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1,033 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight
This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api.
With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in ...
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Stack Overflow KDE Plasma widget
Is a Plasma widget being developed for Stack Overflow in KDE 4?
I tried StackTray, but I'm thinking of something more complete to use as a widget on my desktop. I'd like to see this done, or ...
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Widget Of Awesomeness, an extended profile JavaScript widget
2010-07-17: Due to lack of interest I'm shutting down the hosted version of this.
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The Widget Of Awesomeness lets you embed a simple widget on any page that will display your ...
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OBSOLETE - SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM: A flat sortable, filterable list of all parameters in the Stack Overflow api
OBSOLETE: the soapi.info website is down
SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM
SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM is a little scooby snack of a tool that lets you get your eyes on all of the parameters in the api.
This is useful for ...
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Merging/migration should be reflected by the API
Now that we have a new merging/migration system that keeps records of all merges, I think that this information should be visible through the API:
Questions that are merged into other questions should ...
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Newest unaswered by tags
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Often, when I was looking for questions to answer on StackOverflow, I would go through newest unanswered questions and look for those that had one of my favorite tags. The “my tags” ...
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Request a method to get the number of people following a tag
How do I use the API to get the number of followers for a given tag?
On Stack Overflow, if you hover your mouse over a Tag a DHTML popup displays the number of followers for that tag.
I have used ...
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PLACEHOLDER - HeapExchange Android App
PLACEHOLDER post so that I can have write access. The old post got deleted.
HeapExchange is an Android app designed to bring the power of Stack Exchanage to your fingertips.
🔍 Browse anonymously ...
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SO Stats - Track your stack overflow activity
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I created the SO Stats app because I wanted a simple and convenient way to track my Stack Overflow activity and progress. As a frequent user, I was always curious about how my reputation was ...
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Comment Image Upload - upload images directly from the comment box!
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Comment Image Upload script allows one to upload images directly from the comment box: by dragging and dropping them, pasting them from other sources, or selecting them from the ...
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Pronoun Assistant Reloaded
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Based off of Glorfindel's excellent userscript, this userscript displays users' pronouns (as mentioned in their chat or main site bios) under their usernames in chat ...
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WebSocket Defibrilator - try to keep SE websockets (and in-page updates) working
Description
Websockets on Stack Exchange provide live updates on a page - for example, showing there are new notifications, or new answers, or new comments, etc.
These are unreliable in some cases. If ...
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Logout from all devices by default
Description
Inspired from Add option to make "log out of all devices" the default
Installation
Direct install (GitHub)
See the code on GitHub
// ==UserScript==
// @name Logout ...
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SO Link-only Parser: Parse Stack Overflow for potentially link-only answers
The provided Python script is designed to identify potentially "link-only" answers on Stack Overflow for a specified time period and set of tags. It does this by leveraging the Stack ...
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Fix for the network search pagination
Description
Problem
See the report Pagination on stackexchange.com search is broken
The pagination in the global search is broken. It only shows 15 results even when the page size is set to something ...
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Backpack: Download all of your questions and answers across all SE sites as Markdown files
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This app is used to download a user's questions and answers across all Stack Exchange (SE) sites that they are registered for. The questions and answers are downloaded ...
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Easily apply "bookend" deletion of AI-generated content
Description
This is a fork of Samuel Liew's DeletedUsersHelper userscript. It's a script for moderators only.
The purpose of this userscript is to simplify bulk-deletion of AI-generated posts as per ...
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Are these images really necessary?
In the homepage (mobile phone) there's a huge image on the left side of each question:
But are they really necessary? Should we remove them? The images seem unrelated to the questions themselves. ...
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PLACEHOLDER - CoreDump, a macOS desktop SE client
What the app will do: a macOS desktop client app for SE network sites with a clean user interface and potentially some features enhancing the regular SE web-based experience. Written in SwiftUI.
The ...
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Enhanced revision view
When visiting an individual post revision page, this script adds:
buttons that allow switching to a view showing how the revision differed from the previous one, just like on a full post history page;...
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Bring focus to inline tag editor
Description
Focus the inline tag edit tool1 when opened. Allows for using keyboard immediately to interact with the tags.
Press Escape to cancel the editing or Enter to save.
1Part of the moderator ...
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Automark as read
The following simple script reverts the most significant one of the inbox ‘improvements’: it marks all inbox messages as read as soon as the inbox is closed.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Stack ...
