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"Informed" badge shown as Next badge, but doesn't exist on this site
On my profile page, the Informed badge is shown as the next badge to obtain:
Clicking it even shows a popup with a link to the Tour page, but it looks quite different from other SE sites. Looking at ...
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Implicit Flow Isn't Redirecting
I'm using the WebAuthenticationBroker to allow users to log in to their account:
var accessToken = "";
var uri = "https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?redirect_uri=https://localhost.com&...
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SEFlair - an HD, customisable flair for your Stack Exchange accounts
Updated to provide an image rather than embedded content:
Good looking, higher quality Stack Exchange flairs!
About:
SEFlair is an HTML, CSS and JavaScript app which you can include on your website.
I ...
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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 Exchange Improvements - Sticky top bar, new text editor, and more
About
This chrome extension replaces the text editor with a much better one that supports markdown, indentation, code formatting, and more! Also provides options for making the top bar sticky, and ...
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SimilarMobileTech: Find alternative libraries across different mobile platforms
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About
Mobile development is more and more popular and it is very likely that developers want to switch from one platform to another e.g., from IOS to Android. They always asks questions ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag using .Net?
I want to get the list of questions based on tag name using .Net. can any one please let me know how to achieve this using .Net with API Version 2.2?
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Why API Version 2.2 returns null always while getting questions list?
The below 2 codes returns null always. How to get the list of questions using API Version 2.2?
Question thisPost = context.Official
.StackApps
.Questions.ById(1)
.WithComments(true)
.First();
var ...
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SOCVFinder: providing enjoyable reviewing, live duplicate notifications and cherry-picking on Stack Overflow
SOCVFinder
Background
This bot was developed to address the following issues:
The problem of duplicated questions, that not only confuse search engines but also encourage rep hunts by copying and ...
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It's taking two calls to /oauth/dialog/ to get an access_token? [duplicate]
When we send this request:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog/?client_id=`client_id`&scope=read_inbox%2cno_expiry%2cwrite_access%2cprivate_info&redirect_uri=https%3a%2f%2fstackexchange....
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Is the Stack API daily quota of 10,000 a hard limit, or can it be increased?
We are developing an indexer that will be used to store and serve up questions/answers related to our products. The indexer uses a key (and soon an access_token) to retrieve the data from Stack ...
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Few typos in the documentation pages
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/vectors
When passing a vector, sepeate each id with a semicolon. For example, /users/1;2;3;4;5?site=somesite would fetch users with ids 1 through 5 on somesite.
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Copy post content as markdown -- quick and easy way to quote people!
This is a userscript that converts the selected text to Markdown and allows you to quickly copy it.
It is mainly useful for when copying from comments on posts, where you want to quote the user, or ...
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Typos on api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib
Under the Authentication section on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib, there are a few typos (emphasis mine):
scope (optional) – an array of scopes to request during authentication, valid ...
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wrong results of /search/advanced
I am querying mobile in stackoverflow. The second result is an answer. Results of /search/advanced is giving only questions when queried mobile. This is applicable for all other terms which are to be ...
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The Authentication Problem of WebAuthenticationBroker Class in .NET 4.6
I have a problem when you test the Stack Exchange Authentication API to WebAuthenticationBroker.
If you proceed with authentication, such as screenshots it will continue to appear only in progress.
.
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wrong results of api /search/advanced
I am querying for results of /search/advanced. The request I am sending is
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search/advanced?key=`key`&access_token=`access_token`&site=stackoverflow.com&...
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Same access token between different fetch_token requests
TL;DR:
Is it (or would it be) possible to get the same access_token from one fetch_token request to another, provided that the user is the same?
Scenario:
An anonymous user authenticates with Stack ...
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Magic Links Enhancer
This userscript adds a way to quickly link to posts, help pages, privileges and links across the Stack Exchange sites.
It uses @M'vy's idea of having a basic format of [SITE:type:id], and works the ...
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Review Stalker Reloaded: A cross-site dashboard for reviews
About
Originally based very loosely on the OBSOLETE - Review Stalker user script, this script has been rewritten several times since then. Its purpose is to be a one-stop pinned tab, always checking ...
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Are the inbox routes (`inbox_item`) missing some item types?
Should there be more options for item_type in the "inbox" routes (they return inbox_item)?
Shouldn't they return answer and edit suggested like the site's global inbox does? As shown in this ...
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StackExchange MathJax Editing Improvements
This script is designed to improve the user experience while editing posts that include mathematical notation using MathJax. The editing code has not kept up with updates to MathJax, and so a number ...
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Okay if our Internal Customer Service Software polls the Stack Exchange API?
We are in the process of creating a number of API's and extensible software which we expect will result eventually in questions being asked on stack overflow for working with our API's and extensible ...
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Authentication uses # instead of `?`?
I need authentication for my app so I used the implicit flow way. The authentication works just fine but the access_token and expires variables return weirdly!
For example:
https://example.com/#...
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Is my script's API usage okay?
I've written a short Python script to help people review C and C++ questions on Code Review. It uses the API version 2.2.
I've already asked there for a review of that Python code, but I would ...
