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AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE
No more re-typing the same comments over and over!
This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned ...
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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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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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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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Tell us that POST is required to write
While troubleshooting /posts/{id}/comments/add in order to answer Why am I getting a 404 when trying to post a comment?, it was noticed that the API path in question only responded to POST requests. ...
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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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Accessing Authenticated User's Close/Delete History
I'm working on the PHP chatroom's cv-pls backlog UI. Many users and myself would like the ability to track which questions we have already handled though close/delete votes. To be able to do that I ...
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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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How do I parse the dates from the API?
I see that JSON returned by the API contains dates in the following format:
"creation_date":1364546475
^^^^^^^^^^
What's the meaning of it? How can I parse it to get the date in the ...
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"Reply" links on comments
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About
This user script adds a little "reply" link to each comment. Clicking this link will
fetch the rest of the comments, if some of them were hidden
show the "add comment&...
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SE Comment Link Helper
About
This userscript automatically converts raw Stack Exchange question URLs into the form [title](link) before submitting comments by grabbing their titles from the API. This is similar to ...
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How the /sites method is meant to be used
The /sites method is used to enumerate all sites in the network. If your [app] is meant to run against more than a single site (and many are) this method is how you should be discovering new sites in ...
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The field body_markdown is not returned for comments [duplicate]
Using the method questions-by-ids to get the comments on a particular question, I do not get body_markdown returned despite it being selected in the filter.
Here is the test query to reproduce the ...
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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?
Back in version 1.1 of the API, we used to be able to do:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?help
...which would return information about the method in JSON format. However, attempting to ...
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Filter doesn't consistently return comment bodies
I've been trying to set up a filter I can use with /questions/{id}/answers/ (using the UI at this link), which returns the following fields:
answer:
answer_id
body_markdown
comments
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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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AND searching for tags?
I am using the search api to search for questions that are tagged with "tags" and not with "tags". However I have noticed that searching for tags is an OR search.
The questions search for tags is an ...
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Is it really worth to (implicitly) discourage documentation of API/library usage nowadays already?
Update:
Kevin provided an answer, which, while adding something of value to the three related questions together (by naming the originating concern eventually), actually does not apply to the ...
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?
I have a site that will offer technical help and assistance for a certain niche of computer users. I can either host my own forums, or tie in with stack... but I want to be able to make money off it ...
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`types=main_site` in `/me/associated` gives `meta_site` accounts also
When I run /me/associated with main_site as a parameter in types, its gives meta_site accounts also (Meta Stack Exchange profile).
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Threaded comments
History
June 6, 2012: Fixed an issue that can cause major problems with chat.
December 17, 2013: Fix an incompatibility with the Winter Bash code.
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Before:
After:
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Instead of ...
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Heat Detector - analysing comments to find heat
General
Heat detector is a StackApp whose goal is to catch offensive, rude, snarky comments, and comments that leads to abusive content (offensive, spam posts, or previous offensive comments). It is ...
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Add keyboard shortcuts to comments
Question code is obsolete.
But the answer code and the code linked in the comments still work.
About
This script adds Ctrl+B (bold), Ctrl+I (italic), Ctrl+K (code), and Ctrl+L (link) shortcuts to ...
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Self-destructing comments
I've made a userscript that allows you to self-destruct comments that you've made.
You can get it at Github.
Get started
install Tampermonkey, or Greasemonkey
get an access token
install the script
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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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Get Comment markdown, copy comment code to clipboard
About:
This userscript adds flyover buttons to every comment to fetch that comment's code (markdown).
Reference this post, and this post on Meta Stack Overflow.
Features:
The markdown is paste-...
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Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
About
Activity Indicator is a userscript that displays a, well, indicator and some useful stats about your interactions with a given post. Inspired by this feature request, upon opening a post, the ...
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Auto-Add A Comment When Closing
About
Automatically adds a comment when closing a question, with the text taken directly from the close reason you chose, so that the OP can see why their question may be being downvoted, and improve ...
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Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?
We're seeing that, when a particular filter we've created is used, the API will return "comment_count": 1 for questions with no comments.
For a search for questions with no answers, ordered by ...
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Incomplete information in API documentation
I am struggling a little bit with the Stack Exchange API since there seems to be no formal specification for the individual endpoints of the API.
Example:
Endpoint: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/...
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QuickComment: comment shortcuts to cut down on tedium
QuickComment
quick SE comments for quick SE people
Description
Tired of typing the same thing over and over again? Now, with QuickComment, you can type ";;linkonly" (for example) and have it expand ...
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QuickComment2: Automatic keyboard-only comment snippets
This is a vastly improved version of QuickComment: comment shortcuts to cut down on tedium. See that post for more information.
See the Github repo for instructions on how to install and use ...
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Typos on api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib
Under the Authentication section on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib, there are a few typos (emphasis mine):
scope (optional) – an array of scopes to request during authentication, valid ...
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User script to auto flag NLN (no longer needed) comments
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The user script uses multiple search keyword combinations via RegEx to catch NLN (no longer needed) comments and send them to the chat room. Currently, the script is running in this ...
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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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Bulk flag comments
About
I often go through my previous questions on SO/SE and find a lot of them have long resolved discussions. Ideally, I should raise a post flag and say "all comments below are obsolete; please ...
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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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Expand all comments script
The following script for Tampermonkey (multi browser) or Greasemonkey (Firefox) automatically expands all comments which are normally hidden behind the "show ... more comments" link:
The code is ...
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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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Parameter `tagged` in `search/advanced` seems to use `AND` instead of `OR`
It seems that search/advanced has the same problem as in "The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags" question.
When I select c#; .net I only get results tagged both c# and .net:
http://...
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Regional 12-hour timestamps
This script is a modification of Kip's "Display absolute timestamps (in local time)"; I have his permission to post this. Most of the credit for the script goes to him.
About
This script ...
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
I have run into some confusion over the presence of the body attribute in an inbox-item returned by the /inbox method.
When item_type is set to "careers_invitations", the body attribute appears to be ...
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StackExchange – Expand Hidden Comments
In principle that what Expand all comments script does, but with two major differences:
Scrolls the page back to the initial target of the corresponding link you selected (i.e. to question, question ...
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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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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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Can you identify a user from the access_token?
I have the access_token after authentication from the user. At this point I don't know with which sites this user has registered. Is it possible to get user information like the display name or ...
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questions/{id} help page sort parameter description is inconsistence with others
The description of the Sort parameter in questions/{id} help page is inconsistent with those of other pages.
On the questions/{id} help page:
sort (optional):
How a collection
should be ...
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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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Can we have maximum length of string in API help pages?
For the type "string", I think there is some upper limit of character count.
For example,
post title : 200 characters
post body : 30000 characters
In the help page, currently like this
"body": {
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fromdate is ignored for /posts/{id}/comments requests
The api docs:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=posts/{id}/comments
The test request.
You can see comment itself here, it's four months old, while cutoff date in request is less than ...
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