Newest Questions
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
I want to fetch some questions from the API and I would like to sort them. However, I don't want to sort by the default options (activity, votes, creations, hot, week, month), but instead, for example,...
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What happened to the links to a Stack App mentioned in the documentation about write access?
The documentation about write access states:
The application responsible for creating content via the API may be indicated with a link to an app's Stack Apps post. The exact manner of display is ...
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How to register a Stack App with explicit OAuth 2.0 flow to a third party site?
I am about to integrate a Stack Overflow app to a third party website / integration service (Zoho).
The third party website's documentation mentioned that the redirect URL is https://deluge.zoho.com/...
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Misaligned label "Stack Apps Post (optional)" on app information page
When editing the application information (from https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/), the label for the optional Stack Apps Post is misaligned:
It should be left-aligned like the other labels; the only ...
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Does a closed and/or deleted Stack Apps post still provide access to the API?
Registering your application as a Stack Apps app is necessary in order to obtain a higher request quota, authentication and write access to the API.
What happens if the question is closed because of ...
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Why and how to make use of API key and credentials Stack Overflow API? [duplicate]
I am in need of using the Stack Overflow API for my website. I've gone through the documentation and I got the API key and client credentials. But my question is, I am able to send my question through ...
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Stack Exchange Archivist
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Inspired by the Meta Stack Exchange question Automatically have links archived in the Wayback Machine. This script searches the post for external links and offers a ...
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Sidebar Question Stats - Put question stats back in the sidebar
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A recent change moved question stats (ask date, view count, and active date) from the sidebar to under the question title. Like others, you may find this distracting, because the ...
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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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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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Proper Tag Synonym Vote Buttons
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There's a new tag synonym dashboard, which looks nice except for those thumbs up/down buttons. Since we're Stack Exchange, not Facebook, they should be the familiar ...
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API 404's when I try to fetch related tags for the `bin` tag
If you query the API for tags related to [bin]: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/bin/related?site=stackoverflow
this simply returns:
Invalid JSON returned and a 404.
(live demo)
But it should ...
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StackedOff - an offline StackExchange indexer and search engine
StackedOff is an offline Stack Exchange site indexer and search engine. It's intended use is for people who wish to access Stack Exchange Network site(s), e.g. stackoverflow.com, but do not have a ...
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Suggestion for new Stack App or SE UI feature: Reopen queue status
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This is a suggestion to create one, possibly two, indicators relating to Reopen Review Queue status. The purpose is to alert users to the requirement for intervention outside the normal ...
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Data Explorer (SEDE) Auto-Login that redirects back to original target page
About:
When you visit SEDE, this userscript:
Automatically logs in you in if needed. (You must have a valid SEDE login).
Redirects back to the original desired page like a good login system should.
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Apply required tag CSS class to the required tags in the "how to ask" side bar
When we ask a question, in the "How To Ask" side bar there is some information about the usage of the tags, such as support, bug and feature-request.
Since those are the required tags (with different ...
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Comment Flagger - Automated comment flagging made easy
A utility to automatically flag "thank you" comments from SEDE queries like this one.
Are you looking to improve your flagging stats? Have a list of comments you are certain need to be flagged as "...
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After successfully retrieving 180 pages, the API gracelessly, semi-silently, fails
I'm trying to synchronize tags using the Stack Exchange API and this works for about 180 pages, but around 180 pages it always ends with an exception that seems to indicate that there is no HTTP ...
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/revisions/{ids} returns wrong body
Since a couple of days, the /revisions/{ids} method returns a wrong value for the body field. An example is this Ask Different post. When viewing the (only) revision on the website, you see that the ...
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Suggested edit not returned by API
This suggested edit: https://dba.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/20375 is not returned by the /suggested-edits/{ids} API call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/suggested-edits/20375?site=dba ...
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I am unable to get the desired response through Stack Exchange API, using Postman [duplicate]
I am using this: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers#page=3&order=desc&sort=activity&filter=default&site=stackoverflow
to get the response.
Is this the correct URI?
I have ...
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Stack Exchange Chat API Documentation and Bot Boilerplate (finally)
Chat Documentation
GitHub Link:
https://github.com/jbis9051/JamesSOBot/blob/master/docs/CHAT_API.md
Description:
I know many people have created bots in different languages. Thats why I need your help ...
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Are the revisions returned by /posts/{ids}/revisions guaranteed to be returned in descending order?
The /posts/{ids}/revisions method returns all revisions to a post, but it doesn't have the sort and order parameters most methods have. From some quick tests, e.g. this one, I think it always returns ...
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Tags are not returned when querying /users/{ids}/answers
I'm querying the API for answers-by-user, and I want the tags belonging to the parent questions. I seem to be seeing intermittent results: sometimes the tags attribute of the response includes the ...
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Restore missing and/or obsolete Close-Vote Reasons
About:
This userscript restores missing/obsolete close-vote reasons to the close-vote dialog.
This script is in response to:
A chat request where the poster used it in conjunction with a bug report.
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Add Timeline and Revisions Links (v2)
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This is a simple Tampermonkey script which adds both timeline and revision links to questions and answers in many of the different question views.
Within a question view, a timeline ...
