Questions tagged [users]
Tools that help with user profiles/accounts, or issues with the API handling of users
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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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Add link to network profile from chat profile
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Under the Parent User label a link is added to the network profile of the chat user:
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From a chat user profile you only have link to the parent site of a user. This ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Can I fetch Stack Overflow users by location in Stack Exchange API
I read the documentation and I know that I can get users' locations but I have not seen anywhere about querying by location. Does that mean that it is not possible? If it is possible, how?
As an ...
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Please provide an API "flair"-data call (`/associated` route is inadequate)
So today I decided to continue refining my JavaScript skills (different post over on Code Review SE if you'd like to review the results) and utilized the Stack Exchange API (v2.2) to write a "user ...
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List of Votes by Authenticated users
In the API documentation for the question type, it says that you can access, for a specific question, whether or not the authenticated user (in the private_info scope) upvoted/downvoted the question.
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Timeline activities appear to be missing (because creation_date has wrong and useless values)
When I'm looking at my Stack Overflow timeline according to the API, It's missing a lot of events.
According to the API, the last thing I did was posting this answer, five days ago, and you can see ...
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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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Stack Exchange - Favorite Users
TL,DR: Browser addon that highlights answers and questions by your favorite users!
See it in work:
And the easy config via user's profile:
Just like many other people before us, even we once began to ...
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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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How do you get the association_id from the CC data dump?
I am working with Stack Exchange /users/ data and trying to get a user's "united" profile, to see what sites they're active in other than the queried site.
As an example: http://...
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Add the 'people reached' count to the API?
Can we have the people reached statistic added to the /users/{ids} method?
The response could simply be:
"people_reached": 1000
I'm asking because it would be cool to get a network-wide number.
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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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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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json with list of all user's on stackoverflow
I am trying to get the list of all user's in JSON format (as provided by the API) (using jQuery jsonp)
What I found is:
pagesize – The number of collection results to display during
pagination. ...
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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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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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