Newest Questions
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Are bounties on Stack Apps productive?
Stack Apps doesn't have a Featured tab like other SE sites. Is starting a bounty to promote your Stack App a stupid idea?
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Floating vote buttons (script)
Tampermonkey script that brings back an old Stack Exchange feature that never made it out of beta:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Sticky post vote buttons
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
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Improve productivity on StackOverflow with lots of functionalities (Chrome extension)
StackOverflow Power User
About:
Have you ever felt that you've just wasted time while searching for an answer on StackOverflow ?
Sometimes it's because you read the accepted answer, then notice ...
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What are the top level question & answer localized flag_option titles?
For the SE API, the endpoints dealing with flags (e.g. /questions/{id}/flags/options) return the flag_option type. However, the option_id values are explicitly stated as being unstable, but it's ...
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Comment Flag Type Colours
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Comment Flag Type Colours
Works on user's comment flag history group page
Works on user's mod comment history pages
Works on mod comment flag ...
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Sticky Post Headers & Question Table of Contents
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Post Headers & Question TOC
Sticky post headers to help when scrolling long posts / comment threads
User, revision history, post timeline ...
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Expand all comments script
The following script for Tampermonkey (multi browser) or Greasemonkey (Firefox) automatically expands all comments which are normally hidden behind the "show ... more comments" link:
The code is ...
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Add a dedicated bot login to Stack Apps
When dealing with chat bots, especially those like SmokeDetector, you'll often want to log in directly from the code. The problem? There's no easy way to do this, especially now that Open ID is being ...
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Comment Flag Dialog Bugfix
About
Fixes issues with Comment Flag dialog appearing in the upper-left corner of the window.
Download
Download or view the source code
Platform
Tested on Waterfox 56. Only designed for Firefox-...
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StackPromo: Free Q&A Advertising Service (beta)
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
StackPromo is a free SE post advertising platform. Submit your posts. Webmasters can embed the ads on their site.
SUBMIT YOUR POSTS HERE: https://stackpromo.appspot....
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What should we do about dead listings?
There are a few pending flags on posts for applications/scripts/libraries where the advertised program no longer works, sometimes meaning that the link to the source code and/or binary is also dead.
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Cannot get redirect_uri to work
This is in regards to my userscript Bulk flag comments. I am sure I have not at all updated the userscript since the first release of June 24, and I am sure I was able to register for an access token ...
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Advanced Search Helper, Saved Search (Bookmarks), and Navigation Improvements
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Searchbar & Nav Improvements
(Parent) Option to search child meta
(Meta) New search bar on meta sites, and option to search parent site
(...
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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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Can the API Edit a Question, changing only one field?
The documentation for the edit question method (/questions/{id}/edit) is somewhat vague.
Are all of the parameters required?
For example, if the only field I want to change in the question is tags, ...
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StackExchange Hot Network Questions page icon size fix
As you might have noticed, some icons are huge and others are tiny on the StackExchange HNQ page (aka the main page). Here's a userscript that fixes this issue:
// ==UserScript==
// @name ...
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Can we find the time of a vote using the API?
I've been looking at the API docs and more specifically at the filters available for the /answers/{ids}, /posts/{ids} and /questions/{ids} routes but can't find anything other than upvoted and ...
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Top Navigation Bar script
The following script for Tampermonkey (Chrome) or Greasemonkey (Firefox) will add the links which have been moved to the new sidebar design to the top of the page. Make sure you also hide the sidebar ...
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Bulk flag comments
About
I often go through my previous questions on SO/SE and find a lot of them have long resolved discussions. Ideally, I should raise a post flag and say "all comments below are obsolete; please ...
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VisualCrumbs - StackExchange Visual Changes
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
I created this script because I wanted to customize my personal use of Stack Overflow (And such Stack Exchange sites) to be more visually appealing to me and give me a ...
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Markdown Shortcuts for StackExchange - insert latex commands quickly by keybindings
About
This userscript gives users quick key bindings to speed up the process of editing mathjax/chem/etc. into posts.
Example usage:
Pressing Alt+I would insert \pi directly.
Pressing Alt+R would ...
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How to set a userscript, listed here on Stack Apps, to auto-update by itself?
I try to make my userscripts as comprehensive as possible on the first attempt. However there are often cases where I need to push some new update to it.
In these cases, past users have to manually ...
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Left-sidebar in the Topbar - Put the left-sidebar in the topbar network-wide
Left-sidebar in the Topbar ( install ) ( GitHub )
On all SE sites where the left-sidebar exists, this userscript moves the left-sidebar into the topbar, regardless of the SE ...
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Automated ROT13 spoiler comments
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Spoilers get used pretty heavily on Puzzling.SE, and people have taken to using rot13 in comments (and chat) since there's no official spoiler mark-up outside of questions/answers. That's ...
