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Script Request - Meta Notifications
Mods are notified when a new meta post is started on HSM meta by a diamond on the top bar lighting up in blue. Here it is, not lit up:
Proposal: Let users of sufficiently high rep see the same ...
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Should there be a discovery API?
It would seem to me that a simple API that return an array of the API base URL and perhaps the common name of the sites that support the API would be valuable. Is this sensible?
EDIT:
This is what I ...
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Metro Stack - A Windows Phone Stack Exchange app
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I’m pleased to announce MetroStack: A Windows Phone 8.1 app to interact with any website part of the Stack Exchange Network.
Sort, search and view questions, answers, tags and users.
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Search function in the API doesn't work as expected
This looks like an error in the search part of the API.
This search URL:
/2.2/search?tagged=javascript&intitle=get%20column%20array&site=stackoverflow
doesn't return any answers.
I'm ...
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Display tag excerpt tooltips when editing a question
There's a 25-score question on MSE with the same title requesting this feature.
The obvious solution: create a userscript to do it. :)
You can install the script by clicking here.
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How can I access a user's ID on another site (eg. SU) if I have their ID from another site (eg. SO)?
If I have the ID of a user from any site, how can I get that's user's ID for a site I specify?
Eg. If someone's ID was 10349 on Super User, how could I get 10349's id on Stack Overflow?
I know I'd ...
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Access to my Upvoted Questions
I would like to see just my upvoted questions (Don't care about other users as such).
There are some related posts:
List of Votes by Authenticated users
Can I see my past upvoted questions in handset ...
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se2jekyll.rb—export Stack Exchange posts for use on Jekyll blogs
Synopsis
se2jekyll.rb site post_id
Example (https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3020):
$ se2jekyll.rb Meta.Puzzling 3020 > site_evaluations.md
Republished at: http://jericson.github.io/2015/...
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How to obtain the bibtex item for a question with a program or HTTP request?
Which request should my program send to mathoverflow.net to get the bibtex, which is so well hidden behind the share button?
Rephrased: what I'm after is something analogous to a link like:
adsabs....
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Slack-Overflow - A programmer's best friend, now in Slack
A quick hack made in a couple of hours.
A programmer's best friend, now in Slack. Search StackOverflow right from Slack without coming off as dumb.
Setup is super simple and straightforward.
https://...
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How much traction does your StackApp get?
How much traction (in terms of for instance sessions per day) does your Stack App get? What have you done to spread the word about your app?
My experience from my first Stack App (StackRating) is ...
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quota_remaining is decreasing much faster than expected
I registered an app and tried to make a couple of requests via Chrome (without actually creating any application yet). The thing that is really confusing is that with making a single request, ...
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Unanswered Questions Recommender
Put in your user id, get a list of recent unanswered questions that you'll be able to answer:
https://lateral.io/demos/stackoverflow-unanswered/
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Chatception - quickly chat in different rooms from a single page (v0.3)
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I got fed up with having 11 chat tabs open all the time and made a userscript to fix it.
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Description
A tiny widget that allows you to quickly chat in different Stack Exchange ...
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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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Can I post a suggestion for a stack app? [duplicate]
I have an idea for a stack app. However, I can't program it. Can I post an app suggestion?
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Sane limits for script that auto-loads new reviews for easier manual reviewing
I was looking at Am I allowed to use/create robots to track questions? just now and started wondering whether my current userscript to help with reviewing has quite the right internal rate limits. It ...
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How to get the "People reached" stat of a user, using the API? [duplicate]
I checked the user ids and advanced search API docs, but I could not get this stat. Does Stack Exchange provide this info in the API?
/2.2/users/{ID}?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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What is the difference between accepted and is_accepted?
I saw there are two fields in answer type.
One is accepted, introduced in v2.2 and needs private_info access.
While another one is is_accepted without these limits.
Can somebody give an explanation?
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Message Notification App for AskUbuntu and/or StackExchange
I was wondering if there is any way to get notified in due time when someone replies to my posts/comments on AskUbuntu.com or StackExchange.com, other than via email notifications.
What I have in ...
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What is the correct way to get the stackoverflow.com URL for an answer via the API?
A while ago I made a little "Recently answered on Stack Overflow" sidebar widget for my homepage. Currently this works by filtering answers out of the user feed however I thought I'd update it to make ...
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Stack Mate - Explore your StackExchange accounts and get notified about unread messages and notifications on Windows Phone
About
Stack Mate is a simple Windows Phone app which pulls in your StackExchange account details and keeps you up to date with any activity on the site. This application was not created to browse ...
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How to get Question/Answer body in the API response using filters?
I am specifically looking to get the question/answer body back. Is it possible?
I am looking through the API documentation and I'm confused about how to make a call with filters.
Sample call I'm ...
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How do I get the body of an answer, as well as the author? [duplicate]
I am using this call to get the body of an answer :
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/5877753/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
But this only gives the author of ...
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Is there a way to determine total number of upvotes and downvotes (etc) for a user (regardless of reputation cap)?
