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176 questions
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Hide the newly introduced homepage widgets
See the updates in the answer below; also check out the commit history for additional changes.
About
The new widgets can clutter the homepage for those of us who are not interested in them.
I created ...
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1
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Documentation describing fields for api stack exchange
When I looked through the StackExchange documentation, I didn't find any documentation describing the fields. I have to study the request and response for a long time in order to understand why this ...
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0
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White keyboard highlighting in dark mode
Description
This changes highlighting from using keyboard shortcuts to use white instead of black. Allows actually seeing the highlighting noticeable in high contrast mode.
The userstyle only works ...
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Hide Recognized Member text from the RM's flairs in the Collectives
About
With the launch of Collectives on Stack Overflow, whenever a recognized member post an answer within their respective collective, there will be a "badge" underneath their flair which ...
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3
answers
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Stack Exchange code block line numbers userscript
Screenshot
About
I've always wanted to have line numbers prefixed in code blocks on questions / answers.
This userscript takes the code-blocks on the page, and inserts line numbers.
It will look at ...
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0
answers
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Universal dark mode (beta)
[Beta] Universal SE Dark Mode
While functional, this is experimental and while some sites work, a bit more work is required for it to support all (or, most of) SE.
Install
Universal dark mode has long ...
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Reopen/Delete Vote Rename - Clarify whether you've voted to delete/undelete already
This script is no longer needed
Stack Exchange now denotes that you've already voted to close/reopen/delete/undelete with an asterisk, e.g. Delete (1*). Thus, this script isn't really needed anymore.
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2
answers
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Revert Stack Exchange's new up/down vote buttons
This userscript, written for ViolentMonkey, reverts the question and answer upvotes on all Stack Exchange sites so that they are almost identical to their previous design.
New vote buttons (shown for ...
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1
answer
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Padding missing between thumbnails and other app/script information
On the Apps and Scripts tabs, the thumbnails and the rest of the information touch each other:
This didn't use to be the case, could you please re-add some padding?
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Improve design of the Documentation's 404 page
The 404 page of the documentation has a rather awkward design; for example, a different header than other pages, and no footer. Can it be updated?
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2
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1
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Clarify read-only vs. write operations for Teams in documentation
The API page about Stack Overflow for Teams says (emphasis mine):
Starting with the release of Stack Overflow For Teams, the Stack Exchange API exposes read-only access to data stored in private ...
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Custom Fonts User Script: Revert or Improve the Font Updates
Recently, Stack Exchange decided to switch to system fonts. For those of you who prefered the old appearance, or would like a different font to appear in code blocks or across the site as a whole, ...
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Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3
I was playing around a bit with Fiddler to capture traffic from the Stack Exchange iOS app. To my surprise, it uses version 2.3 of the Stack Exchange API:
I noticed here that it has some extra ...
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0
answers
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OBSOLETE - Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages
Obsolete
This script is now obsolete; a permanent fix has been implemented by Stack Exchange.
About
Some time ago, Stack Exchange moved to highlight.js v11. One of the breaking changes of this ...
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1
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0
answers
70
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Userscript to disable responsiveness on SE
I would like to make a user script to disable the responsiveness on Stack Exchange sites. My main reason is that I would like to resize my browser to half my screen size (705px) and still get the ...
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Uncaught channelUrl must be under the current domain
I'm developing a Stack Chrome extension that will make use of the API. I'm following the instructions on the API docs here.
My OAuth and host websites are set to stackexchange.com in my Stack Apps ...
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API Documentation and Help
Method List
All API methods can be found at https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
Global Method Parameters
All methods accept the following parameters:
type=jsontext: responds with mime-type text/json.
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Where do I look for a new-to-the-network technical-overview introduction to what a script/app/etc. basically is, incl. differences between them?
Where do I look for a new-to-the-network technical-overview introduction to what a script/app/etc. basically is, including differences between them?
Basically, I'm looking for onboarding documentation ...
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Extension; Access to layout and javascript of stackexchange network site instead of inject (Stacks is not defined)
Note: last update at the end of POST
I am developing an extension for community users.
Introduction:
The extension is under development on this github: https://github.com/IcarosNetSA/atsu
and these ...
user84994
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2
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Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Typo in API docs /numbers)
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/numbers
The motivation for this is to prevent any unpleasant floating point confusion, especially across technologies that offering different floating point ...
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0
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Bring back the layout!
Important notice:
This update to site layout broke a lot of the layout adjusting scripts partially or completely. It affected my script as well - as of now, only pure-CSS adjustments work properly (...
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0
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Alignment issue in the Apps, Scripts tabs
There is an alignment issue in the Apps and Scripts tabs. The user name and the tag are not aligned right indent.
Screenshot for reference:
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3
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Browsing method documentation consumes 4 quota units per page
Is it my imagination (scratch that, it's definitely not), or does simply browsing method doc pages (without using the "Run" function) consume quota?
From Bash using httpie and jq (on a ...
