Questions tagged [users]
Tools that help with user profiles/accounts, or issues with the API handling of users
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OBSOLETE - Find old display names of a user
As observed here, it can be
confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names
So I've made a simple API-based tool:
Old display names of a user
It ...
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Pronoun Assistant Reloaded
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Based off of Glorfindel's excellent userscript, this userscript displays users' pronouns (as mentioned in their chat or main site bios) under their usernames in chat ...
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How to get user information of Stack Overflow?
I'm currently using the Stack Overflow API to get a user's information (via Stack Exchange).
Is it possible with the Stack Overflow API to get user details?
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GitHub Readme Stack Exchange
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Dynamically generate your status for any Stack Exchange site!
I've created it based on github-readme-stackoverflow, but I improved it to be used with ...
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DEPRECATED - Bookmark users - Fetch the list of users that bookmarked a question on any Stack Exchange website
This userscript no longer works because Stack Exchange has replaced bookmarks with "saves" in October 2022. Saves are private and so can't be queried via the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.
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Don't let me interact with this user's posts (for sockpuppets, mostly)
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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 ...
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Remove users' accept rates from the API
The accept rate of users isn't shown on the site since more than 6-8 years. Nevertheless, it's still returned by default on most calls returning user details. It doesn't serve any purpose anymore, and ...
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(Should we) add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs?
This answer is posted by a staff member, but you have to go to the user's profile to actually see that.
Can we add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs like on all meta sites? [♦ Mod] labels aren't ...
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Add link to network and chat profiles
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The recent design update to the profile page removed the ability to easily navigate to a user's network profile, even though they chose to hide their profile. Since ...
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User sort by last_modified_date always return errors
I am using this API to get users info sorting by last_modified date, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/users#page=1&pagesize=100&order=asc&sort=modified&filter=!9YdnSBVWs&site=...
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Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons
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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 ...
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Community Diamond Restorer - Add the diamond back to Community's profile!
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This userscript, in response to this question, restores the "Moderator" label for the Community user, both in edit summaries and on the ...
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What's the best way to get all available data related to a user's reputation?
I'm looking for the best way to get a full list of every event which has caused a user's reputation to change, It could look like:
timestamp,reputation_change,object_uri
2011-01-25 14:58:27Z,10,/ajax/...
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How to get the user's pinned sites?
I have been trying to find the API for getting all the pinned/favorite sites of the user, but I can't.
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Where do I get the user impact?
I'm trying to get the data of the user's impact.
Therefore I used the /2.2/me route and did not found any of this data.
Is there any other route that gives this information?
I'm also missing the ...
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Using API with sites like JSFiddle and CodePen?
I am currently working on a prototype for the flair provided by Stack Exchange and can't seem to get the API to work with CodePen. It continuously returns the following error on the SE.init call:
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List /network-activity methods under Network Methods in the documentation
The API methods /users/{id}/network-activity and /me/network-activity, both return a summary of a user's activity across the Stack Exchange network and do not take a site parameter.
They are ...
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Expose the contents of the "accounts" tab of the SE network profile as machine-readable data
It would be really nice if there were a way to get all the data that is displayed on the accounts tab of the Stack Exchange network profile for a user (e.g. mine) as machine-readable data with a ...
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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 anything.
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OBSOLETE - SkillRep - experiment in computing a skill focused reputation
Update: Now offline/closed. See the answer, below.
Reputation, on the Stack Overflow Site, is mostly a measure of a user's contribution.
That's fine but sometimes, when looking at a user you ...
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How to get a list of all StackExchange employees?
For a particular userscript feature, I need to get a list of all Stack Exchange employees. The list would be updated every day (per SE website). What is the most efficient way to do so?
I looked at ...
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How to get the user's last seen time in user's profile
In user's profile page, there's a last seen xx mins ago info:
How can I get this information in user object or other object field?
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Get everything touched by a user?
I'm trying to figure out the best way to compile all "post threads" (Questions and all related Answers and Comments) where a specific user owns any of the {Question, Answer or [a comment on either the ...
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Moderation request: Make [user] a synonym of [users]
Please make user a synonym of users.
I proposed a synonym but there aren't enough high-rep users active here for that mechanism to work.
Currently*:
user has 5 questions, no tag wiki and no tag ...
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How do I get information about top users of a Stack Exchange community?
I was going through the stack exchange API and I want to extract information about, say, top 20 users of a particular stack exchange community. How do I use the API for that?
I tried on this page ...
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