For example, if you use the /users/<id>/reputation call, you get a list of reputation changes for the user, but it takes the daily reputation cap into account. What I would like is an API call ...
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How to get up_vote_count and down_vote_count for a user?
I'm testing the following command:
$ curl -s "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/users/55075?&site=stackoverflow" | gunzip -d | python -m json.tool
However it doesn't return up_vote_count and ...
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Export a question and its answers as LaTeX
A post on a MathJax-enabled SE site is typically a mix of LaTeX-like syntax and HTML and/or Markdown. Consequently, the source of a post cannot be processed by a LaTeX compiler as is, despite the ...
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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.
About
ArtOfChatbot is a two-part creation: a basic ...
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Ability to support json type for post request
Right now we it uses url encode to post authenticated request. Maybe an option for application json?
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Devlookup : A Search tool designed for developers
About
Devlookup is a search tool designed for developers.
It aggregates results from the most important development websites, using Bing as the backend engine.
The main goal is to improve resource ...
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Any guarantees on JSON string encoding?
According to the JSON specification, JSON can be returned in one of five string encodings:
UTF-8 (the default encoding)
UTF-16 Little Endian
UTF-16 Big Endian
UTF-32 Little Endian
UTF-32 Big Endian
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JSON parsing, won't work
I'm using the Stack Apps API. Retrieving questions by tags works well, and the JSON is returned. Now I need to parse the JSON and there is something wrong with my code:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api....
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Remove chat room description and tags
Chat room description and tags may only be useful a first couple of times you come by a chat room. After that, they are just wasting space. To hide them from the view, you can install the following ...
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MathJax Buttons
Adds some math/science buttons to the editor on science SE sites. These buttons are useful for converting selected text to math, formatting SI units, and formatting chemical equations. There are also ...
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Heep, a Stack Exchange client for Windows
Heep is a Stack Exchange client for Windows.
Available now on the Windows Store here.
Features:
Browsing Stack Exchange questions based on Interesting, New, and Hot questions.
Searching Stack ...
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Help with javascript SDK configuration
The following problem is REAL! All names have been changed to protect the innocent.
I have a site at "http://Something.github.io/MyRepository/Directory/index.html"
And I have my app configured like ...
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Would it be a problem if my server polls the API every minute or so about 1 of my questions on my list?
I know that officially identical requests cannot be done in more than one minute.
But would it be a problem if I had a server which had a list of question IDs (say 10 per user, so reasonable max 10,...
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404 "This Method cannot be called this way" when getting user's inbox
I'm doing a POST request to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/<id>/inbox to get the users' inbox items.
However I'm getting a 400 error on the request, and a JSON body saying it was a 404 ...
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Is there any app that could extract and manage questions from Stack Overflow?
I'm looking for help with a Stack Overflow application that could do the following things for me:
Extract the top voted questions at a given date and tag
Extract the answered questions of some given ...
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Official support for SE apps
Is SE a company, or to put it another way, is it possible to develop apps for SE itself, rather than as a 3rd party?
I find it frustrating to get to a complete list of my sites, you have to go to ...
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Answerer Name comment highlighter [duplicate]
Update: This has been added to my Optional Features userscript - please go there for the latest version.
After reading this, I really liked the idea, so I made a Userscript to highlight answerer's ...
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Stackopedia - all the answers to the questions you never asked
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Random Questions
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An Android app that shows a random high voted question and its best answer each time you launch it. A really different way to learn new ...
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'The target origin provided does not match the recipient window's origin' message when trying to use localhost
I am trying to experiment with the Stack Overflow API on my localhost and am struggling to get the authentication to complete. Here is my application JavaScript code (note that I am using IBM ...
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Posting an answer via StackOverflow API
This is in reference to the StackOverflow for Windows and Windows Phone . I'm in the middle of the development of the app. Right now, I am trying to implement the posting of answers using the API.
My ...
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Are there plans to involve Area51 in SE API version 3?
Several applications come to mind, proposal publicity, question analysis, making resources files, but I can't find any SE API calls that can do this.
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Stack Overflow Questions Notifier - LinuxMint Cinnamon Applet that notifies you when new questions, with certain tag(s), are posted on Stackoverflow
Description
A Linux Mint Cinnamon Applet that checks Stack Overflow site and shows a notification popup when new questions (with one or several tags) are posted
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Blizzard is Overflowing - Reskin of basic SO to look like a blizzard site [closed]
Placeholder for a basic re-skin of the profile page search page and question page. Needed for write access.
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After user login, how do you ask user for permissions?
For an app on Windows Phone, I'm missing the page after you enter your login credentials and click submit. When I debug on my device, after I log in I obtain the correct response Uri with access ...
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Should the access tokens expire? [closed]
Is it ok to set access tokens to never expire? Or should we ask the user of the application to periodically re-enter their credentials?
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Where are the built-in filters?
On api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-filter it states:
there are a number of built-in filters which cover common use cases.
Where can I find them? Can you make built-in filters a link?
I need only ...