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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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please add a key fields to stackauth results
While it is a step in the right direction, the /sites return is missing a vital component: a key field.
All of the data currently in /sites is the arbitrary data that can change.
We need a constant ...
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Waffle vote counter
It is my firm belief that every +10 vote after reaching the repcap can be redeemed for free waffles{*}.
I often hit the cap on MSO, and I like to see how many waffles SE Inc owes me. So I have a ...
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Mark a flag as helpful with a message
Sparked by this comment
Strictly-speaking, any moderator can leave a message along with Helpful, @Bill - there's just no UI for it.
The following bookmarklet, when clicked after loading the mod ...
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Is a deobfuscated version of chat js available?
The dev portion of the CDN hosts unminified JS for the main SE sites (you can find it via http://dev.stackoverflow.com ). However, I can't seem to find the same for chat.
Is there any link for ...
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Does Stackoverflow track what specific user is searching for..?
Does Stackoverflow track what specific user is searching for..?
is that data available through APIs provided..?
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Would it be possible (in a future API release) to combine queries?
I've been doing a lot of work on StackMobile lately and I made the following observation:
Many of the pages (especially the ones that display a user's profile) make a number of requests to display ...
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Are there any high resolution/scalable (SVG) icons or images available?
It would be nice to give community-developed apps a familiar look and feel. With that in mind, do the SE sites have any high-resolution or scalable icons and images that we can use?
I'm not really ...
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Can the no-key request limit be increased to 1000 for a certain amount of time?
Can the no-API-key request limit be increased to 1000 for a certain amount of time - maybe 1-2 weeks?
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List of API client libraries grouped by programming language
This question serves as an organized reference of client libraries available for the Stack Exchange API. This is intended to be an all-inclusive list of libraries, so if you develop a library, feel ...
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Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
In the /sites method, not all the sites return high_resolution_icon_url field. (e.g. Personal Finance and Money) Although if you add "@2" to the normal resolution icon you can see a high res image ...
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localhost API key receives Curl error when retrieving access token
I have registered two apps -- one that will redirect to my website and the other that will redirect to a localhost server that I have running so I don't have to test my code on the site. I have ...
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Advanced search API not returning data for "phonegap" tag
I am trying to gather results from the API for the tag phonegap but the API is not returning any data.
I am using /search/advanced and get nothing back for November:
{
"items": [],
"...
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Implicit OAuth Flow stopped working. Redirect happening to a non existent URL [duplicate]
The following URL is first hit when a user clicks on Login:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=202&redirect_uri=https%3a%2f%2fstackexchange.com%2foauth%2flogin_success&scope=...
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How to use the Stack Exchange API in PhoneGap?
I want to write a program using PhoneGap. How can I use the Stack Exchange API in PhoneGap?
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StackX app - problem signing in with Google ID
I have a problem with StackX app on my Samsung Galaxy 4 phone (Android 4.3). I'm logging to StackExchange in general, and StackOferflow in particular, using my Google ID. The app does not recognize ...
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What should I put in redirect_uri for implicit OAuth 2.0
From the document I can't figure out what value should I put in redirect_uri if I want to implement iPhone app. I try https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success but it not work and show this error
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The Unofficial Wheel of Blame
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The chat room Tavern on the Meta (MSO), in its early days, developed a habit of /blameing someone (anyone!) whenever something relatively significant went wrong. When something ...
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Incorrect link parameter on the "Complex Queries" documentation page
The "Complex Queries" documentation page has this link:
Of these three posts on Server Fault, the one with the most recent activity
where "the one with the most recent activity" links to
https://...
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Stack Notifier - a chrome extension to show new questions and inbox notifications
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Stack Notifier is a chrome extension which notifies you whenever new questions are available in your selected tags. This will help you to give your answers quickly ...
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Ace Overflow - Google Chrome extension that replaces WMD Editor with Ace on all Stack Exchange sites
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Ace Overflow is a Google Chrome extension that replaces WMD Editor with Ace on all Stack Exchange sites.
The reason I created it because I found it hard to write quick ...
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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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V2.1 API body HTML has unclosed li tags
The Stack Exchange API (with a safe filter) is returning question body content with malformed HTML, specifically <li> elements that do not have closing tags (and no valid parent).
I've seen ...
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Does the API key need to be kept secret?
For a project of mine, I need to know if I need to keep the API key secret or not.
If I do, I'm not sure how I'm going to effect its protection, as Emacs Lisp files are stored in plain text (and byte-...
