Unanswered Questions
1,033 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Hide negatively-voted posts from the front page
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The current threshold for posts on the front page is -4. Often times, that threshold is not high enough: many posts in the -3...0 range are low-quality.
This simple script hides posts with a ...
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/revisions/{ids} returns results where revision_number is always 1
As of now, Code Review Question 59285 has three revisions, excluding the original question.
If I fetch those three revisions using the API, I see that all of them have revision_number set to 1.
That'...
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Post Score vs. Age App?
Has anyone put together a script to generate the score vs. age of a question?
If this script were run on all questions in a particular tag, the curve generated by taking the average over a time ...
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Sorting and filtering is broken on /questions
Sorting error
When querying /questions and sort them by creation in descending order, the creation_date drops very rapidly.
I was looking for questions in the [php] tag on Stack Overflow. There are ...
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How switch user accounts on the same device?
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I'm integrating Stack Exchange API on iOS (iPhone). I've run into a situation where I can't log out and authenticate with a different account. I am stuck with the first account that I have ...
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Quick Quran verse links
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At Islam Stack Exchange we often refer to Quran verses in answers. This script makes it easier to add those references by adding an input field directly before the question/answer ...
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Version used by StackExchange API if version is not specified in api calls
I have used some StackExchange API calls in my chrome extension - StackEye. With the release of API 2.0, I want to update the api calls so I wanted to know
New things available in 2.0+ which were not ...
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How do I derive the parent question from an answer in the /posts call?
So, I'm parsing every post - question or answer - for a concordance that I am building. (If you're interested, you can see where I am at http://seconcordance.cloudapp.net. Don't worry - full ...
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Stack Overflow question downloader in markdown or HTML format?
I want to download a series of questions from Stack Overflow; is there a tool or API that can do this? The download could be in markdown or HTML format. I basically want an offline reference for those....
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Is there an API for adding a user to a site?
With 2.2, I've begun implementing some write features in my app. I've started with voting. When you vote on a question on a site that isn't in a users associated accounts, you get the error "The ...
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400 when posting a question to the Stackexchange API
I am adding a question via the API and I manage to create a preview of my question (See JSON extract below).
{
"has_more" = 0;
items = (
{
"creation_date" = ...
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A script that notifies you about posts related to you?
I'm looking for a script that can notify a user about posts (by others) that include a link to their profile or any of their posts. Does one exist?
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Chatdump - a site monitor
Dump activity from a site into a chatroom. Configurable as to what to dump and with what conditions.
Github repo
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The reputation_change field is missing from the reputation results on some CW posts
When querying the /users/{ids}/reputation API route, the reputation_change field is missing from the results on community-wiki answers. I think the reputation type should always include this field, ...
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Stack Info: a Chrome extension to display information from Stack Overflow and help you follow your reputation
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Chrome Extension to display information from Stack Overflow and help you follow your reputation.
It is fairly simple project (especially compared to other chrome ...
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Questions for Windows 8+
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Questions is a very simple reader for Stack Exchange network websites.
It works very easy:
First, you select your favorite Stack Exchange websites.
Then, you select the tags you ...
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StackOverFriends! - Compare your results with your Twitter/Facebook friends!
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StackOverFriends! lets you log with your Stack account and link your Twitter and Facebook account to look for friends that you have on StackExchange!
(your friends have to be on the ...
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Stackboard for iOS wants beta testers!
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I'm an iOS developer who likes to make beautiful things. I'm also an avid Stack Exchange user, who has over 13k network rep. I was looking for a nice SE client for my ...
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Auto-comment Close Reasons
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This script will automagically fill the comment box for you when you vote to close with the reason you are voting to close for! That way the user that asked the question can know what is ...
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Link Only Answer Automatic Flagging
Thank you to Manishearth for giving me the idea here
Autonavigate/autocomment "close/flag offtopic" for MSO
As a very avid user of the Stack Exchange, I try to make this place the most ...
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Coderbits - Intelligent portfolios for developers and designers
https://coderbits.com
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Resumes are inadequate at verifying skills, traits, and knowledge that software developers and designers possess.
Coderbits is a network for software ...
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StackStash - Stackoverflow offline reader for iOS
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StackStash lets you carry all of Stackoverflow data in your pocket.
We built this app because we find our productively as programmers plummets when we do ...
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Clarification on related tags for a tag returned by API
I was assuming that the related tags API call, returns all the tags that co-occur with the input tag. But a closer look at the API documentation indicate the following:
Returns the tags that are ...
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SECharts - various charts and interesting findings on all SE sites (as of August 2012)
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SECharts - StackExchange charts application is a static web application where you can browse some data regarding all 37 SE sites. I have created SECharts to learn ...
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Better Call /me maybe?
I am using implicit OAuth 2.0 flow, hence requesting for a token first.
Now when I want to know which user has logged in, I have to make request to /me endpoint to get all of the data about the user, ...
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Is there a difference between the API search and the search from within the site?
I'm curious if the search results from the API is calculated the same way as the searches from within the sites themselves?
Is there a difference between the two? If so, what are the differences?
