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Dude, where's my cursor?
About
This user script makes it easier to edit long questions and answers by doing the following things:
It constrains the height of the Markdown preview to 500 pixels by default, so you can see the ...
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I downvoted because
What did you do?
I made a free thing.
http://idownvotedbecau.se/
It's not specifically targeted at Stack Overflow, or at the other Stack Exchange websites, but I made the thing because I wanted to use ...
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Stack Overflow CLI
SoCLI
Stack overflow command line written in python. Using SoCLI you can search and browse stack overflow without leaving the terminal. Just use the socli command:
Installation
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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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Unable to install script on Chrome
I posted a question on Meta Stack Overflow, and from there I was directed to install this script.
When trying to install the script in Chrome, I get the following error:
Apps, extensions and user ...
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Stack Overflow View - Visual Studio code extension
About:
This is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows developers to search Stack Overflow inside of the text editor, to quickly access answers and view questions.
Screenshot / Code Snippet:
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Cursor decorations based on the April Fool's 2019 theme?
I've really enjoyed the April Fool's theme this year, most of all the cursor decoration. Could someone create a user script for me that activates the decoration everywhere on the network (chat can be ...
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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 they're ...
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Chrome Extension for Stackoverflow - Customize the color scheme
I created a google chrome extension that allows you to choose custom themes in order to make pretty the code that you read.
The extension injects CSS (Lite extension) and saves your preference theme. ...
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Why doesn't my XMLHttpRequest call work in Excel?
I can make a simple API call in JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest:
<html>
<script>
function reqListener () {
out.textContent=this.responseText;
}
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Bad format returned by Stack Exchange API, not GZip?
I'm attempting to request some information using the Stack Exchange API. Supposedly, it returns responses compress with GZip. Using Microsoft's System.IO.Compression.GZipStream or Ionic.Zlib....
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OBSOLETE - Soapi.CS : A fully relational fluent .NET Stack Exchange API client library
Soapi.CS for .Net / Silverlight / Windows Phone 7 / Mono
as easy as breathing...:
var context = new ApiContext(apiKey).Initialize(false);
Question thisPost = context.Official
.StackApps
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Stack Notifier - a chrome extension to show new questions and inbox notifications
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
Stack Notifier is a chrome extension which notifies you whenever new questions are available in your selected tags. This will help you to give your answers quickly ...
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Select Code Block Buttons Script
Shows a select-button on mouse over on code-blocks to select the whole block for easier copying.
Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am sure you will manage somehow, adjust includes as ...
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Bookmarklet to show deleted messages in chat
The following bookmarklet lets mods and room owners see deleted messages in chat and chat transcripts. Useful for when a lot of messages have been deleting and picking through the ruins is proving ...
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Customizable, short URLs for Stack Overflow profiles
Demo
Why
When building my personal site, I realised that SO seemed to be one of the (or rather, the only) platforms that didn't allow users to create a short, username-based link —
After a quick ...
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Issue with JavaScript SDK
When using the JavaScript SDK to enable client side OAuth flow, I'm running into this issue: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'postMessage')
And the page gets stuck with the ...
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Why am I getting a 400 Bad Request error with this code?
I'm using this code (in an async function):
let about = await fetch("https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/me?order=desc&access_token="+token+"&sort=reputation&site=gaming&...
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Stack Exchange thinks that Shog is a elected moderator
I was browsing the API for the list of elected moderators, The API URL is
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/elected-moderators#pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow&...
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Advanced Search Helper, Saved Search (Bookmarks), and Navigation Improvements
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Searchbar & Nav Improvements
(Parent) Option to search child meta
(Meta) New search bar on meta sites, and option to search parent site
(...
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Show User Accept Rates
This simple user script restores the display of a user's question accept rate on questions they ask.
Known Issues:
New: In Firefox, throws a "no element found" error and fails to display anything.
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SE like I like it userscript
About
Here's yet another Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey userscript for Stack Exchange. It adds the following enhancements:
Within preformatted code blocks, double-click to select all.
In the post ...
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OBSOLETE - Stack Favorites: A basic organizer of your Stack Overflow favorites
App no longer available for use and not in development.
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
This basic website allows users to organize their Stack Overflow favorites by tags, or search through ...
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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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SE Modifications -- Username autocomplete in comments, inline revision source, and utility links
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About
This userscript adds four main features:
Various utility links on posts and in the top bar
Inline viewing of post revision source Markdown on the post history page
Links on comment ...
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OBSOLETE - SOStacked: Stack Exchange iPhone client
OBSOLETE - App is not available anymore and website is down.
Screenshots
About
Awesome feature set.
Powerful search, beautiful display
Pick your favorite and ignored tags
Log into your account, ...
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Pocket Overflow: Stack Overflow in your pocket
About:
This is a sample app to consult Stack Overflow and more generally Stack Exchange sites.
