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Click to Search
About
This simple userscript adds a clickable search button to the Stack Exchange top bar, as the only current way to search is to press enter, which can be confusing for some.
You can select one of ...
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How can I get unread messages for inbox testing? [duplicate]
I use /users/{id}/inbox/unread method to get unread items in a user's inbox. But how could I test it if I have no unread items in my inbox?
How can I get/generate unread messages for testing?
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OBSOLETE - Review+Edit Page
Obsolete: The links are all dead. No source code.
This Chrome extension reorganizes the Review page of Stack Exchange sites, adding lists of questions that may need an intervention.
The review ...
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Hide negatively-voted posts from the front page
About
The current threshold for posts on the front page is -4. Often times, that threshold is not high enough: many posts in the -3...0 range are low-quality.
This simple script hides posts with a ...
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Hide the Community Bulletin
About
Do you ever find yourself spending too much time on Meta and not enough time answering "real" questions?
This script will hide links to per-site metas from the Community Bulletin, which is a ...
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The field body_markdown is not returned for comments [duplicate]
Using the method questions-by-ids to get the comments on a particular question, I do not get body_markdown returned despite it being selected in the filter.
Here is the test query to reproduce the ...
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/revisions/{ids} returns results where revision_number is always 1
As of now, Code Review Question 59285 has three revisions, excluding the original question.
If I fetch those three revisions using the API, I see that all of them have revision_number set to 1.
That'...
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How to track the open/closed status over the history of a question?
I'd like to find out the times in the history of a question when it was closed and reopened. How can I do that using API v2?
The closest relevant call I have found is /questions/{ids}/timeline, ...
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Getting Error 400 when using Authentication Broker in Win 8 App for Stackexchange API
I'm trying to connect to Stack Exchange API using OAuth.
So far I've been able to get a token and retrieve data that does not require authentication.
When i try do query that uses the authentication, ...
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What about actually identical requests?
Now, it says here that I should not make lots of semantically equivalent requests. It also says that there is a lot of caching. So I was wondering, what about exactly identical requests. Should I wait ...
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My registered apps are not showing in my profile; where can I find them?
I registered two apps in Stack Apps, but when I access my account, it shows no registered apps.
How can I mark them as my apps and how can access app settings (client id, key), etc?
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Bypass character limits in comments
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Complaints on meta were raised about the threshold of 15 chars for comments, and even though many people agree that it shouldn't be there, this request was status-declined.
Using ...
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Starred message image section in chat
I have almost no experience with javascript, widgets and scripts myself, so I'd like to ask someone to make this useful chat addition a reality.
(Original Meta.SE feature request)
The idea is to ...
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Comment Separator Fix
This fix is now included in the Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP) v1.20.0
About
We have this nicely formatted toolbar with all of the moderation tools we need below questions:
So, why is it ...
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Searching on Stack Overflow and using the API give different results?
I am trying to use the Stack Exchange API to see the trends on different topics.
Looking at the API documentation, I see that I could do this using the /search path (it's documented that this method ...
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Do I need Stack Overflow's permission to launch my iOS app for Stack Overflow?
I have a Stack Overflow app for iOS that doesn't use the API. It just uses search and web (scraping?) to display questions.
Do I need to get approval the from Stack Overflow team?
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Get reputation changes across all sites without querying each one individually
I'm looking to make an app that shows your reputation changes throughout the network. /me/reputation-history/full almost accomplishes this, but it's on a per-site basis. I only want one query to get ...
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regex editing tool
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About
This is a javascript replace tool that makes editing posts easier and faster. View readme for more info
Download
from github
Contact
for any issues regarding this ...
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QuickComment: comment shortcuts to cut down on tedium
QuickComment
quick SE comments for quick SE people
Description
Tired of typing the same thing over and over again? Now, with QuickComment, you can type ";;linkonly" (for example) and have it expand ...
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Getting display name of the site on which question is located
When using the /questions method to retrieve a particular question, I'd like to also get the display name of the site on which the question is located (e.g., User Experience). At present, the API does ...
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Can I retrieve the API interfaces via the API?
I'd like to retrieve a list of methods with their arguments/defaults and their return types through automated means. Is this possible and, if so, how can I do it?
This isn't just for curiosity's ...
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Stack Exchange userscript template / boilerplate
I find it annoying to have to type the entire list of Stack Exchange sites to include every single time I make a new userscript. Furthermore, jQuery isn't automatically included by default.
Is there ...
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Possible to get a user's flag history?
Is it possible to retrieve a signed-in user's flagging history, preferably with the status of the flag?
I looked at the /me/timeline docs, and noticed it doesn't return flags. Is this type of ...
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StackExchange API /sites/ does not return all the sites
I am working on one application that produces timeline of user on every site of StackExchange.. We have some users on Sharepoint.stackexchange.com..
Since I want list of all the sites, I am trying to ...
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API returns the last activity date even if asked not to
Using the /questions method, I tried to get upvote and downvote counts, along with question Ids. This is the request I sent:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/857455%3B857454?site=math&...
