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More Stars - Userscript that frees up room so you can see more starred messages
Since I've never written a GreaseMonkey script before, I borrowed heavily from this script and basically played around with it until I got what I wanted. So credit to them for helping me get there.
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Review Queue Hider
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This user script adds a button to each review queue to allow you to hide it. Useful if you don't want a certain queue popping to the top!
Each Stack Exchange site holds its own settings too, so ...
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Hide badges I've already attained
Update - read me:
This script is no longer required, thanks to the new Badges page. You can now view your earned and unearned badges by clicking the appropriate tab; without the need for an ...
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Auto-Add A Comment When Closing
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Automatically adds a comment when closing a question, with the text taken directly from the close reason you chose, so that the OP can see why their question may be being downvoted, and improve ...
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App without API and legal issues
Forgive me I did not find the "meta" for the Stack Apps, I believe it is here that I must ask.
I developed an extension for browsers, but I'm not using the Stack Exchange API. Can I post it on Stack ...
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Quick navigation between answers
This script provides you with a box which contains the links to the answers on this page.
(Click for larger image)
Get / update this script.
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Posting question using StackExchange API [duplicate]
I created one app to post questions to Stack Exchange Websites. While checking in doc page of my application, i.e., https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-question, the question is posted. If I do ...
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/questions/add of StackExchange app gives nonsense response
When I run https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-question from the doc page and from my app. The response is sometimes nonsense:
{
"error_id": 407,
"error_message": "You cannot perform ...
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Role of "preview" in "/questions/add"
To post questions using Stack Exchange API, I am using /questions/add. What does parameter preview do, i.e., if we set it to true/false, what behaviour would it give?
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Hide sites from Hot Network Questions section
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The 'Hot Network Questions' section has questions from websites which are not very interesting for me so with this script you can:
Hide questions from those websites
Stop hiding the ...
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Encoding problem while accessing the API using Java
Trying to call an API URL from a Java application, I'm having problems accessing the contents of the URL.
I can access other sites through my program but not the Stack Exchange site.
But I can call ...
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Unnecessary parameters in query string in /me/questions when only "total" is requested
To get all the questions that I have asked, I am using Stack Exchange API, I am using /me/questions. When only total is requested, order and sort are also given as parameters in the query string. It ...
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Descriptions of tag-based badges are incorrect
The descriptions associated to tag-based badges are wrong, they always show 0 instead of actual thresholds:
Earned at least 0 total score for at least 0 non-community wiki answers in the … tag
See ...
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Clickable link in "Try It" section of some doc pages
In the "Try It" section of some doc pages, the link is not present.
It is present in the below image
Its not present in the below image
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The `top_questions` field shows outdated information?
I am using Stack Exchange API. I posted question from the doc page /questions/add to Stack Overflow. This was my first question. As that question was to check the function /questions/add, means it was ...
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Select all answer fields should also be present
Like "unselect all 'response' fields" would get displayed when we click on any of the fields marked in the snapshot below, same way there should be - "select all 'response' fields"
Similarly, one link ...
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Do the questions tagged "placeholder" need it explicitly in the title?
I have create a placeholder question, but just noticed that all the other ones have "(placeholder)", "[PLACEHOLDER]" or some variant in the title.
Do I need to include it in the title if it's tagged?
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How can I introduce my Stack Overflow app to other users?
Recently, I created a project to manage and extract questions from Stack Overflow and convert those to PDF docs. I put it on GitHub.
I think this project could be improved and could be very helpful ...
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Is there an api to post questions without using the websites interface?
I wanted to post questions after a proper user authentication explained here. Is there anyway I can do this?
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Why does dropdown comes in "Rev" when we edit published app?
I have published an app and editing it. One new "Rev" tab is created and it is giving me a dropdown as shown here. Why it is being created here? It is not created in any other Stack Exchange websites ...
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Where is "items" & "badge_counts" documentation?
Where is the items & badge_counts documentation?
This is returned as JSON. I am using the /me/associated query function.
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Odd String Format Result from API Call
I'm just getting started messing around with the SO API. I haven't worked with JSON before, and I am getting a strange result from a basic call (No API Key).
WebClient stackClient = new WebClient();
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Intent for official SE Android app?
Does the official SE Android app export intents? If not, can they be added?
My app, for example, allows users to click on many UI elements to let them see the original question, users profile, site ...
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Please make the site search on the API alphabetical
When I search, I want the sites to be alphabetical:
Please can they be?