I was using the original site app but, after resetting my iPhone I lost it, so decided to do one by ...
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StackRating – Tracks skill of Stack Overflow users!
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About
StackRating.com tracks user ratings which is a measure of users “skill”. It does so by comparing the number of upvotes on the answers of each question and uses the formula of the ...
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StackExchange Election: Primary counter
This user script adds a short overview table at the of the election page during the primary election phase on Stack Exchange moderator elections. The table lists all candidates, ordered by their ...
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Disable enter for submitting comments
About
This user script disables the default behavior of the enter key submitting a comment. With this script installed, you must explicitly click the Add Comment button to submit your comment.
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Burnaki: tracking progress and helping burnination efforts on Stack Exchange
Burnaki
The purpose of this project is to monitor burnination efforts on the Stack Exchange network. The goals are threefold:
tracking the progress by watching for close votes / reopen votes / ...
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"Print this post"
Answer to this meta question.
Adds a "print" link to individual posts. Does not do any stripping down of markup, the post is preserved as-is. The rest of the page is eaten by the jQuery ...
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How to make a Stack Exchange API call, using my key
I have a Meteor application and I'm making API calls like:
var urlString = "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/"+surl;
HTTP.call ("GET", urlString, {params:{site:"stackoverflow"}},
function (...
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Click to expand code regions
About
This is a Greasemonkey script that allows you to click code regions on Stack Overflow (or other Stack Exchange sites) and have it expand to whatever size it needs. Get rid of those pesky scroll ...
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Close hammer warning
Power users may have experienced this situation before: They see a question that’s clearly a duplicate, so they hunt down the duplicate target and close the question. It’s only then that they realize ...
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What is the unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799] in the API docs?
The type of the fromdate or todate in several methods is set to
unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799]
I don't know what that is and I can't find any information -- can someone explain it or ...
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I only need a key, what do I do?
I'm told by others and read in Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API that I need "To Get A Key!" but when I then visit https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register I'm stil ...
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Follow your friends on StackOverflow with FriendOverflow
Screenshot
Video of app in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zflMRXt2c&hd=1
About
I created this app because I wanted to see what my friends and co-workers were doing on StackOverflow. I ...
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Chat Dark Theme Plus
About
Work in progress theme for StackExchange chats, also includes 'plugins' for additional features.
Features include:
Inline webm/gifv
User colours
code-mode (see here) activated with Ctrl + ...
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OBSOLETE - ProStack Lite - Stack Overflow inbox notifier and quick accessor for OS X (in Mac App Store)
This product is discontinued.
The post about it is retained below for posterity.
About
Tired of manually checking Stackoverflow.com for new answers and comments? Ever wished to access the ...
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Diablo III's tooltip script for Gaming Stack Exchange
Blizzard has a userscript for displaying tooltips when linking to game element descriptions on their webpage. This user script adds this functionality to Gaming Stack Exchange by incorporating this ...
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StackOverflow-Steroids - A Chrome extension to introduce (and test) new features on Stack Overflow faster
I've previously complained about the bad usability that Stack Exchange sites can have and created a Chrome extension to help test possible fixes. It did not attract much attention.
Now I've added a ...
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Close Reason Editor: Customize your off-topic close reasons
About
The Close Reason Editor allows you edit the off-topic close reasons which are normally editable only by the site moderators.
Show or hide the default off-topic close reasons
If, for some ...
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Porkchat: A Chrome extension with lots of chat tweaks!
Install
Install from the Chrome Web Store
About
Porkchat is a Chrome extension that bundles together a lot of scripts I have written for Stack Exchange chat over the years. It is fully configurable - ...
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Generic Bot – A Moderation Chatbot
Generic Bot is a chatbot meant to help with moderation tasks on Stack Overflow. You can find the bot in the SOBotics chatroom.
Flag Tracker (Userscript)
When you flag a post, this userscript will ...
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Non-English Language Question Analyser
This is a simple Bot which uses Stack Overflow public API and chat to continuously scan new questions and report in chat the ones which are most likely not written in English.
This project can be used ...
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Permission to link to Stack Overflow webpages from my app?
Update: My problem has now been resolved. I've added details at the bottom of this post.
I wrote a little Android app (Stack Flower) that allows customized searches of Stack Overflow. If the user ...
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stackchat.cpp - a C++20 library for Stack Exchange chat
Code snippet
#include "stackchat/StackChat.hpp"
#include "stackchat/chat/ChatEvent.hpp"
#include "stackchat/chat/Command.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <...
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Stack Overflow Android application to answer questions
I am a regular answerer on Stack Overflow, 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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List of API client libraries grouped by programming language
This question serves as an organized reference of client libraries available for the Stack Exchange API. This is intended to be an all-inclusive list of libraries, so if you develop a library, feel ...