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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.

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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.

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…

Freehand Circles Drawing Tool

A userscript that lets you draw directly onto images on any Stack Exchange site to add freehand drawings :)

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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.

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…

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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…

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…

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.

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…

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,…

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…

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:

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

Bring back the layout!

Making the best out of screen real estate on Stack Exchange

Don't let me interact with this user's posts (for sockpuppets, mostly)

The main purpose of this script is to prevent one from accidentally interacting with questions/answers posted by a sock of their own (but it can also be used to avoid interacting with posts from ot…

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…

Remove Delete-Favourite-Tag-Buttons Script

To help people not accidentally delete them, especially the short ones. (Also see the cause to get them removed permanentely) Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am sure you will manag…

Stack Exchange Editor Extra: a userscript to add extra features to the Markdown Editor

Stack Exchange Editor Extra A userscript which adds extra features to the default SE Markdown Editor. Extra features: Insert code with Ace Editor (alt + a) Find & Replace (with modifiers) (…

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"…