Questions tagged [chat]
Questions about, or scripts/apps/libraries that enhance Stack Exchange's Chat rooms/feature.
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SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat
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Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks:
See message history inline:
Easily preview replied-to messages:
And much, much more...
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ChatBot, a bot. For the chat
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Lurks in the shadows of the chat. It executes commands at the request of the user, sending messages as the user who runs it.
You can talk to it the StackOverflow SandBox room if you want to ...
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Pronoun Assistant
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It's hard to miss these days - the Code of Conduct is about to change. It will emphasize the importance of using the correct pronoun when referring to a user in third ...
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George the Dev - Making Conversation in the Chat Rooms
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George the Dev is a chat bot for the Stack Exchange network of chat sites.
He currently hangs out in the Sandbox and is capable of understanding a few commands and those commands ...
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Set fire to people in chat
How many times have you been overwhelmed by your desire to set fire to people in Stack Exchange chat? Well now you can!
Arqade Fire
Get Chrome Extension
Get Grease Monkey User Script
Arqade Fire is a ...
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SE Chat custom notification sound
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Someone found the current *beep* sound annoying and asked for a way to change the sound. Such a feature did not exist, so I created this UserScript which adds a ...
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OBSOLETE - ChatSEy - An Android App for SE Chat
App removed
Now that we have a mobile chat that doesn't suck, I've taken this down.
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Completely overhauled styles, including default and dark themes
Reply to, star and flag ...
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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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RebolBot - a chat bot for the chat rooms
RebolBot is a chat bot with a natural English dialect interface, specifically targeting the StackOverflow chat rooms. Yet it has a modular design, can post tweets to Twitter, and could be modified ...
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Will the API support the chat system?
Having read through come of the questions on here it's my understanding that v 1.0 of the API is for read-only access to real-time data, pretty much what's available in the data dump. Write support is ...
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Chat Easy Input Tools - Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands
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Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands, reducing the dependency on mouse usage. Current version does not have a configurable set of hotkeys but later versions will.
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sechatr - adding Hangouts-style avatars to chat
New And Improved!
I have rewritten the application and fixed a ton of bugs that were causing issues (and extremely high memory usage). If you ran into trouble before, give the new version a spin!
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Top Bar for Chat Rooms
As of 1.12, thanks entirely to Shog9's efforts, this now works on Firefox as well as Chrome!
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Provides a fully functional top bar, including realtime notifications, easy chat server ...
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SE-Chatbot, a bot for the chat rooms
I created a chat bot for the Stack Exchange chat rooms.
The bot is open-source and the code is hosted on GitHub.
The bot is licensed under CPOL (The Code Project Open License) v1.02. You can find a ...
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Frequent Message Manager - Easily store and send frequently used messages in chat?
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Have you ever said something in chat that made you think "I know I've said this many times before?" Perhaps you have a few common links that you reply to questions with on a ...
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Porkchat: A Chrome extension with lots of chat tweaks!
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Install from the Chrome Web Store
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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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Make your own custom oneboxes for Chat!
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Oneboxing is when you post a link to a supported site on SE Chat and it automatically shows extra information. An example is when you post a link to a question in Chat and it ...
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ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
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I like Stack Exchange Chat, and with the feedbots it tends to be pretty easy to keep up with what's going on with the site. Except for one thing - my inbox.
So I wrote ...
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Add link to network and chat profiles
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The recent design update to the profile page removed the ability to easily navigate to a user's network profile, even though they chose to hide their profile. Since ...
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WelcomeBot - a bot to welcome you
WelcomeBot
A Stack Exchange chatbot written in Python that uses ChatExchange. Many parts of this were modeled after SmokeDetector, another Stack Exchange chatbot.
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Welcomes new users ...
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Chat Starred Images Expander (aka StarScript)
The Thing
This handy little userscript will turn images starred in chat into little thumbnails under the star list.
Current features:
Oneboxed images in chat will become thumbnails.
Add or remove ...
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Diamond Chat Aware - Helping you be aware of your audience when moving from private to public chat rooms
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While very subtle, in the above screenshot, you see a diamond watermark in the textbox. As someone who spends time in private rooms, mostly for moderation purposes, ...
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More Stars - Userscript that frees up room so you can see more starred messages
Since I've never written a GreaseMonkey script before, I borrowed heavily from this script and basically played around with it until I got what I wanted. So credit to them for helping me get there.
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Clear Chat - Clears all of the messages in the chat window.
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Ever wish you could simply clear all of the messages from the chat window (similar to a terminal)? Well now you can with this UserScript! Simply install it using the link below and ...
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ThirdPlace JavaScript chat library
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var room = ThirdPlace.Room.GetCurrentRoom();
var message = new ThirdPlace.Message;
message.room_id = room.id;
message.content = "ThirdPlace.js is a library which abstracts ...
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Open Source Chat Android Application for StackExchange/StackOverflow
A while back a fellow member of Room 15 (Android) started creating an Android application for the StackOverflow/StackExchange chat. I recently picked it up and revived it and it is open to community ...
