Questions tagged [script]
Use this tag to post a userscript that operates on Stack Exchange sites and/or uses the Stack Exchange API. For questions about user scripting and Stack Exchange, or its API, use the [scripts] tag instead. Scripts are usually JavaScript and usually browser extensions/userscripts. For other tools, the [app] tag may be more appropriate.
Unicorn Voting - Bringing the Joy of April 1 All Year 'Round!
A UserScript that restores some of the animations that accompanied April 1, 2011.
'Saviour' of Lost Souls
Adds a shortcut to down-/close-/delete vote and post a welcoming comment to Lost Souls on Meta Stack Exchange and some other sites.
Stack Exchange Side-By-Side Edit and Preview
The Stack Exchange Side-By-Side Editor adds a link to your edit toolbar to enter side-by-side editing mode. Creates a window with just the edit text area and the markdown preview next to each other.
Add keyboard shortcuts to comments
Adds Ctrl+B (bold), Ctrl+I (italic), Ctrl+K (code), and Ctrl+L (link) shortcuts to comments.
Stack Exchange Post Editor - Performing Basic Corrections on Posts Automatically
This script was originally inspired by SE Editor Toolkit. Unfortunately, the toolkit is packaged as a Safari extension and as such is unusable in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. I had written a PHP scr…
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 ma…
Ask Ubuntu Toolbar Buttons - A set of toolbar buttons for Ask Ubuntu that make it easy to insert links to packages, PPAs, etc
This UserScript adds some buttons to the editing toolbar that allow the following to easily be inserted: Package installation button: Package installation text and icon: stackapplet Manpage…
OBSOLETE - Freehand Circles Drawing Tool
A userscript that lets you draw directly onto images on any Stack Exchange site to add freehand drawings :)
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 scrip…
VoteCounts: bookmarklet to display up/down votes even for rep less than 1000
This small bookmarklet will allow anyone to use the "vulnerability" of the API that it allows you to check the up/down vote count - a feat you could normally achieve by being a 1k+rep user. Mainly …
Burninator toolkit
Please note, the tag burninator script requires 10k rep to use. Sorry, noobs! I pass on to you, dear taxonomist terrorists, the burninator toolkit. This toolkit consists of two user scripts wh…
Manual Draft Save - Save a draft on demand
This small script adds a save button to the editor bar that allows you to instantly save the contents of the editor as a draft. Although this happens automatically every minute or so, now you can f…
Stack Exchange Global Review Summary
Global Review Summary This script adds a 'reviews' tab to your network profile, which will show your review totals across the network. Installation Install the userscript with this direct lin…
Select Code Block Buttons Script
Shows a select-button on mouse over on code-blocks to select the whole block for easier copying. Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am sure you will manage somehow, adjust includes as n…
SE like I like it userscript
This Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey script mimics the behavior of Notepad++ with keyboard navigation and indents in edit boxes, and adds double-click to select all in code blocks.
Get Comment markdown, copy comment code to clipboard
Adds easy buttons to fetch comment code and copy it to the clipboard.
Get a list of posts you've voted on that have been edited
Many posts over the years have asked for ways to systematically ensure up- and down-votes are as up-to-date as the posts they were cast on, whether by notifying as soon as a post was edited, or by …
Advanced Search Helper, Saved Search (Bookmarks), and Navigation Improvements
Advanced Search Helper when search box is focused. Bookmark search queries for reuse. Other navigation improvements.
Transmogrify offtopic MSO posts
Lets one deal with offtopic posts easily, the Calvin&Hobbes way!
A service to help people to download their Dev Stories before the Stack Overflow DS sunset
Manfred launches a website that allows any StackOverflow user to download their Developer Story data as a JSON file, without requiring registering or providing any email address. For free. Open Sou…
Hat Overflow - Show number of Winterbash hats at a glance
Adds a Winterbash hat-count to every user's signature.
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 any…
Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
Activity Indicator is a userscript that displays a, well, indicator and some useful stats about your interactions with a given post.
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
ChatterBox adds an "inbox" button to the chat interface.
