Newest Questions
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Why doesn't Stack Apps have community promotion ads?
Community Promotion Ads would enable Stack App developers to promote their apps to other members of the Stack Apps community. Do we need community promotion ads or not?
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RepAdvisor - A Basic Tool For Farming Reputation
Almost all of us Stack Overflow users want to earn more reputation. However, we don't have all the time in the world to answer questions. RepAdvisor is a bookmarklet that predicts how much reputation ...
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Auto Format code snippets
Is it possible to auto format code so you don't have to go to each line and space 4 times?
For example I know about the 'enter code here' but that doesn't always work correctly!
It should be ...
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How do I get the number of views in the past day on a question?
How do I get the number of views in the past day (or within a specific time-range) on a question with the Stack Exchange API?
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Stack API doesn't return json with encoding of UTF-8
Here is the query
RESULT
{
"items": [
{
"badge_counts": {
"bronze": 2,
"silver": 1,
"gold": 0
},
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myTagOverflow - StackOverflow top tags data visualization
About
myTagOverflow creates a visualization of the top tags related to your own activity on stackOverflow.
It may be useful when you want to demonstrate your technical abilities, based on factual ...
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How can I get user links in the API call like Twitter, GitHub and so on?
I'm trying to get the user's user links from his profile. Like this person
has GitHub and Twitter links on his profile. How can I get those?
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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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FixAllTheTags! An app to replace tags
I have to believe this already exists but my search foo sucks so I threw together a small app/script to retag questions for helping me fix some bad tags.
For example you can search for tags with foo ...
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Receive latest questions with certain tag
I'm creating a simple notification application to inform me about latest questions with defined tags. For example, my tags are python and django.
I want to see the latest asked question with those.
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How to get questions, under a tag, which have at least one answer with 10+ votes?
I want to get all the questions under a tag which has at least one answer with 10 or more votes.
I searched the Advanced Search documentation and searched Py-StackExchange's documentation, but I ...
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StackTimer: Set post-specific timers on Stack Exchange sites
Screenshots (click to enlarge)
Just click the timer button under any post to set a timer.
View pending timers in your top bar at any time. If any timer has elapsed, the icon turns orange. The new ...
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stackcpp - An asynchronous C++11 library for the StackExchange API
stackcpp is an asynchronous C++11 library for the StackExchange API!
Code Snippet
Here's a small example of the API in action:
#include <iostream>
#include "stackcpp/client.h"
int main() {
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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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Reputation-based filter for search results
This userscript filters search results on Stack Exchange sites by reputation of the asker. To use it, add a search parameter such as is:25 where 25 is the minimum reputation required. Since the search ...
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Open Source Chat Android Application for StackExchange/StackOverflow
A while back a fellow member of Room 15 (Android) started creating an Android application for the StackOverflow/StackExchange chat. I recently picked it up and revived it and it is open to community ...
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What to do about the tsunami of placeholder apps created because of a poorly written tutorial?
Last months, we're seeing more and more placeholder apps created by people who are following a certain Android tutorial. I'm not going to give examples because it's really hard not seeing them. I feel ...
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What does "in practice" mean here?
From /answers/{id}/delete:
In practice, this method will never return an object.
For me, "in practice" means that the method will maybe return an object. But why? That's not good from an application ...
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Can I pass a filter to a write method?
I was wondering if I'm allowed to pass a filter to methods that use write access? Like for example /answers/{id}/accept. There is no "filter" parameter, and changing the filter doesn't seem to change ...
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"users" link lands on the answer page
On the /users/moderators documentation site, the following link is wrong:
This method returns a list of users.
The users link mistakenly points to the answers object instead of to the users object.
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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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Belisarius - Detecting vandalism on Stack Overflow
Background:
This bot has been developed in an attempt to help capture possible vandalism. This includes:
Removing all code
Replacing all content with nonsense/repeated words
Adding solutions to ...
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Revisions API doesn't return all revisions if post has had multiple edits made in quick succession
I am pulling information from the posts API and then checking the revisions API for some of these posts. I am noticing that on posts which have had multiple revisions done in quick succession that the ...
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Authorization dialog shows wrong API version
If you go on this doc page and click on Get Token, you'll see this:
Minor bug, but still, I thought it would be nice to fix this inconsistency :)
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Review Assistance 1.0
Review Assistance 1.0 is a script designed to help you review the Close Vote Queue and Reopen Vote Queue in Stack Overflow only.
In future, we will look forward to add it's support to all SE sites.
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Stack Search - Chrome extension
Stack Search is the chrome extension you’ve always dreamed of!
Stack Search adds to your Google Search results a filtered set of the most relevant answers from your top trusted coding sources: ...
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Close hammer warning
Power users may have experienced this situation before: They see a question that’s clearly a duplicate, so they hunt down the duplicate target and close the question. It’s only then that they realize ...
