Highest scored questions
2,813 questions
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Bold and colorful area tags
About:
This script is written for cstheory.SE and MathOverflow. It modifies the way the area tags (tags having . in their names) are displayed.
The script is based on Hexadecimal user rep.
Download:
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How to get a users reputation ranking/position?
Using the SO API request http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/{userId}, I can get a user's current reputation score with no problems. What I'd like to know is where the user's rank in the set of all ...
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Collapse Header Script
Only shows the logo and main menu on mouse-over on the top bar.
Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am sure you will manage somehow, adjust includes as needed:
// ==UserScript==
// @name ...
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Fitts's Law Favourite Tags Script
For people like myself who fail at hitting things or just want to hit them faster (i use this in combination with the delete button removal script)
Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am ...
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Filtering tags should provide exact matches at top
Take this query for example: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/tags?pagesize=25&filter=ip
No where is there the valid tag [ip]. It is further down the page. This is quite annoying when searching ...
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StackFlairWidget - OS X Dashboard widget for displaying flair(tm)
Important: BETA introductory version, lots more to come
Warning: Beta version does not check empty responses, this version may not work for users without Area 51 accounts
Screenshot / Code Snippet
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Please add "total votes on questions" and "total votes on answers" into /user/{id} API
Is there any chance that the following methods:
Total votes on questions (N.B. NOT total score but total number of votes)
Total votes on answers
Could be added to the API?
There are no threats to ...
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GM Script: Revert changes to Unanswered Questions Box
If you are like me and think that the new styling for unanswered question drastically hurts the site's usability, rejoice.
I've created a Greasemonkey script which will return unanswered questions to ...
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"Special" required tag listings only show single required tag
When you're viewing questions tagged with one of app,script,library, you get the special formatting view with the thumbnail on the left. On pages where this view is displayed, only one of these tags ...
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Hide the tag-info popup
This script hides the tag info popup. In response to Why are there popups over tags in the question page?.
Install
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Always show console on API docs
This script stops you having to click the "show console" button to test an API call.
Install - View Source
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Pretty StackOverflow
This userscript provides a prettier interface to StackOverflow.
(Click for larger image)
Installation
Stylebot page
Userscript install link
It also hides notifications. To bring them back, you can ...
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Elections nominations posts not showing up in API
I know that it's probably unintended that the Primary voting scores were leaked by the API, but I think if you're going to remove it, then at least make it official, so I won't have to wonder if it's ...
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Is there any Careers CV API available?
Is there any API for the CV service of Careers (careers.stackoverflow.com)?
My requirements are simple, I just need a way to access the data of a given CV to propose an alternative view.
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tag colors incorrect
the tag color for english site seem incorrect, the dark grey color is the background while the yellow colour is the foreground. This is contradictory to other sites which have the darker colours as ...
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OBSOLETE - Unanswered questions with tags returns wrong total
When requesting a list of unanswered questions with a specific tags the total count show the total number of questions for that tag, not the count for the unanswered questions.
Using http://api....
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MetaOverflow: Stack Exchange related ATOM feeds
Screenshot
About
MetaOverflow provides specialised RSS feeds for the Stack Exchange sites. Currently is provides two feeds related to the availability of sites, but more feeds for other things will ...
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key not being recognized by api.meta.stackoverflow.com?
I have been testing a throttle implementation against meta today and suddenly got shut down with a key violation.
It is possible that I have used enough requests to prompt this but I doubt it.
In ...
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/users/{id}/tags - 504 Gateway Timeout
this url is technically valid but generates 504.
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/242897/tags?filter=c%23&fromdate=0&max=1577836800&min=0&page=1&pagesize=100&sort=...
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/users/{id}/associated - inconsistent behavior
/users/{id}/associated occasionally returns empty for an association even though there are definitely associated users. Calling it again immediately returns expected results.
GET /1.0/users/e58345f5-...
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Exterminators - Bugs and Features, Present and Past and those who brought them to light.
Exterminators
About
Exterminators is a simple aggregate of bugs and feature requests with a per-user breakdown with a weighted score thrown in for fun.
Bugs and Feature requests are considered 'open' ...
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Need some help verifying 503 throttle issue
Update:
We've confirmed the issue... fixing it
is taking more time than anticipated.
– Kevin Montrose
Color me happy.
The throttle is now applied to api.stackoverflow.com so we have an undefined ...
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How the apps-libraries will be judged for the contest?
Do you know how the apps-library will be judged in term of awesomeness? Is there something more official than Jeff Atwood's contest post on the blog?
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Shouldn't the API help be consistent with the trademark guidance?
The description for the two StackAuth Routes within the API help both contain the phrase StackExchange network - shouldn't this rather be Stack Exchange Network to be consistent with the recently ...
