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Hide the Stack Exchange sidebar
I would like to gain some screen estate when viewing Stack Exchange sites. The sidebar seldom shows information I need.
I know most help content displayed when composing questions.
Most related ...
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How to make a Stack Exchange API call, using my key
I have a Meteor application and I'm making API calls like:
var urlString = "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/"+surl;
HTTP.call ("GET", urlString, {params:{site:"stackoverflow"}},
function (...
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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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How can I quickly get an access token for personal use?
Registering your application or script gets you a higher daily quota and is fairly simply; a step by step guide is documented here: I only need a key, what do I do?
However, what if I do want an ...
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Why has my daily quota increased from 10k to 2 billion?
I'm using the Stack Exchange API with an access token and API key, and I was just checking my remaining quota. According to the documentation, this should be a number (somewhat) lower than 10,000, ...
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What is the right way to create a Stack Exchange API filter?
I'm trying to create a filter by following the documentation, but a few things are quite unclear:
How do I create a filter that does not have a base filter?
I'm creating a filter without a base so I ...
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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names
A picture says more than a thousand words:
These users aren't called "Bhargav Rac" and "Tunak", but Bhargav Rao and Tunaki.
This happens on both the 'apps' and 'scripts' tabs of the Stack Apps ...
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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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Why is /questions API returning deleted questions?
In last few days I have noticed that questions API returns questions that where deleted hours before the API call.
This is a short example, if more logs are need to pin point the problem, please ...
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'Activity' tab on profile as default
Userscript to set 'Activity' tab on profile as default tab
When the new profile page design was released, there was a feature request to make 'Activity' the default tab. Because this got declined, I ...
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The answer object returns an empty array for tags
Since version 2.1, the answer object has a field called tags. However, sometimes, an empty array or even nothing is returned in this field:
Example with the filter !-*f(6t0Vk01e.
Am I doing ...
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Can we have subdomains under stackapps.com with application or library names?
For example,
http://stackmobile.stackapps.com (George Edison)
http://stackdeck.stackapps.com (iconiK)
http://stackapplet.stackapps.com (George Edison)
for application or library owners?
I think ...
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Bug with `badges/name` endpoint
Last night I had a programme running and it errored on the first call to the badges/name endpoint on the API, exact API endpoint call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/badges/name?order=asc&sort=...
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Drag+Drop image uploader for Chat
Drag and Drop images into chat! In any chat window, simply drag and drop an image to anywhere in the window to upload it. Bonus! - the image will not be automatically sent, allowing you to edit your ...
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Why is comment_count=1 (incorrectly) when this particular filter is used?
We're seeing that, when a particular filter we've created is used, the API will return "comment_count": 1 for questions with no comments.
For a search for questions with no answers, ordered by ...
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Stack Exchange Archivist
Screenshot / demo
About
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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StackExchange API Java wrapper
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StackExchangeApi api = new StackExchangeApi(key);
api.authorize(authToken);
StackExchangeSite siteService = api.getSiteService(StackExchangeSite.STACK_OVERFLOW);
Response&...
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Stack Exchange WYSIWYG Editor
Markdown is great! But WYSIWYG editors are really useful - no waste of screen space by having the preview underneath what you're typing, no accidents with markdown: You see what you get! So, I made a ...
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Will there be a "last call" when the API is about to be released?
I understand the contest ends when version 1.0 of the API will be released, but will there be any indication when this time comes? So that you know you can allocate one last weekend for final fixes?
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Reopen/Delete Vote Rename - Clarify whether you've voted to delete/undelete already
This script is no longer needed
Stack Exchange now denotes that you've already voted to close/reopen/delete/undelete with an asterisk, e.g. Delete (1*). Thus, this script isn't really needed anymore.
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PONIES: Hide unwelcome images in chat
Don't like it when chat is flooded with ponies? Too lazy to burn them all? You need PONIES: Protect Oneboxed Nuisance Images Everywhere Safely.
All oneboxed images are displayed with 0.1 opacity ...
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How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]
Update:
All of our grumblings and the unbearable beauty of our workarounds resulted in this issue being fixed last week.
You can now send 100 id in one request and receive 100 responses.
See Url ...
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We’re collecting feedback on how we can improve the Stack Exchange API
The Stack Exchange API allows users to programmatically query and connect to the Stack Exchange Network of sites.
The API is currently in version 2.3. We’re collecting feedback from users of the API, ...
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Adjusting the question templates to better accommodate placeholders
From time to time, we see users posting placeholder questions using one of the templates. They have no useful information to add, so they just leave the template as is, which is very logical behaviour....
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Faster Answer Links
This is a convenience user script. It prevents page reloading when following links to answers that happen to be present on the same page, and to their comments; instead, it simply scrolls to the link ...
