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Can't Decompress Stack Overflow API in Swift
I am using the Stack Overflow API in Swift but keep getting an error:
The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.
whenever I try to use the JSON as shown in code below
func ...
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Can we change the Stack Apps homepage tabs to not show questions tagged "obsolete" and "placeholder"?
Following What should we do about dead listings?, we've started to add obsolete to questions that are 'deprecated, no longer available/supported, or no longer relevant'.
However, on the front page, ...
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Applications must have a registered Stack Apps post to write
I have problems with registered Stack Apps, I've tried different combinations, but it doesn't work.
OAuth Domain
9924033ab80e.ngrok.io/
Application Website:
http://9924033ab80e.ngrok.io/
Application ...
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How can I extract user information on Stack Overflow using Python and the Stack Overflow API?
I am new to Python. I want to extract a user bio, answers, questions they made in Stack Overflow.
Can I do that using the API? For example, can I extract the user: name bio and number of questions ...
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Having Trouble Setting Up OAuth for App
I am trying to build an app but I can't get the authentication right.
I have been following the steps here:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication
I keep getting the below error no matter ...
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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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App post got deleted
I'm currently writing an app using the Stack Exchange API.
Today I wanted to rework the login component, but after signing in I get the following message:
Application must have a registered Stack ...
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View close votes, reopen votes, and delete votes with insufficient repuation
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About
This script shows the number of current close votes, reopen votes and delete votes for a question. Works on all Stack Exchange sites.
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GNU Lesser General Public ...
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ReplyOverflow v1.0
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About
ReplyOverflow preserves continuity between comments everytime you reply by allowing an option to save the message content to a URL.
How do I use it?
If you want to ...
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StackOv, an open-source SwiftUI Stack Overflow client
About:
I'd made this app on my personal hackathon 😁 - about 10 days.
I hope you'll like it.
Screenshot / Code Snippet:
Download / Install:
🧑🏽💻 App Store
👻 GitHub
Platform:
Available for iOS, ...
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
A couple of days ago I answered a question about the Stack API.
As my answer could be illustrated with a working code example I went ahead to create a Stack Snippet. To my surprise that feature isn'...
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Show the protected banner to everyone
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According to What is a "protected" or "highly active" question?, users with more than 10 earned but less than 15,000 reputation points aren't shown the protected banner:
It ...
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Stack Exchange Dark Mode
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Stack Exchange Dark Mode
Dark theme for Stack Exchange, chat, and SEDE.
Some elements like sidebars and footers have reduced opacity until ...
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Stack.PHP - Powerful and Extensive Library for Accessing the Stack Exchange API - Including Full Support for v2.0.
Don't know where to start?
Begin by checking out the Stack.PHP website.
Then head over here for a quick tutorial on setting up and using Stack.PHP.
About
Why you should use Stack.PHP:
Stack....
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Why No Bounty? userscript
Inspired by this feature request by Shadow Wizard, I wrote a simple userscript (direct install link) which checks most of the reasons why you can't start a bounty, and displays that information on the ...
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Stackdump, an offline browser for StackExchange sites
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Stackdump was conceived for those who work in environments that do not have easy access to the ...
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Permission request form is broken, approve button is hidden, css variables are missing
You can check that form doesn't work with this link https://stackoverflow.com/oauth?client_id=17581&scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri=http://functional.localdomain:3449/login/github
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Missing total when tag is not URL-encoded
When trying to get a list of questions for the C# tag, the total field was missing. Tried with Python tag and the total was included.
/2.2/questions?order=ASC&sort=creation&site=stackoverflow....
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Garbage (litter) filters - delete custom filters from the "more" dropdown
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Garbage (litter) filters is a userscript that allows users to delete custom filters from the top dropdown directly without scrolling down to the "custom filters" sidebar. Inspired by ...
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StackExchangePy: Python3 wrapper for StackExchange API
About
StackExchangePy is another python package for StackExchange API, written in python3.
License
The package is under GPL3 license.
Download
To install it, type pip3 install stackexchangepy in your ...
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Request for user script to show/estimate moderator candidate scores from the time the user nominated in the election
I'd like a user script that, on moderator election pages, queries the API for user's candidate scores at the time they nominated in the election in question. Election pages, including historical ...
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Get favorited tags of user
This was requested in 1 and declined because of a missing authentication method.
Now that authentication is in place, is there a way to retrieve the favorited tags of a user (myself)?
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Can I ask questions about features and functionalities of the Stack Exchange Android App here?
Is the "Stack Apps" Stack Exchange site the appropriate site to ask questions about features and functionalities of the Stack Exchange Android App?
