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Accepted Answer Pinner
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As of September 8th, 2021, accepted answers are no longer pinned on Stack Overflow and probably soon on other sites in the network as well. For some users, this is the realization of a long-...
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Simply makes the review overview stuff bigger
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When Visual design changes to the review queues was introduced, the review overview page seemed to change to having a smaller font size on post number and very small avatars. I think the white ...
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Turning meta off
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Based on Is there any way I can turn Stack Overflow Meta off?, this will give anyone a break from a site meta. It removes:
The home page, both "Featured on Meta" and "Hot Meta ...
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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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HTTP 400 "Bad Request" while using "access_token" in request Url
I registered an app, obtained a key and I have implemented the implicit OAuth 2.0 flow in a Windows 8 desktop app (as per the documentation available here). After receiving and storing the access ...
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Getting started: /users/{id} [duplicate]
I am trying to get the amount of reputation that a user has. I have established that I need to use this url: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/1272330?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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App/Script to track answers/comments for specific questions?
Is there any app that tracks answers or comments to a specific question and provides an rss feed (or email digest or similar)? I'm only interested in keeping track of certain questions.
Can I use ...
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Bring back the layout!
Important notice:
This update to site layout broke a lot of the layout adjusting scripts partially or completely. It affected my script as well - as of now, only pure-CSS adjustments work properly (...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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View close/reopen votes without 3k rep
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This script enables you to view the close/reopen votes on a post without unlocking the cast close and reopen votes privilege unlocked at 3000 reputation.
Powered by Stack Exchange API.
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LinkPreview - Protection against hazardous links
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Links can be dangerous when clicked recklessly, especially when they are hidden by a title.
LinkPreview helps solve this problem by providing a way to view where links points to ...
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Can "trends" be queried with the Stack Exchange API?
I've studied the Stack Exchange API to some extent (although I'm a newbie to such things), and it appears I can query the database using many criteria. But does Stack Exchange store any "trends&...
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Stack Exchange OAuth2, explicit access-token response format does not adhere to RFC6749 standard
I'm using the Stack Exchange v2.1 API. I'm using the explicit OAuth 2.0 flow, but it seems that the access token response step does not adhere to the RFC 6749 standard. Specifically, the Stack ...
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Making use of the *"has_more": true* json attribute in the Json response from stackoverflow
When issuing requests to the stackoverflow-api, I set the pagesize to a 100 (which is the maximum possible). However, some json responses contain this attribute (normally at the very bottom):
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Can we get a sandbox please?
I think that we should have some sort of a sandbox site where we can post questions, answers and comments in a controlled environment.
Currently I'm working with Stack Overflow but I can't post "...
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Site in closed beta but api working
Webapps has been added yesterday, website is in closed beta and it's not possible to see something on the website when you are not logged.
But if you use the API you can get information.
http://api....
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How do I get the no. of upvotes a person has received for a particular tag?
I need the list of users who have more than 10K reputation and then among those users I need to see which user has how many up-votes for each tag. I don't think there is a direct query that will give ...
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Comment History Checker - See comment score and your deleted comments at a glance
Comment History Checker ( install ) (github)
This is a userscript which saves all comments you post into a local database (IndexedDB). When you want to review them, go to your profile's ...
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Tab4SE - the TAB key in your post
Tab4SE
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Uses SmartTabbing™ technology to enable Tabing (Indent) and Shift+Tabing (Unindent).
Can be enabled via the toggle switch in the toolbar (preference is ...
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Which of the Ruby libraries/wrappers for the Stack Exchange API is most complete?
There seem to be a number of Ruby libraries: Pilha or Rubyoverflow. Has anyone used either of these? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Which is more actively maintained?
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How to get the questions from hot/week/month tab?
I am only interested in the questions from hot/week/month tab.
The iPhone app MyStacks can show week/month tab, but I did not find such API in the documentation.
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Is it possible to authenticate a user through Stack Overflow API?
Is it possible to use the Stack Overflow API to authenticate a given user identity such as with Facebook, Twitter, or OpenID?
If it's possible: Can you tell me the method (s) that make this happen?
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How to use tags/{tags}/related
I am new to stackapps. I am wondering how to apply /tags/{tags}/related to more than one tags. The documentation does not give an example. I tried
/2.0/tags/c,java/related?site=stackoverflow, /2.0/...
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How many ids is 'too many'?
This answer mentions limit on amount of ids included in queries like /users/{id}/mentioned, but I can't find actual amount mentioned anywhere.
