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TrueBadges, a combination of StackExchange badges and TrueAchievements
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TrueBadges
I've worked on this website since end of 2013 in my spare time. The initial goal was to have fun with lot of data.
The idea is to count StackExchange badges of an user in the ...
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stackapi.cpp - a C++20 library for the Stack Exchange API
Note: this library is not compatible with v3 of the API, and will not be updated to v3 until body_markdown is reintroduced into every kind of post and comment endpoint. This has been requested since ...
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Stack Exchange data dump downloader and transformer
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With Stack Exchange, Inc.'s recent data dump restrictions, the official SE data dump on archive.org is dead, and single-click downloads of the entire data dump are too.
This program is meant to ...
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OBSOLETE - stackchat.cpp - a C++20 library for Stack Exchange chat
This library has been made obsolete due to the following SE-induced problems:
Breaking the chat HTML
Making cloudflare so aggressive that the specific login method used quickly results in a hard ...
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Userscript to have functioning spoilers in chat
The main problem with spoiler userscripts for chat is that generally, they require you have the userscript installed in order not to get spoiled.
Using cutting-edge Unicode shenanigans, it's possible ...
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se-dashboard.click - Interactive plots and statistics for Mathematics Stack Exchange
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A dashboard with interactive plots and various statistics for Mathematics site.
Watch this week's top users race in real time! What does it take to win: answers, questions or bounties?
Lament ...
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OBSOLETE - "Reply" links on comments
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This user script adds a little "reply" link to each comment. Clicking this link will
fetch the rest of the comments, if some of them were hidden
show the "add comment&...
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What are the top level question & answer localized flag_option titles?
For the SE API, the endpoints dealing with flags (e.g. /questions/{id}/flags/options) return the flag_option type. However, the option_id values are explicitly stated as being unstable, but it's ...
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Obtaining all questions and their answers for a given set of tags in API v3
I am a Stack Overflow for Teams app developer, and given this recent announcement that API v3 is being extended to the public platform, I am hoping we can start asking API v3 questions here.
Given a ...
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Getting a "Forbidden" response when calling the API from code, but not when using the exact same URL in a browser
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I'm just trying the SO API, and have run into a basic problem.
If I enter the following URL in a web browser...
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions?...
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After successfully retrieving 180 pages, the API gracelessly, semi-silently, fails
I'm trying to synchronize tags using the Stack Exchange API and this works for about 180 pages, but around 180 pages it always ends with an exception that seems to indicate that there is no HTTP ...
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I only need a key, what do I do?
I'm told by others and read in Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API that I need "To Get A Key!" but when I then visit https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register I'm stil ...
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API Documentation and Help
Method List
All API methods can be found at https://api.stackexchange.com/docs.
Global Method Parameters
All methods accept the following parameters:
type=jsontext: responds with mime-type text/json.
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Broken code block in new Help Center page
Relating to the changes Berthold (CM) announced, the Help Center page at /help/api-authentication contains a code block with some issues:
It has two scroll bars in it, and the inner one curiously ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Show/hide vote counts for all
Yet another update/rewrite of Rob W’s script.
Improvements relative to the older version:
no jQuery dependencies – only modern, vanilla JavaScript APIs, making it lightweight and compatible with ...
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AI NLN detection bot
This post is to test and develop a bot (currently named NLNBot, subject to change if anyone comes up with a good name) to detect No Longer Needed (NLN) comments on Stack Overflow and report them to a ...
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Add a confirmation before deleting a message in chat
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The delete button in chat removes messages with no confirmation, nor any option to return them. This is a small safety measure - adds a simple confirmation on trying to delete.
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Comment Templates Context Menu, an auto-comments user script
If you are tired of typing the same comments into Stack Exchange sites over and over, you can use this add-on to insert any of your frequently written comments with a couple clicks.
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Hide the newly introduced homepage widgets
See the updates in the answer below; also check out the commit history for additional changes.
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The new widgets can clutter the homepage for those of us who are not interested in them.
I created ...
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OBSOLETE - Clipboardy chrome extension to copy posted source to clipboard
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Clipboardy is a Chrome extension for copying posted code to clipboard from stackoverflow.com, github.com & npmjs.com. It can:
Copy the source code to clipboard ...
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OBSOLETE - Rebuilt as another app / Full-featured reputation loader
This version of app is obsolete. I've just started rebuilding it, will be life approximately today or tomorrow (Feb 5-6, 2023). New version is live! Check it there: Voting activity tracker v2: check ...
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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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Given that stackapps has no "meta" is it OK to ask "discussion questions" with no "one right answer" here?
Sometimes I want to ask questions about using the API that don't necessarily have "one right answer" or might be subjective.
I've looked in the chat room but it's not very active.
I've looked for a ...
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Where to Host applications installer
Hi, Any one knows a place to host my app installer? any recommendation, I am creating my website and will put it there but before I have my site i need to put it some where so you guys can test it.
