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When does the judging take place?
I am planning to work some more on my apps tomorrow and get some last minute changes implemented. However, I notice that:
The API Contest winners will be picked the first week of August.
...which ...
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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 ...
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Incorrect Wordpress and Electronics icons
Currently Meta Icon
Currently Main Icon
With all the other sites (except electronics, which has the same icon for both), Meta has the B&W or sepia icon, while the main site's icon is coloured.
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Is it really worth to (implicitly) discourage documentation of API/library usage nowadays already?
Update:
Kevin provided an answer, which, while adding something of value to the three related questions together (by naming the originating concern eventually), actually does not apply to the ...
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It's taking two calls to /oauth/dialog/ to get an access_token? [duplicate]
When we send this request:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog/?client_id=`client_id`&scope=read_inbox%2cno_expiry%2cwrite_access%2cprivate_info&redirect_uri=https%3a%2f%2fstackexchange....
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Keep track of questions by high reputation users by favoriting them
Some users may prefer to pay extra attention to questions asked by those with sufficiently high reputation. This application aims to make this easier by automatically "bookmarking" such questions, i.e....
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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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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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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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Bypass character limits in comments
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Complaints on meta were raised about the threshold of 15 chars for comments, and even though many people agree that it shouldn't be there, this request was status-declined.
Using ...
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Stack Exchange Topbar Tools
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Ever stared at that almost-black1 bar at the top of the page and thought "not awesome enough"?
Well, think no longer! Stack Exchange Topbar Tools is a userscript that contains an extensible ...
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Magic Links Enhancer
This userscript adds a way to quickly link to posts, help pages, privileges and links across the Stack Exchange sites.
It uses @M'vy's idea of having a basic format of [SITE:type:id], and works the ...
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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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Display absolute timestamps (in local time)
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This script converts relative timestamps to absolute timestamps, displayed in your local time zone. For times less than one hour ago, I leave the "x mins ago" relative ...
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StackBot - Making it easy to post StackExchange questions to Twitter
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StackBot is a small C# application that is designed to post interesting questions to a Twitter account at specified intervals.
License
StackBot is released under the Ms-PL license.
Download
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Implicit OAuth authentication is not redirecting
I'm trying to build a simple iOS application , with login feature to stack overflow network.
I've read the documentation and choose to use Implicit OAuth2.0.
I've already registered an StackApps, so ...
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Make site icons have transparent backgrounds
This is a request to make the site's icons have transparent backgrounds. They are already PNGs, so they support that. This would make applications such as Droidstack look much better.
Although ...
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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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Angular StackOverflow Activity, a module for showing off your public activity
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AngularJS directive module for showing off your public StackOverflow activity. Works well with responsive frameworks including Bootstrap 3. Customizable templates and iconography.
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Diamond Chat Aware - Helping you be aware of your audience when moving from private to public chat rooms
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While very subtle, in the above screenshot, you see a diamond watermark in the textbox. As someone who spends time in private rooms, mostly for moderation purposes, I ...
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StackInbox v2.2 - Inbox client for Mac (Now with notifications)
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2.2 Notifications, now you can switch between Inbox items and notifications, unread number will show in the scope bar. More of the preview text is shown. Fixed bug where menu item ...
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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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Limiting the number of items returned by a request?
How can I limit the amount of items returned to me when performing an API call?
I only want the top 10 most commonly used tags, by default I'm sent back 30. EG:
api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags?order=...
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Getting started: What kind of thing can we do with the SE-API that we can't do with the SE Data Explorer?
I want to know if my slender grasp of the latter will help me learn about the former.
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How to register application for API implicit authentication?
I am working on an applet to for Cairo-Dock, to check the user's StackExchange inbox. Right now I've worked around this by using the genuwine json feed, but that's not stable since posts are marked as ...
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StackDoc - Adding Stack Overflow data to online documentation
Inspired by Jeff's tweet about crowd sourced documentation I've started a Chrome extension to add data from Stack Overflow to existing online documentation.
It's early days at the moment, but I think ...
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QuickComment2: Automatic keyboard-only comment snippets
This is a vastly improved version of QuickComment: comment shortcuts to cut down on tedium. See that post for more information.
See the Github repo for instructions on how to install and use ...
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Click to Search
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This simple userscript adds a clickable search button to the Stack Exchange top bar, as the only current way to search is to press enter, which can be confusing for some.
You can select one of ...
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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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Killit - Bookmarklet to replace single images from the page
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Bookmarklet that replaces any selected image on the page with:
How to use.
You first need to "install" the bookmarklet by visiting the project homepage and dragging the button to your ...
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DashClock Extension for Android
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Displays the user's reputation on the Android lock screen as an extension of the popular DashClock widget. It can be switched between displaying the total reputation score and today's ...
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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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StackUnderflow.js: A JavaScript Library and Mashup Application
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StackUnderflow.js is a lightweight JavaScript library that makes retrieving and rendering question summary information from Stack Exchange sites simple. It supports ...
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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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Moderation request: Make "scripts" and "user-script" into synonyms of "script"
We currently have three tags that are essentially the same thing -- especially in a stackapps context. They are scripts, user-script, and script.
script is one of the "required tags" and has a nice ...
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Moderation request: Flags unhandled for months, please approve
Note that Stack Apps is its own meta site.
Sorry for nagging the mods, but I have flags that have sat in the "active" state since June 29th, and these flags apparently don't expire.
Can a moderator ...
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How to increase the allowed number of API calls?
Stack Exchange provides the possibility to do a limited number of API calls per day from the same IP (10,000 if the customer registers the app).
Is it possible to get that number increased?
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Silverlight download JSON from API fails
I cant seem to download the JSON for the questions on SO, I cant get the HTML and JSON from other addresses, but the SO API always returns jibberish.
Here is my code:
public void ...
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BridgeStack — .NET client library with full 2.0 support
BridgeStack
This is a StackExchange API v2.0 consumer library written under C#. It is heavily documented and designed to make it as easy as possible to interact with the API.
Example Usage
To get ...
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CodeTipper - Easily reward quality content with BitCoin, DogeCoin and LiteCoin tips!
CodeTipper
https://codetipper.com
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CodeTipper provides an easy way for you to express your appreciation for the quality advice, and expert assistance that Stack Exchange users provide everyday ...
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Get Site Icon or Icon Url
Is there a way to get the icon or the IconUrl of the site so I can put it in my app like the DisplayName?
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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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Minor typo on help page
On the API Routes help page, this:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets summary information for the questions that have been favorited a set of users.
should probably be:
/users/{id}/favorites Gets ...
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Stack Overflow question downloader in markdown or HTML format?
I want to download a series of questions from Stack Overflow; is there a tool or API that can do this? The download could be in markdown or HTML format. I basically want an offline reference for those....
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"On your keyboard, idiot!" - clickable scolding <kbd>s
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July 2, 2009. Complaints are raised on Meta Stack Overflow over the styling of <kbd> tags. One helpful commenter humorously suggested that
Now all they need is an onclick ...
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Getting Error 400 when using Authentication Broker in Win 8 App for Stackexchange API
I'm trying to connect to Stack Exchange API using OAuth.
So far I've been able to get a token and retrieve data that does not require authentication.
When i try do query that uses the authentication, ...
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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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Locked vs Closed
Whats the difference between locked and closed API wise. What I mean is why is this question locked:
https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/4755/should-i-get-a-credit-card-closed
But this one ...
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What is the Errors endpoint used for?
I am trying to figure out what the errors endpoint is used for, so I can I can implement it in my API.
I have been trying things like:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/errors/404
http://api....
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