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Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?
The Stack Apps topic help makes it clear that all questions here must pertain to Stack Exchange in some way:
If your question is about …
the Stack Exchange API
applications built on the ...
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Get Comment markdown, copy comment code to clipboard
About:
This userscript adds flyover buttons to every comment to fetch that comment's code (markdown).
Reference this post, and this post on Meta Stack Overflow.
Features:
The markdown is paste-...
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Linked questions API call fails for frequently asked questions on Stack Overflow
The Linked Questions API fails for some of the Frequently Asked Questions on Stack Overflow, maybe because of the sheer amount of linked questions they have.
As an example, take What is a ...
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Cursor decorations based on the April Fool's 2019 theme?
I've really enjoyed the April Fool's theme this year, most of all the cursor decoration. Could someone create a user script for me that activates the decoration everywhere on the network (chat can be ...
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2019 April Fool's Day Retro Theme
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About
Keeps the 2019 April Fool's Day theme, all the time!
Inspired by this post on Meta.SE
Download
Get it from GitHub, or below:
// ==UserScript==
//...
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The authentication doc gives a wrong domain for authentication
The authentication doc page now lists URL's like:
https://stackoverflow.com/oauth
https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token
etc.
While these seem to work, the correct domain is stackexchange.com, ...
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How to get access token from the hash?
I am trying to implement OAuth Stack Exchange API via Android app as client.
After a successful login from out I get the below URL how do I get or decode the access_token from the hash?
https://...
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Stack Exchange Post Watcher - Firefox & Chrome extension to watch posts for any changes
Stack Exchange Post Watcher
Watching posts for changes is an extremely heavily requested feature on Stack Exchange (see 1, 2, 3).
This extension adds a 'watch' button to the actions under every post ...
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Localhost test Stack App authentication: error 'redirect_uri' does not match
I tried the answer at "Can the redirect_uri contain port number"?
But I am getting the following error:
Provided redirect_uri does not match the redirect_uri this code was created with
My access ...
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How do I get notified of events in SE chat?
I'm writing userscripts to interact with Stack Exchange Chat. I'd like to be notified when things happen (e.g. messages added, removed, edited, users joining, etc.). I know that I could use a ...
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How to search ALL sites with the advanced API?
I can make a request to Stack Overflow as follows, which searches with keywords in titles:
/2.2/search/advanced?title=vlookup%20index%20match&site=stackoverflow
My question is ...
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Open source the Stack Exchange app and API
It has come to my attention that neither the app nor the API have received much if any attention in the last two years. The latest API is also largely undocumented.
My humble request is to either A) ...
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Alternative to official app?
I started using the Stack exchange app, but realized it was abandoned and just plain sucks. Now that I abandoned it though, I really miss push notifications and having all 8 sites I'm active in one ...
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PLACEHOLDER - FroloStack - simple Stack Overflow client for Android [closed]
This is a simple Stack Overflow client for Android. It allows users to search questions, answers of questions and other users.
Also users will be able to add their answers to a question.
it is still ...
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Why am I getting an "Access token sent over non-HTTPS request, it has been invalidated" message?
I've been using the Stack Overflow for Teams API for a while now, but since yesterday it stopped working for one of the Teams; that Team also wasn't listed in the Applications (https://stackoverflow....
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Rodgort - A tool for managing burninations on Stack Overflow
This project is no longer maintained.
One instance is hosted by Das_Geek which controls this user, but minimal support is available.
Rodgort
What is this?
A project created by the team in SOBotics (...
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Moving the New Feed Items box to the bottom right
I've created a simple script to move the New Feed Items box to the lower right to avoid it from hiding the chat history:
Installation:
Just copy the following code in Tampermonkey/GreaseMonkey:
// ==...
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`redirect_uri` is not under the registered domain for this application
I am trying to implement Stack Exchange authorization in my RoR application.
But I get the error :
redirect_uri is not under the registered domain for this application
in Gemfile use:
gem '...
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OAuth redirect_uri to https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success?xxx strips part of the query string
I have a browser extension that uses OAuth2 to retrieve an access token. As recommended by https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication, I use https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/login_success as the ...
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CommentDeleter ColorMatcher™
About
Makes the "Delete" button on comments match the other comment links.
Created in response to this post on Meta SO.
Download
Get it on GitHub, or from here:
// ==UserScript==
// @name ...
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Request for user script to change the comment delete button from the word "Delete" to the old gray X
A few hours ago, the system was changed to show the comment delete button as the word "Delete" rather than the gray X that it's been using for years. However, I find this a little intrusive and ...
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Is there a SQL-like query for the API?
I've looked at the API docs.
However, I haven't found a way to do complex queries through the API such as I can do in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer query editor (select, joins etc).
Example: data....
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Minimize pics in Chat
I made a script that allows you to minimize pictures, gifs, youtube preview, tweets or wikipedia articles.
It's useful if you don't want the image to be always shown. For example at the office.
It ...
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Why doesn't the API return a 'locked date' for this locked answer?
This answer has been locked, yet when I ask the API about this post it fails to return a locked_date:
It's a rather old lock, but I can't see anything suspicious in the timeline or the Post History.
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