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How to Resolve "Applications must have a registered Stack Apps post to write" Error when Requesting Write Access via OAuth?
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I am developing an application that integrates with Stack Overflow’s API, and I need to enable write access for it. I’ve successfully registered my application on the Stack Apps ...
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Differentiate Staging Ground posts from regular questions
Version 2.3 of the SE API does not clearly distinguish between questions that are on Stack Overflow's Staging Ground and questions on its main site. This comment on a SmokeDetector GH issue details it ...
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Pronoun Assistant Reloaded
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Based off of Glorfindel's excellent userscript, this userscript displays users' pronouns (as mentioned in their chat or main site bios) under their usernames in chat ...
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How do I handle token expiration in my application?
This request is responded to with either an error (HTTP status code 400) or an access token of the form access_token=...&expires=1234. expires will only be set if scope does not include no_expiry, ...
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NATO(Q) keyboard navigation for pages
THIS HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY Fix keyboard shortcuts for navigating lists WHICH ADDRESSES THIS AND OTHER KEYBOARD SHORTCUT ISSUES
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Inspired from Support paging keyboard shortcuts in NAtOQ 10k-...
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Add link to network profile from chat profile
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Under the Parent User label a link is added to the network profile of the chat user:
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From a chat user profile you only have link to the parent site of a user. This ...
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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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Introducing StackPulse: a real-time Cross-platform Stack Overflow question notifier
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I'm excited to share a new tool I've been working on called StackPulse. It's designed to help developers stay on top of new questions in their areas of expertise on Stack Overflow.
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Is there a way to upload an image to i.sstatic.net using Python?
I am developing an image generation bot for chat (for example, chat.stackexchange.com).
I can generate the image correctly, but when it comes to posting the image, I have no idea how to upload the ...
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approved Staging Ground review statistics
Are you curious on how the questions you approved in the Staging Ground are doing or do you want to see statistics for questions approved in the Staging Ground overall?
I wrote a user script that ...
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Documentation describing fields for api stack exchange
When I looked through the StackExchange documentation, I didn't find any documentation describing the fields. I have to study the request and response for a long time in order to understand why this ...
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View other OP posts in the Staging Ground
During the beta tests in the Staging Ground, there were some cases where the author wrote a posted a copy of the question that bypassed the Staging Ground process. This user script shows me the ...
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Custom Staging Ground Comments
With the release of the Staging Ground on Stack Overflow, I want to share the userscripts I wrote for it during its Beta tests.
The Staging Ground offers some built-in comment templates but if you ...
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WebSocket Defibrilator - try to keep SE websockets (and in-page updates) working
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Websockets on Stack Exchange provide live updates on a page - for example, showing there are new notifications, or new answers, or new comments, etc.
These are unreliable in some cases. If ...
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Flag searcher - search in your flagging history
I don't know any good way to search for your own flags by custom accept/rejection reasons, title, flag text or detailed flag type (e.g. "Not an Answer") hence I wrote a user script for that ...
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Logout from all devices by default
Description
Inspired from Add option to make "log out of all devices" the default
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Direct install (GitHub)
See the code on GitHub
// ==UserScript==
// @name Logout ...
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Looking for an app that allows me to view interesting unanswered questions on SE sites using UserId
I am interested in finding interesting unanswered questions on different SE sites using my UserId.
While I am aware of this SEDE query that exists, the problem with it is that it seems that with ...
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Fix for network filter deletions
Description
Problem
See the report: Can't delete the filter called My Filter.
In short, deleting a filter redirects the browser to the page to immediately create a new filter, therefore you can never ...
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Jardín Digital de Rubén
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Jardín Digital de Rubén is a digital garden having Spanish as the primary language. Some notes might be written in English.
One of the uses will be to publish drafts ...
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SO Link-only Parser: Parse Stack Overflow for potentially link-only answers
The provided Python script is designed to identify potentially "link-only" answers on Stack Overflow for a specified time period and set of tags. It does this by leveraging the Stack ...
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Fix for the network search pagination
Description
Problem
See the report Pagination on stackexchange.com search is broken
The pagination in the global search is broken. It only shows 15 results even when the page size is set to something ...
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Stackexchange oauth2.0 is suddenly failing
No changes in stack apps or my code, it was working fine for a while, suddenly it stopped working now.
I get "InternalOAuthError: Failed to obtain access token"
After more details inspection,...
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Expand Code to Fullscreen on StackExchange Site
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2025-09-18 (UTC+8), new version is released. You can get the latest script at GreasyFork.
Description
Script practice.
Toggle Fullscreen on Hover: When users hover over a code block, a '...
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Show Deleted Answers at head for Stack Exchange
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Script practice.
To view your own deleted answers/questions on a Stack Exchange account, you always need to scroll all the way down to see the "Deleted answers" tag. I've written ...
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AI generated content should NOT be allowed on Stack Apps
On February 14th, 2024 a new network-wide policy on AI-generated content goes into effect.
The de-facto default is that AI-generated content should follow the citation rules that already exist. In the ...
