Questions tagged [users]
Tools that help with user profiles/accounts, or issues with the API handling of users
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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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Is there a way to get a user's account ID given his site's user ID?
I'm trying to modify this userscript of mine to make it work on all sites but I couldn't find a way to get the account ID (i.e., network profile ID) for a user.
Is this possible?
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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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What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
For the /users endpoint in the Stack Exchange API v2.3, what does the modified filter in sort field look for?
It is unclear from ...
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Make better use of the space in profiles, like profiles used to be
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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 ...
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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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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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Pronoun Assistant
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It's hard to miss these days - the Code of Conduct is about to change. It will emphasize the importance of using the correct pronoun when referring to a user in third ...
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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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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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Docs say the API returns a user's age, but it doesn't (anymore)
The doc page says that the user object returns an age property (for those users that specified an age).
But the API no longer does. (Plus spot checks of users that had age in ...
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Paging issue: is /users/{ids}/associated API route returning incomplete information?
When querying to find associated accounts for a list of account ids, some ids in the results appear to be missing many of the associated sites. I have only observed this in multi-page responses. For ...
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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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How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?
I checked docs , there are no endpoints to get total visited days and consecutive days. Is there any way to get them?
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sostats - Stack Overflow latest metrics and charts
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I wondered how many questions, answers or comments are being posted on Stack Overflow every day. How many users get registered? How does it depend on the day of the week? When are users most ...
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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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Get users based on location? [duplicate]
I want to get site users by their location but I don't see any method for that.
And it's not possible with a filter either.
Is there any way to get users based on location or is it not possible?
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Getting the top answerers/users for a tag in a custom time range?
I'm trying to use the top answers on tags API to get the users who contribute the most for a given tag. Like so:
/2.2/tags/azure-web-sites/top-answerers/month?site=...
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Can revisions be returned from the API, filtered by user?
I see that question or answer revisions can be returned from the API either by post ID or by GUID.
I'd like to obtain this data filtered by user, e.g. "all revisions made by user X". However, I ...
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How to calculate users, who have posted (question/answer) using specific tag?
For example, if I want to know the number of users who asked and answered about PHP.
Currently, I can just get the list of questions and its total number, but it's not enough, because one user could ...
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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.
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user has 5 questions, no tag wiki and no tag ...
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How can I access a user's ID on another site (eg. SU) if I have their ID from another site (eg. SO)?
If I have the ID of a user from any site, how can I get that's user's ID for a site I specify?
Eg. If someone's ID was 10349 on Super User, how could I get 10349's id on Stack Overflow?
I know I'd ...
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