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Stacked Odds - Finding the questions that you can answer
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Stacked Odds is an extension for Chrome that stacks the odds in your favour when looking for questions to ...
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Bug with `badges/name` endpoint
Last night I had a programme running and it errored on the first call to the badges/name endpoint on the API, exact API endpoint call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/badges/name?order=asc&sort=...
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DSS: Facilitating API authentication for desktop apps
desktop-stack-serv
Auth server for desktop applications authenticating with the Stack Exchange API.
What?
The Stack Exchange API enables applications to get data about Stack Exchange sites or
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StackExchange link newtaber - Open links from questions and answers in new tab
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I needed to open links from posts and answers in the new tab instead of annoying in-place opening without <Ctrl> button or anything else just in ordinary way.
Because I did not find any ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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Accessing the Stack Exchange API not on behalf of an user? [duplicate]
I'm implementing an App and intend to use Stack Exchange tags to classify content, of course, respecting the terms of use.
However, the Authentication documentation says I'd need to use the OAuth 2.0 ...
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iOS Client for stackoverflow always throws redirect_uri not a valid uri
I tried to use the Stack Exchange API to authenticate the user.
I have registered my app with redirect_uri as stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success.
But it always throws "redirect_uri is not a valid ...
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OBSOLETE - ProStack Lite - Stack Overflow inbox notifier and quick accessor for OS X (in Mac App Store)
This product is discontinued.
The post about it is retained below for posterity.
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Tired of manually checking Stackoverflow.com for new answers and comments? Ever wished to access the ...
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Stack Search - Chrome extension
Stack Search is the chrome extension you’ve always dreamed of!
Stack Search adds to your Google Search results a filtered set of the most relevant answers from your top trusted coding sources: ...
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Stack Exchange Editor Toolkit
This userscript is a revival of sorts for the old SE Editor Toolkit, which was abandoned some time ago.
It only really provides the autocorrect aspect for the foreseeable future, which I find to be ...
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Is there an offline copy of the API documentation?
I'm trying to find a way to get all the information in the API in one printable PDF,
complete with the examples given in the documentation.
Is there anyway I can do this?
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/revisions/{ids} returns wrong body
Since a couple of days, the /revisions/{ids} method returns a wrong value for the body field. An example is this Ask Different post. When viewing the (only) revision on the website, you see that the ...
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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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Can I have a separate account just for testing my Stack App?
I want to test my Stack App to make sure it works properly without and problems. Is it allowed if I use a separate account just for this purpose?
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Zest, featuring an offline browser for Stack Overflow
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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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Java exception when user age or location is unspecified in returned JSON
I am brand new to the Stack Exchange API and Android (well, self taught in the last four months). I have been working on creating a school project focused around Android and JSON. My initial idea was ...
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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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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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StackLetter - A personalized newsletter for the Stack Exchange Network
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StackLetter is a research project at Slovak University of Technology. Our goal is to provide you with personalized newsletters for Stack Exchange Network sites.
Current newsletter problem
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FixAllTheTags! An app to replace tags
I have to believe this already exists but my search foo sucks so I threw together a small app/script to retag questions for helping me fix some bad tags.
For example you can search for tags with foo ...
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Is there any support for Area 51 in the new API?
Does the new API support Area 51? Will there be support in the future?
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How to use the StacMan library to add a new question?
I didn't find any client.Questions.Add method.
So, how do I use the StacMan library to add a new question ?
Any sample C# example?
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How to retrieve paged API results in C# and Silverlight
In this tip we are going to leverage the SimpleRequestFactory and gather a multipage response.
Let's pull the first 5 pages of 100 users on stackapps.com.
NOTE: for Silverlight, substitute Newtonsoft....
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API support for close actions
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I would like to create an app for general Stack Overflow browsing to improve upon the UI. One of the things that I am targeting is the lack of certain options in the close dialog. I ...
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Can we find the time of a vote using the API?
I've been looking at the API docs and more specifically at the filters available for the /answers/{ids}, /posts/{ids} and /questions/{ids} routes but can't find anything other than upvoted and ...
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OBSOLETE - Stackwise: a beautiful way to browse Stack Exchange sites
Obsolete: App not available, nor maintained for years. Source code not available.
Stackwise: a new Stack Exchange browser for iOS devices.
New features
(v1.3) Now with full iOS 7.0 support! Also, ...
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Make your own custom "magic links" for comments!
