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Timestamps with a day
Another script inspired by a meta question, this will prepend an abbreviated day name to all mouseover UTC timestamps.
This script requires Greasemonkey on Firefox and Tampermonkey on Chrome. Other ...
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StackCenter 2 - Now in Public Beta!
Visit now: http://stackcenter.quickmediasolutions.com/beta/
Feedback is appreciated!
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StackCenter 2 has been brewing for quite some time now. Since the global inbox was introduced, the original ...
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sanction: a dead easy OAuth2 client Python implementation
Overview
sanction is a lightweight, dead simple (67 LOC!) client implementation of the OAuth2 protocol. The major goals of the library are:
Support multiple providers
Most providers have varying ...
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Stack Overflow reputation API [duplicate]
I am creating one wordpress widget plugin that display different types of social media fans and followers counts. After that I feel that i also include Stack Overflow reputation for specific users. ...
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Hat Overflow - Show number of Winterbash hats at a glance
This script adds a Winterbash hat-count to every user "Signature block" on questions, answers, review pages, etc. For example:
Reference this feature request: Show hat count in user card (next to ...
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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.
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ArtOfChatbot is a two-part creation: a basic ...
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Overwhelmed by unorganized information [duplicate]
As you can see I am a newbie, and trying to use Stack Exchange API for a school project.
I spent 3 hours just trying to understand How to get started. Is there an example for me to follow? or A ...
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Get points from Multiple sites in one call
Is there any way to get total points and badges from various sites (e.g. stackoverflow, sharepoint, wordpress etc.) in one call?
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Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?
Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? :
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens
(This is the most promising API call I found for verifying the validity of ...
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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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How do I add newlines when editing a post body via the API?
I am editing the tags of a question via the API, and to do that you have to pass the body and title etc.
I can get the Markdown or HTML from the API but I can't see how to send it back formatted ...
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Get our Stack Exchange inbox as native notification on Chrome
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I'm new to the Stack Exchange sites. So I was looking for Chrome Extensions get make my experience better. I searched for a simple and good looking Notification app. I found nothing so I make ...
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Key doesn't match a known application
I'm running into a really weird issue and I would appreciate any guidance on what I'm doing wrong. So I recently applied for an API key here on Stack Exchange and it went through fine. So let's say (...
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Login screen without web browser
I'm playing around with the Stack Exchange API, and have just received my first response from the server using the "Hello World" example.
The next step is to allow the user to log in somehow. From ...
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Answers without owners
Is it valid for Stack Overflow data to have an answer that does not have an owner?
For example if you hit the following API url http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/answers/18, it does not bring back an ...
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Bring back the Bold!
Our insidious overlords have made some numbers on the page thinner. This script feeds the numbers a sandwich to get them back to normal size.
Installation
Click here to install. Will work in Chrome ...
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Getting the top answerers/users for a tag in a custom time range?
I'm trying to use the top answers on tags API to get the users who contribute the most for a given tag. Like so:
/2.2/tags/azure-web-sites/top-answerers/month?site=...
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Google’s OAuth redirect broken
We just tried to authenticate with our application without being logged into anything on StackExchange. This is best tested in a private browser session without any cookies etc.
So after starting the ...
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StackMaps - Interactive Maps of Stack Exchange Communities
StackMaps - Interactive Maps of Stack Exchange Communities
https://johndbritton.com/stackmaps
What
Easily view users from your favorite Stack Exchange community on a map.
Why
I wanted to make it ...
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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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Maximum tag name length?
Does a maximum tag name length exist? Or it is just the "suggested size" with no hard limits? I'm trying to figure out how to best store them in a database.
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OBSOLETE - Soapi.FindUser (silverlight) Quickly find any user anywhere in the Stackiverse!
OBSOLETE: soapi.info has been down since at least 2012.
Soapi.FindUser - Silverlight Edition
Configuration:
{irreparable screenshot was here}
About
Soapi.FindUser (silverlight) is provides a means ...
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How can I get a user's Meta site details in the API call?
This query returns the details of the Main sites only:
/associated-users#ids=2855348
How can I get the Meta site details also in the same query?
Do I need to add any ...
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Is it allowed to sell an app or get revenue with the use of the API? [duplicate]
I've been reviewing the terms of use of the API, but I prefer to ask my question straight here in order to be 100% sure.