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Update Teams API documentation to reflect dependency on tier
The documentation says (emphasis mine):
Starting with the release of Stack Overflow For Teams, the Stack Exchange API exposes read-only access to data stored in private Teams.
This is slightly ...
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1
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Can we change the Stack Apps homepage tabs to not show questions tagged "obsolete" and "placeholder"?
Following What should we do about dead listings?, we've started to add obsolete to questions that are 'deprecated, no longer available/supported, or no longer relevant'.
However, on the front page, ...
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Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API
I see the Stack Exchange API but I'm unable to understand it. I don't think there is any fundamental tutorial showing how to use Stack Overflow fully in the API documentation.
I want some fundamental ...
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1
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Unable to post a comment using the interactive API documentation
I'm trying to to integrate the Stack Exchange API in my application. I'm trying the authentication but when I got the token and used it it gave a write_access issue. That issue was resolved when I ...
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1
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Wrong sorting parameter in documentation for question/{ids}/answers
It looks like that in the question/{ids}/answers documentation, there is a mistake:
votes – score
Shouldn't this be
votes – votes
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2
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1
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Misaligned label "Stack Apps Post (optional)" on app information page
When editing the application information (from https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/), the label for the optional Stack Apps Post is misaligned:
It should be left-aligned like the other labels; the only ...
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Replace badge icons with rubber ducks
The following userscript will replace the default badge icons with little rubber ducks
// ==UserScript==
// @name StackExchange, replace badge icons
// @match *://*.askubuntu.com/*
// @...
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3
answers
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Documentation or API method for `option_id` information, for the `/flags/options` API calls?
The Stack Exchange API has a couple of calls that return a list of flag_option objects.
These objects contain a couple of properties that can be used to identify the flag you need.
For example, when ...
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Top Navigation Bar script
The following script for Tampermonkey (Chrome) or Greasemonkey (Firefox) will add the links which have been moved to the new sidebar design to the top of the page. Make sure you also hide the sidebar ...
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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names
A picture says more than a thousand words:
These users aren't called "Bhargav Rac" and "Tunak", but Bhargav Rao and Tunaki.
This happens on both the 'apps' and 'scripts' tabs of the Stack Apps ...
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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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Typos in API documentation
From the /posts documentation:
Most applications should use the question or answer specific methods, but /posts is available for those rare cases where any activity is of intereset.
intereset => ...
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My filter is not returning any results. How to create a minimal filter?
I'm having trouble getting the SO API Filters to cooperate. I've gone over the documentation as well as similar questions like this and this.
I'll use this call as an example since it successfully ...
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1
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"Javascript" typo on documentation pages
On page Usage of /sites, it should be JavaScript, not Javascript, in the right sidebar:
This obviously also applies to (most/all) API documentation pages, since they share the sidebar.
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What happened to the links to a Stack App mentioned in the documentation about write access?
The documentation about write access states:
The application responsible for creating content via the API may be indicated with a link to an app's Stack Apps post. The exact manner of display is ...
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Few typos in the documentation pages
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/vectors
When passing a vector, sepeate each id with a semicolon. For example, /users/1;2;3;4;5?site=somesite would fetch users with ids 1 through 5 on somesite.
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Where is the usage documentation?
I know this is probably a dumb question, but there's a bunch of documentation and I don't know what to do with this stuff. How do you use the API?
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Is it possible to authenticate a user through Stack Overflow API?
Is it possible to use the Stack Overflow API to authenticate a given user identity such as with Facebook, Twitter, or OpenID?
If it's possible: Can you tell me the method (s) that make this happen?
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List /network-activity methods under Network Methods in the documentation
The API methods /users/{id}/network-activity and /me/network-activity, both return a summary of a user's activity across the Stack Exchange network and do not take a site parameter.
They are ...
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VisualCrumbs - StackExchange Visual Changes
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
I created this script because I wanted to customize my personal use of Stack Overflow (And such Stack Exchange sites) to be more visually appealing to me and give me ...
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The authentication doc gives a wrong domain for authentication
The authentication doc page now lists URL's like:
https://stackoverflow.com/oauth
https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token
etc.
While these seem to work, the correct domain is stackexchange.com, ...
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
On API doc pages, the “link” link at the top-right of the “Try It” sections presents a URL with the wrong domain name:
For example, on docs/similar, the URL displayed will be:
https://api....
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Can the API Edit a Question, changing only one field?
The documentation for the edit question method (/questions/{id}/edit) is somewhat vague.
Are all of the parameters required?
For example, if the only field I want to change in the question is tags, ...
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What does "in practice" mean here?
From /answers/{id}/delete:
In practice, this method will never return an object.
For me, "in practice" means that the method will maybe return an object. But why? That's not good from an ...
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Difference between `/inbox/unread` & `/me/inbox/unread`
I ran /inbox/unread & /me/inbox/unread.
What is the difference between the two? Also, the site parameter which we give in call to /me/inbox/unread is not required as inbox_item refers to global ...
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