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Backpack: Download all of your questions and answers across all SE sites as Markdown files
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This app is used to download a user's questions and answers across all Stack Exchange (SE) sites that they are registered for. The questions and answers are downloaded ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Suddenly getting "Couldn't parse `client_id`"
For years, I've run a local PHP app using GuzzleHttp\Client to download my StackExchange posts.
Today, I'm suddenly getting this problem when posting my client_id, client_secret, code, redirect_uri.
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Does there exist an app that allows me to download all of my questions and answers on all SE sites?
I'm interested in downloading a backup of all my questions and answers on all Stack Exchange sites in the form of markdown files. I'm already aware of this SE data explorer query, but this downloads ...
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Easily apply "bookend" deletion of AI-generated content
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This is a fork of Samuel Liew's DeletedUsersHelper userscript. It's a script for moderators only.
The purpose of this userscript is to simplify bulk-deletion of AI-generated posts as per ...
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Are these images really necessary?
In the homepage (mobile phone) there's a huge image on the left side of each question:
But are they really necessary? Should we remove them? The images seem unrelated to the questions themselves. ...
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PLACEHOLDER - CoreDump, a macOS desktop SE client
What the app will do: a macOS desktop client app for SE network sites with a clean user interface and potentially some features enhancing the regular SE web-based experience. Written in SwiftUI.
The ...
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Userscript to flag deleted posts for moderator attention with <10K reputation
I noticed that while the system blocks you from viewing deleted posts unless you have moderator tools privilege, the system will not block you from flagging them. The only flag available for deleted ...
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Is there a way to ask general questions within the Stack app?
I just joined Stack Exchange and am using the Android app called "Stack for Stack Overflow" by Tyler Wong. When I try to post a question, I'm forced to select from a number of topic ...
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Universal dark mode (beta)
[Beta] Universal SE Dark Mode
While functional, this is experimental and while some sites work, a bit more work is required for it to support all (or, most of) SE.
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Universal dark mode has long ...
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Collectives Articles endpoint broken
I would like to access a list of all Collective Articles on SO. I tried
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/articles?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
which is the sample from here. ...
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How to get user information of Stack Overflow?
I'm currently using the Stack Overflow API to get a user's information (via Stack Exchange).
Is it possible with the Stack Overflow API to get user details?
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GitHub Readme Stack Exchange
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Standard Layout
Compact Layout
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Dynamically generate your status for any Stack Exchange site!
I've created it based on github-readme-stackoverflow, but I improved it to be used with ...
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How to get user information of all sites merged
I'm actually using https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/users/${userID}?site=${site} to get some user information from a specific site on Stack Exchange, but I want to get the information for all sites ...
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How can I implement a method to call the SE API that handles backoff correctly?
I'm writing JavaScript (Node.js) code that calls the Stack Exchange API. One part of the API is that it may return a non-zero value for backoff, which essentially means "wait n seconds before ...
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Randomly getting an 404 no method error when calling the question endpoint
When calling the question endpoint for a given number of communities, I have been randomly getting the following error:
{"error_id":404,"error_message":"no method found with ...
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Requesting Assistance for OAuth Implementation in the Stack Overflow API
I'm attempting to set up OAuth in the Stack Overflow API. I've created a Stack App and obtained the Client ID and Client Secret. However, I'm encountering difficulties in the process and require ...
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Toasty: A better chat antifreeze bot
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Toasty is an antifreeze bot for the Stack Exchange chat system. It automatically sends messages in low-activity rooms to keep the system from freezing them for inactivity. Toasty is usable by ...
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PyStackAPI - wrapper for the StackExchange API, written in Python
PyStackAPI
The latest version - 0.2.0
What is PyStackAPI?
PyStackAPI is a modern, 100% typed wrapper for the StackExchange API, written in Python.
Documentation
You can find documentation here: https:/...
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Bug Bridger - A stack overflow mobile app to solve all of your questions
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Discover featured questions effortlessly on the home tab, elegantly presented in card format.
Each question card provides essential details such as the question title, ...
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Enhanced revision view
When visiting an individual post revision page, this script adds:
buttons that allow switching to a view showing how the revision differed from the previous one, just like on a full post history page;...
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Get fkey button: see your chat fkey without inspecting the source!
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// ==UserScript==
// @name Get fkey
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @description Get your Stack Exchange chat fkey
// @...
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getting answer body and question body in same request [duplicate]
I'm trying to get only questions and answers.
I filtered the fields, to get also the body of answers, but I don't get an answers JSON object.
What am I missing?
I know about this question, but I don'...
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Bring focus to inline tag editor
Description
Focus the inline tag edit tool1 when opened. Allows for using keyboard immediately to interact with the tags.
Press Escape to cancel the editing or Enter to save.
1Part of the moderator ...
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White keyboard highlighting in dark mode
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This changes highlighting from using keyboard shortcuts to use white instead of black. Allows actually seeing the highlighting noticeable in high contrast mode.
The userstyle only works ...
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