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Moderation request: Make [user] a synonym of [users]
Please make user a synonym of users.
I proposed a synonym but there aren't enough high-rep users active here for that mechanism to work.
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user has 5 questions, no tag wiki and no tag ...
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Do my users need to be logged in, for quota?
I am building an application and want to showcase relevant Stack Overflow questions. I have made the request and getting a response, but its responding with a quota value:
"quota_max": 300,
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StackTimer: Set post-specific timers on Stack Exchange sites
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Just click the timer button under any post to set a timer.
View pending timers in your top bar at any time. If any timer has elapsed, the icon turns orange. The new ...
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API Implicit Authentication with Python
I am working on an desktop inbox notifier for StackOverflow, using the API with Python.
The script I am working on first logs the user in on StackExchange, and then requests authorisation for the ...
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Authentication uses # instead of `?`?
I need authentication for my app so I used the implicit flow way. The authentication works just fine but the access_token and expires variables return weirdly!
For example:
https://example.com/#...
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SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat
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Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks:
See message history inline:
Easily preview replied-to messages:
And much, much more...
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Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack ...
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RepAdvisor - A Basic Tool For Farming Reputation
Almost all of us Stack Overflow users want to earn more reputation. However, we don't have all the time in the world to answer questions. RepAdvisor is a bookmarklet that predicts how much reputation ...
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Using the API for one-off batch jobs
I'm considering using the API for a retag job not supported by existing tooling as per this meta post (of course, I'll make sure the community supports the effort before going forward).
I'm planning ...
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UWP Stack Exchange App
A Universal Windows App for the Stack Exchange network. Not ready for use, but listing it here so I can test write access.
UPDATE: I'm beginning to put the app into a very gradual closed beta. Let me ...
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Why doesn't Stack Apps have community promotion ads?
Community Promotion Ads would enable Stack App developers to promote their apps to other members of the Stack Apps community. Do we need community promotion ads or not?
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Stack API doesn't return json with encoding of UTF-8
Here is the query
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{
"items": [
{
"badge_counts": {
"bronze": 2,
"silver": 1,
"gold": 0
},
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Auto Format code snippets
Is it possible to auto format code so you don't have to go to each line and space 4 times?
For example I know about the 'enter code here' but that doesn't always work correctly!
It should be ...
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StackImpact - What's your impact?
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I like to make contributions to Stack Exchange, and in return I gain rep. However, I find that rep doesn't really tell the whole story about what my contributions mean to the site. I ...
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StackInTheFlow - An IntelliJ plugin to query Stack Overflow
StackInTheFlow
An IntelliJ plugin to query Stack Overflow.
Search Stack Overflow Without Leaving the IDE
StackInTheFlow integrates seamlessly with Intellij to allow you to find the solutions to ...
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StackBot - Making it easy to post StackExchange questions to Twitter
About
StackBot is a small C# application that is designed to post interesting questions to a Twitter account at specified intervals.
License
StackBot is released under the Ms-PL license.
Download
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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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Receive latest questions with certain tag
I'm creating a simple notification application to inform me about latest questions with defined tags. For example, my tags are python and django.
I want to see the latest asked question with those.
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Copy Question Link Markdown - Making it easier to copy links to questions!
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About
This small UserScript makes it easier to copy the URL of the current question into pre-formatted Markdown. Once installed, it adds a 'copy' link to the question.
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Python library for the StackExchange v2 API? [duplicate]
So I'm aware of Py-StackExchange and pyso.py, but neither covers the v2.0 API. Does anyone know of a Python library for the 2.0 API?
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Invisible text in Markdown syntax help
Some text is invisible in the How to Format help block because of a bad combination of text and background color:
That's meant to read
► backtick escapes `like _so_`
but the backquoted portion is ...
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stackcpp - An asynchronous C++11 library for the StackExchange API
stackcpp is an asynchronous C++11 library for the StackExchange API!
Code Snippet
Here's a small example of the API in action:
#include <iostream>
#include "stackcpp/client.h"
int main() {
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I downvoted because
What did you do?
I made a free thing.
http://idownvotedbecau.se/
It's not specifically targeted at Stack Overflow, or at the other Stack Exchange websites, but I made the thing because I wanted to use ...
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How do I future-proof my app to work with every SE site?
I just wrote an app for Chrome extensions and received a request to make it cross-StackExchange compatible.
If there's eventually going to be more sites than just the few listed and I don't really ...
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Enhanced Review Stats for Reviews
SEReviewStats
Provides enhanced stats on the Stack Exchange Review pages Close, Reopen, Late Answers, First Posts & Low Quality Posts
Features
Shows additional information on the Close, Reopen, ...