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Chatception - quickly chat in different rooms from a single page (v0.3)
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I got fed up with having 11 chat tabs open all the time and made a userscript to fix it.
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A tiny widget that allows you to quickly chat in different Stack Exchange ...
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RPG.SE Chat Fudge dice: a userscript for Fate & Fudge games
RPG.SE's chat rooms support dice rolls as an easter egg. This script will convert d6 rolls that you see into Fudge dice, using the ordinary conversion rules: 1–2 = minus, 3–4 = blank, 5–6 = plus.
You ...
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Bonfire Unread Count: Add the unread messages count to the favicon
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I wanted to be able to pin the chat rooms I'm on, but I wouldn't know how many unread messages there were.
With this extension, I can pin the tab.
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Download / Install:
You can ...
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ArtOfChatbot + Chat API - a customisable chatbot
Stack Exchange chat has no API. While this is not a complete chat API, it introduces a level of control that makes it far easier to run chatbots.
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ArtOfChatbot is a two-part creation: a basic ...
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Chat mass-unstar script
We from the Python room like to have a clean list of starred messages, so only relevant and really liked messages stay on the starred list forever. In order to do that, we unstar messages from time to ...
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SpotDetector - A bot designed to seek out potentially bad first post/late answer reviews
Spotdetector
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A bot designed to seek out and provide feedback to moderators about potentially bad reviews.
Check it out
You can find it currently active in the SOBotics Room currently running ...
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Badge oneboxer for chat
This script makes it possible for badges to onebox in Chat.
Example format:
that's a [badge:nice-answer] on a powershell bountied question
The only somewhat custom one you can use is Strunk & ...
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Chat Dark Theme Plus
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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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Drag+Drop image uploader for Chat
Drag and Drop images into chat! In any chat window, simply drag and drop an image to anywhere in the window to upload it. Bonus! - the image will not be automatically sent, allowing you to edit your ...
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PONIES: Hide unwelcome images in chat
Don't like it when chat is flooded with ponies? Too lazy to burn them all? You need PONIES: Protect Oneboxed Nuisance Images Everywhere Safely.
All oneboxed images are displayed with 0.1 opacity ...
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Unstar/unpin for room owners from a transcript
In a chat room room owners can unstar or unpin messages.
However, they can't do that from their chatroom transcript. If they want to cancel stars from way back they are forced to load older messages ...
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ModColorFix for Chat
Just a very very simple userscript that changes the moderator usernames in chat from blue to green.
Requested by and built for @doppelgreener on becoming a mod.
Link to Github Repo
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SOClearChat -- Helpful Chat functions
A Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script packing some helpful functions for Stack Overflow chat.
To install, click: Install SO ClearChat
Source: github.com/lbotinelly/SOClearChat
It adds four ...
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GIF Killer! Stop animated gifs in the Chat
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Bookmarklet that stops GIFs in their tracks! until you refresh..
GIFs are replaced with the following image:
How to use.
Depending on your browser you create a new bookmark, copy and paste ...
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Chat Move Helper / Bot Cleanup Tool
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Extends the room-owner move message tool in chat to make it easier to quickly clean up after bots by moving their messages, commands, and replies to them. Adds a couple visualization ...
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SmokePreview - A chat addon for the SmokeDetector
SmokePreview
A Greasemonkey script
to add a preview to chat messages of the SmokeDetector.
Messages which are deleted while loading the preview will get a opacity of 50%
to make clear that this is not ...
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Is a deobfuscated version of chat js available?
The dev portion of the CDN hosts unminified JS for the main SE sites (you can find it via http://dev.stackoverflow.com ). However, I can't seem to find the same for chat.
Is there any link for ...
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Highlight Code in Chat - Highlights <code> elements contained in chat messages
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Inspired by this question, I have developed a UserScript that highlights code elements in chat messages so that they stand out more on the page. Simply install the script and your ...
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Github link oneboxer for Chat
Oneboxes links to Github repos, issues or pull requests in Chat
This userscript will automatically detect new and existing messages in chat that link to Github and onebox them, just like it is done ...
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Dark Mode 4 Chats
A userscript that adds Dark Mode to Stack Exchange Chats, while also allowing you to customize themes and colors!
Version 0.2: still beta
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Since the introduction of ...
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Minimize pics in Chat
I made a script that allows you to minimize pictures, gifs, youtube preview, tweets or wikipedia articles.
It's useful if you don't want the image to be always shown. For example at the office.
It ...
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Node.js/ChatExchange - An API for Chat
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ChatExchange is a node.js API for talking to Stack Exchange chat (Largely based on ChatExchange for python). This is still very much in the works, but currently provides a working API for those ...
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Smoke the SmokeDetector
SmokeTheSmokeDetector
Over in Tavern on the Meta, our spam detector, SmokeDetector has been the topic of an ongoing argument between those who believe SmokeDetector fills the chatroom, and those who ...
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Google Chrome Chat Faces
SE-Chat-Faces
Love using faces in chat? Are ASCII faces just a little too boring? Is the unicode entry keystroke too complicated? Tired of having to copy-paste unicode faces from Notepad++ (or ...
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