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Wrapper implementation method to get user notifications in Stack Exchange?
I'm trying to build an app that requires me to get the user notifications for a particular Stack Exchange user.
Now, I'm trying to use Java to accomplish this and I came across this wrapper library: ...
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Should feature-requests, for third party apps, be flagged as "not an answer"?
I spotted this "answer" as a first-time post:
Feature Request
Please add support for proxies.... It would be helpful to people behind proxies.
Like "ME"
I was going to flag it as "Not an ...
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Stack Overflow Firefox Extension
Recently I created a tiny Firefox extension to get given user reputation of Stack Overflow. But I did that using API version 1.1.
How can I migrate that to 2.1? How to authenticate my application ...
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Stack-Ed, Website and iPhone App
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The Stack Exchange platform is changing the way that we learn. Stack-Ed is an educational tool that was built to help people learn from the best of the best within the Stack ...
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Get accepted answers from Stack Overflow using Stack Overflow API 2.1
I want to fetch only my accepted answers from Stack Overflow using the API 2.1 and currently I've following code
$data = file_get_contents("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/741747/answers?page=...
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Octal user reputation
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Displays reputation in octal. This script is derived from Kip's Hexadecimal user rep.
Download
Install | View Source
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Firefox 19.0.1 with Greasemonkey
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Same as the ...
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Ability to sort answers by number of revisions via StackExchange API v2?
I was curious whether there was a way to easily find which StackOverflow answer has the highest number of revisions and/or to sort by that metric.
I see mention of a sort function in the ...
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Whatever happened to closed_reason?
When pulling back info on a closed question, I have come to expect closed_reason to be a present key if there's a closed_date. It seems that as of recently this is no longer true.
Proof: https://api....
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RebolBot - a chat bot for the chat rooms
RebolBot is a chat bot with a natural English dialect interface, specifically targeting the StackOverflow chat rooms. Yet it has a modular design, can post tweets to Twitter, and could be modified ...
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What sizes are the images available through the /sites endpoint?
I see logo_url, icon_url, favicon_url, high_resolution_icon_url... But I wasn't able to find any information about any of those images in the documentation. Are any of them fixed size? And/or is ...
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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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Downloading data en masse
I'm currently in the early stages of developing an Emacs major mode for the Stack Exchange Network.
I'm a little torn on how to set up the use of the API within the mode.
Is there a way to download ...
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Attribute error while using the stackoverflow api wrapper for python on IDLE
This is the code that I use to access Stack Overflow:
from stackexchange import Site, StackOverflow
so = stackexchange.StackOverflow()
for q in so.questions(pagesize=50):
print q.title
It runs ...
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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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Serel returns a JSON Parse error for the 'C#' tag
When I try requesting the tag c# via Serel, I get an error.
This is the error I am getting:
INFO][2013-02-25 02:06:42] Making request to /2.0/tags/c#/info?site=stackoverflow&key=mykey
JSON::...
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StackStash - Stackoverflow offline reader for iOS
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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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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag?
Would also be good if I could also find the top questions/answers in a particular tag - i.e. questions tagged with Ruby or PHP.
Per the docs the only thing I can see that will return questions in a ...
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Is question_id unique across all stackexchange sites?
The standard structure of a question URL is:
http://site.com/questions/question-id/title
Example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457927/git-workflow-and-rebase-vs-merge-questions
It is however ...
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Highlight Code in Chat - Highlights <code> elements contained in chat messages
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Inspired by this question, I have developed a UserScript that highlights code elements in chat messages so that they stand out more on the page. Simply install the script and your ...
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Chat Message Remover
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See a chat message you don't want on your screen? An annoying image or animated GIF? Now you can remove it!
This is a simple script that I made. It will allow you to click a chat message to ...
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Ruby wrapper for stackoverflow api - Serel, Pilha
Serel and pilha are good Ruby wrappers for the StackExchange API, but I am not able to access the body method for question and answers. The body method returns nil.
I want the content of questions ...
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ChatterBox configuration option is confusingly worded
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
I'm confused over the option:
Mark items as unread when you view them:
Why would I want to mark items as unread when I ...
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Creating a home brew Push Server for Stack Exchange
I'm looking to create a home brew push notification server for Stack Exchange. This is mainly due to the fact that Toast Notifications within Windows Store applications are done using Windows ...
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Does the API have a method to get the total favorite count of a question?
