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Favorite tag highlighting for just the tags [duplicate]
I really liked the idea from Meta of highlighting the tags rather than the entire question - it was too overwhelming, so I created a userscript to do just this:
From:
To:
(favorite tags are python, ...
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Stack Remote - Free Android app dedicated towards Stack Exchange sites! [closed]
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Stack Remote is a dedicated Android app for the Stack Exchange sites like Stack Overflow, Server fault, Gaming, User Experience, Super User, etc.
The app uses the ...
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Collection of time-saving bookmarklets for Stack Exchange sites
My Bookmarklets for Stack Exchange is a collection of 20+ simple bookmarklets for specific tasks that could be done through the interface, but would take longer. Some of them use API, others parse the ...
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Request: Mark inbox items as read, now that API 2.2 is here [duplicate]
Now we have write API, can we get a method for the inbox to mark inbox items as read?
Previously I believe the reason for not having this was the risk of apps marking items as read without the user ...
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Manual Draft Save - Save a draft on demand
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This small script adds a save button to the editor bar that allows you to instantly save the contents of the editor as a draft. Although this happens automatically every minute or so,...
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API v2.1 supports write access, but is anyone using it?
Over the weekend, I attended an NHS "Hackday" where we tried to solve a problem one of the junior doctors brought. We hacked together a stack exchange alternative for medical doctors to ask questions. ...
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Total Number Of Answers
I need to find the total number of answers submitted by a user on stackoverflow. I tried the following:
I got my json from the following:
https://api.stackexchange.com/users/2440312/answers?site=...
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How do I sort the /2.2/notifications endpoint?
I do not find information on the notifications api page. I am looking at this: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/notifications I would like to be able to sort by creations date and other fields. is ...
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CareerStack - An Android app to search Stack Overflow Careers from your mobile or tablet
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Powered by Stack Overflow Careers' RSS feed, CareerStack is an Android app to search & share job listings easily from any Android device.
Users can search by:
Keywords ...
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"We are no longer accepting questions from this account.". Error with write access, using the API
I have created an application for testing write-access APIs. After registration, I can successfully retrieve an access token by hitting the URL:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=3973&...
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How do display names relate to at-mentions?
Display names seem to be able to use full-on Unicode, but this is not so for at-mentions (Comment-replies).
At the very least, spaces are stripped when doing an at-mention for Test User; this would ...
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"client_id rejected" error when retrieving the access_token
I'm developing an application in C# and I to post questions, so I need an access token.
I registered my application and I have received a client ID. Then I get the following query-string to get the ...
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StackPaste - paste images into the text form instantly
tl;dr Github link (raw)
Motivation
I really like to accompany my questions with images, especially on sites like Graphic Design or Chemistry.
Very often, my images are just annotated screenshots or ...
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ACQUA - Automatic Community-based Question Answering
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ACQUA augments the browsing experience of SX. It looks at the discretised version of linguistic features of each candidate answer, predicts and highlights which answer is going to be marked as "...
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Buggy HTTP header behavior with the `site` parameter. Improper caching?
In sx.el we are using url-request-extra-headers to pass API requests to Stack Exchange.
When performing multiple queries in quick succession, we end up receiving the same JSON response even when the ...
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`last_editor` is missing but `last_edit_date` is present?
Some posts (questions or answers) have a last_edit_date but no last_editor. Does this always mean that the post was last edited by the post owner?
Example: stackapps.com/a/3891/
PS: This issue came ...
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rubyoverflow 0.5
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rubyoverflow is an ruby wrapper for the Stack Exchange API.
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Middle of being rewritten. Handles /users/{id}/* routes along with /sites and /users. Documentation forthcoming
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How can I filter events by event_type?
I am using the /events route in the API and it returns all events from Stack Overflow.
But I want to filter based on event_type. Is there any way to do that?
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Unhide Downvoted Answers
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This simple userscript allows you to hover over an answer that has been greyed-out because of its low score to remove the styling. After you move away from the post, it will return to its ...
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Encoding type of display_name
I am using the v2.2 api. There is a small issue I have come across.
For the display_name I do not understand the encoding. For example for this user, the name comes as Mike Sherrill 'Cat ...
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Is there any API or documentation that would help my adding functionality to Q&A textareas?
I'm writing an userscript that should add some functionality to the main textarea (WMD) used to post and edit answers and questions. The functionality will usually need to do things like insert text ...
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How can I access all questions asked by an arbitrary user?
Within the web app for courses I organize, I'd like students to be able to provide their Stack Overflow username, so that we can pull in their most recent and unanswered questions. This information is ...
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Auto-Link - Add links based on personal keywords
What is this exactly?
A script that helps with linking recurring recommendations and making answers more user friendly. You can provide a list of global keywords paired with a link and the script ...
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Is developing, with the Stack Exchange API, possible on my local machine?
I'm sorry if this question seems trivial for the most of you but I'm not very familiar with OAuth and the Stack Exchange API.
Is it possible to use this API in local environment for the development ...
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Does verifying OAuth2 `access_token` validity count towards API call quota?