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Stack Exchange Improvements - Sticky top bar, new text editor, and more
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This chrome extension replaces the text editor with a much better one that supports markdown, indentation, code formatting, and more! Also provides options for making the top bar sticky, and ...
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Reputation-based filter for search results
This userscript filters search results on Stack Exchange sites by reputation of the asker. To use it, add a search parameter such as is:25 where 25 is the minimum reputation required. Since the search ...
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Open Source Chat Android Application for StackExchange/StackOverflow
A while back a fellow member of Room 15 (Android) started creating an Android application for the StackOverflow/StackExchange chat. I recently picked it up and revived it and it is open to community ...
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Can I pass a filter to a write method?
I was wondering if I'm allowed to pass a filter to methods that use write access? Like for example /answers/{id}/accept. There is no "filter" parameter, and changing the filter doesn't seem to change ...
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Incomplete information in API documentation
I am struggling a little bit with the Stack Exchange API since there seems to be no formal specification for the individual endpoints of the API.
Example:
Endpoint: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/...
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Tell us that POST is required to write
While troubleshooting /posts/{id}/comments/add in order to answer Why am I getting a 404 when trying to post a comment?, it was noticed that the API path in question only responded to POST requests. ...
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"users" link lands on the answer page
On the /users/moderators documentation site, the following link is wrong:
This method returns a list of users.
The users link mistakenly points to the answers object instead of to the users object.
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
I have run into some confusion over the presence of the body attribute in an inbox-item returned by the /inbox method.
When item_type is set to "careers_invitations", the body attribute appears to be ...
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Shrink the Stack Exchange Footer
All Stack Exchange sites (except Stack Overflow) have a giant footer:
I don't like to have all of that space being taken up on my screen, so I built this user-style:
/**
* Copyright © 2016 Jed Fox
*...
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Revisions API doesn't return all revisions if post has had multiple edits made in quick succession
I am pulling information from the posts API and then checking the revisions API for some of these posts. I am noticing that on posts which have had multiple revisions done in quick succession that the ...
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Chat Move Helper / Bot Cleanup Tool
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Extends the room-owner move message tool in chat to make it easier to quickly clean up after bots by moving their messages, commands, and replies to them. Adds a couple visualization ...
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Hide the tag-info popup
This script hides the tag info popup. In response to Why are there popups over tags in the question page?.
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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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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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Authorization dialog shows wrong API version
If you go on this doc page and click on Get Token, you'll see this:
Minor bug, but still, I thought it would be nice to fix this inconsistency :)
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Review Assistance 1.0
Review Assistance 1.0 is a script designed to help you review the Close Vote Queue and Reopen Vote Queue in Stack Overflow only.
In future, we will look forward to add it's support to all SE sites.
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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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Top Bar for Chat Rooms
As of 1.12, thanks entirely to Shog9's efforts, this now works on Firefox as well as Chrome!
Description:
Provides a fully functional top bar, including realtime notifications, easy chat server ...
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Sidebar Answer Status
Description:
As of 1.10 this now also works in Firefox / Greasemonkey.
This is a userscript that modifies the Linked and Related sidebar lists to show answered status and other info:
Download:
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Bounty Notice Viewer - View the notice from Home page
Inspired by my own meta question: Show the bounty notice/reason on hover instead of “this question has an open bounty worth x reputation”,
I created a userscript which helps to view the bounty notice ...
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The tags array is missing from answer results
I'm probably missing something very obvious but it seems like /users/{ids}/answers forgets to include the tags badge in the resulting answer object:
tags (2.1) an array of strings
Nowhere does this ...
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No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' for oauth/access_token
Following the Stack Apps documentation Authentication (explicit) section I crafted this AJAX call
$.ajax({
url:"https://stackexchange.com/oauth/access_token",
type:"...
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What token parameters to use for OAuth2 Authorizaton?
I'm trying to connect a piece of desktop software to the Stack Exchange web service through OAuth2. I've read the docs but the problem is that what it talks about is subtly different to what ...
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Stack Flower: a simple Android app for searching Stack Overflow
Stack Flower is a simple Android app for browsing Stack Overflow, with some useful search customization options. You can easily make queries like
Posts from this week tagged "android", ranked by ...
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Permission to link to Stack Overflow webpages from my app?
Update: My problem has now been resolved. I've added details at the bottom of this post.
I wrote a little Android app (Stack Flower) that allows customized searches of Stack Overflow. If the user ...
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RO Chat Message Delete Option
Description:
Gives room owners the ability to delete other users' chat messages from the message popup menu:
On confirmation, the message will be deleted. The ability is available for up to 2 minutes ...