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.
I don't want to be a mod
Ever earned the privilege "Access to moderator tools" and not really wanted it? A stylesheet for hiding deleted answers, as well as the review queue. For use with stylish. Customise to include the…
Chat Dark Theme Plus
Work in progress theme for StackExchange chats, also includes 'plugins' for additional features. Features include: Inline webm/gifv User colours code-mode (see here) activated with Ctrl + K…
StackExchange Google Search
Google questions if query begins with "gq:" and user profiles if query begins with "gu:".
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…
Timestamps with a day
Another script inspired by a meta question, this will prepend an abbreviated day name to all mouseover UTC timestamps. This script requires Greasemonkey on Firefox and Tampermonkey on Chrome. Othe…
Show number of answers accepted
Shows the acceptance rate details beside the user's acceptance rate.
Github link oneboxer for Chat
Oneboxes links to Github repos, issues or pull requests in Chat This userscript will automatically detect new and existing messages in chat that link to Github and onebox them, just like it is done…
StackOverflow-Steroids - A Chrome extension to introduce (and test) new features on Stack Overflow faster
I've previously complained about the bad usability that Stack Exchange sites can have and created a Chrome extension to help test possible fixes. It did not attract much attention. Now I've added …
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…
Moderator links
Adds some extra links to posts and userpages for convenience For a userpage, all links from the "info" mod menu, except "privileges" is displayed along in the "mod"/&q…
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…
More Stars - Userscript that frees up room so you can see more starred messages
Since I've never written a GreaseMonkey script before, I borrowed heavily from this script and basically played around with it until I got what I wanted. So credit to them for helping me get there.…
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…
Hide badges I've already attained
Inspired by this Meta SO question, this user script adds a checkbox to the Badges page to allow you to hide badges you've already attained, so you can easily see which remain. The checkbox's setti…
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,…
Quick navigation between answers
This script provides you with a box which contains the links to the answers on this page. (Click for larger image) Get / update this script.
Hide sites from Hot Network Questions section
Screenshot About The 'Hot Network Questions' section has questions from websites which are not very interesting for me so with this script you can: Hide questions from those websites Stop hi…
Thumbnail Uploader
Allows one to resize images while uploading them, as well as letting one link to fullsize for thumbnailing.
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 :(
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…
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…
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.
Chatception - quickly chat in different rooms from a single page (v0.3)
TL;DR I got fed up with having 11 chat tabs open all the time and made a userscript to fix it. Screenshot Description A tiny widget that allows you to quickly chat in different Stack Exch…
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 …
Remove chat room description and tags
Chat room description and tags may only be useful a first couple of times you come by a chat room. After that, they are just wasting space. To hide them from the view, you can install the following…
MathJax Buttons
Mathjax Buttons adds convenient buttons and keyboard shortcuts for those who use MathJax on SE
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…
Sort Flags By Type
This userscript allows you to sort your flags by type on your flag page. It was inspired by this post on Meta Stack Exchange, and the idea and helper functions were provided by nicael. Download…
Room Topic Change Helper
When the room topic changes, don't you wish you knew what it used to be before the change? Well now you can! This script automatically updates room topic change posts with the previous topic so you…
Old Meta.SE Stars
This userscript reverts the design of the Meta Stack Exchange buttons: New design: With script: It was inspired by this post on Meta Stack Exchange. Download You can download the script fr…
QuickComment2: Automatic keyboard-only comment snippets
This is a vastly improved version of QuickComment: comment shortcuts to cut down on tedium. See that post for more information. See the Github repo for instructions on how to install and use Quick…
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…
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 …
Favorite tag highlighting for just the tags [duplicate]
I really liked the idea from Meta of highlighting the tags rather than the entire question - it was too overwhelming, so I created a userscript to do just this: From: To: (favorite tags are pytho…
Collection of time-saving bookmarklets for Stack Exchange sites
My Bookmarklets for Stack Exchange is a collection of 20+ simple bookmarklets for specific tasks that could be done through the interface, but would take longer. Some of them use API, others parse …
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…
StackPaste - paste images into the text form instantly
tl;dr Github link (raw) Motivation I really like to accompany my questions with images, especially on sites like Graphic Design or Chemistry. Very often, my images are just annotated screenshots or…
Unhide Downvoted Answers
This simple userscript allows you to hover over an answer that has been greyed-out because of its low score to remove the styling. After you move away from the post, it will return to its original …
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 …
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Script to add a "Related Tags" module for search on all Stack Exchange sites
Add a "Related Tags" module to the sidebar for Search results.
Suggestion Status - a userscript to view the status of your suggested edits
Suggestion Status is a small userscript which displays the status of your suggestions using color codes; , and yet to be reviewed. This allows you to immediately see the status of your suggestions…
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.
A userscript to update the page/tab title with the # of unread notifications
Update page/tab title with # of unread notifications.
Stack Snippets Console
SE recently added "Stack Snippets" -- running JavaScript, CSS, and HTML code snippets. These are great, except for one problem. I made a request for a console to be added, so that we don't have to…
Tag highlighting on main SO page
Motivation I recently added more than one "Favourite" tag and got pretty irritated by the sea of yellow on the home page. As such I wrote this little user script (for use in Chrome's Tamp…
duckduckstack - The StackExchange API Doc Autocompleter
NOTE (2nd April, 2012): After an e-mail correspondence with DuckDuckGo's Gabriel W. I decided to take down this project (and remove it from GitHub) due to Terms of Service issues with aggregating s…
Code Golf SE answer sorter
Allows sorting answers by code length on Programming Puzzles & Code Golf Stack Exchange.
Chat Easy Input Tools - Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands
Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands, reducing the dependency on mouse usage. Current version does not have a configurable set of hotkeys but later versions will. How to…
StackPlonk: plonk users you don't want to help anymore
Greasemonkey script allowing to plonk a user you don't want to help anymore