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Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
In the /sites method, not all the sites return high_resolution_icon_url field. (e.g. Personal Finance and Money) Although if you add "@2" to the normal resolution icon you can see a high res image ...
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What should I put in redirect_uri for implicit OAuth 2.0
From the document I can't figure out what value should I put in redirect_uri if I want to implement iPhone app. I try https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success but it not work and show this error
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Implicit OAuth Flow stopped working. Redirect happening to a non existent URL [duplicate]
The following URL is first hit when a user clicks on Login:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=202&redirect_uri=https%3a%2f%2fstackexchange.com%2foauth%2flogin_success&scope=...
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Link to applied_count leads to a 404
To Reproduce
Run an API query on tag-synonyms, you will get a result that includes something like this:
Issue(s)
Click on the applied_count link and you get redirected to this page which is a 404.
It ...
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Angular StackOverflow Activity, a module for showing off your public activity
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AngularJS directive module for showing off your public StackOverflow activity. Works well with responsive frameworks including Bootstrap 3. Customizable templates and iconography.
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Can Stack Exchange include the number of edits a user has made on a site in /users/<id>/edits?
Originally, I wrote:
In the old review queue, users could see their progress towards the Copy Editor and Strunk and White badges, but since the new review queues were implemented, this information ...
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StackApp NNTP bridge for accessing Stack Exchange sites (like Stack Overflow)
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With this NNTP Bridge you can follow all posts of Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) very easily. Each question will be shown as one thread with all tags, the ...
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Hide unwanted questions (Greasemonkey Script)
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This Greasemonkey script enables you to hide questions you don't want to see. At the moment Stack Overflow gives you the option to "dim" or hide questions with ignored-tags but doesn't allow ...
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Parameter `tagged` in `search/advanced` seems to use `AND` instead of `OR`
It seems that search/advanced has the same problem as in "The tagged parameter does not work with multiple tags" question.
When I select c#; .net I only get results tagged both c# and .net:
http://...
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Stack 8 - Metro Style Stack Exchange Reader for Windows 8
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Make the most of all Stack Exchange sites in one place. Stack 8 helps you to keep track of all your favourites Stack Exchange sites making easier to find questions and answers.
Features
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Kuna - Make books from Stack Exchange questions
http://demo-kuna.rhcloud.com
Kuna is a web application that provides a live environment in which books can be created from Stack Exchange questions.
Step 1
Paste the URL for any question found on a ...
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Script to convert a search on a StackExchange site to a Google search of that site
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Adds a Google button below the Search button on the search page which takes you to a Google search restricted to the current Stack Exchange site but with the same ...
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API v1.1 users call returns association_id for which the Stack Exchange web site has no profile [closed]
For a particular user, the users API v1.1 call returns an association_id that gives a "Page Not Found" error where the Stack Exchange profile should be, though their Stack Exchange profile can be ...
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Why does adding fromdate=<long time ago> return a different set than without it?
I've been trying to get some stats for the Windows 8 challenge over on Super User. I've noticed that there are some questions missing if I add fromdate=0. Why is this?
Without fromdate:
http://api....
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Direct Question Edit Links
This script adds an edit link to the question summary, saving frequent editors the trouble of "entering" the question first.
Adjust includes as needed:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Direct ...
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Is it OK to have a test account for a developing client?
I'm currently trying to implement an agorava component for Stackoverflow, and for testing purpose, i would like to create a test account, which would have one question asked, and would maybe send ...
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stackoverflow favicon counter
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I'm very like to answer questions on stackoverflow, but also I like to pin tabs in browser. It's hard to check how many unread questions I have on my favorite tag, so I decide to ...
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How can I find commonly duplicated questions from stack network dumps?
Why?
I got tired of searching for the same duplicate questions over and over again.
What?
These are a couple of scripts I threw together in order to cut down search time for common questions and ...
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StackHose: live real-time event stream in your browser
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StackHose is a continuously updated stream of new content from Stack Overflow. It uses the Firehose JSON streaming event service to get a "push" stream of new event notifications. The newest ...
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Autonavigate/autocomment "close/flag offtopic" for MSO
On MSO, there are plenty of questions that should be on SO asked every day.
The procedure with dealing with these is:
Copy-paste boilerplate comment saying "This belongs on SO blah". ...
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Reply links in comments--lazy version
Derivative of this script
Some people are too lazy to type out full usernames in @replies, and they don't use the autocomplete either.
This script is for these guys--it leaves the job of being lazy to ...
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Add a special page where developers can reset throttle timeouts
As George Edison noted, it would be useful to have a special page where developers can reset the throttle timeout when we accidentally trigger it.
This happened to me this morning — I got banned for ...
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Stack Tunnel - WebGL Visualization for Stack Exchange
Stack Tunnel
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StackTunnel is a WebGL visualization which displays the latest questions from any Stack Exchange site interactively within your web browser. You can click on the ...
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StackExchange Google Search
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// ==UserScript==
// @name StackExchange Google Search
// @description Google questions if query begins with "gq:" and user profiles if query begins with "gu:".
// @version 1.1
// @...
