retrieve a list of questions from the API (from the /...
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Apigee API Console for the Stack Exchange API
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Apigee API Consoles make it easier to learn, explore and test APIs by letting you browse all methods, send and view request/response pairs and share what you are ...
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Social Connect for Visual Studio
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This app will post content to Stack Exchange websites from Visual Studio. It will also notify about activities in the account. Its an extension for Visual Studio. It is for everyone. It is for ...
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Is it possible to access data in real-time using the Stack Exchange API?
I want to show an animation of:
Questions being asked and answered in the most popular tag
Comments being posted
New users joining
All in real time.
Is there access to real-time data?