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Some blank properties missing
I am using /me/associated. I haven't posted any question in one account, so the response comes as:
"top_questions": [],
"top_answers": [],
"question_count": 0,
"answer_count": 0,
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Getting historical data for careers?
I'm wondering if there is a possible way to get historical data regarding job postings made through careers, even for postings that have already been filled. Does careers keep this data at all, and if ...
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What's the proper way to fetch the score of all answers of SO?
I wrote a small program querying the SE API to grab the public scoring data of all SO answers (excluding the last 3 days).
Basically the request I do gets me this:
Questions[]:
Id
Title
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Thumbnail Uploader
Sparked off by https://gardening.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251/better-image-embeddeding-and-viewing, https://diy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/549/change-the-image-upload-so-that-a-thumbnail-...
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I Cannot Perform Oauth [closed]
My Clientn id = 4784
and Key = cB0l6XiaOW5l5vsBnBeIUg((.
What do I do for Oauth and to get an access token?
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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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Question Close Notifier - a userscript to notify you when one of your questions close somewhere on the network
About
This simple userscript checks all of your accounts across the Stack Exchange network, and informs you if a question of yours has closed. Because SE refuse to do so :(
The way it works is ...
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How to get unread reputation changes via the API?
I want to write a desktop widget that checks the Stack Exchange API every several seconds and tells me if there are any new reputation changes. I can't figure out what API method I can use for that.
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How to get notified when any of the content I have edited or posted is edited, deleted, or closed?
How can I "keep an eye" on all my content on SE? Due to policy, users aren't notified when their questions or answers are deleted, despite numerous feature requests.
I've looked at StackCenter but it ...
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How to use the API to show the user reputation? [duplicate]
How do I use the Stack Exchange API to let my users enter their Stack Overflow URL and then extract their reputation and show it in a profile controller in Rails?
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Starred message image section in chat
I have almost no experience with javascript, widgets and scripts myself, so I'd like to ask someone to make this useful chat addition a reality.
(Original Meta.SE feature request)
The idea is to ...
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Stack Exchange References
Stack Exchange References
What is it?
Stack Exchange References is a userscript for easily putting in references in answers and questions.
Description
In the top bar of any answer or question on SE,...
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Unable to install script on Chrome
I posted a question on Meta Stack Overflow, and from there I was directed to install this script.
When trying to install the script in Chrome, I get the following error:
Apps, extensions and user ...
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Get the Authenticated User's email?
We're building the website for our local Developer Community. We're trying to enable "Login with Stack Exchange" (we already got LinkedIn and GitHub), but I can't seem to find the User's email when ...
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Hide Unnecessary Info in SE Chat
Hide Unnecessary or Cluttering Information in the Sidebar of an SE Chatroom
Description
A small userscript to help avoid clutter on the sidebar of any Stack Exchange chat room.
The chat room will ...
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400 Error when attempting to retrieve authenticated user data
I am attempting to use the /me API to retrieve an authenticated user's details but I am receiving a 400 error.
I am able to complete the OAuth2 dance and have been able to capture the access token ...
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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?
It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
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Plans to expose details from the "accounts" tab of the user page?
One thing that I noticed was missing from the /users/ API was an ability to see what other Stack Exchange sites the user is associated with (what's usually available from the "accounts" tab of the ...
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Can we have a test user account?
I am writing a program that checks for new comments posted to a user.
The problem is this: in order to test the program, I am forced to post comments to existing users - which probably isn't the best ...
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How to get a User's picture (Avatar)
I've seen a couple of Stack Apps that have the actual picture for the user profile. Is that coming from the API, and if so how? If not I'm assuming they are using some screen-scrapping to get that ...
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json with list of all user's on stackoverflow
I am trying to get the list of all user's in JSON format (as provided by the API) (using jQuery jsonp)
What I found is:
pagesize – The number of collection results to display during
pagination. ...
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Can there be a way to find a user given his email hash?
Given a user's email, it would be great if we could hash it and search for that user with it.
The reason for this is suppose:
Someone has a website
On that website, they invite SO users to enter ...
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Show when user is online
I apologize if this already exist, but i could not find it.
My question is, is there a real-time display next to the user question if that user is still on line or not.
Something like this (green ...
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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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Want a way to give your user the access token nicely?
Well your wishes have been fulfilled. Over on GitHub is a page ready designed for you to use!
It's my SEAuthentication repro.
What does it do?
How does it work?
The essential code is below. There is a ...
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How can I edit a post with the API and python?
I am a real beginner, but want to know more about using the API.
I need to be able to get a post tagged with installation and the have it displayed to me. I then enter either 1 or 2, and it will ...