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How to use shallow_user?
I can not understand how to access the summary information about the user's reputation. How to use the shallow_user object ?
I tried:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/shallow-user/2765346/...
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SOClearChat -- Helpful Chat functions
A Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script packing some helpful functions for Stack Overflow chat.
To install, click: Install SO ClearChat
Source: github.com/lbotinelly/SOClearChat
It adds four ...
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SENotify - Stack Exchange new question notification (perl/growl)
Output/Screenshot
Growl notification
Growl on Mac
Growl on Windows
Terminal output
$ perl SENotify.pl -s stackoverflow -r 60 -v
2 question found on serverfault at : Tue Jun 22 21:41:38 2010
Best ...
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"backoff" missing when updating questions
I updated a couple of questions with the questions/{id}/edit method and got the following error:
{
"error_id": 407,
"error_message": "You cannot perform this action for another 14 seconds",
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How do I get information about top users of a Stack Exchange community?
I was going through the stack exchange API and I want to extract information about, say, top 20 users of a particular stack exchange community. How do I use the API for that?
I tried on this page ...
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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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Where is "Stack Exchange API Documentation" listed?
I have followed How to list your application/library/wrapper/script here to list my application. In https://stackapps.com/users/apps/{my-user-id} , I find that I have given it access to "Stack ...
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Stex - an iOS application for Stack Exchange
Stex
This app is currently still under development, and as a result is not on the app store and doesn't have all features up and running.
To test for yourself, or contribute, check out the repository ...
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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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Blur the topbar’s background
This stylesheet will make the background of the topbar show a blurred version of the contents below it. Note that I was unable to make the search box transparent (the icon was invisible), and I couldn’...
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Two minor typos in the API help
In http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help
/users/{id}/answers Gets answer summary informatino for the user with 'id'.
and in the Returns section of http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=...
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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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No website (yet), how to register?
I just started developing a Stack Overflow client, and wanted to add authentication. I found out I needed to register for that and wasn't sure if it was okay to register your app when it is not yet ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 7?
Is there a Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 7?
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fromdate is ignored for /posts/{id}/comments requests
The api docs:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=posts/{id}/comments
The test request.
You can see comment itself here, it's four months old, while cutoff date in request is less than ...
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How to include answers when fetching questions?
I made a small cron job which crawls questions and answers from Stack Overflow.
Here is my request URL:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?order=desc&tagged=php&site=stackoverflow&...
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OBSOLETE - Mobile Exchange Library for .NET Compact Framework
Obsolete: This library was made for a decommissioned version of the API. Also, the source code is no longer available.
About
Since the .NET Compact Framework is always lagging behind in terms of ...
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Github link oneboxer for Chat
Oneboxes links to Github repos, issues or pull requests in Chat
This userscript will automatically detect new and existing messages in chat that link to Github and onebox them, just like it is done ...
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ChatExchange - It is an API for Chat
Code Snippet
sendMessage('chat.meta.stackexchange.com', 721, 'Hello @Sha', fkey().fkey)
//Sends the message 'Hello @Sha' to Shadow's Den
//Must be run in a chat site, due to @Balpha not wanting CORS ...
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API compliant request throttle implementations
Balancing compliance with Request Throttling Limits with maximum allowable throughput in our applications and libraries with any reliability requires self-throttling.
This post is meant to be a repo ...
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OBSOLETE - so++ - C++ Library
Obsolete: Coded for a decommissioned version of the API. Source code might be adaptable though.
(source: DEAD LINK: quickmediasolutions.com)
Code Snippet
#include <sopp/sopp.h>
...
sopp::...
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Unhide the Ignored Tags Hider
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This is a simple Greasemonkey script which unhides the checkbox which allows you to hide questions with ignored tags. It allows you to quickly toggle this setting at your leisure ...
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How many ids is 'too many'?
This answer mentions limit on amount of ids included in queries like /users/{id}/mentioned, but I can't find actual amount mentioned anywhere.
Now, I could run binary search and find out, but I ...
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Are wrappers considered applications?
I went to get an API key for my StackOverflow C++ wrapper, and discovered that this involves registering an "application".
Does the wrapper count as an app?
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OBSOLETE - GeeQe - Native Stack Overflow client
Obsolete - no longer in iTunes store, no source code given, and was coded for a decommissioned version of the API.
About
The Geek Question Explorer is a Native Stack Overflow iPhone Application.
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StackAsk - Ask questions from iPhone and iPad - Now free on App Store!
About
Now on the App Store, Download for free now!
Its main features are:
Content editor with formatting buttons
Questions are saved, with multiple versions
You can enter a question without Internet ...