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Official Stack Exchange Test App
This app registration is being used for testing new API features.
Further details will be announced when those features are available.
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Is there an app for searching Stack Overflow?
I was thinking about how I often use the Stack Overflow "ask a question" area as a search engine, rather than searching Google first. I know I'm more likely to find my answer by doing this. I was ...
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String formatting in returned JSON objects
So I sat down this evening to play with the Stack Exchange API. I downloaded RestSharp, and used it to call the API. One thing the struck me was how strings are formatted, with regards to non-ASCII ...
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Chrome extension to send any Stack Exchange question+answers to your Kindle
I wanted a way to read all the awesome and descriptive answers on Stack Overflow, but I never felt comfortable reading on my monitor. I figured if I could send it to
my Kindle, I can read it at my ...
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Bring back the accounts tab
The accounts tab has been removed from all SE sites. Here's how to get it back for those of you with muscle memory:
Installation
Click to install (Chrome or Firefox+Greasemonkey only)
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I'...
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Anybody up for terminal frontends
Would anyone like to program some sort of terminal app which would be connected to a SE site?
You could query with it questions, and get notified when someone answers. Likewise one could browse ...
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Name changes for a few methods
The following method names have been changed for reasons of consistency.
/access-tokens/{accessTokens}/read is now /access-tokens/{accessTokens}
/filter/create is now /filters/create
/filter/{filters}/...
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clik - Notification Synchronization
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Your notifications are split between screens, apps, and sites.
Put them all in one place, only a clik away!
clik removes the hassle of keeping track of your Facebook, ...
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StackMate for iOS
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The finest software programming Q&A website, stack overflow.com
is now available on your iOS device!
StackMate is a full-featured Stack Overflow client with a minimalistic design and ...
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Show Post Score Breakdown Early Script
Allows you to click the vote score and get the break-down just like with the established user privilege. This script does not use the data API but extracts votes from the timeline pages (which makes ...
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Fairly subtle filter bug between 8 am and 10 pm UTC Dec. 29th
This is a public service announcement about a bug that most people probably didn't notice, but might be biting you pretty hard about now.
Between 8 AM and 10 PM UTC December 29th, filters generated ...
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Upbar for SE/SO chat
rlemon and myself created a Userscript which moves the userbar on top... so that you can see more stars!
UpBar
The goal of this project was to gain more space on the sidebar of the StackExchange ...
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Secure OAuth pages contain insecure content.
I noticed that some of the OAuth pages use insecure content (http:// content on an https:// page):
I'm not sure how easy this is to fix but it could potentially scare off some users who don't ...
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Can you please return the reputation scores in addition to the reputation changes?
As by far and large (one of) the (two) largest consumer of /users/*/reputation1 , I humbly request an addition to this route.
What I'd love to see is getting the reputation score in addition to the ...
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Modifications to KDE StackTray
I modified the StackTray app so it now
uses the Py-StackExchange library, to fix JSON parse errors, as version 0.8 of the StackOverflow API was phased out
instead of displaying stuff like badges every ...
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Greasemonkey Script: Show all results from a search, even if they would be hidden by your ignored tags
greasemonkey script to make it so no questions are hidden based on their tags when you are searching
I'm currently ignoring the Perl tag because I don't know anything about it, but occasional I want ...
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Does stackapplet support an http proxy ?
I installed stackapplet on Ubuntu desktop 10.04 from their PPA. This installed stackapplet version 1.5+151~lucid1. This is my computer at work and it is behind an http proxy. I couldn't find anywhere ...
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FAQ's URL for any SE Site?
Since I cannot find anything relevant in the API (I guess /stats endpoint would be most relevant):
Is it safe to assume that every SE Site has its FAQ at location: site_url/faq ?
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Would it be possible (in a future API release) to combine queries?
I've been doing a lot of work on StackMobile lately and I made the following observation:
Many of the pages (especially the ones that display a user's profile) make a number of requests to display ...
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Endpoints in associated accounts call
Slightly related:
Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
Currently, the only way to identify a site from the associated accounts route is by its name. This is pretty error-prone and ...
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Anyone build a "Outlook Social Connector" for SO? (perhaps integrated Soapi.CS/C#)
I'd like to see an Outlook Social plugin that shows the reputation of everyone on a given email message.
Update: Here is a sample project to get started. 80% of the work is now complete...
It would ...
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/users/questions with content is very latent
I am seeing response times of up to 30 seconds for a page of 100 questions.
http://api.stackapps.com/1.0/users/14/questions?answers=true&body=true&comments=true&page=1&pagesize=100
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Why have routes /badges/name and /badges/tags been favored over respective query parameters for /badges?
I realize that the API is frozen, hence tagging this as support rather than feature-request or bug - I'm irritated about the two routes /badges/name and /badges/tags:
They seem to simply filter down ...
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OBSOLETE - ActionStack - An ActionScript Wrapper for the API
Obsolete - designed for a decommissioned version of the API and most of the links, below, are dead.
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Here is a simple example that fetches stats on Stack Overflow:
import com....