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Comment Saver - Unposted comments are saved between page loads
Simply stores unposted comments (using HTML5 localStorage) between page loads, so that if you leave the page you don't lose your comment.
Currently a bit hacky, but it works.
User Script:
https://...
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Unhelpful error message when attempting to authenticate [duplicate]
I moved my app to a different server as part of a rewrite, and forgot to update the URL of the app on Stack Apps. When I tried to send a query to https://stackexchange.com/oauth and pass my (old, ...
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Auto-Link - Add links based on personal keywords
What is this exactly?
A script that helps with linking recurring recommendations and making answers more user friendly. You can provide a list of global keywords paired with a link and the script ...
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Byte Order Mark suddenly appearing in query results
Query results seem to have started including BOMs sometime today. I had to add code to handle it.
I don't see this documented anywhere.
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topstack.io - Learn from some of the most popular questions and answers on Stack Overflow (beta)
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http://topstack.io
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It uses the most popular Stack Overflow questions, and sprinkles it with some spaced recall algorithms. The goal of this spaced recall is to help the student ...
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C# Stackexchange Questions API [duplicate]
I need to build an web application C# and below is what I'm stuck with
Can I use Stack Exchange's API with Key? Do they have a "hello world" key can be used for learning purpose.
I wish to get the ...
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Tag highlighting on main SO page
Motivation
I recently added more than one "Favourite" tag and got pretty irritated by the sea of yellow on the home page.
As such I wrote this little user script (for use in Chrome's ...
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Simplify Community Bulletin widget
This Stylish script:
Hides the recently added bold category titles;
Removes post vote counts;
Reduces space used by widget.
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("...
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Ask Stack Overflow for Atom Editor
Ask Stack Overflow for Atom
Quickly get answers and code samples from Stack Overflow directly in Atom editor.
Package: https://atom.io/packages/ask-stack
GitHub: https://github.com/Chris911/Ask-...
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/associated should include user's display name and the api_site_parameter
/associated should include api_site_parameter
The /associated routes return the site_name and site_url but not the api_site_parameter.
It would be useful if it did because api_site_parameter is ...
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User accept rate and home site
It displays the user's accept rate in their userbox on questions (updated to work with Firefox lately), and also the site on which they have the most rep (besides the current
one) and the amount of ...
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Post Score vs. Age App?
Has anyone put together a script to generate the score vs. age of a question?
If this script were run on all questions in a particular tag, the curve generated by taking the average over a time ...
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StackPrinter Greasemonkey script is broken [closed]
I have previously installed and been working with the "StackPrinter" Greasemonkey script -- which displays a button on each Stack Exchange question to print that question with StackPrinter.
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top-answerers / top-askers documentation bug: number of results returned incorrect
The top-answerers-on-tags and top-askers-on-tags documentation claim:
Returns the top 30 answerers active in a single tag, of either all-time or the last 30 days.
and
Returns the top 30 askers ...
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Javascript SDK channelUrl for local development [duplicate]
I am trying to get started with the Javascript SDK. I am developing on a web server on my local machine. I get a channelUrl-related error when calling SE.init.
My code:
SE.init({
clientId: ...
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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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Application Key and AccessToken are not working for Stack Exchange API? [duplicate]
I have followed the documentation and used explicit OAuth 2.0 flow for access_token generation.
And I have gone through all 4 steps defined under explicit OAuth 2.0 flow with scope=no_expiry. Then I ...
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Query Statistics for my app responds with "No Requests" [duplicate]
When I access Query Statistics for my app (while logged in) I get "No Requests"
Am I doing something wrong?
I'm using Chrome 34 on Ubuntu.
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StackExchange API Java SDK
This project aims to provide a Java wrapper to the Stack Exchange API.
SDK supports Stack Exchange API V2.2
Getting Started
There are two interfaces to the library.
Query Interface
Facade Interface
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Are the "body", "comments" and "answers" parameters supported in the API version 2.x?
Earlier with version 1.x, the parameters: body, comments and answers etc. were available. But these don't seem to be supported with API version 2.x.
Are these parameters not supported in new API? Are ...
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Stack User Filter
This Chrome extension helps you keep track of questions by your favorite Stack Exchange users.
If you find that some users consistently post questions you enjoy answering, you may want to keep better ...
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What is "accept_rate" in the Stack Exchange API?
when I call the /users path, like:
/docs/users-by-ids#&ids=1&site=stackoverflow
In the reply, I get a field called accept_rate.
What is that field about?
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Differences between versions 1.x and 2.x of the Stack Exchange API?
I had written a Java Wrapper for the Stack Exchange API, version 1.x, Which was working perfectly.
But, since 12 May 2014, services for version 1.x have been shutdown and my Wrapper stopped working.
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Sorting and filtering is broken on /questions
Sorting error
When querying /questions and sort them by creation in descending order, the creation_date drops very rapidly.
I was looking for questions in the [php] tag on Stack Overflow. There are ...
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