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Can I make a Private Application?
I wish to access the API from a purely internal application; no visible app to the public, no promotion, no OAuth. That seems impossible via the key registration form; am I missing something?
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I have created a lot of access_token with no_expiry scope while experimenting. How do I delete them?
While learning how to work with the StackApps APIs, I created quite a few (more than 10) access_token with no_expiry scope. Finally I have got my applicaiton working but I am worried that all those ...
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"text/plain" content type header for x-www-form-urlencoded content? [duplicate]
I'm getting the following response body and header from https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/access_token when attempting to
exchange an oauth code for a token:
<DEBUG> [00:30:03] my-app - content-...
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Script to set the default image description text?
Stack Exchange sets enter image description here as the default description — this is mainly useful for new users who may not know that the title can be modified.
I'm looking for a script to ...
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The API is not returning a value that I know it should
My "Meta Stack Overflow" site details are not listed in the API, when I use meta_site;main_site in the types parameter. See:
/2.2/users/2855348/associated?types=meta_site;...
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Burninator toolkit
Please note, the tag burninator script requires 10k rep to use. Sorry, noobs!
I pass on to you, dear taxonomist terrorists, the burninator toolkit.
This toolkit consists of two user scripts which, ...
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Node.js/ChatExchange - An API for Chat
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ChatExchange is a node.js API for talking to Stack Exchange chat (Largely based on ChatExchange for python). This is still very much in the works, but currently provides a working API for those ...
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golf-me: your new command-line code-golf companion!
Golf-me is a quick and dirty terminal application you can use to pick out a programming puzzle from Stack Exchange's Programming Puzzles & Code Golf site.
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I built golf-me ...
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Self-destructing comments
I've made a userscript that allows you to self-destruct comments that you've made.
You can get it at Github.
Get started
install Tampermonkey, or Greasemonkey
get an access token
install the script
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Request for chat bot to restore "translate" functionality in chat
A while ago, SE briefly introduced a built-in feature where a user can type:
translate: [words in any language]
...and the Feeds user would respond with an English translation of whatever was typed.
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Automatically add OP's name in comments on StackExchange sites
Automatically add OP's name in comments on StackExchange sites
Converts [user] in a comment to be posted to the OP's username. Originally created to allow comment snippets with [user] included to be ...
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.wrapper not sorted correctly in filter edit popup
When editing the filter, e.g. on this API documentation page, all types are sorted alphabetically except for .wrapper which is always shown below answer, instead of above it (or at the end):
Obviously,...
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Bonfire Unread Count: Add the unread messages count to the favicon
About:
I wanted to be able to pin the chat rooms I'm on, but I wouldn't know how many unread messages there were.
With this extension, I can pin the tab.
Screenshot:
Download / Install:
You can ...
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Rejected Suggested Edits
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Rejected Suggested Edits
Adds new page /review/suggested-edits/history/rejected displaying a list of recently rejected suggested edits
Adds link ...
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Duplicate Target Manager
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This is a userscript that lets you mark questions as commonly used duplicate targets, and replaces the default question search in the close dialog with one that searches through your ...
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How to get the number/count/total of tags/badges/something from the API?
I see we can fetch tags via the API, which works fine
but, sadly, there doesn't seem to be a way to get the count of all possible tags.
Currently the Stack Overflow Tags page shows 36 tags per page ...
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List of Votes by Authenticated users
In the API documentation for the question type, it says that you can access, for a specific question, whether or not the authenticated user (in the private_info scope) upvoted/downvoted the question.
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Tampermonkey script to hide New Contributor Indicator
// ==UserScript==
// @name Contributor indicator cutter
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @author Suvitruf
// @match *://*/questions/*
// @match ...
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Add a dedicated bot login to Stack Apps
When dealing with chat bots, especially those like SmokeDetector, you'll often want to log in directly from the code. The problem? There's no easy way to do this, especially now that Open ID is being ...
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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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DiffTech: Differencing similar technologies in computer science (e.g. MySQL VS PostgreSQL)
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Developers can use different technologies for many software development tasks in their work. However, when faced with several technologies with comparable functionalities, it is not ...
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Can the redirect_uri contain port number?
Is it possible to have the redirect_uri contain a specific port?
For example: example.com:8080
Assuming that example.com is my registered domain, is the 8080 allowed? I have tried to put it as part ...
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Hexadecimal user rep
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Displays user reputation in hexadecimal. The code is quite simple if you want to do any tweaks. For users with rep >= 0x10000, it switches the font to Arial Narrow to prevent breaking layouts.
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Reorderable favorite tags - drag & drop ordering for the Watched tag sidebar
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Motivated by this question: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/368024/have-favorite-tags-always-been-alphabetized/
This'll restore the previous behavior: tags will remain in ...
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Should we close questions which ask for feedback to go elsewhere?