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Stack Explorer (Android app)
This Android app randomly selects pages from Stack Exchanges sites based on tags selected by the user, to help discover new interesting content and learn new things.
You can install it here:
https://...
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Add the excerpt back to the question title on hover
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Quickly assess if a question is worth opening by hovering over the title. (This restores a feature that was removed for performance reasons by Stack Exchange.)
Click image ...
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Remove meta badges
Currently, we have the Quorum and Convention badges even though Stack apps is its own meta so they are unobtainable. I think they should be removed to make it so only obtainable badges are on the ...
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Using scripts on iOS with the Userscripts app never seem to work?
I'm using the Userscripts app for mobile Safari. My phone is an iPhone 13 running 15.6.1 operating system. I use this app for other scripts. So it does, at least for some things, work as expected.
I ...
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replace text with icons
Exist any way to replace text with icons?
Like this example:
I have tried to re-write/replace the html from an extension in the site but I have not achieved anything functional; with the relative ...
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Hide answer sorting for a single answer
StackExchange hide sorting for a single answer
A userscript that removes the sorting combobox in questions when there is only one answer available.
Before:
After:
For users who prefer a cleaner UI ...
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A script to freely re-assign/remap/rebind the Stack Exchange hotkeys
the original Stack Exchange announcement from 2014
At least the hyperlink Ctrl + L and code Ctrl + K shortcuts go against the common web standards — in combination with the SE editor not behaving ...
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Post Box Highlighter - Highlight a post box background
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Post Box Highlighter adds a "highlight" button to every post's action menu that allows one to temprorarily highlight the background of the target post.
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Generate StackApps - post generator for userscripts
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Generate StackApps is a post Markdown generator for userscript projects reducing the amount of busywork required to publish userscripts for the benefit of the Stack Exchange network users. The ...
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Browsing method documentation consumes 4 quota units per page
Is it my imagination (scratch that, it's definitely not), or does simply browsing method doc pages (without using the "Run" function) consume quota?
From Bash using httpie and jq (on a ...
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PLACEHOLDER Stackoverflow CLI
NOTE
The app does not do anything at the moment. I will remove this note when I am ready to put it in alpha.
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(not here yet, soon to be put here.)
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(See https://github....
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Alignment issue in the Apps, Scripts tabs
There is an alignment issue in the Apps and Scripts tabs. The user name and the tag are not aligned right indent.
Screenshot for reference:
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Fix excessive underlines in high contrast mode
Stack Exchange introduced some excessive underlining in high contrast mode. This is visually very busy and overzealous application of underlines. Literally every link will be matched by their CSS, ...
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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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Script to keep mobile-view active
As you probably know SE is moving to the responsive view on there website meaning everything will look like the desktop kinda. Same with mobile devices. I’m new to SE for about 20 days, and I like the ...
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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:
About
Disclaimer: please note that the script will not allow you to ...
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Add a color highlight to closed questions in the question lists
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Adds a color highlight to closed questions. Inspired on a question asked by Hakan Fıstık
About
The script will highlight the close reason found at the end of a question ...
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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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Fortnightly Topic Challenge Automation on Puzzling.SE
Used for (meta.)puzzling.stackexchange - Creates & edits the corresponding meta posts with information from the main and meta site. E.g. creating a post for the new challenge every 2 weeks and ...
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PLACEHOLDER - VosMottor's Bot
Just creating a bot for Stack Exchange. I just started so far.
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PLACEHOLDER - QA Overflow - Stack Overflow Android Client
This app is currently under development, but stay tuned for more updates.
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A simple app to add tags to questions given a search criterium
In the wake of the *-vba situation on Stack Overflow, one tag remains, that should be retagged to two others. See this MSO post for more details.
To resolve this situation, this is a mini-app, that ...
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OBSOLETE - Add a heading when reviewing a suggested edit
Update:
With the recent redesign of the review queues, this script has become obsolete.
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Unlike other review queues, the suggested edits queue does not have a heading that indicates ...
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Pluralisation bugs in /apps/oauth
In the Manage your applications page, if 1 user has authorized and has been given an access token, the site shows 1 users instead of user:
In addition, if you have one application, it shows 1 ...
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Looking for a desktop pop-up app I can use for Science Fiction/Fantasy
I joined Science Fiction/Fantasy (SFF) in 2011. For many years I had an app running - an app I found on the site - that would create a pop-up whenever a Harry Potter question was asked. It would pop ...
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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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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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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 ...