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Comment keyboard shortcuts
About
This userscript adds keyboard shortcuts to StackExchange comments. The default ones are: Ctrl+B (bold), Ctrl+I (italic), Ctrl+K (code), and Ctrl+L (link). You can yourself extend this with more ...
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How to get visits per day via the API?
At the overview page of the Stack Exchange network, one can see a list of all sites of the network with some statistics for each site (number of questions, answers etc.). Most of these statistics can ...
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How to get the user's last seen time in user's profile
In user's profile page, there's a last seen xx mins ago info:
How can I get this information in user object or other object field?
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What's the meaning about " is_answered" field of question object?
I saw the question object has a is_answered field.
I mentioned that there're the following cases:
The is_answered field is true, and the question has an accepted answer.
The is_answered field is true,...
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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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Can we pull posts out of Stack Overflow based on tags?
Instead of directly searching the posts and reading on the Stack Overflow website, can we pull out posts in the form of pdf/txt file?
I want to learn (say like programming: c or python) some real ...
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How should I try to detect when the Share dialog is open in a userscript?
I want to write a userscript that modifies the share dialog to add an extra field:
It's easy enough to retrieve and modify this dialog whilst it's on the page, but it gets added to the DOM only after ...
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Paging fails at 10K items for /search on any site but Stack Overflow
There's a problem with requesting more than 10,000 items.
With Stack Overflow it works just fine.
But with Super User, Server Fault, etc. no items are returned for requests for items after the 10,...
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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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Spelling mistake in API Documentation's "Authentication" page
Can you find the spelling mistake in "Unregistered Users" (last section) of the Authentication page?
In case you're not in the mood for games, here is it:
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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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Afterstack - Productivity tool for the Stack Exchange Network sites
About:
Afterstack is a tool, for the Stack Exchange Network sites, that provides: integrated searching, answer saving, refined results and profile based suggestions.
Currently:
5 sites are supported: ...
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How to read (get feeds of) different Stack Exchange networks
I follow multiple networks in Stack Exchange where I select Hot/Week/Month to see what I missed.
This is a bit time consuming since I have to switch and click to each one instead of having it ...
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RTFM: a discord bot which runs code and queries documentations
This post is to ensure the bot described can use the API with a key ; it can search questions from any SE website
This bot is still in development. However a stable version is already running 24/7 (...
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StackExchange Simulator
Screenshot
About
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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I'm having a hard time finding resources for using Stack Overflow's API in Python to query some questions [duplicate]
I can just go through documentation but it'd be a time saver if I could find some sort of tutorial or intro or anything. Does anybody happen to have any resources, notes, or code examples they could ...
Mauricio Martinez
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Can I get the user's top percentile, for tags, using the API?
this is the data I receive when asking for a user data with the Stack Exchange API:
{
"items": [{
"badge_counts": {
"bronze": 27,
"silver": 12,
"gold": 0
},
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How to pass multiple tags (OR between the tags) to the Stack Exchange Questions/Unanswered API
I am using the /questions/unanswered API to try and get all unanswered questions, sorted by upvotes, and with the tags specified.
How can I pass multiple tags to the /unanswered route(s) using OR-...
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PLACEHOLDER - Makyen development & testing
This is a placeholder for me to do development, testing and personal use. The intent is that no applications will be released beyond my own use using the credentials associated with this placeholder.
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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?
I'm starting to write a native Android client for Stack Overflow, and wondering what exactly is a valid OAuth domain name?
Is it the package name of my app?
Or do I have to point it to a server ...
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Hidden page tracks Read/Unread Inbox items better than API or Inbox?
How does this hidden page (stackexchange.com/topbar/inbox) know which Inbox notifications I have/haven't opened?
Both the drop-down inbox and the API (ie, api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-inbox) seem ...
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Bonfire - dashboard for FireAlarm detecting low-quality questions
FireAlarm is a chatbot detecting low-quality questions. Bonfire is a web-dashboard written using Ruby on Rails, made specifically for FireAlarm. Upon low quality post detection, FireAlarm sends all ...
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How do I actually begin to code, in Node, using the Stack Exchange API?
I am a noob at coding, so forgive me for this rather trivial question.
I am trying to make a program that can access the Stack Exchange API. Specifically I want to make a program that gets live ...
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StackCrunch - A platform to share your development Experiences
About:
A place where you can share your development experiences & learn from stories rooted in real-world practical solutions.
StackExchange communities are undoubtedly the best places to learn ...
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As a user, where in the web UI could I find all the tokens I have granted for Stack Apps?
I want to manage or revoke access tokens I have granted to 3rd party Stack Apps, but I have a hard time to find them in the UI.
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My filter is not returning any results. How to create a minimal filter?
I'm having trouble getting the SO API Filters to cooperate. I've gone over the documentation as well as similar questions like this and this.
I'll use this call as an example since it successfully ...
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