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stack.horizobu.com - an exploration engine
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stack.horizobu.com is a search engine for the various Stack Exchange question and answer sites. horizobu assists you in your search by suggesting related query terms. The query terms ...
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Scrape the site list, show sites sorted by answer ratio
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Display the list of Stack Exchange sites, with the number of questions and answers on each site, and the answer ratio (number of answers divided by the number of questions). The list is sorted ...
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Favourite Tags Numerical Keyboard Shortcuts Script
Another short and simple script, it adds numerical keyboard shortcuts to the favourite tags. Only works on those pages which have the favourite tags on them. The default modifier is Alt but the ...
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Stack Monthly - Best questions in the month
About
This website allows user to unearth gems which are hidden due to popular community questions. This is done by only showing most voted questions asked in that month.
It allows a user to follow ...
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Chat audio enhancements
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There's no meaningful screenshot available since this script plays sound.
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When someone starts talking about unicorns you definitely want in on the action.
You can now ...
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FullStack iPad App
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FullStack provides read only access to the following Stack Exchange sites: Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. Currently users can browse through ...
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Let's delete the off topic questions?
There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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PyOverflow: Account statistics for Stack Overflow for Ubuntu!
I was bored, and I wanted to play with the API, so I came up with this little script:
It's coded in Python and has only a single image dependency.
Here is a screenshot:
Here's the source code (it's ...
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Filter timeline by event type
Would it be possible to add the ability to filter a user's timeline by event? For example, only return revision events?
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Announcement: StackExchange API Development Wiki
RIP August 24, 2010 - April 26, 2013
Due to lack of interest and the increasing burden of maintenance, I have decided to close down this wiki. Most of the information that it contains is either ...
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recommended buffer size for markdown fields is conservative
I ran into a truncation error while inserting user data into a database using the documented field length (buffer size) of 3000.
So I redefined to nvarchar(max), pulled all users in the stack ...
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Simple Answer Guessing App - Trivial Pursuit: Edition SO
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Stackoverflow Trivial Pursuit
This app came about after I read this meta thread feature request by Evan Carroll. The idea is that you can look at questions on Stackoverflow without seeing the ...
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Why is edit_count exposed on Comments but not Questions or Answers
Comments have an edit_count field, why is this field not included with Question and Answer responses?
Further, the edit_count field has limited utility on a comment where, lacking revisions and a ...
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Can we have an Owner Name value in Question, Answer, and Comment?
If a post has no owner for whatever reason, we don't get the owner object in the response.
Thus, it is impossible to display the username of the missing owner. The site is able to do this, so we ...
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Area 51 site proposal: StackExchange API Application Development [closed]
The question was closed instead of migrated so I have opened a new question on meta
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55163
Currently intended role of StackApps.com is not entirely clear.
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How to retrieve paged API results in C# and Silverlight
In this tip we are going to leverage the SimpleRequestFactory and gather a multipage response.
Let's pull the first 5 pages of 100 users on stackapps.com.
NOTE: for Silverlight, substitute Newtonsoft....
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Dev-Tip: How to call the API in C# and Silverlight
This tip shows a simple and reliable way to create HttpWebRequest that are configured to properly query the api.
With the exception of the AutomaticDecompression assignment, this code can be used in ...
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Stack Overflow KDE Plasma widget
Is a Plasma widget being developed for Stack Overflow in KDE 4?
I tried StackTray, but I'm thinking of something more complete to use as a widget on my desktop. I'd like to see this done, or ...
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Widget Of Awesomeness, an extended profile JavaScript widget
2010-07-17: Due to lack of interest I'm shutting down the hosted version of this.
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The Widget Of Awesomeness lets you embed a simple widget on any page that will display your ...
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OBSOLETE - SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM: A flat sortable, filterable list of all parameters in the Stack Overflow api
OBSOLETE: the soapi.info website is down
SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM
SOAPI-PARAM-EXAM is a little scooby snack of a tool that lets you get your eyes on all of the parameters in the api.
This is useful for ...
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Merging/migration should be reflected by the API
Now that we have a new merging/migration system that keeps records of all merges, I think that this information should be visible through the API:
Questions that are merged into other questions should ...
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Newest unaswered by tags
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Often, when I was looking for questions to answer on StackOverflow, I would go through newest unanswered questions and look for those that had one of my favorite tags. The “my tags” ...
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Request a method to get the number of people following a tag
How do I use the API to get the number of followers for a given tag?
On Stack Overflow, if you hover your mouse over a Tag a DHTML popup displays the number of followers for that tag.
I have used ...
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Write access (post answers, comments etc. on behalf of users)
From what I can tell, there's currently no way to write to StackExchange sites using the API. Are there any plans to support this? This would mean some implementation headaches, such as providing a ...
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Provide a "latest" version for apps that want to keep up
By pointing my application at
http://api.stackoverflow.com/n.n/...
or possibly http://api.stackoverflow.com/latest/...
I could keep up with all the version changes released.
Alternate forms to stay ...
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Timeline for v2.0 of the API?
Since v1.0 is now finalized, I thought I'd inquire about v2.0.
I'm guessing it will be a few weeks before you even start planning it.
Can you give us a long term estimate of when the private beta ...