Does this Stack Exchange API endpoint count towards quota usage? :
http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/read-access-tokens
(This is the most promising API call I found for verifying the validity of ...
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How do I update redirect_uri param for a StackExchange App [duplicate]
I've created a StackExchange app but now I cannot find the edit page so I can update the app settings, like:
redirect_uri - which is an OAuth param
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Filter doesn't consistently return comment bodies
I've been trying to set up a filter I can use with /questions/{id}/answers/ (using the UI at this link), which returns the following fields:
answer:
answer_id
body_markdown
comments
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How to sort by the newest question?
I'm trying to retrieve the latest questions posted in a particular tag.
What's the equivalent for:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php?sort=newest&pagesize=15
I see that v1.1 API is ...
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Stack Overflow Instant Search
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I love the concept of instant search that Google introduced. Stack Overflow Instant Search does exactly that - it brings (almost) instant search to Stack Overflow. The results update ...
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Using the API for data analysis?
I am creating an R wrapper for the API. The use case for this is for doing data analysis on the SO data.
As I am building it, it seems like I would need to iterate over many pages in order to get ...
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soDumpMe: a Ruby script co convert Data Dump XML to HTML
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Screenshot coming soon!
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This app was created to solve a request on Meta that the XML of the data dump is not readable. This app aims to convert the XML to HTML.
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geek score calculator - SO + Github on Rail
I am learning Rails and this is my first application built on Rails 2.3.8.
http://g33k.heroku.com
License: Free to use
Code: http://github.com/utkarsh2012/g33k-score-calculator
Platform: Hosted on ...
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topstack.io - Learn from some of the most popular questions and answers on Stack Overflow (beta)
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It uses the most popular Stack Overflow questions, and sprinkles it with some spaced recall algorithms. The goal of this spaced recall is to help the student ...
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How do I find a user by their `display_name`?
I am using Serel (the Ruby wrapper) and would like to be able to find a user by their display_name.
As it stands right now, I can only find them via an ID - like Serel::User.find(1,2,3).
I tried ...
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OverflowMonthly
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OverflowMonthly is a monthly collection of the most popular questions on the Stack Exchange Network,published as ebooks(pdf and kindle format).
People can now also ...
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Script to add a "Related Tags" module for search on all Stack Exchange sites
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Back in May A.Danesh asked "How can I see related tag for a search query?". I didn't actually see this question at the time but by September I started wondering the ...
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Suggestion Status - a userscript to view the status of your suggested edits
Suggestion Status is a small userscript which displays the status of your suggestions using color codes; , and yet to be reviewed. This allows you to immediately see the status of your suggestions, ...
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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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A userscript to update the page/tab title with the # of unread notifications
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Per this question: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/57315/can-we-get-notification-in-the-tab-change-of-title
This user script was created to help draw attention to notifications even ...
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Codeng - Korean translation community for Stack Overflow
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This website is made for Stack users who are unfamiliar to English (Korean developers).
Anyone can translate Stack Overflow questions into Korean for others ...
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Blaze: For finding and flagging low-quality posts
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Simple webapp to check the API for new content (answers / questions), and display it in a scannable format. flag button posts to Charcoal HQ, can be expanded to other rooms.
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(Unofficial) Stack Overflow, Windows Phone app forgets its place when sleeping
Sometimes, when I'm reading a question on this (unofficial) Stack Overflow, Windows Phone app, the phone goes to sleep.
When I wake it up, it's forgotten I was reading a question, and has gone back to ...
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Stack Snippets Console
SE recently added "Stack Snippets" -- running JavaScript, CSS, and HTML code snippets. These are great, except for one problem.
I made a request for a console to be added, so that we don't have to ...
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Tag highlighting on main SO page
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I recently added more than one "Favourite" tag and got pretty irritated by the sea of yellow on the home page.
As such I wrote this little user script (for use in Chrome's ...
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duckduckstack - The StackExchange API Doc Autocompleter
NOTE (2nd April, 2012): After an e-mail correspondence with DuckDuckGo's Gabriel W. I decided to take down this project (and remove it from GitHub) due to Terms of Service issues with aggregating ...
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Code Golf SE answer sorter
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This script adds a "shortest" tab to pages on the Programming Puzzles & Code Golf Stack Exchange site. Clicking the tab will sort answers in decreasing order by the length of ...
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Chat Easy Input Tools - Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands
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Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands, reducing the dependency on mouse usage. Current version does not have a configurable set of hotkeys but later versions will.
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How to use the StackExchange object on a userscript?
This object seems to be available in all Stack Exchange pages and contains interesting information about the actual page, site, user, among others. Just type StackExchange on the console to check it ...
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StackPlonk: plonk users you don't want to help anymore
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If you really don't want to help some user anymore, go to his profile page, and click the Plonk button next to his name. Every question of this user will then have a ...
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Stack Exchange userscript template / boilerplate
I find it annoying to have to type the entire list of Stack Exchange sites to include every single time I make a new userscript. Furthermore, jQuery isn't automatically included by default.
Is there ...