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Search engine for Stack Overflow
About
Stackse (Stack Overflow search engine) is search engine for Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault and some other sites, that allows searching with special characters. The goal was to build ...
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Genexus StackOverflow
About
Inspired by C# StackOverflow I decided to create a bot that would scan for the newly Genexus tagged questions and twit them out loud.
Contact
Questions, comments? reach out @sebagomez
Code
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Smoke the SmokeDetector
SmokeTheSmokeDetector
Over in Tavern on the Meta, our spam detector, SmokeDetector has been the topic of an ongoing argument between those who believe SmokeDetector fills the chatroom, and those who ...
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StackAPI - A(nother) Python wrapper
This is a(nother) Python wrapper for the Stack Exchange API. I wrote this to assist with a couple of my projects that needed to do a lot of API interactions. After using it and polishing it up for as ...
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Zest, featuring an offline browser for Stack Overflow
About
My app has similar goals to Stackdump. It is a browser which doesn't require internet connection and allows full-text search of Stack Overflow posts from the data dump. As opposed to being a ...
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TrendsOverflow, quick trends from Stack Overflow
About:
TrendsOverflow is a very simple website that displays the number of questions per day for the most popular programming languages from Stack Overflow.
I created this application because I ...
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Absence of `order` and `sort` in rest calls?
Will absence of order and sort give the same result as order=desc and sort=activity always in every call (it is default in every call)?
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Problem Implementing Socialite Stack exchange
I get code and access token but I cannot call API function
My url being generated
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/me?site=stackoverflow&access_token=lcynp67rMHfm%28DRLjv7CVQ%29%29&key=6521
{...
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How to create API filters?
I used the following request link to extract data from the Stack Exchange API. But I have no idea how to create "filter" as used in the request line.
Please help me understand the creation of such ...
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Add privilege_type to the privilege API results
The /me/privileges, /users/{id}/privileges and /privileges APIs are currently returning the fields of reputation, description and short_description.
Sample result as:
{
"reputation": 1,
"...
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`fromdate` and `todate` parameter in `/me` call
What if we don't give the fromdate and/or todate parameters in a /me call?
Will it give result of user of all times? It's not mentioned explicitly in documentation.
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Why is the `site` parameter required in `/me` call?
I want to query information about the logged-in user using me, and this site parameter is creating some small problems.
I am developing a visual studio extension where upon logging in a user will get ...
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Why is `page` and `page_size` returned in common wrapper object?
page and page_size returned in common wrapper object, if I run /me/associated request. Why is it so? I am asking this because we have already sent these parameters as request. So getting the same ...
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`types=main_site` in `/me/associated` gives `meta_site` accounts also
When I run /me/associated with main_site as a parameter in types, its gives meta_site accounts also (Meta Stack Exchange profile).
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API access to the /10m ("Thank you") web page?
https://stackoverflow.com/10m would be very interesting if you ask me: logging values periodically, and such.
However, a recent issue I had showed that I can't just access it.
Since I've found no ...
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Flagging Percentages
About
In response to a feature-request on Meta Stack Exchange I've written a script that calculates and adds the percentages for each flag type while viewing the Flag Summary page.
Installation
This ...
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PPCG Design Userscript
I've already posted this on PPCG, I'm also adding a StackApps post really as a placeholder but it isn't really a placeholder.
Screenshots
About
StackExchange isn't graduating PPCG, so me and a few ...
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Review Tag Repositioner
About:
This userscript clones the tags and adds them to the top of the post when working in the review queue. This is in response to a feature-request on Meta Stack Overflow.
Installation:
Install
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UWP Stack Exchange App
A Universal Windows App for the Stack Exchange network. Not ready for use, but listing it here so I can test write access.
UPDATE: I'm beginning to put the app into a very gradual closed beta. Let me ...
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Why do you need to specify a site when getting the inbox?
I'm getting a user's inbox via /me/inbox. I am forced to specify a site with this, so I'm setting it to Stack Overflow. However, it still gets all my notifications, including those from other sites. ...
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How to get question body (markdown) in the API response using filters? [duplicate]
Using withbody filter as suggested in this thread (How to get Question/Answer body in the API response using filters?) returns body as HTML. How do I get the original markdown?
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Google Chrome Chat Faces
SE-Chat-Faces
Love using faces in chat? Are ASCII faces just a little too boring? Is the unicode entry keystroke too complicated? Tired of having to copy-paste unicode faces from Notepad++ (or ...
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How to get more details flags from questions?
Short question:
How to get the flags that led up to a question being closed?
When we are going to flag a question, we have to look at /questions/{id}/flags/options first, and I can see
The option ...
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PPCG Sandbox Viewer
Screenshots
GIF of the viewer:
How the button looks:
The Viewer:
About
This is a userscript for the Programming Puzzles & Code Golf sandbox. It shows you your currently sandboxed posts. It's ...
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Badge oneboxer for chat
This script makes it possible for badges to onebox in Chat.
Example format:
that's a [badge:nice-answer] on a powershell bountied question
The only somewhat custom one you can use is Strunk & ...
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