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.
Show/Hide spoilers on any question (and its answers)
Allows per-question toggling of spoiler blocks
Here's a script to convert dates to local timezone in Stack Exchange sites
I have written this script: StackExchange sites - convert dates to local timezone . It applies to Stack Exchange sites, e.g. : stackoverflow.com, stackexchange.com, superuser.com, etc. The timezon…
Minimize chat input area − remove links and site logo, no auto width
Chat input area background takes up all the horizontal space it can get. It's time to stop this greedy nonsense! This script removes the width:auto rule and hides the site's logo and links at the r…
Icons for favorite tags
I have a lot of tags in my "favorite tags" and it got to the point where they span across like five lines, and it was just too bulky for my liking. So, I made a user-script that replaces the text l…
Hide Unnecessary Info in SE Chat
Hide Unnecessary or Cluttering Information in the Sidebar of an SE Chatroom Description A small userscript to help avoid clutter on the sidebar of any Stack Exchange chat room. The chat room will…
Alt Text to Hover Text
When you add an image using Markdown, you are allowed to enter a description:  On Stack Exchange sites, this description is reserved for use as alt text …
Answerer Name comment highlighter [duplicate]
Update: This has been added to my Optional Features userscript - please go there for the latest version. After reading this, I really liked the idea, so I made a Userscript to highlight answerer's…
View full image sizes on click
Inspired by a meta question, here's a script that makes every image in a post also open itself at full size in a new window/tab when clicked. It will ignore any images already manually linked. Pl…
Hide the Community Bulletin
Do you ever find yourself spending too much time on Meta and not enough time answering "real" questions? This script will hide links to per-site metas from the Community Bulletin, which is a main …
SEScripts - A Bunch of Scripts
The SEScripts Chrome Extension adds various userscripts all around Stack Exchange, combined in a simple suite.
Show length of code blocks (mainly for codegolf.SE)
Description This is a small userscript I made that shows the amount of characters in a code block above it. It is mainly for the http://codegolf.stackexchange.com site. Screenshot (This is just …
Fiddle IT - Instant Fiddles Userscript
Fiddle-IT A tiny & simple userscript for creating fiddles in seconds. Very handy for answering questions when you want to test the OP's code Usage Select some code on the page, then press on…
Enhanced Ctrl + L and URL templates for comments, answers and questions
Shortcut Ctrl + L to add links to a comment. Define URL templates to make it easier to insert links to documentation. Shortcut Ctrl + L to remove a link in a comment ([caret>|](link) -> caret>…
Review Queue Hider
This user script adds a button to each review queue to allow you to hide it. Useful if you don't want a certain queue popping to the top! Each Stack Exchange site holds its own settings too, so you…
Octal user reputation
Displays reputation in octal. This script is derived from Kip's Hexadecimal user rep. Download Install | View Source Platform Firefox 19.0.1 with Greasemonkey License Same as the original. Do whate…
User rename script
Keep tabs on the newest help vampires! This script was inspired by my not immediately spotting a help vampire - because of the user32984923874-style default name. It seemed like a good idea at t…
Japanese stack exchange localization
This script was originally created for the JLU (Japanese Language and Usage) site as part of the Creating as much Japanese interface as possible to be more inclusive of native Japanese speakers met…
Creating personal applications using Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange API
I want to create an application to read Stack Overflow notifications on my device. My question: what should I provide in the OAuth Domain and Application website fields while registering the …
Tampermonkey script to hide New Contributor Indicator
// ==UserScript== // @name Contributor indicator cutter // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @author Suvitruf // @match *://*/questions/* // @match…
Remove Jobs and Teams from Stack Overflow
Remove all Jobs- and Teams-related stuff from Stack Overflow, making the main focus Q/A
Force Edit suggested reviews
Review edits have the option to force edit, which will edit the original post, as opposed to improve which will edit the suggested edit. UserScript: // ==UserScript== // @name Force edit…
SOOldCheckmark - Bring back the old checkmark!
Here on Stack Overflow, we hate change, especially regarding the new checkmark color. So, I have the perfect solution to all of our needs - bring back the old goodness! Contained in the user script…
Auto-Editor: a user script for automatically correcting common errors
This user script adds a button when editing Stack Exchange sites that automatically fixes many common grammar, spelling, capitalization, and usage errors. Installation Install a user script extens…
View vote counts without 1k rep automatically
Loads vote counts automatically without requiring 1k reputation
Userscript to have functioning spoilers in chat
The main problem with spoiler userscripts for chat is that generally, they require you have the userscript installed in order not to get spoiled. Using cutting-edge Unicode shenanigans, it's possib…
Pro-forma replies for Discussions
Discussions on Stack Overflow is the place where "Lost Souls" end up these days, worse than meta sites. Discussions moderators (and curators) need to provide some insight on why the post …
Democratizing editing Discussions
Since the introduction of Discussions on Stack Overflow, we have dealt with lack of features. Upon asking for the vital features to be implemented, we have seen some efforts, e.g. an API endpoint f…
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.