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.
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 que…
Flag searcher - search in your flagging history
I don't know any good way to search for your own flags by custom accept/rejection reasons, title, flag text or detailed flag type (e.g. "Not an Answer") hence I wrote a user script for th…
Show Deleted Answers at head for Stack Exchange
Description Script practice. To view your own deleted answers/questions on a Stack Exchange account, you always need to scroll all the way down to see the "Deleted answers" tag. I've writ…
Better Paginator - a userscript to add a page-number-box to the paginator
Adds a box where the user can enter a page number to go to in the paginator
Userscripts Configurer - One script to configure them all
UserScripts Configurer provides a shared UI and controls configuration options for UserScripters' userscripts.
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…
Answer accept indicator
With Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow, I find that it would be nice to have an indicator. Some posts have multiple pages, and searching for the one post among man…
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…
LinkPreview - Protection against hazardous links
Protection against hazardous links on SE
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.
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Dismiss "new follow feature" popup on active sites
Dismiss the "new follow feature" popup on all sites.
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…
Dismiss Announcement Banner
Automatically dismisses an announcement banner when you've dismissed it on another site
Data Explorer (SEDE) Auto-Login that redirects back to original target page
Automatically logs in to SEDE and remembers the page you targeted.
Comment keyboard shortcuts
This userscript adds keyboard shortcuts to StackExchange comments. The default ones are: Ctrl+B (bold), Ctrl+I (italic), Ctrl+K (code), and Ctrl+L (link). You can yourself extend this with more cus…
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 …
RepAdvisor - A Basic Tool For Farming Reputation
Almost all of us Stack Overflow users want to earn more reputation. However, we don't have all the time in the world to answer questions. RepAdvisor is a bookmarklet that predicts how much reputati…
Clickable Links in Revision Comments
Turns URLs in revision history comments into clickable links.
Sidebar Answer Status
Modifies the Linked and Related sidebar lists to show answered status, up / down vote counts, and other info.
Shrink the Stack Exchange Footer
All Stack Exchange sites (except Stack Overflow) have a giant footer: I don't like to have all of that space being taken up on my screen, so I built this user-style: /** * Copyright © 2016 Jed …
Copy post content as markdown -- quick and easy way to quote people!
This is a userscript that converts the selected text to Markdown and allows you to quickly copy it. It is mainly useful for when copying from comments on posts, where you want to quote the user, or…
Magic Links Enhancer
This userscript adds a way to quickly link to posts, help pages, privileges and links across the Stack Exchange sites. It uses @M'vy's idea of having a basic format of [SITE:type:id], and works th…
OBSOLETE - Clipboardy chrome extension to copy posted source to clipboard
Clipboardy is a Chrome extension for copying posted code to clipboard from stackoverflow.com, github.com & npmjs.com
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Add a "Random" Option for Sorting Answers
This is a userscript (for Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey, etc.) for sorting answers to posts randomly, like so: This feature was requested in connection with the Stack Overflow Fall 2015 Moderator Ele…
Early warning for new questions with problematic tags or titles
Leaves a temporary comment on new Stack Exchange questions with problematic tags or titles. Some of the issues detected by the bot: a non-descriptive title a vague tag used as the only tag all tag…
Display tag excerpt tooltips when editing a question
There's a 25-score question on MSE with the same title requesting this feature. The obvious solution: create a userscript to do it. :) You can install the script by clicking here.
IGB Stack Flair – A dynamic flair for Stack Exchange sites
IGB Stack Flair at SourceForge How to include IGB Stack Flair in your web page How to integrate IGB Stack Flair into your Wikipedia user page: see Gerold 'Geri' Broser's en:Wikipedia user page see …
Comment Separator Fix
We have this nicely formatted toolbar with all of the moderation tools we need below questions: So, why is it that the separator that goes along with the new comment format looks like this? T…
Auto-Link - Add links based on personal keywords
What is this exactly? A script that helps with linking recurring recommendations and making answers more user friendly. You can provide a list of global keywords paired with a link and the script …
Simplify Community Bulletin widget
This Stylish script: Hides the recently added bold category titles; Removes post vote counts; Reduces space used by widget. @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document domain…
Hide chat messages based on content
Want to get those Game of Thrones spoilers out of your chat? Hate certain things? Automatically hide chat messages based on a blacklist of words. Instructions Download the User script Edit IGNORE_…
Hide unwanted questions (Greasemonkey Script)
Simple script to hide questions in Stack Overflow lists so that you don't have to stare at the same questions you are not interested in over & over again.
Script to convert a search on a StackExchange site to a Google search of that site
Convert a search on a StackExchange site to a Google search of that site
Direct Question Edit Links
This script adds an edit link to the question summary, saving frequent editors the trouble of "entering" the question first. Adjust includes as needed: // ==UserScript== // @name Direct…
stackoverflow favicon counter
Adds unread questions counter to favicon at stackoverflow tags section
How can I find commonly duplicated questions from stack network dumps?
Why? I got tired of searching for the same duplicate questions over and over again. What? These are a couple of scripts I threw together in order to cut down search time for common questions and…
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Autonavigate/autocomment "close/flag offtopic" for MSO
On MSO, there are plenty of questions that should be on SO asked every day. The procedure with dealing with these is: Copy-paste boilerplate comment saying "This belongs on SO blah". Alt…
Reply links in comments--lazy version
Derivative of this script Some people are too lazy to type out full usernames in @replies, and they don't use the autocomplete either. This script is for these guys--it leaves the job of being lazy…
StackExchange Google Search
Google questions if query begins with "gq:" and user profiles if query begins with "gu:".
Favourite Tags Numerical Keyboard Shortcuts Script
Another short and simple script, it adds numerical keyboard shortcuts to the favourite tags. Only works on those pages which have the favourite tags on them. The default modifier is Alt but the boo…
Chat audio enhancements
Get a special audible alert whenever anyone mentions the word unicorn in chat.
Comment Image Upload - upload images directly from the comment box!
Comment Image Upload is a simple userscript that makes uploading images directly from the comment box possible.
WebSocket Defibrilator - try to keep SE websockets (and in-page updates) working
Description Websockets on Stack Exchange provide live updates on a page - for example, showing there are new notifications, or new answers, or new comments, etc. These are unreliable in some cases.…
Logout from all devices by default
Description Inspired from Add option to make "log out of all devices" the default Installation Direct install (GitHub) See the code on GitHub // ==UserScript== // @name Logout…
Fix for the network search pagination
Description Problem See the report Pagination on stackexchange.com search is broken The pagination in the global search is broken. It only shows 15 results even when the page size is set to somethi…