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access_token not present in /oauth/access_token response
When using the explicit OAuth authentication for apps, I have problems receiving the access_token. A user goes to /approve and is then forwarded to approve the app. When redirected back to my site I ...
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How do I future-proof my app to work with every SE site?
I just wrote an app for Chrome extensions and received a request to make it cross-StackExchange compatible.
If there's eventually going to be more sites than just the few listed and I don't really ...
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The tags array is missing from answer results
I'm probably missing something very obvious but it seems like /users/{ids}/answers forgets to include the tags badge in the resulting answer object:
tags (2.1) an array of strings
Nowhere does this ...
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Bounty Notice Viewer - View the notice from Home page
Inspired by my own meta question: Show the bounty notice/reason on hover instead of “this question has an open bounty worth x reputation”,
I created a userscript which helps to view the bounty notice ...
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No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' for oauth/access_token
Following the Stack Apps documentation Authentication (explicit) section I crafted this AJAX call
$.ajax({
url:"https://stackexchange.com/oauth/access_token",
type:"...
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Clone the tags in questions page, if the tags are not visible in the initial window
About
If the tags are not visible in the initial loaded page, this script will copy and paste the tags after the post title.
If the tags position is not less than the current window's height, then ...
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RO Chat Message Delete Option
Description:
Gives room owners the ability to delete other users' chat messages from the message popup menu:
On confirmation, the message will be deleted. The ability is available for up to 2 minutes ...
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Chat Move Helper / Bot Cleanup Tool
Description:
Extends the room-owner move message tool in chat to make it easier to quickly clean up after bots by moving their messages, commands, and replies to them. Adds a couple visualization ...
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What token parameters to use for OAuth2 Authorizaton?
I'm trying to connect a piece of desktop software to the Stack Exchange web service through OAuth2. I've read the docs but the problem is that what it talks about is subtly different to what ...
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How do I get information about top users of a Stack Exchange community?
I was going through the stack exchange API and I want to extract information about, say, top 20 users of a particular stack exchange community. How do I use the API for that?
I tried on this page ...
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Please add gallery thumbnails to this site's search results
I would like to link to a list of all my stuff, but I'd like it to display with thumbnails and excerpts (like it does on tag searches).
Is this possible? It seems like a reasonable use case, but for ...
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Top Bar for Chat Rooms
As of 1.12, thanks entirely to Shog9's efforts, this now works on Firefox as well as Chrome!
Description:
Provides a fully functional top bar, including realtime notifications, easy chat server ...
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More Share Links (Markdown / HTML / BBCode)
Description:
As of 1.04, this now also works with Firefox / Greasemonkey.
Adds share links in additional formats, and also lets you omit user ID from links:
Features:
Adds Markdown, HTML, and BBCode....
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Clickable Links in Revision Comments
Description:
This is a really simple userscript that turns URLs in revision history comments into clickable links:
Features:
Works in both revision list and single revision links.
Download:
Github
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Sidebar Answer Status
Description:
As of 1.10 this now also works in Firefox / Greasemonkey.
This is a userscript that modifies the Linked and Related sidebar lists to show answered status and other info:
Download:
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Good looking, higher quality Stack Exchange flairs!
Higher quality flair for your Stack Exchange accounts.
Want a flair like this?
Or this:
Or even this?
It's easy! Simply use this URL:
https://timtjtim.co.uk/API/1.0/flair/SITENAME/USERID/COLOR
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Permission to link to Stack Overflow webpages from my app?
Update: My problem has now been resolved. I've added details at the bottom of this post.
I wrote a little Android app (Stack Flower) that allows customized searches of Stack Overflow. If the user ...
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/tags search multiple words ("or") inname
Is there any way to search for tags... but for ex "aa bb" so I want back the tag "aa-cc" and tag "aa-ccbb". at the moment the inname searches for "aa bb" so only a tag called "aa bbcc" will be a ...
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XMPPExchange: An XMPP bridge for chat
Screenshots
You can use it to use chat on CLI too, with the help of profanity:
Note: You need to run /online when you login to enable relaying.
(Quick how to use: apt-get install profanity, profanity,...
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Regional 12-hour timestamps
This script is a modification of Kip's "Display absolute timestamps (in local time)"; I have his permission to post this. Most of the credit for the script goes to him.
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This script ...
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Show a warning message when you follow a link to a deleted answer or comment
About:
When you follow a link to a comment or answer you might end-up being confused if the answer or comment is removed.
This little userscript shows a warning on top of the page when the link you ...
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"backoff" missing when updating questions
I updated a couple of questions with the questions/{id}/edit method and got the following error:
{
"error_id": 407,
"error_message": "You cannot perform this action for another 14 seconds",
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
On API doc pages, the “link” link at the top-right of the “Try It” sections presents a URL with the wrong domain name:
For example, on docs/similar, the URL displayed will be:
https://api....
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