Questions tagged [chat]
Questions about, or scripts/apps/libraries that enhance Stack Exchange's Chat rooms/feature.
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Remove chat room description and tags
Chat room description and tags may only be useful a first couple of times you come by a chat room. After that, they are just wasting space. To hide them from the view, you can install the following ...
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Killit - Bookmarklet to replace single images from the page
About
Bookmarklet that replaces any selected image on the page with:
How to use.
You first need to "install" the bookmarklet by visiting the project homepage and dragging the button to your ...
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How do I get notified of events in SE chat?
I'm writing userscripts to interact with Stack Exchange Chat. I'd like to be notified when things happen (e.g. messages added, removed, edited, users joining, etc.). I know that I could use a ...
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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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Chat Message Remover
Script
See a chat message you don't want on your screen? An annoying image or animated GIF? Now you can remove it!
This is a simple script that I made. It will allow you to click a chat message to ...
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Add link to network profile from chat profile
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Under the Parent User label a link is added to the network profile of the chat user:
About
From a chat user profile you only have link to the parent site of a user. This ...
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stackchat.cpp - a C++20 library for Stack Exchange chat
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#include "stackchat/StackChat.hpp"
#include "stackchat/chat/ChatEvent.hpp"
#include "stackchat/chat/Command.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <...
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Stack Exchange Chat API Documentation and Bot Boilerplate (finally)
Chat Documentation
GitHub Link:
https://github.com/jbis9051/JamesSOBot/blob/master/docs/CHAT_API.md
Description:
I know many people have created bots in different languages. Thats why I need your help ...
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TACUC - The ATaco ChatExchange Userscript Collection
A collection of Userscripts focused around Stack Exchange's chat.
To install these, you need TamperMonkey, although GreaseMonkey apparently works.
GitHub
Auto Chat Jax
This userscript simply ...
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Minimize chat input area − remove links and site logo, no auto width
Chat input area background takes up all the horizontal space it can get. It's time to stop this greedy nonsense! This script removes the width:auto rule and hides the site's logo and links at the ...
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ChatExchange - It is an API for Chat
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sendMessage('chat.meta.stackexchange.com', 721, 'Hello @Sha', fkey().fkey)
//Sends the message 'Hello @Sha' to Shadow's Den
//Must be run in a chat site, due to @Balpha not wanting CORS ...
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Hide Unnecessary Info in SE Chat
Hide Unnecessary or Cluttering Information in the Sidebar of an SE Chatroom
Description
A small userscript to help avoid clutter on the sidebar of any Stack Exchange chat room.
The chat room will ...
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EasterEggExchange: Enable all easter eggs in chat
About
This script will enable all easter eggs in chat, namely:
Cthulhu
Send <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> and quotes from this answer fly around your ...
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Request for chat bot to restore "translate" functionality in chat
A while ago, SE briefly introduced a built-in feature where a user can type:
translate: [words in any language]
...and the Feeds user would respond with an English translation of whatever was typed.
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ChatX: A ruby library for SE Chat
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Here's some sample usage:
cb = ChatBot.new(ENV['ChatXUsername'], ENV['ChatXPassword'])
cb.login
cb.gen_hooks do
room 63296 do # Room ID of The Closet, a testing room for ...
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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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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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Hide chat messages based on content
Want to get those Game of Thrones spoilers out of your chat? Hate certain things? Automatically hide chat messages based on a blacklist of words.
Instructions
Download the User script
Edit ...
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ChatOvercharged - making inserting markdown links in chat convenient
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About
Chat Overcharged is a userscript that aims to improve the quality of life of chat users. It is a living project, and more features are going to be added as the ...
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Moving the New Feed Items box to the bottom right
I've created a simple script to move the New Feed Items box to the lower right to avoid it from hiding the chat history:
Installation:
Just copy the following code in Tampermonkey/GreaseMonkey:
// ==...
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Request for a userscript to activate the "Wheel of Blame" Easter egg in chat
Note: This is not the same as The Unofficial Wheel of Blame.
The Stack Exchange chat sites have an Easter egg called "Wheel of Blame" that activates for the current user only. Right now, the only way ...
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Pronoun Assistant Reloaded
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About
Based off of Glorfindel's excellent userscript, this userscript displays users' pronouns (as mentioned in their chat or main site bios) under their usernames in chat ...
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Room Topic Change Helper
When the room topic changes, don't you wish you knew what it used to be before the change? Well now you can!
This script automatically updates room topic change posts with the previous topic so you ...
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Starred message image section in chat
I have almost no experience with javascript, widgets and scripts myself, so I'd like to ask someone to make this useful chat addition a reality.
(Original Meta.SE feature request)
The idea is to ...
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HamStare: Basic automation for chat
Get it from Github!
HamStare is the last word in disapproving stares. Now, roll your own! Out of the box is how it is configured for me, but if you have a little knowledge of Javascript (or not), it ...
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Get fkey button: see your chat fkey without inspecting the source!
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Userscript
// ==UserScript==
// @name Get fkey
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @description Get your Stack Exchange chat fkey
// @...
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Control Chat Volume of ping sound in any chatroom
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About
This script adds a sound volume control to each SE chatroom.
I created it after seeing complaints about the sound being too loud.
The script hooks-up into the volume ...
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Rejoin Favorite Chatrooms
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This script adds a link to rejoin favorite chatrooms, even if you're in multiple ones already:
About
When you're in only one chatroom on a server, there's an orange button ...
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Toggle Stack Overflow Chat Sidebar
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On toggle show sidebar:
On toggle hide sidebar:
About
The sidebar will be automatically hidden. When you want to see the sidebar, take the mouse to the right edge of the screen and the ...
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XMPPExchange: An XMPP bridge for chat
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You can use it to use chat on CLI too, with the help of profanity:
Note: You need to run /online when you login to enable relaying.
(Quick how to use: apt-get install profanity, ...
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Chatdump - a site monitor
Dump activity from a site into a chatroom. Configurable as to what to dump and with what conditions.
Github repo
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Upbar for SE/SO chat
rlemon and myself created a Userscript which moves the userbar on top... so that you can see more stars!
UpBar
The goal of this project was to gain more space on the sidebar of the StackExchange ...
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Where can I find login api for logging in stackexchange?
I need my bot (me) to login without myself involved in it. I've set up my node server, but now I can't figure out how to login. I'll need fkey to connect to socket, and for that I feel I'll need to ...
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Does anyone have a script that lets you log in to chat server side?
There doesn't seem to be any sort of API for chat. I'm working on creating one, however I'm stuck at the login bit.
How can I get Python (or some other server side language) to log in to chat? The ...
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Chat Resizifizer
Are you you annoyed when you are typing a long chat message, but the textbox is so short? Worry no more! This userscript makes it possible to resize the entire bottom part of the chat page (a.k.a. #...
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Chat vertical window mode − hide the entire sidebar when window gets narrow
If you're trying to chat in a very narrow window, you probably don't need the sidebar anyway. And toggling that script every time is inconvenient. Now you can install this style:
@media screen and (...
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