There are loads of feature requests on Meta for adding specific 'magic links' to comments. (links that expand, eg. [edit] -> [edit](/posts/id/edit)).
So I made a userscript that allows you to create ...
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StaQover, a new S-O. profile viewer in QML2
As I couldn't find any Chrome extension fitting my needs, I started a QML app to provide just what I need, here it is : StaQover can view a profile by name, and show reputation history and badges !
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OBSOLETE - Stack Apps Listing Wizard - Making it easier to list your application right here on Stack Apps
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Listing an application here on Stack Apps can be a lot of work. First you have to visit this question and copy the markdown. Some of those fields don't apply to UserScripts and some ...
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How to get new questions continuously?
I am a beginner with the Stack Exchange API. I would like to get a continuous stream of new questions on Stack Overflow so that I can do some number crunching with it.
Do I have to periodically ...
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StackInbox - a Chrome/Firefox Extension that Preserves New Stack Exchange Inbox Messages Until They Are Actually Read
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Below is a screenshot of the inbox with two viewed yet unread messages:
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Preserves new Stack Exchange Inbox messages until they are actually read, not just viewed in ...
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Stackuserflow - userscript collection
Script series to modify the functionality of the network sites. Before using them you should have:
In Google Chrome install Tampermonkey
In Firefox install GreaseMonkey
In Opera install Tampermonkey
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How do you get the association_id from the CC data dump?
I am working with Stack Exchange /users/ data and trying to get a user's "united" profile, to see what sites they're active in other than the queried site.
As an example: http://...
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OBSOLETE - A Stack of Twits - Tweeting all over your stack
OBSOLETE - Domain is no longer working and Twitter account hasn't been active since 2010.
Get tweets about new questions on Stack App sites
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I am fed up sitting all day refreshing the home page ...
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What will be rate-limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from same IP?
What will be the effective rate limit of two different applications with two valid API keys from the same IP address?
Will it be whatever only one of the keys can use? So maximum 10k?
Will rate-limit ...
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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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Specific Response attributes [duplicate]
I want to get questions related to a specific tag with the body of those questions. I have figure out this API request:
https://api.stackexchange.com/questions?site=stackoverflow&sort=votes&...
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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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How can I introduce my Stack Overflow app to other users?
Recently, I created a project to manage and extract questions from Stack Overflow and convert those to PDF docs. I put it on GitHub.
I think this project could be improved and could be very helpful ...
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StackExchange API Java wrapper
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StackExchangeApi api = new StackExchangeApi(key);
api.authorize(authToken);
StackExchangeSite siteService = api.getSiteService(StackExchangeSite.STACK_OVERFLOW);
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More Share Links (Markdown / HTML / BBCode)
Description:
As of 1.04, this now also works with Firefox / Greasemonkey.
Adds share links in additional formats, and also lets you omit user ID from links:
Features:
Adds Markdown, HTML, and BBCode....
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StackOverflow-Steroids - A Chrome extension to introduce (and test) new features on Stack Overflow faster
I've previously complained about the bad usability that Stack Exchange sites can have and created a Chrome extension to help test possible fixes. It did not attract much attention.
Now I've added a ...
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Favourites Enhancer: Tag favourites and add personal notes
Inspired by this question, I've made a userscript that allows you to tag favourites, and add personal notes to them (until SE implements this themselves!):
To create favourites
When you click on the ...
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Login problem on devices pre Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1
I have recently published an app for browsing Stack Exchange websites and a major feedback I received from users was about the inability to use oauth login form while logging into the app. The ...
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StackRating – Tracks skill of Stack Overflow users!
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StackRating.com tracks user ratings which is a measure of users “skill”. It does so by comparing the number of upvotes on the answers of each question and uses the formula of the Elo ...
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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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OBSOLETE - RoboStack: A Google Wave robot for the Stack Exchange API
OBSOLETE - Google Wave doesn't exist anymore.
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For a video snapshot visit http://code.google.com/p/robostack/.
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Unlike a Jabber/XMPP robot, this application is a Google ...
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?
I have a site that will offer technical help and assistance for a certain niche of computer users. I can either host my own forums, or tie in with stack... but I want to be able to make money off it ...
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Deprecating API V1.x
API V2.0 has been out and pretty stable for about 3 months now, and we've become pretty confident in it.
Additionally, API V2.0 consumption has now grown past the V1.x family. Now seems like a good ...
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