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.

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

Add the excerpt back to the question title on hover
Adds on the home page of a site an excerpt of the question when hovering over the title

OpenAI detector
Adds a button to check the probability that a post was written by a bot

Voting Overcharged - A userscript for automatically voting on posts depending on various conditions
A userscript for automatically voting on posts depending on various conditions.

Inbox auto-read - a userscript to mark inbox notifications as read automatically
Inbox auto-read Install Tl;dr: This Tampermonkey userscript automatically reads inbox notifications when it is opened instead of requiring one to press the Mark all read button. I gave it the MIT L…

How to get write access to Stack Exchange API? [duplicate]
I am trying to use Stack Exchange API to post upvotes and downvotes from my app. I have received the access token but not sure what to do with write_access

Custom Sidebar Links
Allows for adding user-defined links to the left-sidebar on SE sites

Using scripts on iOS with the Userscripts app never seem to work?
I'm using the Userscripts app for mobile Safari. My phone is an iPhone 13 running 15.6.1 operating system. I use this app for other scripts. So it does, at least for some things, work as expected. …

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,…

Optionally Anonymised Short Links
Description This is a resurrection of the (now no longer accessible) UserScript Anonymize short links. Specifically, this script implements this proposal by adding a checkbox (toggle switch) to eac…

PLACEHOLDER - Sample Script to test Stack Exchange API
The script is only testing various Stack Exchange APIs.


replace text with icons
Exist any way to replace text with icons? Like this example: I have tried to re-write/replace the html from an extension in the site but I have not achieved anything functional; with the relative …

Revert Stack Overflow's new up/down vote buttons
This userscript, written for ViolentMonkey, reverts the question and answer upvotes on Stack Overflow so that they are almost identical to their previous design. New Stack Overflow vote buttons: T…

Hide answer sorting for a single answer
StackExchange hide sorting for a single answer A userscript that removes the sorting combobox in questions when there is only one answer available. Before: After: For users who prefer a cleaner U…

SE Toast/FancyOverlay Suppressor
StackExchange provides a variety of notices and toast messages, but sometimes they can get a bit annoying for experienced users. This UserScript adds a Proxy to the two helper functions which cause…

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…

Comment Templates Context Menu, an auto-comments user script
If you are tired of typing the same comments into Stack Exchange sites over and over, you can use this add-on to insert any of your frequently written comments with a couple clicks. Installation I…

Following Overcharged - Various improvements to the "follow" feature
Following Overcharged contains various improvements to the "follow" feature

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 convenience user script. It prevents page reloading when following links to answers that happen to be present on the same page, and to their comments; instead, it simply scrolls to the l…

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…

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…