For example, the maintainers of this app have requested that new feedback goes over GitHub instead of the answer section. I've seen at least one other case of this too. Essentially, Stack Apps answers ...
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Stack Exchange v2.2 PHP API Client [closed]
I am developing a PHP library for interacting with the Stack Exchange API.
Most of the methods are unimplemented so far.
I am writing this post because I need to test some auth methods.
My app ...
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How to query the Stack Exchange API using an OR operator?
I want to query Stack Exchange by title including optional keywords (one of).
How can I query by OR operator?
For example:
/search/advanced?page=1&tagged=java&q=title:http OR class&...
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Stack Menu – Access Stack Overflow from the Menu Bar
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Stack Menu stays in the macOS menu bar to provide quick access to Stack Overflow. Search for programming problems and share answers without moving out from your ...
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Comment Flag Type Colours
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Comment Flag Type Colours
Works on user's comment flag history group page
Works on user's mod comment history pages
Works on mod comment flag ...
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myTagOverflow - StackOverflow top tags data visualization
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myTagOverflow creates a visualization of the top tags related to your own activity on stackOverflow.
It may be useful when you want to demonstrate your technical abilities, based on factual ...
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Comments have incorrect `can_flag` values for at least 2 different API routes
I am trying to see and show whether a comment on question/answer is flagged by the authenticated user.
But whenever I use /questions/{ids}, can_flag is true irregardless of whether the user (me) can ...
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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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OBSOLETE - /tags fromdate and todate does nothing
Although the help/documentation lists todate and fromdate parameters for tags they do not work. This may be related to tags not having a creation_date. It would be great if we could filter tags by ...
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OBSOLETE - Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes
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Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes is a UserScript for any Stack Exchange site that makes it extremely simple to check for duplicate questions for a post. In the left side it shows ...
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OBSOLETE - pyso.py - Python Stack Overflow library
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import pyso
# Install the Server Fault API version 1.0.
pyso.install_site(pyso.APISite("api.serverfault.com", "1.0"))
# Get all the names of the moderators.
print list((m["...
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OBSOLETE - Build an app with Soapi.JS and gain praise and adulation. And some rep
Bounty Contest:
Build anything using the Soapi.JS JavaScript wrapper and either post the code or a link to a live demo.
When the question gets old enough (7 days I think) I will click 'start a bounty' ...
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Markdown Shortcuts for StackExchange - insert latex commands quickly by keybindings
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This userscript gives users quick key bindings to speed up the process of editing mathjax/chem/etc. into posts.
Example usage:
Pressing Alt+I would insert \pi directly.
Pressing Alt+R would ...
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Are bounties on Stack Apps productive?
Stack Apps doesn't have a Featured tab like other SE sites. Is starting a bounty to promote your Stack App a stupid idea?
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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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Get Key for my application
I am creating Stack Overflow client application and have reach limit to request. So I decided to get the Key from my application, but got a little confused.
When I requested the Key I provided ...
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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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OBSOLETE - Code::Trends - a visualization of the StackOverflow dataset
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Code::Trends is an interactive analysis of a dataset taken from StackOverflow, including:
visualization of the technologies trends by time and location
recommendation for similar technologies
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Improve productivity on StackOverflow with lots of functionalities (Chrome extension)
StackOverflow Power User
About:
Have you ever felt that you've just wasted time while searching for an answer on StackOverflow ?
Sometimes it's because you read the accepted answer, then notice ...
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Stackathlon 2.5: Leader board for users active on multiple sites
tl;dr New! See "More Athlons" below.
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It's surprising how few people are active on multiple Stack Exchange sites. Well, maybe not so surprising. But it's a big world; you'd ...
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Stackpop — Stack Exchange meets OS X Notification Center
Stack Exchange meets OS X Notification Center. Keep up to date with all the most recent activity regarding your questions, answers, and more with Stackpop, an OS X application that lives in the menu ...
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Comment Flag Dialog Bugfix
About
Fixes issues with Comment Flag dialog appearing in the upper-left corner of the window.
Download
Download or view the source code
Platform
Tested on Waterfox 56. Only designed for Firefox-...
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Afterstack - Productivity tool for the Stack Exchange Network sites
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Afterstack is a tool, for the Stack Exchange Network sites, that provides: integrated searching, answer saving, refined results and profile based suggestions.
Currently:
5 sites are supported: ...
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sorting ascending vs descending
I don't understand the difference between ascending and descending?
Surely ascending means the most active/recent/popular/A first, and descending means the least active/recent/popular/Z first?
But it ...
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StackPromo: Free Q&A Advertising Service (beta)
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About
StackPromo is a free SE post advertising platform. Submit your posts. Webmasters can embed the ads on their site.
SUBMIT YOUR POSTS HERE: https://stackpromo.appspot....
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Cannot get redirect_uri to work
This is in regards to my userscript Bulk flag comments. I am sure I have not at all updated the userscript since the first release of June 24, and I am sure I was able to register for an access token ...