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 Remaining Votes
Show remaining votes and total votes for the day in the top bar

Userscripts Configurer - One script to configure them all
UserScripts Configurer provides a shared UI and controls configuration options for UserScripters' userscripts.

Duplicate manager with automatic closure and duplicate list editing
Description This is a userscript partly inspired by Aran Fey's Duplicate Target Manager and responds to this meta question (by myself) API to programmatically close questions as duplicate with dupl…

PLACEHOLDER - My App - Trying API
Dump activity from a site into a chatroom. Configurable as to what to dump and with what conditions.

Post Box Highlighter - Highlight a post box background
Post Box Highlighter is a simple userscript for temporarily highlighting question or answer boxes.

Magic Answer References - a userscript for making proper post referencing easier
Magic Answer References is a userscript making referring to other posts easier.

How can I get write access for the Stack Overflow API? [duplicate]
How can I get write access for the Stack Overflow API? I have registered an app, now it asks for Registered App Post, not sure what it is.

Duplicate list edit diffs in post timeline
The native post timeline displays "duplicate lists edited" event as an unreadable mess of links. This userscript diffs the changes and displays them as easy to visually parse lists of items.


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…

Faster Answer Links
This is a mere convenience user script. It prevents page reloading when following links to answers that happen to be present on the same page, and instead simply scrolls to the linked answer. // ==…

Control Chat Volume of ping sound in any chatroom
Control the volume of the ping sound in any SE chatroom

Rejoin Favorite Chatrooms
Adds a link to rejoin favorite chatrooms, even if you're in multiple ones already

Add link to network and chat profiles
Adds a link to the network profile for all user profile pages (even if they've hidden the current community) and a link to the chat profile

Stack Overflow /questions design reversion to pre-2022 layout
This set of user styles, written in Stylus, adjusts the CSS of the /questions page (on Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow only) to appear as it did before the recent New post summary designs. T…

Fix excessive underlines in high contrast mode
Stack Exchange introduced some excessive underlining in high contrast mode. This is visually very busy and overzealous application of underlines. Literally every link will be matched by their CSS, …

Bookmark users - Fetch the list of users that bookmarked a question on any Stack Exchange website
Userscript to fetch the list of users that bookmarked a question on any Stack Exchange website. This script uses the Stack Exchange Data Explorer to fetch the list of users and augments this with u…

All Communities Loader - making better use of the /users/hidecommunities page
All Communities Loader enhances the /users/hidecommunities page by making better use of the available space and returning all communities instead of 12 at a time

LegacyQuestions - Bringing back the old questions design
Brings back the old questions design changed in a recent redesign

Reopen/Delete Vote Rename - Clarify whether you've voted to delete/undelete already
Ever forget you voted to delete something and ended up retracting your vote accidentally? Well, so have a bunch of other people, myself included, so let's make that a bit more obvious. This script …

Convert your Stack Exchange Posts to your own Website
Using the tools in this website you can take all your Stack Exchange Posts in SE Markdown Format and convert them to GitHub Pages Jekyll Kramdown format. The website is targeted to high-rep Stack E…

PLACEHOLDER - Stack App post for access token creation write access for my teamsAPI
PLACEHOLDER - Stack App post for access token creation write access

PLACEHOLDER - Stack Overflow Near Tips
Near-tips is an app. It allows users to send tips to stack overflow users for good questions, in order to reward them in a decentralized manner.


App xyz - write comments anywhere
App xyz Here's the code: http://www.jmp-web.co.uk/seapi/seapi.htm Elapsed time between answers Last updated tag bodies Write comments

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.

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…

CollapsibleBanners - Save screen space when viewing questions
Collapses the closed banner to save screen space

Community Diamond Restorer - Add the diamond back to Community's profile!
Restore Community user's diamond.

Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages
Restore syntax highlighting on revision and review pages

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.

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…

Accepted Answer Pinner
Pins the accepted answer on top, as was the case before September 2021

Turning meta off
Based on Is there any way I can turn Stack Overflow Meta off?, this will give anyone a break from a site meta. It removes: The home page, both "Featured on Meta" and "Hot Meta Posts…

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…

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…



LinkPreview - Protection against hazardous links
Protection against hazardous links on SE

Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider
Ever since the Visual design changes to the review queues suggested edits have been too narrow. Especially when containing code blocks. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore. Screenshots Befor…

Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
Ever wondered what if Stack Exchange's title character counter could actually count? Unicode Char Counter aims to answer this exact question

Answer delete votes in the post sidebar
Users with more than 1000 reputation points can see delete votes in the post timeline, but it's much more convenient to have this information fetched and added to the sidebar: Note that the script…

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…

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…

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…

Bring back the layout!
Making the best out of screen real estate on Stack Exchange

LegacyProfiles - Bringing back the old profile stats
Brings back the 'Member since', 'Profile views' and 'Last seen' stats removed in a recent profile change using the Stack Exchange API

Save the waffles! Bringing back custom 404 pages to Stack Exchange
The userscript brings back custom 404 page images to sites of the Stack Exchange network

Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons
This script implements the suggestion from user1306322 to Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE, which was the original request that led to New St…

ChatOvercharged - making inserting markdown links in chat convenient
ChatOvercharged makes inserting markdown-formatted links in chat convenient