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OBSOLETE - Newt - question, answer and comment and rep change notifications for Mac OS X
Newt is a simple Mac OS X utility that notifies you about new questions, answers, comments and reputation changes.
Now, everyone can become a Jon Skeet!
[DEPRECATED]
I enjoyed making this ...
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OBSOLETE - Copy Code Exchange - copy code to clipboard from Stack Exchange sites!
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This is a userscript to copy code (from any <pre> element) to the clipboard from all Stack Exchange sites. It's pretty nice and cool to be able to copy the ...
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OBSOLETE - Find old display names of a user
As observed here, it can be
confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names
So I've made a simple API-based tool:
Old display names of a user
It ...
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How to apply an access token in order to scrape the recommended answers?
I'm trying to scrape some data which needs the access token, and I received
'Applications must have a registered Stack Apps post to write'
Does that mean I need to post a question on Stack Exchange ...
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Reopen/Delete Vote Rename - Clarify whether you've voted to delete/undelete already
This script is no longer needed
Stack Exchange now denotes that you've already voted to close/reopen/delete/undelete with an asterisk, e.g. Delete (1*). Thus, this script isn't really needed anymore.
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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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ChatBot, a bot. For the chat
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Lurks in the shadows of the chat. It executes commands at the request of the user, sending messages as the user who runs it.
You can talk to it the StackOverflow SandBox room if you want to ...
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OBSOLETE - Freehand Circles Drawing Tool
What is it?
A userscript that lets you draw directly onto images on any Stack Exchange site to add freehand circles (or anything else you might like to add).
It has been designed to work like ...
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Hide Recognized Member text from the RM's flairs in the Collectives
Update: The request to not include Recognized text in RM's flair is now implemented. See staff answer here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/433645.
status-completed
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With the launch of ...
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Always show all watched tags in right sidebar
Description
The watched tags list in the right sidebar are truncated if they exceed a threshold. See
Watched Tag list suddenly shortened and requiring manual expansion
This userscript addresses this ...
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OBSOLETE - RankOverflow: A website to calculate your Stack Overflow reputation rank in all leagues
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Rank Overflow is a website to calculate your Stack Overflow reputation rank in all leagues easily and with one click.
I created this page because I wanted to know my percentage of my ...
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OBSOLETE - StinkingBadges - Track your progress towards long-term badges
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I was curious how far away I was from Generalist, and there are some data explorer queries that can show you your progress, but I thought it should be possible to make this work with the ...
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"View Vote totals" without 1000 rep
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The vote counts are a great tool to determine whether an answer is disputed or not. Unfortunately, not many of us have enough time to join all Stack Exchange websites and get 1000 ...
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StacksGuru: a near realtime bot for all Stack Exchange sites
UPDATE
Stacksguru address is now [email protected] (in the plural form) remove the old contact ([email protected]) and use the new one.
StacksGuru is a Jabber/XMPP bot which gives you a ...
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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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StackExchange™ SuperCollider Freehand Circle™ Editor - [Now supported on EVERY StackExchange site!]
Update Jul 2015:
The author is not able to update anymore. Use Freehand Circles Drawing Tool instead.
Important:
All SE sites (with one exception - see below) are now supported. Please ...
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Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions
This post is to enable authentication with the version of Sentinel that I'm (cocomac) hosting. See also OBSOLETE - Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions.
In early February 2025, there ...
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Sort Best First
Inspired by the Fastest Gun question on the central Meta, this script implements answer sorting based on a modified Wilson score. Installing the script adds a ‘Modified Wilson score’ sort option on ...
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Pro-forma replies for Discussions
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Discussions on Stack Overflow is the place where "Lost Souls" end up these days, worse than meta sites.
Discussions moderators (and curators) need to provide some insight on why the ...
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Request for user script to calculate Wilson confidence ratings for posts
I came across the following blog post on the Internet recently: How Not to Sort by Average Rating:
PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to ...
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Should placeholder answers to prevent API key privileges from being revoked as a result of SE's automated process to delete questions be deleted?
Many of us know that in order to get an API key with extra privileges (such as write access or higher rate limits), it's necessary to have a question here, and as such this site allows users to post &...
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PLACEHOLDER - Simpler UI
PLACEHOLDER post so that I can have write access. Because, you know, it's supposed to function like SE...
More info about my application.
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Stack Exchange - Deleted Answer Manager
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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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'/comments/{id}/upvote' endpoint not detecting `site` parameter
I am trying to experiment with the API for my project.
I am trying to upvote a comment on the SO website to test out the API. My POST request is returning with a status code of 400.
The response -
{&...
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Answer Hider - adds box and buttons to hide answers on posts
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This script allows a user to hide answers on a post, both from the answer itself or from a central box at the top. This might be helpful when reading responses to ...