Highest scored questions
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Stack Overflow Instant Search
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I love the concept of instant search that Google introduced. Stack Overflow Instant Search does exactly that - it brings (almost) instant search to Stack Overflow. The results update ...
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Highlight Code in Chat - Highlights <code> elements contained in chat messages
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Inspired by this question, I have developed a UserScript that highlights code elements in chat messages so that they stand out more on the page. Simply install the script and your ...
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Allow post type to optionally return title field
Currently, it's possible to get the title field from the question type returned by /questions/{ids} and from the answer type returned by /answers/{ids}, using the appropriate filters.
Unfortunately, ...
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StackCompare - See how your StackExchange profile compares to friends and rivals
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StackCompare is a tool that lets you see how you're doing on StackExchange sites relative to other people, be they friends, rivals, or some combination. Track your and their ...
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Underlined post links
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// ==UserScript==
// @name Stack Exchange: Underlined post links
// @description Underlines all links in questions, answers and comments on all Stack Exchange sites.
// @version 1.1
//...
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Quick Media Solutions - The First Tool to Take Advantage of Write Access in v2.1 of the API!
Website
http://quickmediasolutions.com
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Quick Media Solutions is my personal website where most of the web services and tools I have written reside. I recently rewrote the entire ...
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Stack Exchange - Deleted Answer Manager
Description
This script hides the content of deleted answers (which are visible to 10k+ Stack Exchange users), injects a show content / hide content toggle in the answer's menu, and injects a ...
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StackAd Wordpress Plugin - Display Community Ads on Your WordPress Blog with Minimal Effort
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(source: wordpress.org)
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Now you can easily display community based advertisements (like these) on your WordPress blog with almost no effort. The plugin ships with a widget you can ...
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The Ask Ubuntu Lens for Unity
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If you're running Ubuntu with Unity, this Lens will put Ask Ubuntu right next to your files and applications in the Unity Dash. Via filters, you can select any other Stack Exchange ...
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LaServ - A Python/Twisted based flexible command line bot/framework for Stack Exchange
LaServ (a play on Lazers, The Bridge's feedbot and '*Serv' bots, which provide IRC services ) is a Python/Twisted project that I've been poking at since the Christmas break. It's still beta quality, ...
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Vertically Resizable Textareas
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// ==UserScript==
// @name Stack Exchange: Vertically Resizable Textareas
// @description Makes Stack Exchange's textareas vertically resizable.
// @version 1.2
// @include http://...
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OBSOLETE - achivy.com, track all your statistics, reputation and badges in one place (now also supports coderwall)
About
Time to collect your achivies
Achivy adds some fun to your life. It supports Stack Overflow and all Stack Exchange applications, GitHub,Coderwall Ohloh as well as many other applications to your ...
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BrickJax: Brick Image Replacement for Bricks.StackExchange.com
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We've put together a script that we're hoping to get added to LEGO Answers that will allow users to easily insert images of Bricks, with or without links, and also links to sets on ...
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SkeetNotifier: A Tray Notifier Application for Jon Skeet's answers
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A tray application for Windows that notifies you about the newest answers from Jon Skeet.
Icon approved by Jon Skeet!
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License
http://unlicense.org/
Source
http://github.com/...
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OBSOLETE - Stacktistics: Show recent popular languages, mobile platforms and web techs based on question counts
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You may wonder what kind of languages, mobile platforms, or web technologies are most popular these days.
stacktistics shows the popularity of programming languages, ...
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Google Search Results Integration (Chrome Extension)
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Google Chrome Extension that adds a new tab to StackOverflow search results that uses Google magic formula for relevance.
It does this by opening Google search in a background tab ...
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Format a list of questions
The following quickie command line application formats a list of questions obtained from search results.
Requirements:
Perl, JSON
Usage:
Retrieve a list of questions from the API (from the /...
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[Beta] Gaming SE Black Edition
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This as simple user script that changes the overall style of Gaming SE sub-site to a darker version.
I made it for myself as I used to do with sites that I tend to visit more (Google,...
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Make active tab default on StackApps
This script changes the logo link to the active tab and redirects from the home page to it on StackApps. If you want to see the list of apps, you can still do this by clicking the apps tab. Made by ...
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Guidelines on app and library thumbnails
We now have better, user-friendlier display for apps and libraries and scripts:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/stack-exchange-api-1-1-and-improved-app-gallery/
We infer a number of things ...
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Requesting favorite questions should report which users have favorited it
I can request the favorite questions of a user via the users/{id}/favorites endpoint. If I'm only requesting the favorites for one user, then I know that all of the returned questions are the ...
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StackBot - Making it easy to post StackExchange questions to Twitter
About
StackBot is a small C# application that is designed to post interesting questions to a Twitter account at specified intervals.
License
StackBot is released under the Ms-PL license.
Download
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SOCharts: Charts by Tags
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I created this small app as a weekend hack. It shows the reputations, upvotes, downvotes and accepted answers for a user against the tags for the answers.