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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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GraphQL Stack Overflow API endpoint W.I.P
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Currently a GraphQL endpoint is available here, meant to facilitate apps wanting to query data from StackExchange but with the GraphQL spec. High speed, built with go and hosted on Azure. ...
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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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Boson: Track anything, anywhere!
Boson is a both a framework to create any general purpose tracking robots for Stack Exchange
and also a tracking bot built on top of the framework to report any content that matches a
given set of ...
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StackInTheFlow - An IntelliJ plugin to query Stack Overflow
StackInTheFlow
An IntelliJ plugin to query Stack Overflow.
Search Stack Overflow Without Leaving the IDE
StackInTheFlow integrates seamlessly with Intellij to allow you to find the solutions to ...
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Enhanced Review Stats for Reviews
SEReviewStats
Provides enhanced stats on the Stack Exchange Review pages Close, Reopen, Late Answers, First Posts & Low Quality Posts
Features
Shows additional information on the Close, Reopen, ...
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Stack Exchange Alexa Skill
An Amazon Alexa skill to browse hot questions across Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Q&A network. With account linking enabled, you can even cast upvotes and downvotes and check your global ...
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ModColorFix for Chat
Just a very very simple userscript that changes the moderator usernames in chat from blue to green.
Requested by and built for @doppelgreener on becoming a mod.
Link to Github Repo
Link to install
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SOClearChat -- Helpful Chat functions
A Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script packing some helpful functions for Stack Overflow chat.
To install, click: Install SO ClearChat
Source: github.com/lbotinelly/SOClearChat
It adds four ...
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Math buttons for sites without MathJax support
Download
View source or install (you will need a plugin like GreaseMonkey for this).
What it does
For sites that don't have MathJax support, but occasionally need math, HTML codes like ∩ ...
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Upvote First for StackOverflow - Chrome extension that sorts answers by your votes
Upvote First for Stack Overflow
Chrome extension that sorts Stack Overflow answers by your upvotes.
Available on Chrome Extension store
100% free and open source
works on all Stack Exchange sites
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Show revision diff color toggle
Sparked by this feature request on meta.SO, I created a quick user script that offers a toggle to show or hide diff colors.
Look at the following screenshot to see it in action. The upper view is how ...
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Stack Overflow Snippets for Sublime Text
About:
This is a utility for the Sublime Text editor.
Press Shift + Ctrl + H in your Sublime Text, enter a search query, and get code snippets from the matched questions.
Screenshot / Code Snippet:
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Similar libraries across different programming languages
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Add the tagWiki like for each tag;
Add "like" button to collect votes so that to rerank results accordingly;
Update the UI by smaller the blank space to make it look more ...
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Enhance Google search by incorporating Stack Overflow
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About
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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Question Close Notifier - a userscript to notify you when one of your questions close somewhere on the network
About
This simple userscript checks all of your accounts across the Stack Exchange network, and informs you if a question of yours has closed. Because SE refuse to do so :(
The way it works is ...
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Sort Flags By Type
About
This userscript allows you to sort your flags by type on your flag page.
It was inspired by this post on Meta Stack Exchange, and the idea and helper functions were provided by nicael.
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Incomplete information in API documentation
I am struggling a little bit with the Stack Exchange API since there seems to be no formal specification for the individual endpoints of the API.
Example:
Endpoint: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/...
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Stack Mate - Explore your StackExchange accounts and get notified about unread messages and notifications on Windows Phone
About
Stack Mate is a simple Windows Phone app which pulls in your StackExchange account details and keeps you up to date with any activity on the site. This application was not created to browse ...
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Stack Posts WordPress Widget
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Plugin to show the recent or historic activity widget from a specific user, or generic for the whole site. Enter a user ID and select the site. The random mode is great to discover ...
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Hide badges I've already attained
Update - read me:
This script is no longer required, thanks to the new Badges page. You can now view your earned and unearned badges by clicking the appropriate tab; without the need for an ...
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DashClock Extension for Android
About
Displays the user's reputation on the Android lock screen as an extension of the popular DashClock widget. It can be switched between displaying the total reputation score and today's ...
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StackIRC - Posting Questions from Stack Exchange Sites to IRC Channels
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http://static.quickmediasolutions.com/media/screenshots/irc.png
About
Similar to the Twitter feeds for each Stack Exchange site, this small IRC bot retrieves questions from any Stack ...
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OBSOLETE - ProStack Lite - Stack Overflow inbox notifier and quick accessor for OS X (in Mac App Store)
This product is discontinued.
The post about it is retained below for posterity.
About
Tired of manually checking Stackoverflow.com for new answers and comments? Ever wished to access the ...
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GIF Killer! Stop animated gifs in the Chat
About
Bookmarklet that stops GIFs in their tracks! until you refresh..
GIFs are replaced with the following image:
How to use.
Depending on your browser you create a new bookmark, copy and paste ...