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Stack Exchange Java client library
Sample Code
/**
* The following will print out the current stats for the
* Stack Overflow site (stackoverflow.com).
*/
public class Example
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
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Why does this Stack Overflow API query return binary data?
The Stack Overflow API query
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/search?tagged=javascript&intitle=%3Cdiv%3E
returns what appears to be binary data:
���I�%&/m�{J�J��t��$ؐ@�������iG#)�*��eVe]f@�...
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How about linking Stack Exchange to IFTTT?
Why is there no channel for Stack Overflow on IFTTT?
It would be great if I can mash up the Stack Exchange website with other web-based services like Google Reader or GMail, receive a SMS or ...
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PHPstack - A PHP wrapper to the SE API
PHPstack
PHPstack is meant to be an easy to use PHP wrapper for the Stack Exchange API.
<?php
require_once('lib/requestcore.class.php');
require_once('phpstack.class.php');
$so = new ...
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OBSOLETE - StackImage 2 - Create Your Own Unique Custom Flair!
Examples
http://stackimage2.quickmediasolutions.com/4dd2fde77a2ca/stackoverflow/193619
http://stackimage2.quickmediasolutions.com/4dd3772eb3ae6/cooking.stackexchange/60
http://stackimage2....
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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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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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List recent tag wiki edits
I would like to list tags where the tag wiki or tag wiki excerpt was recently edited or created. How can I do this?
It is not a problem if I get a few false positives by tags modified in other ways, ...
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please expose stackauth via a url that is consistent with the api
Most libraries and apps need to version themselves by adding the version number to the url and subsequently most of the http request code includes this information in the url building process.
the ...
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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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StackLinks, a URL to Markdown bookmarklet
In aggregating references, this is useful for wrapping a URL and the content of the <title> tag into Markdown:
javascript:void(function so_link(){window.prompt('',String().concat("* [",document....
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StackApplet and AskUbuntu
Two questions:
Whenever one clicks on the "Ask Ubuntu" in the StackApplet's menu it opens https://askubuntu.com/users/recent/### (where ### is the user's id number), but there is no such ...
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Should we add a "this site is not affiliated to Stack Overflow.." disclaimer to our website app?
I've checked legal section but it does not say anything specific of this aspect apart from:
Do feel free to explain that your product is built on the Stack Exchange platform so people understand your ...
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Search incomplete synonym name
Is there is way to search synonym when user is inputting the name. Something like how things work in SO's tag search page.
j2se is a synonym of java tag, but it appears in search when searching for ...
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Get UserId by passing email ID in the Stack Exchange API? [duplicate]
The Stack Exchange API is mostly based on 'ids'. IE
/2.2/users/{ids}/top-tags?site=stackoverflow
How can we get {ids} for a particular user using his email id or name? Is there any method available ...
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API Endpoint Changes Coming In Version 2.0
As work has progressed on the upcoming second version of our API, we've come to a bit of an impasse that's going to force a semi-radical change.
Here's the root of the issue:
once you've gotten an ...
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StackStash - Stackoverflow offline reader for iOS
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iPad Screenshot
About
StackStash lets you carry all of Stackoverflow data in your pocket.
We built this app because we find our productively as programmers plummets when we do ...
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Metro Stack - A Windows Phone Stack Exchange app
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I’m pleased to announce MetroStack: A Windows Phone 8.1 app to interact with any website part of the Stack Exchange Network.
Sort, search and view questions, answers, tags and users.
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Paging issue: is /users/{ids}/associated API route returning incomplete information?
When querying to find associated accounts for a list of account ids, some ids in the results appear to be missing many of the associated sites. I have only observed this in multi-page responses. For ...
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Search for answers/comments under questions with certain tags using the Stack Overflow API?
The advanced search (/search/advanced) API can search for questions by tags.
But /users/{ids}/answers API doesn't take tags.
I'd like to monitor answers/comments for questions with certain tags. Is ...
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George the Dev - Making Conversation in the Chat Rooms
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About
George the Dev is a chat bot for the Stack Exchange network of chat sites.
He currently hangs out in the Sandbox and is capable of understanding a few commands and those commands ...
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"What is meta" should be rephrased
Stackapps.com/help/whats-meta tells that there is "Meta Stack Apps". However there isn't.
Stack Apps is its own meta and meta is used to ask meta questions here.
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How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date
The API documentation describes tthe usage of /questions/featured. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to sort the result by bounty_closes_date, which is IMO the sort option making most ...
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Comment Flag Dialog Bugfix
About
Fixes issues with Comment Flag dialog appearing in the upper-left corner of the window.
Download
Download or view the source code
Platform
Tested on Waterfox 56. Only designed for Firefox-...
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