Now, I could run binary search and find out, but I ...
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Where is the usage documentation?
I know this is probably a dumb question, but there's a bunch of documentation and I don't know what to do with this stuff. How do you use the API?
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Question up-voting is not working from my code?
I am trying to upvote a question using the Stack Exchange API in android, via the /2.2/questions/{questionID}/upvote route.
But in the log, it's just showing something like:
org.apache.http.message....
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Stack Exchange API for getting list of users from iOS 8
I am trying to call the Stack Exchange API to get a list of users. This is from my iOS app:
NSString *str=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://stackexchange.com/oauth/2.2/users?order=desc&sort=...
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Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
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Live preview of the new counter:
The counter also preserves the "heatmap" colour coding:
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Disclaimer: please note that the script will not allow you to ...
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What is the unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799] in the API docs?
The type of the fromdate or todate in several methods is set to
unix epoch date, range [0, 253,402,300,799]
I don't know what that is and I can't find any information -- can someone explain it or ...
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Tags missing when fetching from API filtered by dates
I'm experimenting with the API, trying to get the tags used in the last month on Stack Overflow, and it seems like some tags are missing. For example, I don't get anything for "jquery":
http:...
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Stack Focus - Boost productivity on Stack Exchange
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Personalize your Stack Exchange experience. Inspired from this question.
It provides you the ability to toggle the visibility of certain elements on the page, ...
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Answer link titles in user profiles deserves closed status too
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User profiles show post closed status on the "Questions" tabs, but not on the "Answers" tabs. As noted, partially by me, in Should “duplicate” and “closed” attributes be ...
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View close votes, reopen votes, and delete votes with insufficient repuation
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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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IGB Stack Flair – A dynamic flair for Stack Exchange sites
A dynamic flair for Stack Exchange sites inspired by Stack Exchange's native User Flairs.
With Advanced Features
Including Stack Exchange sites with more than 101 reputation (compared to 200).
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
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Would it be possible to create a script that could be run manually to unprotect questions that meet certain parameters?
One of the sites I use has in excess of 10% of their questions protected. It's a small site but this seems like a huge amount, largely due to questions being on the HNQ regularly and attracting many ...
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How do I access the greatest hits (questions) via API v2.2.?
The greatest hits (questions) of any stack exchange site (say stack overflow) can be found by visiting the below URL:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/greatest-hits
I would want to access these ...
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View vote counts without 1k rep automatically
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Have you ever wished someone combined "View Vote totals" without 1000 rep and Auto-Load Vote Counts? Well, now they've been combined! Vote counts can now auto-load without 1k rep ...
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Enhance Google search by incorporating Stack Overflow
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This is a userscript for browsers (Chrome/Firefox) which can give you an overview of your programming-related search. The detailed functions are listed below:
Spot the programming ...
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Login problem on devices pre Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1
I have recently published an app for browsing Stack Exchange websites and a major feedback I received from users was about the inability to use oauth login form while logging into the app. The ...
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TeamMod v1.1-alpha - Enables moderation features in Teams
I don't care, gimme the download link!
You can download the script from its GitHub repo, or use the direct download link.
Credits
I've developed this by myself, but I'd like to thank Tyberius from ...
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EasterEggExchange: Enable all easter eggs in chat
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This script will enable all easter eggs in chat, namely:
Cthulhu
Send <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> and quotes from this answer fly around your ...
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Three Columns - Displays the question page, post textarea, and post preview in side-by-side columns
Three Columns ( install ) (github)
This is a userscript which allows those with reasonably wide monitors to make the most of their screen real-estate when posting, by making the question, ...
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Bounty question collector
I want to write a script to collate all bounty questions from all Stack Exchange sites.
I have heard of Tampermonkey and I have no server access.
Could someone explain how I should go about writing a ...
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Refresh expired acess token basics
I'm trying to learn how to implement an OAuth flow in an Android app using a simple app with the Stack Exchange API.
Using WebView, I'm able to retrieve an access token and store it in my shared ...
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When I perform an API call via browser, it displays pretty JSON. How come when I do the same request via nodejs in my console it is garbled? [duplicate]
If I browse to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search?site=stackoverflow&tagged=racket via Chrome, it displays a bunch of JSON containing the appropriate content. But when I run the following ...
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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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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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Why am I getting a 400 Bad Request error with this code?
I'm using this code (in an async function):
let about = await fetch("https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/me?order=desc&access_token="+token+"&sort=reputation&site=gaming&...
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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 ...