Like it says in the title, is the total favorite count of a question exposed anywhere via the API? I know about the favorites method, but that looks like it will give you the specific favorites of a ...
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Net::StackExchange2 - Perl Wrapper for StackExchange API (it's on CPAN)
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This library is a little labour of love for two things dear to me : StackOverflow, a place where I've learned just so much, and Perl a cryptic language that's giving me perspective. I happen to ...
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How do I get the no. of upvotes a person has received for a particular tag?
I need the list of users who have more than 10K reputation and then among those users I need to see which user has how many up-votes for each tag. I don't think there is a direct query that will give ...
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OBSOLETE - StackX - Android application for Stack Exchange (Free) (UI and optimization upgrade)
Update: 4/15/2013: Screenshots updated according to latest layout
An android application that will allow the user to browse through all of stack exchange websites using API v2.1.
Browse any of the ...
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Write comment API failing with error_id: 500
I am trying to test post comment with the following URL
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/posts/10305691/comments/add?key=HIDDEN&access_token=HIDDEN&site=stackoverflow&preview=true&...
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Get my profile information after authentication
I am coding for a mobile application and using stack exchange API 2.1. I am able to implement oauth and I have access token also.
Now I am trying to retrieve my profile information, like user_id, ...
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Dude, where's my cursor?
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This user script makes it easier to edit long questions and answers by doing the following things:
It constrains the height of the Markdown preview to 500 pixels by default, so you can see the ...
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Problem with /search tagged and max
Seems like a problem with /search when max is not set to today, and tagged is given:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/search?order=desc&max=1358294400&sort=activity&tagged=java&site=...
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What is the "Manage API Keys" link to the right of the StackApps.com frontpage?
When I click on it, I get a page that goes "Your Applications", then "No applications registered". Needless to say, this is different from "Manage your applications" link on the frontpage because I do ...
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Posting answers via Stack Exchange API
Can I post answers via an app using the API, is it possible? And if so, what are the limitations; linked with the reputation of users?
So if someone has 1 reputation he can also post answers, like a ...
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SEAPI - A lightweight Python wrapper for the Stack Exchange API
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A lightweight Python wrapper for the Stack Exchange API v2.1.
Built with Requests.
Why yet another SE API Python wrapper? (I'm aware of Stack.PY - A Python Module for Accessing the Stack ...
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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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How do you trigger the search/advanced 'q' parameter to search all words?
When you search for “playa parents not working” on http://expressionengine.stackexchange.com, you’re brought to this URL:
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/search?q=playa+parents+not+working
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What's an example of the backoff field? Is there some way I can simulate it to test appropriate behavior?
In reading about the API rate limiting, the documentation talks about a method responding with an ominous backoff field, and states that the client should cease from calling that method for that many ...
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
I have run into some confusion over the presence of the body attribute in an inbox-item returned by the /inbox method.
When item_type is set to "careers_invitations", the body attribute appears to be ...
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How to login programmatically
I'm building an app for personal use. The app simply screen-scrapes the StackExchange homepage and checks whether I am currently logged in to StackExchange. This works fine.
However, if the app ...
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Software for Javascript?
Do I need any special kind of software to view the responses I get after requesting something? Like with Klout for example, I can get all the code returned as I need it, I just don't know where to put ...
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Client Side Flow security problem
I'm not pretty sure, but if my app is enabled to Client Side Flow Authentication, then anyone with my client ID (easily found for being embedded or by sniffing the initial request) would be able to ...
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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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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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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 unauthorized_error when using OAuth2.0
I want to create a simple desktop application which connects to my account and shows some information in the status bar. I've been trying to authenticate using OAuth2.0 but I'm getting stuck and I ...
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IPA Keyboard for Linguistics.SE
This script adds an IPA keyboard button to the editing toolbar
Installation
Click here to install. Will only work in Chrome or Firefox (the latter requires Greasemonkey). See this page if you have ...
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Can I place my Android application here?
I have an Android application, which is written by me and placed on Google Play Store, Can I place that application on stack apps site ?
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Shit SE Says - Stack Exchange chat stars out of context
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The first thing you need to know is that it took me about 5 minutes of refreshing that the app to find two screenshots that were Safe For Work (and as a bonus, ...
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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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Allow post type to optionally return title field
Currently, it's possible to get the title field from the question type returned by /questions/{ids} and from the answer type returned by /answers/{ids}, using the appropriate filters.
Unfortunately, ...
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