It says 'Apps' in the title, sure, but you'...
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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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Desktop login URL: WebBrowser hangs (.NET) - JavaScript endless-loop
I am using .NET 4 and trying to use the desktop authentication via the web-browser control (WPF and/or WinForms; StackApp NNTP bridge for accessing StackExchange forums (like StackOverflow)).
It seems ...
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Community Diamond Restorer - Add the diamond back to Community's profile!
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Before:
After:
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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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Is there a way to fetch my flag quota?
I would like to stop flagging when I start running low on flags. Is there any way the API can tell me not only the flag options, but also whether I have any flags left and if so how many?
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PLACEHOLDER - How to get write_access to comment/answer on Stack Exchange
I'm trying to integrate the Stack Exchange API into my web app so I can fetch all posts as well as I can post answer or comments on them. I have successfully got access_token for no_expiry and ...
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StackGeography, a Stack Exchange question mapping site
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(source: apphb.com)
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Ever wanted to see just what kind of locations are posting to the various Stack Exchange sites at any given time? Even if you haven't, you'll find ...
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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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CDNSaver - never look for a CDN link twice
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Stack Snippets provides a great shortcut for popular library CDN links via the dropdowns on the left sidebar. However, it's uncustomizable, and when it comes to ...
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Stack Overflow View - Visual Studio code extension
About:
This is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows developers to search Stack Overflow inside of the text editor, to quickly access answers and view questions.
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high_resolution_icon_url points to a non-existing image for Area 51 Discuss
In 2013 this bug was reported: Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
Since then a lot has improved. Most urls found in high_resolution_icon_url on the site type as returned by the /sites endpoint ...
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The cute little blue box on flag dialogs
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Based on Use the same location for Submit button in the comment flag dialog as in the post flag dialog which asked for the buttons to go on the right side, and Question Close Updates: Phase 1 ...
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Take the right filter for favourite count
I try to take the favourite count filter for a question.
I use api through R
library(stackr)
stack_questions(11227809, site = "stackoverflow", filter = "!GeD4JB*YQqe2L")
and I ...
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StackExchange Simulator
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Have you thought that most Questions were too boring or made too much sense?
Then this is perfect for you: Nonsense Questions and Answers based on every Stack Exchange site.
How ...
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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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Improve error message when attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation
When attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation, like happened here: API to submit a Suggested Edit, the API returns the following:
{
"error_id": 407,
"...
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Is there an API call that can get me a user's access_token?
I'm trying to create a connector between Microsoft's Power Platform and the Stack API. Since the server ↔ server auth flow is happening outside of code I control, I can't grab the access_token from ...
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Does the stackapps API allow queries of question to get answers?
All of the API docs I've seen are just for getting metadata, stuff like "how many comments".
Is there an API to ask questions?
eg here: I can't see a way to add a query string:
https://api....
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Unable to post a comment using the interactive API documentation
I'm trying to to integrate the Stack Exchange API in my application. I'm trying the authentication but when I got the token and used it it gave a write_access issue. That issue was resolved when I ...
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Automate the process of flagging non constructive comments from User Supplied data
Warning
While entering a comment ID, you should be careful because some comments may be removed with a single flag (if it already have some flags).
Some comments may still constructive even if it ...
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Will there be an official Stack Exchange application for Android?
I have really liked the experience on the various associated Stack Exchange sites and had the mobile application for Android until recently I switched mobiles and had to uninstall it. I also ...
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Please migrate the question templates to CommonMark
We have three templates for new questions (for apps, libraries and scripts):
They'll insert a body like this:
<!-- thumbnail: https://example.com/some-image.png -->
<!-- version: 1.0 -->
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TrueBadges, a combination of StackExchange badges and TrueAchievements
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TrueBadges
I've worked on this website since end of 2013 in my spare time. The initial goal was to have fun with lot of data.
The idea is to count StackExchange badges of an user in the ...
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Dice Stack - Find a random question
DiceStack website
(www.isimonbrown.co.uk/dicestack/)
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About
Fetches a random question from a Stack Exchange site of your choice.
License
Free-to-use webapp. Source not available.
Features
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Bugs in API 2.2 "/search/advanced" with a "q" parameter
How can we handle these problems?
Result for sort=relevance&order=desc is similar to
sort=relevance&order=desc.
Very poor caching system: After some queries, you may receive the same
results ...
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How are API changes announced?
How are API changes announced? Are emails sent out to developers, or is there someplace I can subscribe to?
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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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PLACEHOLDER - StackIT - a macOS client application [closed]
StackIT is a macOS client app built in SwiftUI and Combine -- still in development.