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MahTweets - Social Media Client
About
MahTweets is Yet Another .NET Twitter Client, that has expanded to include functionality for other social media sites including Facebook, Yammer, Foursquare, Tumblr, and that's just the start.
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Observe a private beta in StackAuth
See here.
WebApps and Meta.WebApps are listed, as WebApps has entered the private beta phase.
Note that the state property for those two are private_beta and linked_meta respectively, values nobody ...
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Stack2XML - A JSON to XML Conversion Service
About
Stack2XML is a web service that fulfills API requests on your behalf and converts the results to XML before returning it to you. The purpose of this service is to support those languages / ...
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Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I'm having a problem returning a list of users questions within a given timespan. I understand that the documentation ( http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/questions ) that ...
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StackAuth needs crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml
These would be helpful to have. Absence breaks Silverlight apps.
http://stackauth.com/crossdomain.xml
http://stackauth.com/clientaccesspolicy.xml
http://stackauth.com/0.8/crossdomain.xml
http://...
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API Help Suggestion: /search - can we make tagged,nottagged description consistent with other list params
on most other params that accept a semi-colon delimited list we see
list of tags questions must have, semicolon delimited
A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, semicolon-delimited list of ...
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Get the Time of the Stats and if Possible the new time it will be updated
From here I learned that the stats are cache. I understand the reason for this, so I ask if possible to have the timestamp of the stats return in the api and if possible to have the next time there ...
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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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Guidance on usage thresholds - specifically throttling [duplicate]
I am running a lot of tests and have started to get 403 errors.
I am using a key and certainly have not exceeded my quota.
Am I running foul of some yet unmentioned throttling threshold and if so, ...
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Tangoverflow - StackApps API using D with Tango
Screenshot / Code Snippet
Not yet available.
About
So far, in commit #2, can successfully parse the statistics API into an object. I'll update more as I get more of the API done (but for now, I need ...
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Stack Bridge Application
Screenshot / Code Snippet
SB For Windows
About
From This Application you can see all your account, see new Questions and Answer. You will receive a message every time you get a badge etc.
License
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Api-specific tags
It might be useful to have auto-generated tags for each API and add a link to the tag feed to the help page for that API. This would link directly the API documentation with the relevant discussions ...
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Can the server side of the API be open sourced?
I would like to see the open source Stack Exchange clones (OSQA/Shapado) to implement the same API, and this would help considerably.
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Stack Exchange API not realtime?
I was testing the inbox/unread API but noticed that there is a big delay between one gets a message, and this message gets included in the API response. Like one minute or more.
Is this API not real-...
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What category does a website fit under?
I developed a mobile front end to StackOverflow... and I was wondering what category it fit under...
I mean, is it an app? Something else?
I think we need an additional category: services.
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StackAuth returning 404?
http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites
http://stackauth.com/1.0/help
Both of these are currently returning 404 Not Found. What's up with that?
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it
See title. When a user never modified their "about me" section the API doesn't return that, which then causes my parser to go wild returning errors. However, when a user has modified their "about me"...
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How to access the text of the page returned using curl?
This is what curl http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/users/113124/favorites returns
^_<8b>^H^@^@^@^@^@^D^@ì½^G`^\I<96>%&/mÊ{^?JõJ×àt¡^H<80>`^S$Ø<90>@^PìÁ<88>Íæ<92&...
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Auto discover API version?
I may have missed this before, and if I have, I apologize (I searched and didn't find anything).
Is there a way to discover what the API version for a site is? With the recent change from 0.8 to 0.9,...
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User "authentication" (validation?) in V1 of the StackExchange API
In a previous question, it was asked whether it is possible to authenticate a user through the Stackoverflow API? The short answer was no, not until version 2. Now I would like to know: is there any ...
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Getting required upvotes for apps tab is too dependant on release date
I have recently released a chrome extension and it is at present getting about 3 upvotes a week. Not as many as hoped, but still not bad. However, this may not be enough to get it into the apps tab (...
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Is the StackExchange API free of charge?
I am brand new to StackApps, so please bear with me for a question that is hopefully obvious to most regular users.
As far as I can tell, there is no charge for accessing the StackExchange API. ...
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Is there any way or script to sort questions/posts/answers with custom criteria?
I want to fetch some questions from the API and I would like to sort them. However, I don't want to sort by the default options (activity, votes, creations, hot, week, month), but instead, for example,...
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How can I get a list of questions posted from a certain IP address (a.k.a an organization)?
I read an article by David Robinson: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/15/how-do-students-use-stack-overflow
He filters questions posted by users at educational institutions identified by their ISP. ...
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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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Should HTML or Markdown be passed to /questions/{id}/edit?
I'm making an app that supports editing questions. Should HTML or Markdown source be passed to the body parameter of /questions/{id}/edit?