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SX -- Stack Exchange for Emacs!
pull requests welcome!
SX is a Stack Exchange client for Emacs. Currently progressing rapidly through its prototyping phase, SX will support the full range of API operations, including network/...
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Helping people is 'noise or pointless'?
How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]
closed as noise or pointless by Kevin Montrose♦ Aug 16 at 23:15
This question does not add anything ...
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The API /tag stats are notably different from the site totals
Why this discrepancy?
--Sep 10 2015 11:26:09 GMT+0530 (IST)--
At that time, the API shows 42010 tags.
But the same thing computed on the Stack Overflow tags page is 44496.
Is it because of caching?
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Can revisions be returned from the API, filtered by user?
I see that question or answer revisions can be returned from the API either by post ID or by GUID.
I'd like to obtain this data filtered by user, e.g. "all revisions made by user X". However, I ...
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Stack Safari Utilities (Safari 5 Extension)
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Buttons.
Buttons with badges.
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The current web interface is the ideal way to use Stack Exchange apps. I intend to improve this experience for Safari users with a "Safari ...
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SCombinator - Combined Questions of All the sites that API supported
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Just another combination of all the sites that API supported.
If you use all those sites, it would be very useful, because you can surf all at one place.
Almost real-time like Stack Overflow ...
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Get total answers count for a specified: Tag, Userid and Date-range?
I would like to get the total number of answers provided by userid 1068142 between
01/07/2015-31/07/2015 with tag = paypal.
I have looked into this question but it does not help!
I have been trying ...
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Please provide a way to get Post Edits, filtered by user
I recently discovered from this question that the API does not support filtering revisions by user. I am interested in looking at a user's edit history programmatically (with their permission) and at ...
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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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Dice Stack - Find a random question
DiceStack website
(www.isimonbrown.co.uk/dicestack/)
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Fetches a random question from a Stack Exchange site of your choice.
License
Free-to-use webapp. Source not available.
Features
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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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link in post_id in /me/notifications/unread is wrong
I have run /me/notifications/unread. The response contains post_id and there is a link to it.
This link is wrong. The post is on Stack Apps but the link directs to Stack Overflow:
I have ...
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Are these fields redundant?
Why do we have total_upvotes + total_downvotes as well as score?
Doesn't
score = total_upvotes - total_downvotes
Is this always true? If so, isn't it redundant?
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StackTracker - Cross-platform desktop notification app
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Current Version: Beta build v1.0
About
StackTracker, a cross-platform desktop notifier for the StackExchange API built with PyQt4
The application displays a task tray ...
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Key Limit is 10k or 100k?
Getting Started FAQ Question says 10k
API "Hello World" code
But I see 100k on Response Header
X-RateLimit-Max 100000
X-RateLimit-Current 99993
Just typo in nginx setting or something ...
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The API v0.9 2010.06.24.002 as seen by SOAPI
Stack Overflow API as seen by the SOAPI parser and code generator:
With the API freeze, changes to the vast API should slow to a trickle, making manual maintenance possible. At this milestone, I have ...
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StackExtend - A Google Chrome Extension to enhance the Stack Exchange experience
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Last Read Tracking - StackExtend tracks what questions you have previously viewed and indicates whether they have been read, and whether new ...
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StackTagz - Track the topics you are interested in over time
StackTagz
http://stacktagz.com
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StackTagz analyses your participation in StackExchange sites by looking at which tags you are active in. A question, an answer or a ...
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StackTop-Mac app---Now out of beta!
StackTop
Stacktop is my Mac client for accessing most of the Stack Exchange sites.
Here are some screenshots of 3.0. Note the colors in the first screenshot change depending on which site you are "...
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When API site goes offline, please return a JSON , instead of Stack Overflow alike offline HTML page
I've just noticed that my API queries are failing in JSON parsing, because of API Site shows offline HTML Page.
I wish it would return a valid JSON response, instead of HTML Page.
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Show number of answers accepted
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Ever wish you could tell more about a user's acceptance rate than just the percentage? Sure, you can hover over the acceptance rate to view the number of questions ...
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StackedDeck: Watch Your Favorite Tags, TweetDeck-Style
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About
Download StackedDeck
StackedDeck allows you to watch as questions with your favorite tags come streaming in. Add as many columns as you like and StackedDeck will ...
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Would the following image be allowed?
In the guidelines for using the SE logos, it says:
Do not distort or alter our logo in any way
Does the following logo do that?
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API returns implausibly low questions per minute rate for Stack Overflow
Yesterday, I tried using the /info method of the API to predict the time left until 10M questions on Stack Overflow. In the process, I found that the returned "questions per minute" value was always 2....
