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LegacyQuestions - Bringing back the old questions design
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What is LegacyQuestions? (install)
LegacyQuestions brings back the old questions list design changed in a recent update.
Changelog
v2.0
fixed vertical list bug, props to Dani21 for the PR
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SO Stats - Track your stack overflow activity
About
I created the SO Stats app because I wanted a simple and convenient way to track my Stack Overflow activity and progress. As a frequent user, I was always curious about how my reputation was ...
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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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View other OP posts in the Staging Ground
During the beta tests in the Staging Ground, there were some cases where the author wrote a posted a copy of the question that bypassed the Staging Ground process. This user script shows me the ...
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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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Randomly getting an 404 no method error when calling the question endpoint
When calling the question endpoint for a given number of communities, I have been randomly getting the following error:
{"error_id":404,"error_message":"no method found with ...
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Copy Code Exchange - copy code to clipboard from Stack Exchange sites!
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This is a userscript to copy code (from any <pre> element) to the clipboard from all Stack Exchange sites. It's pretty nice and cool to be able to copy ...
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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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PLACEHOLDER - A post to register my app posting
PLACEHOLDER - Just a post to register my app.
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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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The /questions endpoint only returns around 30,000 items where 400,000 are expected
I use stackr library and I registered an api key as the library mentions "since it increases your daily quota of queries from 300 to 10,000." So I use the following code, which worked fine ...
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Add the excerpt back to the question title on hover
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Quickly assess if a question is worth opening by hovering over the title. (This restores a feature that was removed for performance reasons by Stack Exchange.)
Click image ...
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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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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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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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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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Answerable, a recommender of unanswered questions
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Answerable is a Python program that finds unanswered questions on Stack Overflow that you could be able to answer.
Background
At first I didn't know about the StackExchange API, so I planned to ...
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Duplicate manager with automatic closure and duplicate list editing
Description
This is a userscript partly inspired by Aran Fey's Duplicate Target Manager and responds to this meta question (by myself) API to programmatically close questions as duplicate with ...
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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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When are Stack Apps questions shown with thumbnails instead of regular statistics?
Today I was browsing a tag here and I noticed that on the first pages, all questions are shown with thumbnails (most of the time, just the default one):
However, from page 5 on the formatting is like ...
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Retrieving list of c# questions
I am trying to retrieve list of C# questions using http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions?title=true&tagged="c#".
But I get JSON response related to c questions.
Response :
{
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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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Obtain the list of questions associated to answer_ids without losing the information of which question comes from which answer_id
This is a follow up to a previous question of mine, and the starting point is that, given a list of reputation objects retrieved via /users/{ids}/reputation, I can easily retain only the entries with ...
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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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Get questions with body and answers
How can I get the latest 30 questions with body and answers using the api?
And then, I want to get only first most voted 3 answers for each question. Is this possible with only one request?
To get ...
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Two minor typos in the API help
In http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help
/users/{id}/answers Gets answer summary informatino for the user with 'id'.
and in the Returns section of http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=...
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Minor typo on help page
On the API Routes help page, this:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets summary information for the questions that have been favorited a set of users.
should probably be:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets ...
rene♦
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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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Does `inquestion` support multiple question ids?
The q parameter has an inquestion operator that can take a question id.
Can it take multiple question ids?
My use-case is as follows:
I want to get an array of questions with their excerpts.
However,...
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Question close, reopen, and delete votes in the post sidebar
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This is for users that cannot normally see these votes. On Stack Overflow that is less than 3,000 reputation points for close and reopen votes, and 10,000 reputation points for delete votes. The ...
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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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Show the protected banner to everyone
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According to What is a "protected" or "highly active" question?, users with more than 10 earned but less than 15,000 reputation points aren't shown the protected banner:
It ...
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Why does api.stackoverflow.com allow resource calls that accept vectorized or multiple IDs?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/questions-by-ids
What is the motivation for building api.stackoverflow.com in a manner that accepts multiple IDs in a resource call?
For example, I can ...
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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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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 ...
rene♦
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View close/reopen votes without 3k rep
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About
This script enables you to view the close/reopen votes on a post without unlocking the cast close and reopen votes privilege unlocked at 3000 reputation.
Powered by Stack Exchange API.
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Can "trends" be queried with the Stack Exchange API?
I've studied the Stack Exchange API to some extent (although I'm a newbie to such things), and it appears I can query the database using many criteria. But does Stack Exchange store any "trends&...
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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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How many ids is 'too many'?
This answer mentions limit on amount of ids included in queries like /users/{id}/mentioned, but I can't find actual amount mentioned anywhere.
Now, I could run binary search and find out, but I ...
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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?
rene♦
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Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
Screenshot / Code Snippet
Live preview of the new counter:
The counter also preserves the "heatmap" colour coding:
About
Disclaimer: please note that the script will not allow you to ...
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
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Would it be possible to create a script that could be run manually to unprotect questions that meet certain parameters?
One of the sites I use has in excess of 10% of their questions protected. It's a small site but this seems like a huge amount, largely due to questions being on the HNQ regularly and attracting many ...
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How do I access the greatest hits (questions) via API v2.2.?
The greatest hits (questions) of any stack exchange site (say stack overflow) can be found by visiting the below URL:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/greatest-hits
I would want to access these ...
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Bounty question collector
I want to write a script to collate all bounty questions from all Stack Exchange sites.
I have heard of Tampermonkey and I have no server access.
Could someone explain how I should go about writing a ...
rene♦
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Belisarius - Detecting vandalism on Stack Overflow
Background:
This bot has been developed in an attempt to help capture possible vandalism. This includes:
Removing all code
Replacing all content with nonsense/repeated words
Adding solutions to ...
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What license is the Stack Exchange API released under? MIT?
Are there any license requirements the Stack Exchange API?
Which license is it released under?
If I were to develop an app, would I have to credit Stack Exchange API?
rene♦
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Non-verbatim search strings in py-stackexchange
I am writing a python program with py-stackexchange that takes a query and returns a list of urls to questions with that query in the title.
Here's the code:
#!c:/Python27/python.exe -u
import sys
sys....
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'Saviour' of Lost Souls
'Saviour' of Lost Souls
Meta sites, but especially Meta Stack Exchange, see a lot of 'lost souls', users who have no idea that they're on Meta (e.g. because of a suboptimal email or a Stack Overflow ...
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Why was Not a Real Question deleted?
I posted an answer on Not a Real Question's Stack Apps post and shortly after, the entire post was deleted by animuson. I'm not sure why it was deleted, it seems on-topic because it is related to the ...
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