Newest Questions
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How much traction does your StackApp get?
How much traction (in terms of for instance sessions per day) does your Stack App get? What have you done to spread the word about your app?
My experience from my first Stack App (StackRating) is ...
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quota_remaining is decreasing much faster than expected
I registered an app and tried to make a couple of requests via Chrome (without actually creating any application yet). The thing that is really confusing is that with making a single request, ...
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Script Request - Meta Notifications
Mods are notified when a new meta post is started on HSM meta by a diamond on the top bar lighting up in blue. Here it is, not lit up:
Proposal: Let users of sufficiently high rep see the same ...
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I Cannot Perform Oauth [closed]
My Clientn id = 4784
and Key = cB0l6XiaOW5l5vsBnBeIUg((.
What do I do for Oauth and to get an access token?
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Unanswered Questions Recommender
Put in your user id, get a list of recent unanswered questions that you'll be able to answer:
https://lateral.io/demos/stackoverflow-unanswered/
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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 self destructing comments
What would I like?
I would like comments that can self destruct after a set amount of time.
Why?
I often add a comment that doesn't need to stay around, like saying thanks to a user, or telling them I ...
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Chatception - quickly chat in different rooms from a single page (v0.3)
TL;DR
I got fed up with having 11 chat tabs open all the time and made a userscript to fix it.
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Description
A tiny widget that allows you to quickly chat in different Stack Exchange ...
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Can I post a suggestion for a stack app? [duplicate]
I have an idea for a stack app. However, I can't program it. Can I post an app suggestion?
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Sane limits for script that auto-loads new reviews for easier manual reviewing
I was looking at Am I allowed to use/create robots to track questions? just now and started wondering whether my current userscript to help with reviewing has quite the right internal rate limits. It ...
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Can not request info after OAuth
I am following The implicit OAuth 2.0 flow Guide:
My client ID is 4709 while key is RoZwtHUrhMP088oVGCMlxA((
I appended my URL as:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=4709&scope=...
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How to get the "People reached" stat of a user, using the API? [duplicate]
I checked the user ids and advanced search API docs, but I could not get this stat. Does Stack Exchange provide this info in the API?
/2.2/users/{ID}?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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Login using Google fails saying OpenID 2.0 accounts for Google has gone away
Recently I have received complaints about my app suggesting that logging in with a Google account shows a warning message that OpenID authentication has gone away. When I tried to log in with my own ...
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Add the 'people reached' count to the API?
Can we have the people reached statistic added to the /users/{ids} method?
The response could simply be:
"people_reached": 1000
I'm asking because it would be cool to get a network-wide number.
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What is the difference between accepted and is_accepted?
I saw there are two fields in answer type.
One is accepted, introduced in v2.2 and needs private_info access.
While another one is is_accepted without these limits.
Can somebody give an explanation?
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StackRating – Tracks skill of Stack Overflow users!
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About
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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Replacing identicons with face-like avatars
This is a tiny script replacing identicons on SE sites with face-like avatars provided by Gravatar. Available as a Chrome extension, and as a source file below.
var i, t, images = document....
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Is it possible to have no sorting - to just show results in order of inputted IDs?
I'm trying to send multiple IDs at once (up to a max of 100), but need to use the data in the same order I send the request with.
So, if I send IDs in an arbitary order like 4;1;3;2, I would like to ...
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How do I get the body of an answer, as well as the author? [duplicate]
I am using this call to get the body of an answer :
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/5877753/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
But this only gives the author of ...
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Question up-voting is not working from my code?
I am trying to upvote a question using the Stack Exchange API in android, via the /2.2/questions/{questionID}/upvote route.
But in the log, it's just showing something like:
org.apache.http.message....
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How to get up_vote_count and down_vote_count for a user?
I'm testing the following command:
$ curl -s "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/55075?&site=stackoverflow" | gunzip -d | python -m json.tool
However it doesn't return up_vote_count and ...
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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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Export a question and its answers as LaTeX
A post on a MathJax-enabled SE site is typically a mix of LaTeX-like syntax and HTML and/or Markdown. Consequently, the source of a post cannot be processed by a LaTeX compiler as is, despite the ...
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ArtOfChatbot + Chat API - a customisable chatbot
Stack Exchange chat has no API. While this is not a complete chat API, it introduces a level of control that makes it far easier to run chatbots.
About
ArtOfChatbot is a two-part creation: a basic ...
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'Activity' tab on profile as default
Userscript to set 'Activity' tab on profile as default tab
When the new profile page design was released, there was a feature request to make 'Activity' the default tab. Because this got declined, I ...