Is it allowed to create an app that:
is paid, which revenue goes to the ...
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"Print this post"
Answer to this meta question.
Adds a "print" link to individual posts. Does not do any stripping down of markup, the post is preserved as-is. The rest of the page is eaten by the jQuery ...
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BountyHunter - an app to track reputation of a group of people
This is a demo app I am building to track the Stack Exchange reputations of people in our (company) group.
Github repository
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Why do you need to specify a site when getting the inbox?
I'm getting a user's inbox via /me/inbox. I am forced to specify a site with this, so I'm setting it to Stack Overflow. However, it still gets all my notifications, including those from other sites. ...
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SimilarMobileTech: Find alternative libraries across different mobile platforms
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Mobile development is more and more popular and it is very likely that developers want to switch from one platform to another e.g., from IOS to Android. They always asks questions ...
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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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Notice field on questions may be absent?
The notice type, that is a field of a question, appears to be optional, yet it is not marked as "may be absent"?
For example, when I request questions with a filter that has the notice field checked, ...
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Fetch the Personalized Prediction Data through the API?
Is it possible to get a user's personalized prediction data in an automated way?
I'm building a graphical visualization of this data, you can check the project here: http://jlhonora.github.io/...
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How to access my App info
I've registered for an app yesterday, but I'm not finding where should I go to see/edit its info again.
I've search through profile, at stackexchange.com but couldn't find it.
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Reputations for Today
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About
Caculate Reputations for Today
Linked to Jon Skeet's Reputation Tracker
Number in the bracket does not include accepted answers (experimental feature)
License
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Why am I being told to backoff when I'm well within my API limit?
I've been running my API app fine for some time now and when I added another function I realized I was being told to backoff.
I only run the app once a night and don't really pull that much data. I ...
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Complete question timeline including votes
Is there any chance to get more information in questions timeline such as when it has been upvoted, when it has been downvoted, same for all answers, including comments, and other actions such as vote ...
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Are we going to get a Protected Date field in Question responses?
Now that questions can be marked protected, will this info be available via the API?
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Roadmap - any update?
So now it's 2011 and we should be getting some API updates. As a company you must have some kind of plan. So can you either say the API is never going to be updated or give a time frame to at least a ...
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OBSOLETE - StackOverflow Updater.. Update Questions without the refresh
Obsolete: App is long gone from the Chrome store. No source-code available. It was coded for a decommissioned version of the API anyway.
SOUpdater - UnRefresh! (1.2)
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(Chrome-Extension)
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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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Clickable Links in Revision Comments
Description:
This is a really simple userscript that turns URLs in revision history comments into clickable links:
Features:
Works in both revision list and single revision links.
Download:
Github
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TopStack - Android client for Stack Exchange [closed]
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Android client for Stack Overflow and then all Stack Exchange sites in the future.
License
Freeware. Will probably change to ad-supported or maybe open-source (depends ...
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View full image sizes on click
Inspired by a meta question, here's a script that makes every image in a post also open itself at full size in a new window/tab when clicked.
It will ignore any images already manually linked.
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Regional 12-hour timestamps
This script is a modification of Kip's "Display absolute timestamps (in local time)"; I have his permission to post this. Most of the credit for the script goes to him.
About
This script ...
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Force Edit suggested reviews
Review edits have the option to force edit, which will edit the original post, as opposed to improve which will edit the suggested edit.
UserScript:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Force edit ...
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Provide a way to get display name via access token
Please include a new (network) method with the ability to gather display name and profile image directly via access token.
Right now to retrieve this information you have to first authenticate a ...
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What's the different between user_id and account_id?
What is the difference between user_id and account_id in the User object ?
Both are different and I'm looking for the unique ID of the User.
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": 2144246,
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Stack Exchange API not realtime?
I was testing the inbox/unread API but noticed that there is a big delay between one gets a message, and this message gets included in the API response. Like one minute or more.
Is this API not real-...
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API access to the /10m ("Thank you") web page?
https://stackoverflow.com/10m would be very interesting if you ask me: logging values periodically, and such.
However, a recent issue I had showed that I can't just access it.
Since I've found no ...
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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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Getting Question data using stack.PHP fails after a certain number of requests
I am trying to build an RSS feed that includes any/all questions that I have answered, and been accepted as the correct answer.
I am running into an issue where I'm sending too many requests and ...
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