Questions tagged [questions]
Tools that help with questions, or issues with the API handling of questions.
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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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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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Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
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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
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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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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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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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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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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
About
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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Show the protected banner to everyone
About
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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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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Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
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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 ...
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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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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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Oddity with migration data from questions
Take a look at this question on SuperUser. Apparently, it was migrated from ServerFault, and was originally asked by user 3d1l. However, now look at the API result: http://api.superuser.com/1.0/...
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
I want to fetch some questions from the API and I would like to sort them. However, I don't want to sort by the default options (activity, votes, creations, hot, week, month), but instead, for example,...
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How can I the question detail page and add comments like the Stack Exchange app?
Can we get the list of data when clicking on a specific question and display the question detail page like the Stack Exchange app?
I can't find the API to get them so far, so I decided to display the ...
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Natty - Bringing 10k moderation to All
Background and History
The New Answers to Old Questions tool helps us to find all the answers added to questions which are more than 30 days old. However the issue with the tool is that it is not ...
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Getting the ID of the question-asker when fetching new answers from the API
I am fetching a list of all new answers posted on Stack Overflow using the /answers API call. This returns the owner of the answer, but I would like to know if the answerer is the same person as the ...
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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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How to determine if a question is hot?
I know that I can get all hot question by sorting it like this:
/2.2/questions?order=desc&sort=hot&site=stackoverflow
Likewise, I'm not quite sure if other sortings like activity also ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag using .Net?
I want to get the list of questions based on tag name using .Net. can any one please let me know how to achieve this using .Net with API Version 2.2?
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Sidebar Question Stats - Put question stats back in the sidebar
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A recent change moved question stats (ask date, view count, and active date) from the sidebar to under the question title. Like others, you may find this distracting, because the ...
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API to Emulate Notifications
Is there a API End Point that will emulate Test Notifications? When I say Notifications, I Mean both Inbox and Achievements.
Right now i am using below for the data
Unread Notification : https://...
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Restore missing and/or obsolete Close-Vote Reasons
About:
This userscript restores missing/obsolete close-vote reasons to the close-vote dialog.
This script is in response to:
A chat request where the poster used it in conjunction with a bug report....
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Filter SE questions by votes, views and rep
(Chrome only)
v1.2 Find good questions to answer.
The script will filter questions in real time, in all Stack Exchange sites questions pages,
hiding them by score, views, user ...
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Clone the tags in questions page, if the tags are not visible in the initial window
About
If the tags are not visible in the initial loaded page, this script will copy and paste the tags after the post title.
If the tags position is not less than the current window's height, then ...
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Hot questions (network)
Would it be possible to get an API method for the stackexchange hot questions list?
Something like an official version of this: http://stackexchange.com/genuwine
Second to this would be knowing how ...
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Show User Accept Rates
This simple user script restores the display of a user's question accept rate on questions they ask.
Known Issues:
New: In Firefox, throws a "no element found" error and fails to display anything.
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golf-me: your new command-line code-golf companion!
Golf-me is a quick and dirty terminal application you can use to pick out a programming puzzle from Stack Exchange's Programming Puzzles & Code Golf site.
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Duplicate Target Manager
Description
This is a userscript that lets you mark questions as commonly used duplicate targets, and replaces the default question search in the close dialog with one that searches through your ...
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OBSOLETE - How should I understand "timeline_type": "votes" record in question timeline? [closed]
Take a look at the partial results of this query:
{
"timeline_type": "votes",
"post_id": 2544061,
"creation_date": 1269993600,
"owner": {
// omitted for brevity
},
"action": "7 ...
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OBSOLETE - Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes
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Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes is a UserScript for any Stack Exchange site that makes it extremely simple to check for duplicate questions for a post. In the left side it shows ...
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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's the meaning about " is_answered" field of question object?
I saw the question object has a is_answered field.
I mentioned that there're the following cases:
The is_answered field is true, and the question has an accepted answer.
The is_answered field is ...
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Can we pull posts out of Stack Overflow based on tags?
Instead of directly searching the posts and reading on the Stack Overflow website, can we pull out posts in the form of pdf/txt file?
I want to learn (say like programming: c or python) some real ...
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Get everything touched by a user?
I'm trying to figure out the best way to compile all "post threads" (Questions and all related Answers and Comments) where a specific user owns any of the {Question, Answer or [a comment on either the ...
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FireAlarm: detecting low-quality questions with machine learning
There are two versions of FireAlarm. One version is written in C, and the other is written in Swift. This post is about the Swift version.
FireAlarm is a chatbot Ashish Ahuja and I have been ...
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How to pass multiple tags (OR between the tags) to the Stack Exchange Questions/Unanswered API
I am using the /questions/unanswered API to try and get all unanswered questions, sorted by upvotes, and with the tags specified.
How can I pass multiple tags to the /unanswered route(s) using OR-...
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