About
I wanted to know how many ...
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Promoting your [app]s - advertising contest proposal
I've proposed on Meta a contest for promoting StackApps applications developed with the API.
Please consider to leave your comments over there. (Bounty +250)
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geek score calculator - SO + Github on Rail
I am learning Rails and this is my first application built on Rails 2.3.8.
http://g33k.heroku.com
License: Free to use
Code: http://github.com/utkarsh2012/g33k-score-calculator
Platform: Hosted on ...
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OBSOLETE - Code Consultant: Jabber bot to help you work through your coding problems
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Have you ever noticed that simple act of describing a problem you can't get past to a co-worker will help you solve the problem, even if they don't say a thing?
The ...
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Link to SVG logo on stackauth
Could you host SVG version of logo and put a link on stackauth in http://stackauth.com/sites ?
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Linking to StackExchange Sites
If I request from the /questions route (for example,) I get a list of questions and some relative route data. What I don't get is a nice, neat, full URL to the question on the site:
site_url: http://...
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How to use min/max with sort
While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.
Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.
Aggregated sort ...
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OBSOLETE - StackMail - Making the StackExchange Sites Accessible Via Email
Planned Obsolescence
Due to almost negligible usage and ongoing maintenance issues, I would like to announce that the StackMail service will be shut down in a few days after the 4th of July 2013.
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API Parameters: Consolidated Observations
This wiki question is meant to be a central location for observations and suggestions in the interest of shaping the API meta data.
Perhaps items can be removed when accepted and resolved as ...
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Stack Safari Utilities (Safari 5 Extension)
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Buttons.
Buttons with badges.
About
The current web interface is the ideal way to use Stack Exchange apps. I intend to improve this experience for Safari users with a "Safari ...
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MSOEngine Objective-C library
MSOEngine
Basically MSOEngine (Matt's Stack Overflow Engine) is an Objective-C library that communicates with Stack Overflow.
It uses the MIT License.
You can find (the new and improved ...
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Am I accessing the API correctly?
When running the code
$.getJSON('http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/4', function(data) {
// Do some stuff here....
});
I get the error
Failed to load resource
Am I accessing this wrong?
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Odd String Format Result from API Call
I'm just getting started messing around with the SO API. I haven't worked with JSON before, and I am getting a strange result from a basic call (No API Key).
WebClient stackClient = new WebClient();
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(Should we) add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs?
This answer is posted by a staff member, but you have to go to the user's profile to actually see that.
Can we add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs like on all meta sites? [♦ Mod] labels aren't ...
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How to strip out certain fields from the Stack Exchange API, JSON response?
I want to fetch all my favorite questions on Stackoverflow.com and dump them as JSON. I used this API path:
/2.1/users/1310070/favorites?fromdate=1382486400&site=stackoverflow
But it is returning ...
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Complete list of sites to @include / @match into my script?
This question aims to serve as a reference list of all current Stack Exchange sites for use in scripts.
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How to protect API Keys?
I want to develop an Open Source Project with Stack Exchange API. So I have to publish the API key there. But a single IP address can only make a certain number of API requests ...
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What are the min and max parameters?
Several of the api methods (e.g. questions) have min and max parameters with the following description:
min (optional)
Minimum of the range to include in the current .
number
max (optional)
...
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What happens if an app becomes super popular?
Will there be provisions for apps to become "sponsored" by SO wherein the limits are removed? Say somebody writes the de-facto iPhone app and it gets 500,000 users, the 10K cap will be hit pretty ...
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MetaStackApps: "Library" Tab
Not sure if this is appropriate here (no Meta site yet), but here goes...
I think it'd be a good idea to have a "Library" navigation tab (next to the "Apps tab"), so that people can easily see ...
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How to get a User's picture (Avatar)
I've seen a couple of Stack Apps that have the actual picture for the user profile. Is that coming from the API, and if so how? If not I'm assuming they are using some screen-scrapping to get that ...
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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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What is the Errors endpoint used for?
I am trying to figure out what the errors endpoint is used for, so I can I can implement it in my API.
I have been trying things like:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/errors/404
http://api....
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StackExchange API /sites/ does not return all the sites
I am working on one application that produces timeline of user on every site of StackExchange.. We have some users on Sharepoint.stackexchange.com..
Since I want list of all the sites, I am trying to ...
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Is there a way to programmatically access chat?
I'm thinking about starting a project where I'd like to have access to the "chat" feature of the stack exchange sites. I saw this project: IRC access for the chat?
But I don't believe that it works ...
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Does a registered stack apps application have to be a website?
If I've created an application that is not a website, can I still register it and get a key?
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Is there a Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 7?
Is there a Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 7?
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Tab4SE - the TAB key in your post
Tab4SE
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About
Uses SmartTabbing™ technology to enable Tabing (Indent) and Shift+Tabing (Unindent).
Can be enabled via the toggle switch in the toolbar (preference is ...