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Is there an API to upload images to SE's imgur installation?
Is there an API for uploading images to the StackExchange-specific imgur installation? I could use the main imgur site, but they don't keep the images indefinitely.
Use case: It would be ...
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Certain users aren't showing up in /users when filter is applied
NB: The filter parameter in v1.x of the API had a different meaning to the filter parameter in v2.0
Consider the following query:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users?filter=jon%20skeet
This ...
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Is there a maximum on the number of search results returned (using the SO API)?
I was trying to do statistics on post from some not-too-popular tags like matlab, using the search method. It appears that it will never return a total larger than 2000. Is this a hard limit that ...
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Stack Overflow offline PDF question reader
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Using a keyword, the Stackoverflow Offline Reader WinForm app loads all the questions
and their answers into a single pdf file and displays the pdf (if you have a reader installed). Questions ...
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How to get a User's picture (Avatar)
I've seen a couple of Stack Apps that have the actual picture for the user profile. Is that coming from the API, and if so how? If not I'm assuming they are using some screen-scrapping to get that ...
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User on main site, also on meta?
If a user has an account on one of the stack exchange site, I thought they had an account on it's Meta site.
This doesn't seem the case in the associated users API route for one user (that's all I'...
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Documentation has broken link (JSONP)
On Wikipedia, JSONP now has its own article, instead of being part of the JSON article.
The documentation links JSONP to Wikpedia:JSON#JSONP. It should link to Wikipedia:JSONP.
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Is it possible to sync notifications across multiple desktops with StackApplet?
These days people usually work on a number of machines, laptop for the road, desktop at home, perhaps even a machine at work or uni. This creates the need to have notifications synced somehow. It is ...
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StackAsk - Ask questions from iPhone and iPad - Now free on App Store!
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Now on the App Store, Download for free now!
Its main features are:
Content editor with formatting buttons
Questions are saved, with multiple versions
You can enter a question without Internet ...
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How to search my threads based on some key words?
As I have already many threads in some StackExchange sites, sometime I would like to be able to search among them, for instance, based on some key words.
Does anyone know how to do that? Thank you!
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API Endpoint Changes Coming In Version 2.0
As work has progressed on the upcoming second version of our API, we've come to a bit of an impasse that's going to force a semi-radical change.
Here's the root of the issue:
once you've gotten an ...
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/comments?fromdate is broken?
The following url should return 0 comments:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/comments?fromdate=9999999999
Instead it returns all comments, not actually filtering by fromdate at all.
It happens on ...
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StackReader for iPad
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StackReader is the Stack Exchange Network on your iPad.
Feature highlights:
access to all Stack Exchange Network sites (including most popular
ones: Stack Overflow, Server Fault ...
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/stats is broken on OnStartups
The following URL is returning an object that is missing some data:
http://api.onstartups.stackexchange.com/1.1/stats
The entire site object is missing from the returned data. Other sites, such as ...
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How to find libraries that are compatible with a certain API release on Stack Apps?
This has become a bit of a concern for me with the upcoming beta for v2.0 of the API. The problem is simple: if someone wants to know what version of the API a library is compatible with (or at least ...
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How to get questions higher than ID
How can I get questions sorted by Question_Id in descending? (Sorted by creation is working) and how to get questions higher than given ID (or higher than last questions creation), my idea is to get ...
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How to get "inbox" items
Is there an API function to get the contents of the user's inbox? For example, my inbox looks kind of like this:
2 comments on Bash Prompt keeps disappearing
What does that PS1 accomplish that PS1='\...
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Infinite Scrolling - [Never Click Another Page Number Again!]
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Have you ever been reading through a post on a Stack Exchange site with a lot of answers and you had to keep clicking the next page link? Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to do that? Well ...
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Can you please return the reputation scores in addition to the reputation changes?
As by far and large (one of) the (two) largest consumer of /users/*/reputation1 , I humbly request an addition to this route.
What I'd love to see is getting the reputation score in addition to the ...
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How to get tags using the API?
I have a requirement in my application to show the technical skills (tags) in auto-complete format like Stack Overflow has.
Is there any example to get the tags from Stack Overflow using JavaScript +...
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The /users/{id}/timeline route is reporting incorrect totals
It seems that the /users/{id}/timeline route is returning an incorrect total. For example, the following URL is reporting a total of 1607 items:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/users/7789/timeline
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OBSOLETE - How to get the actual “body” of a question or answer?
How do I actually get the body (i.e. the textual content) of any say question or answer.
For example, for question (id= 7406104), I call:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions/7406104
But in ...