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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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BlackStack - A Stack Exchange app for BlackBerry 10
BlackStack is a native BlackBerry 10 app for browsing Stack Exchange sites like Stack Overflow, Stack Apps, and Science Fiction & Fantasy. You can view questions and answers as well as sign-in to ...
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StackOverflow-Steroids - A Chrome extension to introduce (and test) new features on Stack Overflow faster
I've previously complained about the bad usability that Stack Exchange sites can have and created a Chrome extension to help test possible fixes. It did not attract much attention.
Now I've added a ...
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Show statistics of my community ads, on all sites
In January I posted community ads to various sites I belong to.
From time to time I want to see how they perform, so for each site I craft the display URL manually and launch it in a browser:
http://...
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List all tags in use on stackoverflow
I am trying to list all tags used on stackoverflow here: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/tags and I cannot seem to list all.
How do I do it?.
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ChatExchange - It is an API for Chat
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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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How to develop without api key [duplicate]
I just started a new project in which I want to use the Stack Exchange API. I will need users to authorize the app to read e.g. their favorited tags. Therefore I need an API key, so I have to register ...
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How to calculate users, who have posted (question/answer) using specific tag?
For example, if I want to know the number of users who asked and answered about PHP.
Currently, I can just get the list of questions and its total number, but it's not enough, because one user could ...
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Icons for favorite tags
I have a lot of tags in my "favorite tags" and it got to the point where they span across like five lines, and it was just too bulky for my liking. So, I made a user-script that replaces the text ...
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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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Moderator links
Adds some extra links to posts and userpages for convenience
For a userpage, all links from the "info" mod menu, except "privileges" is displayed along in the "mod"/"...
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Questions with specific tag and specific text inside questions
So I am able to get questions with specific tags, but still not able to get questions which have specific text and a specific tag.
For example if I want to get all the questions with text "api" in ...
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QuestionPacker - Packs Question in a Webpage
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About
It is my version of StackTack, which seems to be discontinued.
License
Inbox Reader is released under the Apache License 2.0.
Download
You can get QuestionPacker here:
http://...
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Please add the `tagged` parameter to /answers, /users, etc
The /questions endpoint supports a tagged parameter which I find quite useful. However, it's the only route that appears to support this parameter.
If, say, I want to get questions asked by a given ...
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`body` of `inbox_item` returning only excerpt, not full body
I have run /inbox/unread function. It returns a list of inbox_items.
The body of inbox_item gives excerpt, not the full body. This is with all the functions that return inbox_item.
According to ...
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Where can I find a link to my apps and API keys? [duplicate]
I feel pretty stupid but it's taken me about 15 minutes to find any reference to the app and api key I've created. I started searching through my profile page but couldn't find anything. I also came ...
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Inbox Reader - Reads your inbox
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About
It reads your inbox
License
Inbox Reader is released under the Apache License 2.0.
Download
You can download Inbox Reader here:
http://teamfreehugs.github.io/stackexchange/...
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What does `total` in the /notifications route represent?
What does total in /notifications represent?
I ran it.
The result was items in Common Wrapper Object was array of 24 items where as total was 4.
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How to find questions that were posted or edited recently?
The api function documented at http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions lets me list questions on a site. How do I sort this so that I see questions that are recently posted, edited, including ...
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DatePicker in StackExchange API document page should have year next & previous button also
While picking for dates as shown in this snapshot, there should be one more next and previous button for year. It will be easy to navigate 1 year backward and forward on one click. Better option would ...
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App to keep notes on users
Is there an app around that makes notes on users? Really all I am after is a flag to say -
"Warning, this user is obnoxious, avoid arguments"
EDIT
It could just colour coding, like red for avoid, ...
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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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How to use Stack Exchange WebSockets?
I am developing a Visual Studio Extension where I would be knowing about the activity on my posts. I found out that wss://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com is used for this purpose. Can somebody help me in ...
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Stack Exchange Desktop Notifications
Below is a copy of http://shu8.github.io/SE_Notifications/:
Stack Exchange Notifications
This userscript will make HTML5 notifications popup when something happens on a question that you have open ...
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StackTack WordPress Plugin - Embed Stack Exchange Questions in Your Blog.
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Have you ever asked a question or posted an answer to a question on a Stack Exchange site and said to yourself "I sure would like to share this on my blog?" Well, you could just post ...
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/me/inbox is not returning most recent items
Looks like /me/inbox is either a bit behind or it's not supposed to be realtime.
Explanation: for a comment that I received 4 hours ago
It's not returned in the API:
https://api.stackexchange.com/...