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Porkchat: A Chrome extension with lots of chat tweaks!
Install
Install from the Chrome Web Store
About
Porkchat is a Chrome extension that bundles together a lot of scripts I have written for Stack Exchange chat over the years. It is fully configurable - ...
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How can I extract user information on Stack Overflow using Python and the Stack Overflow API?
I am new to Python. I want to extract a user bio, answers, questions they made in Stack Overflow.
Can I do that using the API? For example, can I extract the user: name bio and number of questions ...
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Devlookup : A Search tool designed for developers
About
Devlookup is a search tool designed for developers.
It aggregates results from the most important development websites, using Bing as the backend engine.
The main goal is to improve resource ...
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Ability to support json type for post request
Right now we it uses url encode to post authenticated request. Maybe an option for application json?
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Heep, a Stack Exchange client for Windows
Heep is a Stack Exchange client for Windows.
Available now on the Windows Store here.
Features:
Browsing Stack Exchange questions based on Interesting, New, and Hot questions.
Searching Stack ...
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Help with javascript SDK configuration
The following problem is REAL! All names have been changed to protect the innocent.
I have a site at "http://Something.github.io/MyRepository/Directory/index.html"
And I have my app configured like ...
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Does a user only need to log in once to access all sites?
When I use stack exchange sites on my desktop web browser, I log in once using stack exchange ID and then when I navigate to sites I don't belong to, it automatically associates me with the new site. ...
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Chat mass-unstar script
We from the Python room like to have a clean list of starred messages, so only relevant and really liked messages stay on the starred list forever. In order to do that, we unstar messages from time to ...
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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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Remove chat room description and tags
Chat room description and tags may only be useful a first couple of times you come by a chat room. After that, they are just wasting space. To hide them from the view, you can install the following ...
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Chat Starred Images Expander (aka StarScript)
The Thing
This handy little userscript will turn images starred in chat into little thumbnails under the star list.
Current features:
Oneboxed images in chat will become thumbnails.
Add or remove ...
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404 "This Method cannot be called this way" when getting user's inbox
I'm doing a POST request to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/<id>/inbox to get the users' inbox items.
However I'm getting a 400 error on the request, and a JSON body saying it was a 404 ...
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/me/inbox is not returning most recent items
Looks like /me/inbox is either a bit behind or it's not supposed to be realtime.
Explanation: for a comment that I received 4 hours ago
It's not returned in the API:
https://api.stackexchange.com/...
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Official support for SE apps
Is SE a company, or to put it another way, is it possible to develop apps for SE itself, rather than as a 3rd party?
I find it frustrating to get to a complete list of my sites, you have to go to ...
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Posting an answer via StackOverflow API
This is in reference to the StackOverflow for Windows and Windows Phone . I'm in the middle of the development of the app. Right now, I am trying to implement the posting of answers using the API.
My ...
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Are there plans to involve Area51 in SE API version 3?
Several applications come to mind, proposal publicity, question analysis, making resources files, but I can't find any SE API calls that can do this.
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Stack Overflow Questions Notifier - LinuxMint Cinnamon Applet that notifies you when new questions, with certain tag(s), are posted on Stackoverflow
Description
A Linux Mint Cinnamon Applet that checks Stack Overflow site and shows a notification popup when new questions (with one or several tags) are posted
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(Click for a larger view)
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Blizzard is Overflowing - Reskin of basic SO to look like a blizzard site [closed]
Placeholder for a basic re-skin of the profile page search page and question page. Needed for write access.
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Inline editor regardless of reputation
The following simple script provides an ability to edit any posts inline regardless of reputation (works if logged out also).
Download / view code
Screenshot from there:
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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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Should the access tokens expire? [closed]
Is it ok to set access tokens to never expire? Or should we ask the user of the application to periodically re-enter their credentials?
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After user login, how do you ask user for permissions?
For an app on Windows Phone, I'm missing the page after you enter your login credentials and click submit. When I debug on my device, after I log in I obtain the correct response Uri with access ...
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The StackWrap4J java wrapper gives nothing but `JSONException`s?
I'm using the StackWrap4J java wrapper for the Stack Overflow API.
But every code I try, that uses methods of this java wrapper, ends with this JSONException:
net.sf.stackwrap4j.json.JSONException: ...
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Where are the built-in filters?
On api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-filter it states:
there are a number of built-in filters which cover common use cases.
Where can I find them? Can you make built-in filters a link?
I need only ...
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API returns delete vote count for questions, but not for answers
The questions method of the API returns the number of delete votes among other kinds of votes: sample query.
But the answers method does not have a delete_vote_count field available in the filter:
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