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Any CSS ninjas want to help me style my sample app?
I really am horrible at CSS. I am making a SO clone example application that will eventually consume as much of the StackOverflow.Net API as possible. Although it is a clone, I am not expecting it to ...
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How do I make sure my access_token gets passed?
I am authenticating via the explicit method, but I still get a 502 throttling error. Is my key not getting passed?
Do I need to pass the access_token with the request? if so. How do I do that.
I am ...
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Can I search for the most favoured questions via the API
This came to me after reading this post.
I had a look at the API page and I wanted to find a way to search for the most Favoured questions. Is there a way to do this?
I tried to manipulate the URL ...
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Add the [main] link back into the new mSO top bar!
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Why did you create it? Because I was annoyed at the lack of a main link. Who is it for? People that want the link back. How does it work? With JavaScript magic. What problem does it solve? It ...
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stackapplet and Google account
I am trying to use Stack-Applet for Ubuntu (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/stackapplet-1-4-released-ubuntu-indicator/) and I have registered on Stack Overflow using my Google account. I guess that'...
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Can the API support per-item questions?
What I'm seeing so far is that the API is for a site-wide collection of questions.
Can someone use the API to decorate a website's products or articles with questions and answers (on a per-item ...
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Include creator in tag_synonym
When I looked at recent tag synonyms there is a Creator row, but I can't query this data with the API.
I'd like to see this data added, and a list of all approves would be nice too.
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Link to applied_count leads to a 404
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Run an API query on tag-synonyms, you will get a result that includes something like this:
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Click on the applied_count link and you get redirected to this page which is a 404.
It ...
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"OAuth request must be over HTTPS" when request is over https
I had a bug reported to me that I was able to reproduce. When authorizing to my Badges webapp, we get the following error:
error: invalid_request
error description: OAuth request must be over ...
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No award_count field on any badges
The docs say the default filter includes award_count, and I've made a filter with it in. But no award_count is returned on any badge route.
The exception being when a badge item is returned in ...
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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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Trying to get the Total results count crashes the /notifications path
I am trying to use the filter !9ciXfDSYM (same as default but with total) with the /notifications request and the response is:
{ "error_id": 500, "error_name": "internal_error",
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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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Looking for Android app that allows posting questions/comments to SE sites [duplicate]
I remember that not so long ago all the apps had a limited, read-only functionality. I wonder if it has changed?
Is there an Android app that allows you to post questions/comments to SE sites?
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Can we get better precision on rate fields in the info object?
Most of the fields returned in the info object are totals, so they're perfect. Some of them are rates though.
answers_per_minute
badges_per_minute
questions_per_minute
Having these fields set at a ...
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Script to convert a search on a StackExchange site to a Google search of that site
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Adds a Google button below the Search button on the search page which takes you to a Google search restricted to the current Stack Exchange site but with the same ...
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Looking for an application which alerts about new questions under a particular topic
I've installed StackApplet, but it only tracks the reputation of a particular user.
Is there an application which tracks new questions under a particular topic, and notifies (in system tray) when ...
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Questions for Windows 8+
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Questions is a very simple reader for Stack Exchange network websites.
It works very easy:
First, you select your favorite Stack Exchange websites.
Then, you select the tags you ...
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How to convert a (javascript) date to the API timestamp format?
When I am using this page for the Stack Exchange API /search path, I can see that it is generating time-stamps in this format:
fromdate=1380326400&todate=1380412800
What is this date format? How ...
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Show length of code blocks (mainly for codegolf.SE)
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This is a small userscript I made that shows the amount of characters in a code block above it. It is mainly for the http://codegolf.stackexchange.com site.
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(This is just ...
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API calls that return select post bodies throw JSON errors
When calling the Stack Exchange API to get the post body, it will return an error for some posts. EG:
/docs/questions#page=13&pagesize=100&fromdate=2013-09-01&todate=2013-09-02&order=...
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Set fire to people in chat
How many times have you been overwhelmed by your desire to set fire to people in Stack Exchange chat? Well now you can!
Arqade Fire
Get Chrome Extension
Get Grease Monkey User Script
Arqade Fire is a ...
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API for getting multiple (yet specific users)
I am developing one app which will be used internally in our company. We are recommending our colleagues to contribute to StackOverflow. To keep the moral of employees high, I am planning to develop ...
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Let's delete the off topic questions?
There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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All Your Stack Posts
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WordPress plugin inspired by the Meta question How can I download my content from a beta site?.
Intended as a mean to export all of a person's ...