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 re…
Editor buttons for injecting documentation links
Small user script (.user.js) that adds a few manual buttons. After selecting a word in the answer, the buttons can be used to transform it into a formatted documentation URL. The script tries to de…
OBSOLETE - Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages
Restore syntax highlighting on revision and review pages
OBSOLETE - Review Stalker user script
Update: I don't have time to fix it at the moment and have also come to doubt the sustainability of this approach since putting it online, so I tagged it as obsolete. This is a very basic user s…
Stack Exchange References
Stack Exchange References What is it? Stack Exchange References is a userscript for easily putting in references in answers and questions. Description In the top bar of any answer or question on…
OBSOLETE - See the SOX post -- Side By Side Editing [duplicate]
This userscript adds a button to the editor toolbar ('Toggle Side-By-Side Editing') so you can view the preview and markdown side by side when asking or answering a question or when editing an exis…
Auto-Add A Comment When Closing
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 it,…
ArtOfChatbot + Chat API - a customisable chatbot
ArtOfChatbot is a two-part creation: a basic chatbot script, and an API to customise it. It is designed to be: completely in-browser easy to run easy to extend (with some JS knowledge) You can …
Inline editor regardless of reputation
The following simple script provides an ability to edit any posts inline regardless of reputation (works if logged out also). Download / view code Screenshot from there:
![](https://i.sstatic.net/CMBgf.png "A way to keep the "user bar" on the top of the site stuck there ~ StickyBar")
A way to keep the "user bar" on the top of the site stuck there ~ StickyBar
Stick the userbar to the top of the window
CommentAssist - Making comments just got easier
A tool that makes writing comments easier by introducing the toolbar found in the answers form over to the comments form
Sort Best First
Inspired by the Fastest Gun question on the central Meta, this script implements answer sorting based on a modified Wilson score. Installing the script adds a ‘Modified Wilson score’ sort option o…
Question and Answer Icon Annotations in Reputation History
Description This UserScript makes it easier to differentiate post type in the reputation history (/users/:user-id/username?tab=reputation) by adding Q and A icons as visual indicators. Specifically…
Make better use of the space in profiles, like profiles used to be
The change to user profiles discussed in Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive has introduced some empty space. It can be seen directly in Profile page is very empty, revert to ol…
Stack Exchange One-Click Reviews
Review items on Stack Exchange by simply clicking on the review action, rather than having to select and choose Submit
Lobby Lighthouse: guiding new Chat users
As part of a recent experiment, two new chat rooms are open to any logged-in users, regardless of reputation or privileges. The new rooms are: Stack Overflow Lobby Stack Exchange Lobby I believe …
Cursor decorations based on the April Fool's 2019 theme?
I've really enjoyed the April Fool's theme this year, most of all the cursor decoration. Could someone create a user script for me that activates the decoration everywhere on the network (chat can …
Question Close Notifier - a userscript to notify you when one of your questions close somewhere on the network
This simple userscript checks all of your accounts across the Stack Exchange network, and informs you if a question of yours has closed. Because SE refuse to do so :(
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 you…
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 u…
Hide the newly introduced homepage widgets
The new widgets can clutter the homepage for those of us who are not interested in them. I created a simple script that hides the widgets. Although I could not find a good way to restore it to its…
QuickComment: comment shortcuts to cut down on tedium
QuickComment will automatically replace $STIENAME with the site's name (ex. Stack Apps), $SITEURL with its URL (ex. stackapps.com), and $USERNAME with the name of the user whose post you are commen…
Stack Exchange Desktop Notifications
Below is a copy of http://shu8.github.io/SE_Notifications/: Stack Exchange Notifications This userscript will make HTML5 notifications popup when something happens on a question that you have ope…
BrickJax: Brick Image Replacement for Bricks.StackExchange.com
A script that will allow users to easily insert images of Bricks, with or without links, and also links to sets on various listings sites via simple tags.
Auto-Load Vote Counts
This script automatically loads vote counts on sites where you have that privilege: Currently, you have to click on a vote score to see individual up/down counts, but this script loads them auto…
Edit summary options
Description Gives you little checkboxes above the edit summary with preset options like "formatted code" or "removed signature." Screenshots Userscript http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1…