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NB: The filter parameter in v1.x of the API had a different meaning to the filter parameter in v2.0 Consider the following query: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users?filter=jon%20skeet This ...
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I am planning on building a client for the Stack Exchange Sites, but it seems you cannot post any information via the API yet. Is this going to happen at any time soon? It seems a pain to force users ...
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I know you wanted to reduce the amount of data returned, but hasn't it gone a little far? Especially as there are no numerical site IDs. For example the Apple site is now called AskDifferent, however ...
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I'm now going on vacation and I won't be having internet connection there, I was thinking it would be a good time to browse throught the stackoverflow data dump. However its all in XML and I'd have to ...
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When passing jsonp parameter, the API returns "application/json" instead of "application/javascript". I found this because if you do: <script src='http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/badges?jsonp=...
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I am implementing a javascript client that uses the Flash based XHR replacement Flensed in the interest of providing more robust api communication than that provided by JSONP. Apparently the current ...
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There seems to be a few of these "dev-tips" so I'll share a problem I have. To notify a user of comments directed to them, we use the users/{id}/mentioned method. However, notifying a user of ...
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Take these two calls: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/180784/reputation?todate=1278854265&pagesize=1 "title": "Save a custom ListView&#39;s instance state?", http://api.stackoverflow....
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I was contemplating adding notifications to my app, Droidstack. I would've liked to be able to add notifications for when new answers are posted to a user's (favorite) questions, when new comments are ...
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Resolution: I have confirmed that a constant interval of 170 ms will run without error. // 30 per 5 sec = 6 per sec = interval 166.6 ms Soapi.RequestQueue.setInterval(170); Soapi....
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I am using the search api to search for questions that are tagged with "tags" and not with "tags". However I have noticed that searching for tags is an OR search. The questions search for tags is an ...
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UPDATE: I am being told that this is by design. I could not disagree more. The inconsistent 503 throttling issue aside, the API is JSON based. HTML errors serve no purpose in response to an API ...
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I think questions method also return answers too and the help page says so http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=questions .... "answers": [ { "answer_id": { "...
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For example http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=TEST1234&type=jsontext Request with Invalid key still return the content and rate limit stepped down into No Key Limit X-Ratelimit-Current ...
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It would be useful to have an official status displayed somewhere. A banner on all stackapps.com pages, or a specific page that we could view to see the status of the API. Just now I tried to view ...
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The main problem with spoiler userscripts for chat is that generally, they require you have the userscript installed in order not to get spoiled. Using cutting-edge Unicode shenanigans, it's possible ...
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About Discussions on Stack Overflow is the place where "Lost Souls" end up these days, worse than meta sites. Discussions moderators (and curators) need to provide some insight on why the ...
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About Since the introduction of Discussions on Stack Overflow, we have dealt with lack of features. Upon asking for the vital features to be implemented, we have seen some efforts, e.g. an API ...
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Screenshot I'm excited to share a new tool I've been working on called StackPulse. It's designed to help developers stay on top of new questions in their areas of expertise on Stack Overflow. About ...
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I am developing an image generation bot for chat (for example, chat.stackexchange.com). I can generate the image correctly, but when it comes to posting the image, I have no idea how to upload the ...
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During the beta tests in the Staging Ground, there were some cases where the author wrote a posted a copy of the question that bypassed the Staging Ground process. This user script shows me the ...
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I don't know any good way to search for your own flags by custom accept/rejection reasons, title, flag text or detailed flag type (e.g. "Not an Answer") hence I wrote a user script for that ...
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Description Script practice. To view your own deleted answers/questions on a Stack Exchange account, you always need to scroll all the way down to see the "Deleted answers" tag. I've written ...
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PyStackAPI The latest version - 0.2.0 What is PyStackAPI? PyStackAPI is a modern, 100% typed wrapper for the StackExchange API, written in Python. Documentation You can find documentation here: https:/...
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Better Paginator Install Screenshot / Code Snippet The code is in this file on GitHub. About This script adds a box to the paginator where you can type in a page number (i.e., on the Questions page), ...
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My all-new app Crew 2.0 is NOW AVAILABLE 🥳 Crew 2.0 was rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and today's update is a crazy one. A completely revamped user interface, powerful markdown rendering, new ...
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I am attempting to pull the articles from my company's collective. They are all returned when no tagged filter is used. This should return results for the articles tagged wso2 or is there a different ...
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Screenshot About UserScripts Configurer is a shared configuration controller for UserScripters' userscripts. How to use Configurer is exposed as a global accessible via UserScripters.Userscripts....
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Mini-Mod is planned to be an app that helps the community moderate content This also has automated features which require write_access This is simply the placeholder which the app will be connected to
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About This is for users that cannot normally see these votes. On Stack Overflow that is less than 3,000 reputation points for close and reopen votes, and 10,000 reputation points for delete votes. The ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet Insert a reasonably sized screenshot (or code snippet) of your app here, so we can get a quick look at it and an idea of how it works and what it might do for us. App ...
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I can currently get the total number of questions for a tag by using the total filter. This works well, but I'd like to get a total views count for the questions in that tag. I could iterate over each ...
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About With Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow, I find that it would be nice to have an indicator. Some posts have multiple pages, and searching for the one post among ...
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About When Visual design changes to the review queues was introduced, the review overview page seemed to change to having a smaller font size on post number and very small avatars. I think the white ...
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In Action About Links can be dangerous when clicked recklessly, especially when they are hidden by a title. LinkPreview helps solve this problem by providing a way to view where links points to ...
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About This script will enable all easter eggs in chat, namely: Cthulhu Send <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> and quotes from this answer fly around your ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About Stack Snippets provides a great shortcut for popular library CDN links via the dropdowns on the left sidebar. However, it's uncustomizable, and when it comes to ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About ReplyOverflow preserves continuity between comments everytime you reply by allowing an option to save the message content to a URL. How do I use it? If you want to ...
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App link (https://apps.apple.com/it/app/crew-for-stack-overflow/id1547171709?l=en) Crew is a beautiful full native (iOS) StackOverflow app built for fast navigation with powerful set of features. The ...
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SE: Dismiss New Follow Feature Popup On Active Sites ( install ) ( GitHub ) The "new follow feature" popup has to be dismissed separately on each site: This is frustrating ...
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Three Columns ( install ) (github) This is a userscript which allows those with reasonably wide monitors to make the most of their screen real-estate when posting, by making the question, ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About Now and then, Stack Exchange wants our attention for new blog posts or other important announcements. One of the ways is a banner just below the top bar, which is fine ...
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About: When you visit SEDE, this userscript: Automatically logs in you in if needed. (You must have a valid SEDE login). Redirects back to the original desired page like a good login system should. ...
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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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I started using the Stack exchange app, but realized it was abandoned and just plain sucks. Now that I abandoned it though, I really miss push notifications and having all 8 sites I'm active in one ...
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When using https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/dialog, the OAuth dialog renders correctly on my normal browser window. Opening it inside a modal however results in an empty window, because body has a min-...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About When using the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, one often needs to provide their own user ID as input parameter for the query. Formerly, this would be filled in ...
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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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In the coming weeks, I'll be modifying the Broken Image Repairer so that it can be used to mass-edit broken links. Examples where it could be used: German Language: canoo.net has been moved to ...
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The following script for Tampermonkey (multi browser) or Greasemonkey (Firefox) automatically expands all comments which are normally hidden behind the "show ... more comments" link: The code is ...
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