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Sort ranges on /questions/unanswered is broken
The following API request should return all unanswered questions with a score of at least 30:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/questions/unanswered?sort=votes&min=30
However, the response consists ...
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StackAuth.com user's id
What ID should I pass to stackauth.com/1.1/users/{id}/associated url to get user's associations?
The description of the api call states:
id – a set of up to 10 users' association ids, obtained from ...
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Where do I get UUID for fetching user's associations?
Yesterday (09/17/2011) I could go to my stackexchange site's profile page and grab UUID from the url:
I could use this UUID to fetch user's associations with stack exchange network. Now said URL ...
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Draft Specification for API v2.0
We've started working on the next version of the Stack Exchange API.
The current draft specification is available, and we'd like to hear your feedback!
The headlining feature for this release is ...
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Scrape the site list, show sites sorted by answer ratio
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Display the list of Stack Exchange sites, with the number of questions and answers on each site, and the answer ratio (number of answers divided by the number of questions). The list is sorted ...
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Stack Exchange reputation graph total reputation overlay
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Adds a small box to the global reputation graph to indicate the user's total reputation across all sites where the user has at least 200 reputation. Also displays the ...
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Click to expand code regions
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This is a Greasemonkey script that allows you to click code regions on Stack Overflow (or other Stack Exchange sites) and have it expand to whatever size it needs. Get rid of those pesky scroll ...
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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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questions/{id} API not working as intended for vectorized id
Show Console > Try it > Call Method button on questions/{id} API page is not working properly for vectorized id ie. when I am passing 7282205 it is working fine, but when I am passing- 7282205; ...
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Convert Ctrl-space to non-break-space (for FL&U)
This is a mini-script to convert Ctrl+Space to a non-break-space (0x160, not ).
You can copy-paste the code below (if you want to change the includes, for example), or check out the gist ...
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Official keyboard shortcuts
This script is no longer necessary; please visit Announcement: Keyboard shortcuts are now integrated into the site for an updated status on this.
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This is the official keyboard ...
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Bold and colorful area tags
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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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Modifications to KDE StackTray
I modified the StackTray app so it now
uses the Py-StackExchange library, to fix JSON parse errors, as version 0.8 of the StackOverflow API was phased out
instead of displaying stuff like badges every ...
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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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undercurrent - a few tweaks to the user interface of Stack Overflow
Websites evolve and so does StackOverflow. However sometimes it takes a while for features to mature fully and being subjected to involuntary beta tests can be frustrating.
Since merely moaning ...
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What happened to the unique users count?
When visiting https://stackapps.com/apps, I used to be able to see how many unique users were using my application - but now all I see is zeroes for all of the apps.
Were the numbers reset or is this ...
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API to get the small tag info displayed in the popup
I do not know if this is possible, or if this is even prohibited, but here goes.
I am creating a website where I talk a lot about the web and different programming languages. Now I want to create ...
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Select Code Block Buttons Script
Shows a select-button on mouse over on code-blocks to select the whole block for easier copying.
Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am sure you will manage somehow, adjust includes as ...
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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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Favourite Tags Numerical Keyboard Shortcuts Script
Another short and simple script, it adds numerical keyboard shortcuts to the favourite tags. Only works on those pages which have the favourite tags on them. The default modifier is Alt but the ...
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API for user next achievement/badge requirement?
If you look at your user profile you can see:
visited x days, x consecutive
So for the achievement/badge "Fanatic - Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive day" I can calculate the number of ...
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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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Remove Delete-Favourite-Tag-Buttons Script
To help people not accidentally delete them, especially the short ones.
(Also see the cause to get them removed permanentely)
Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am sure you will manage ...
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SkeetNotifier: A Tray Notifier Application for Jon Skeet's answers
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A tray application for Windows that notifies you about the newest answers from Jon Skeet.
Icon approved by Jon Skeet!
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License
http://unlicense.org/
Source
http://github.com/...
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Has anyone *implemented* the Stack Exchange API on top of a public database dump?
It seems that the public database dumps contain nearly all of the data required to respond to API queries.
Has anyone implemented the API, backed by a copy of the public database dump?
It would be ...
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Why does api.stackoverflow.com allow resource calls that accept vectorized or multiple IDs?
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/questions-by-ids
What is the motivation for building api.stackoverflow.com in a manner that accepts multiple IDs in a resource call?
For example, I can ...
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Is there any API that provides an event mechanism to implement an outlook style alert when new responses are available for a user?
I see that Can we have some sort of notification system? answers "NO" in no uncertain terms - I'm going to take a shot here because what I'm suggesting should not be any more complex than the logic it ...
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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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