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.

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…

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…

Copy super-ping usernames
Based on the code from Copy Question Link Markdown, here's a script that gives moderators the possibility to copy chat-ready superpings from any question that is closed. This can be useful if 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…

Search links (Stack, Google, Symbolhound) next to the search box, for tab opening
Add tab-openable search links (SO, Google, Symbolhound)

Allow convert-to-comment without confirmation and even if there are comments
This userscript allows moderators to use the "convert to comment" button even if the answer has comments. It also removes the annoying confirm() prompt when converting an answer to a comm…

Highlight Code in Chat - Highlights <code> elements contained in chat messages
Inspired by this question, I have developed a UserScript that highlights code elements in chat messages so that they stand out more on the page. Simply install the script and your messages will be …

Chat Message Remover
Script See a chat message you don't want on your screen? An annoying image or animated GIF? Now you can remove it! This is a simple script that I made. It will allow you to click a chat message t…

Dude, where's my cursor?
This user script makes editing especially of large posts easier by matching cursor positions in the text box to positions in the Markdown preview and vice versa.

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…

Bring back the Bold!
Our insidious overlords have made some numbers on the page thinner. This script feeds the numbers a sandwich to get them back to normal size. Installation Click here to install. Will work in Chro…

IPA Keyboard for Linguistics.SE
This script adds an IPA keyboard button to the editing toolbar Installation Click here to install. Will only work in Chrome or Firefox (the latter requires Greasemonkey). See this page if you ha…

Script to convert a search on a StackExchange site to a Google search of that site
Convert a search on a StackExchange site to a Google search of that site


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…

ChatBot, a bot. For the chat
Lurks in the shadows of the chat. It executes commands at the request of the user, sending messages as the user who runs it. You can talk to it the StackOverflow SandBox room if you want to play (…

Killit - Bookmarklet to replace single images from the page
Bookmarklet that replaces any selected image on the page with: How to use. You first need to "install" the bookmarklet by visiting the project homepage and dragging the button to your bo…

IHaveBadges - A script to link your badges in the toolbar to your list of badges in your profile
This is a very simple script that transforms the list of badges in the toolbar to a link to the user's badges in his or her profile.

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…

GIF Killer! Stop animated gifs in the Chat
Bookmarklet that stops GIFs in their tracks! until you refresh.. GIFs are replaced with the following image: How to use. Depending on your browser you create a new bookmark, copy and paste th…

Underlined post links
Underlines all links in questions, answers and comments on all Stack Exchange sites.

Direct Question Edit Links
This script adds an edit link to the question summary, saving frequent editors the trouble of "entering" the question first. Adjust includes as needed: // ==UserScript== // @name Direct…

Userscript to provide quick access to canonical questions when voting to close duplicates
ServerFault often gets off-topic questions which are closed as duplicates of a canonical question, such as capacity planning or I've been hacked. I've favourited those canonical questions for quick…

stackoverflow favicon counter
Adds unread questions counter to favicon at stackoverflow tags section


Super Multicollider Dropdown™ Search
Spawned by https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/138117/178438 This script adds a search box to the multicollider. Installation Click here to install. Will only work in Chrome or Firefox (the latter r…

Thumbnail Uploader
Allows one to resize images while uploading them, as well as letting one link to fullsize for thumbnailing.

jsFiddle preview for Stack Overflow
Adds embedded jsFiddle preview to the questions/answers posts.

Transmogrify offtopic MSO posts
Lets one deal with offtopic posts easily, the Calvin&Hobbes way!

Election comment links
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135225/missing-links-to-responses-to-comments-on-nomination-posts Makes the datestamp into a comment link for election comments. Also fixes the issue in th…

How can I find commonly duplicated questions from stack network dumps?
Why? I got tired of searching for the same duplicate questions over and over again. What? These are a couple of scripts I threw together in order to cut down search time for common questions and…

JSBeautifier shortcut
This userscript adds a shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+B) to beautify the selected JavaScript code using the same engine that also runs jsbeautifier.org. You can find the source on GitHub (feel free to fork, …

Suggested Edit Queue v2.0
The Sales Pitch This user script enhances the suggested edit queue to remove the usability annoyances we all know and love hate. Suggested Edits will not jump to the top when casting the deciding…

Stack Exchange - Deleted Answer Manager
Description This script hides the content of deleted answers (which are visible to 10k+ Stack Exchange users), injects a show content / hide content toggle in the answer's menu, and injects a visi…

Diablo III's tooltip script for Gaming Stack Exchange
A UserScript for Gaming that displays a tooltip when hovering over a link to a skill, item or build on the Diablo III Battle.net page.

MathJax Buttons
Mathjax Buttons adds convenient buttons and keyboard shortcuts for those who use MathJax on SE

Waffle vote counter
It is my firm belief that every +10 vote after reaching the repcap can be redeemed for free waffles{*}. I often hit the cap on MSO, and I like to see how many waffles SE Inc owes me. So I have a b…

<kbd>, Superscript and Subscript, markup shortcuts
This script adds buttons and keyboard shortcuts that make it easy to add/remove: <kbd> tags Superscripts and subscripts <del> tags <br> tags   when editing posts. Ol…

Literal tabs in textarea
Allows one to use the tab key on StackOverflow, Codereview.SE, and Programmers.SE in the editbox. Installation Click here to install. Will only work in Chrome or Firefox (the latter requires Greas…

Autonavigate/autocomment "close/flag offtopic" for MSO
On MSO, there are plenty of questions that should be on SO asked every day. The procedure with dealing with these is: Copy-paste boilerplate comment saying "This belongs on SO blah". Alt…

Unfade downvoted posts
Answer to this meta question. Allows one to unfade downvoted posts. Installation Click here to install. Will only work in Chrome or Firefox (the latter requires Greasemonkey). Source Usage Mous…

Reply links in comments--lazy version
Derivative of this script Some people are too lazy to type out full usernames in @replies, and they don't use the autocomplete either. This script is for these guys--it leaves the job of being lazy…

"Print this post"
Answer to this meta question. Adds a "print" link to individual posts. Does not do any stripping down of markup, the post is preserved as-is. The rest of the page is eaten by the jQuery m…

Bring back the accounts tab
The accounts tab has been removed from all SE sites. Here's how to get it back for those of you with muscle memory: Installation Click to install (Chrome or Firefox+Greasemonkey only) Source code …

cv-pls Helper Chrome Extension
cv-pls Helper makes the process of closing questions easier on Stack Overflow. There are a lot of 'bad' questions being asked and to help reduce the noise these questions should be closed as fast a…

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…

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.…

Ban myself/enforced break userscript
Answer to Ban myself button on user profiles--MSO Code and inspiration from Wikipedia's version This userscript bans you from the site till a certain date, which you must edit in.even while logged …

Better handling of indentation and the TAB key when editing posts
This user script changes the behavior of a few keys (most notably the Tab key) within the post editor to behave more like it does in IDEs or text editors