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Why is sort by name reverse alphabetical?
It makes sense that reputation or date should sort descending, but name? I tested both /users and /tags and they sort reverse alphabetical, so Z before A. Is that by design or just a side effect of ...
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I am an awful person and I hate lazers
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Don't like the hover animation on Arqade's mothership? You are probably an awful person, but here's a userscript anyway.
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I am an awful person and I hate lazers
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StackOverFriends! - Compare your results with your Twitter/Facebook friends!
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StackOverFriends! lets you log with your Stack account and link your Twitter and Facebook account to look for friends that you have on StackExchange!
(your friends have to be on the ...
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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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SOFlair - An Android Widget that shows your Flair
Soflair is a (very) simple widget for Android that shows a user's flair (avatar, reputation & badges). The JSON is polled every 60 minutes.
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http://www-jo.se/f.pfleger/soflair
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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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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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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?.
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Allow registrant to use write access without linking Stack Apps post
Especially in light of the Flatiron School using the Stack Exchange API* as a part of a student-created program, it'd be useful if you could use write methods without the required Stack Apps post so ...
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DatePicker in StackExchange API document page should have year next & previous button also
While picking for dates as shown in this snapshot, there should be one more next and previous button for year. It will be easy to navigate 1 year backward and forward on one click. Better option would ...
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StackList - List Your Apps, Track Bugs, and More!
StackList
http://stacklist.quickmediasolutions.com/
Update: There are already quite a few apps and libraries listed and the number is growing by the day. Don't put off listing yours!
StackList is a ...
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Official support for SE apps
Is SE a company, or to put it another way, is it possible to develop apps for SE itself, rather than as a 3rd party?
I find it frustrating to get to a complete list of my sites, you have to go to ...
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Stack Exchange App for Windows 7
I was just wondering If anyone had made a Stack Exchange app for Windows 7 like can be accomplished in Chrome but without needing to have any software like Chrome installed.
If such an app does not ...
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Fiddle IT - Instant Fiddles Userscript
Fiddle-IT
A tiny & simple userscript for creating fiddles in seconds.
Very handy for answering questions when you want to test the OP's code
Usage
Select some code on the page, then press one of ...
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Are there more implementation samples with Stack Exchange API 1.0? How could this API useful to me or my users?
I'm looking at how the Stack Exchange API could be useful in my site. Is it fair to say I am in read-only mode when I search for results? What is some envisioned use-case scenarios for this?
I ...
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Do calls on the 1.1 API and the 2.0 count against each other's limits?
Do the old 1.1 API and new 2.0 share limits?
Or do my Stack Apps running on 1.1 calls not affect my limits for apps running on 2.0 calls?
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StackExchange Theme Switcher
Inspired by this post. Now you too can enjoy the satisfaction of switching SE's themes at will like the devs do, albeit this affects your browser only:
This creates a dropdown at the bottom of the ...
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regex editing tool
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This is a javascript replace tool that makes editing posts easier and faster. View readme for more info
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from github
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for any issues regarding this ...
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Not possible to login to approve or reject access to application on Windows Phone 7 device
I'm making an app for Windows Phone using the Stack Exchange API but I'm having a bit of trouble when I try to let the user approve the application (using client side flow).
I open a web browser at ...
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Hide the Community Bulletin
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Do you ever find yourself spending too much time on Meta and not enough time answering "real" questions?
This script will hide links to per-site metas from the Community Bulletin, which is a ...
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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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List of object types on SE API v2.0+
Beware: The API is Huge!!
Below is the list of all the "types" of objects returned by the API v2.0+ :-
Note: v2.1 specific types are noted in a seperate box
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StackBuffer - awesome StackOverflow interface (HTML5, CSS3)
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StackBuffer is open source project providing HTML5 and CSS3 interface for StackOverflow API. This project is actually experiment trying to prove that you ...
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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",
"error_message"...
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Server Fault 10k Challenge - Keep Track of Your Progress
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At the beginning of the year, a group of people made an agreement to each try to earn 10k rep. on Server Fault in the next year. This webpage is designed to make it easy to view progress and ...
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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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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
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Top questions by tag and period
I want to get via API the most voted questions from the latest week (for example) from a specified tag (php, for example).
How can I do this?
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User accept rate and home site
It displays the user's accept rate in their userbox on questions (updated to work with Firefox lately), and also the site on which they have the most rep (besides the current
one) and the amount of ...
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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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Pretty StackOverflow
This userscript provides a prettier interface to StackOverflow.
(Click for larger image)
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Stylebot page
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It also hides notifications. To bring them back, you can ...
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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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Country Flag Tags - See mini-country flags next to tags on Money.SE
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This UserScript was inspired by this post on Meta.Money.SE. One of the users requested that tiny country flags be added to tags where appropriate. Another user made ...
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Copying CSS from stackoverflow for use in an app?
Is it ok / legal / allowed to copy some of the styles from stackoverflow / serverfault / etc. for use in a stack app?
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How far behind is the data returned by calls supposed to be?
I understand that the data sourced to the API are cached, but I'm seeing some fairly extreme discrepancies between reputation reported by the API and apparent activity on the site.
For example:
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Most of the url are missing the protocol
Maybe you were trying to fix the other "bug" I've pointed out, but now most of the url for the icons are missing the protocol!
{
"site_type": "main_site",
"name": "Stack Overflow",
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Will Stack Exchange hot questions be provided by the API?
I would like to add an "hot questions" section to StackPrinter that will list the hottest StackExchange questions provided here.
I'm going to fetch those questions using the site's RSS adding details ...
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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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rate-limit per endpoint per IP VS. server apps in hosted environments
I was wondering if the scenario of a server based app that lives in a hosted environment, where a single IP can be shared by many web sites.
As I understand the rate-limit as it stands, every site on ...
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Is there an open provider implementation for oAuth 2.0 used by StackExchange sites?
I notice that there is an oAuth endpoint for the stackexchange API: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication
The OpenID implementation used by StackExchange is open sourced at https://code....
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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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API V2.0 Public Beta Begins
As has been announced, we're starting the public beta and spinning up a contest (as we did with V1.0).
As such, some of the guidelines for the private beta no longer apply.
The api-v2-beta tag no ...
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How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]
Update:
All of our grumblings and the unbearable beauty of our workarounds resulted in this issue being fixed last week.
You can now send 100 id in one request and receive 100 responses.
See Url ...
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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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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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Include Full Post Details In /users/{id}/timeline
I have a feature request. I'm trying to pull the recent activity about a user from the API. So I'm parsing /users/{id}/timeline. But that only gives me meta-information about the activity. So then,...
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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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API returning character entities in JSON
I noticed display names in the JSON contain HTML character entities; e.g.
/2.0/users/718618?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
Gives me:
{
"items": [
{
"user_id": ...
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Add optional parameter to get only paging information?
On methods that support total/page/pagesize add an optional parameter to get just those fields when making a request. (pageInfo=true).
I am thinking specifically in apps that have real-time like ...
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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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