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.
Floating vote buttons (script)
Tampermonkey script that brings back an old Stack Exchange feature that never made it out of beta: // ==UserScript== // @name Sticky post vote buttons // @namespace http://tampermonkey.n…
StackExchange Election: Primary counter
This user script adds a short overview table at the of the election page during the primary election phase on Stack Exchange moderator elections. The table lists all candidates, ordered by their cu…
Question close, reopen, and delete votes in the post sidebar
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 sc…
Unstar/unpin for room owners from a transcript
Let Room Owners unstar or unpin a message from the chat transcript
View close votes, reopen votes, and delete votes with insufficient repuation
A userscript to view close/reopen/delete votes on all questions even with low reputation
Show the protected banner to everyone
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 see…
Why No Bounty? userscript
Inspired by this feature request by Shadow Wizard, I wrote a simple userscript (direct install link) which checks most of the reasons why you can't start a bounty, and displays that information on …
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Garbage (litter) filters - delete custom filters from the "more" dropdown
Garbage filters is a userscript that allows users to delete custom filters from the top dropdown directly without scrolling down to the "custom filters" sidebar.
Community Diamond Restorer - Add the diamond back to Community's profile!
Restore Community user's diamond.
CDNSaver - never look for a CDN link twice
Never look for a CDN link more than once - CDNSaver allows you to save library CDN links for stack snippets.
The cute little blue box on flag dialogs
Based on Use the same location for Submit button in the comment flag dialog as in the post flag dialog which asked for the buttons to go on the right side, and Question Close Updates: Phase 1 which…
Stack Exchange Archivist
Adds a button to archive all external links and images in a post
Simply makes the review overview stuff bigger
When Visual design changes to the review queues was introduced, the review overview page seemed to change to having a smaller font size on post number and very small avatars. I think the white spac…
Comment History Checker - See comment score and your deleted comments at a glance
Review the status and reception of your comments and their parent posts
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.
Wilson confidence rating calculator
Calculates Wilson confidence ratings for Stack Exchange posts
CollapsibleBanners - Save screen space when viewing questions
Collapses the closed banner to save screen space
Make your own custom oneboxes for Chat!
Oneboxing is when you post a link to a supported site on SE Chat and it automatically shows extra information. An example is when you post a link to a question in Chat and it converts to the title,…
ChatBot, a bot. For the chat
Lurks in the shadows of the chat. It executes commands at the request of the user, sending messages as the user who runs it. You can talk to it the StackOverflow SandBox room if you want to play (…
I downvote because UI
An integration of the idownvotedbecau.se website I made a userscript which adds a simple popup whenever you are downvoting a question, which lets you choose from a set of reasons on why you did it…
Replace badge icons with rubber ducks
Badges are bland, you deserve ducks.
Three Columns - Displays the question page, post textarea, and post preview in side-by-side columns
Three Columns ( install ) (github) This is a userscript which allows those with reasonably wide monitors to make the most of their screen real-estate when posting, by making the questi…
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 sideb…
Answer link titles in user profiles deserves closed status too
User profiles show post closed status on the "Questions" tabs, but not on the "Answers" tabs. As noted, partially by me, in Should “duplicate” and “closed” attributes be added t…
Dude, where's my cursor?
This user script makes editing especially of large posts easier by matching cursor positions in the text box to positions in the Markdown preview and vice versa.
OBSOLETE - Add a heading when reviewing a suggested edit
Unlike other review queues, the suggested edits queue does not have a heading that indicates whether the edited post is a question or answer. This information is only displayed in small gray colore…
View Post Timeline
Inspired by this MSO question. This tiny userscript will add a link to the timeline for any post, just below the "favorite question" star button. Example image: This is the code: // ==UserScr…
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, quest…
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…
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…
Bulk flag comments
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 delete"…
Close Reason Editor: Customize your off-topic close reasons
This userscript allows you edit the off-topic close reasons which are normally editable only by the site moderators.
Remove Jobs and Teams from Stack Overflow
Remove all Jobs- and Teams-related stuff from Stack Overflow, making the main focus Q/A
Stack Exchange WYSIWYG Editor
Markdown is great! But WYSIWYG editors are really useful - no waste of screen space by having the preview underneath what you're typing, no accidents with markdown: You see what you get! So, I made…
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
ChatterBox adds an "inbox" button to the chat interface.
Unicorn Voting - Bringing the Joy of April 1 All Year 'Round!
A UserScript that restores some of the animations that accompanied April 1, 2011.
RPG.SE Chat Fudge dice: a userscript for Fate & Fudge games
Fudge dice for RPG Stack Exchange chat rooms
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…
SE Modifications -- Username autocomplete in comments, inline revision source, and utility links
Adds comment autocomplete (relatively) consistent with comment "@lert" rules, as well as a number of useful utility links, like history and timeline
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.
Generic Bot – A Moderation Chatbot
Generic Bot is a chatbot meant to help with moderation tasks on Stack Overflow. You can find the bot in the SOBotics chatroom. Flag Tracker (Userscript) When you flag a post, this userscript wi…
Click to expand code regions
Script that allows you to click code regions on stack overflow (or other stack exchange sites) and have it expand to whatever size it needs. Get rid of those pesky scroll bars!
Hide all pointless user data (avatar, badges, and reputation)
Hide pointless user data on userscripts.com When I look at answers, I often take the user's reputation points into account on whether I upvote them or not. This is a terribly bad thing to do as yo…