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Stack Search Chrome Extension
Stack Search
A Google Chrome Context Menu Extension
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This is a simple context menu extension that adds an option for selected text on a page to be searched on your favourite Stack ...
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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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Google Search Results Integration (Chrome Extension)
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Google Chrome Extension that adds a new tab to StackOverflow search results that uses Google magic formula for relevance.
It does this by opening Google search in a background tab ...
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Typos in the API 2.0 Documentation
Typo #1:
There are two different objects that represent a user in the Stack Exchange API, the full user object and the smaller shallow_user object. Which is returned depends on the method being ...
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How switch user accounts on the same device?
The Problem
I'm integrating Stack Exchange API on iOS (iPhone). I've run into a situation where I can't log out and authenticate with a different account. I am stuck with the first account that I have ...
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MSOEngine Objective-C library
MSOEngine
Basically MSOEngine (Matt's Stack Overflow Engine) is an Objective-C library that communicates with Stack Overflow.
It uses the MIT License.
You can find (the new and improved ...
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Is there a way (or app) to get realtime updates of new questions with a given tag?
According to Stack Exchange API not realtime?, the API does not return results in realtime, but has 1 minute delay for the same query.
Is there a system or an app that delivers new questions in ...
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Small jQuery plugin for flair
See it in action at http://iamaust.in
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I know I know another flair plugin. I made this because I always wanted to write a jQuery plugin and for my new website I needed a Stack Overflow flair that ...
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Highlight Code in Chat - Highlights <code> elements contained in chat messages
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Inspired by this question, I have developed a UserScript that highlights code elements in chat messages so that they stand out more on the page. Simply install the script and your ...
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In lieu of write access, can a user be referred to a site with title and tags in the URL?
For an app I'm working on, I'd like to refer users to Stack Overflow instead of providing an "Ask a Question" interface. Users will enter their question and I'll be using the similar API to suggest ...
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Stack User Filter
This Chrome extension helps you keep track of questions by your favorite Stack Exchange users.
If you find that some users consistently post questions you enjoy answering, you may want to keep better ...
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Can I Drive the Area51 Process via the SO API?
I am planning a new webapp. I want to use an SE instance to power the community feature of the new webapp.
Since all SE sites must pass through the Area51 process, I would like to know if I could ...
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API is accepting requests from other OAuth domains
I've set an OAuth domain for an application (the client_id is 24) and the following link authorizes the application:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=24&scope=no_expiry,...
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Stack Exchange API is returning non-existant/incorrect notices for questions
When you view this question you do not see any notices other than the protected notice at bottom. Also, you are able to edit the answers and question (provided you have the privilege).
However, when ...
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Posting answers via Stack Exchange API
Can I post answers via an app using the API, is it possible? And if so, what are the limitations; linked with the reputation of users?
So if someone has 1 reputation he can also post answers, like a ...
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What to do with API keys if our project is open-source?
Is it OK to share the key in our source? Someone could just pick it up and use it for other purposes.
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StackCompare - See how your StackExchange profile compares to friends and rivals
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StackCompare is a tool that lets you see how you're doing on StackExchange sites relative to other people, be they friends, rivals, or some combination. Track your and their ...
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How do I fetch one question at a time starting from the latest?
I'm trying to fetch questions one by one, starting from the latest, so that I can create an infinite stream of questions in a Clojure program. I haven't yet been able to do so.
I can't just get the ...
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Kuna - Make books from Stack Exchange questions
http://demo-kuna.rhcloud.com
Kuna is a web application that provides a live environment in which books can be created from Stack Exchange questions.
Step 1
Paste the URL for any question found on a ...
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What about actually identical requests?
Now, it says here that I should not make lots of semantically equivalent requests. It also says that there is a lot of caching. So I was wondering, what about exactly identical requests. Should I wait ...
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Stack Tunnel - WebGL Visualization for Stack Exchange
Stack Tunnel
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StackTunnel is a WebGL visualization which displays the latest questions from any Stack Exchange site interactively within your web browser. You can click on the ...
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How do you list you stack exchange apps
I wanted to know how you're supposed to get a list of apps you've registered on the stack exchange api.
I finally managed to find this url: https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth
My question is this: How ...
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Stack Overflow UI Translation via Greasemonkey
What is it?
Why this project?
Every so often, somebody asks on meta "can we allow foreign language contributions to StackOverflow" and a huge debate ensues. However, once upon a time, somebody ...
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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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How to provide a logout button for authentication?
How would you provide a logout button for an app that uses authentication. (Not so that the user has to choose to accept or reject the app, that's deleting the app from their tab)
Basically force the ...
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StackO: A Windows Phone 7 StackExchange App
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STACKO is now available for download from the Marketplace.
For features/suggestions please visit http://stacko.uservoice.com/
StackO is a StackExchange browser allowing you to search the whole ...
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Select all answer fields should also be present
Like "unselect all 'response' fields" would get displayed when we click on any of the fields marked in the snapshot below, same way there should be - "select all 'response' fields"
Similarly, one link ...
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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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I can't get a response for /questions/{id} in Chrome Extension
I'm writing a Chrome Extension that queries the API. Using jQuery, I have the following code called from my background page:
$.ajax({
url: 'http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/' + id
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Code Golf UserScript Enhancement Pack
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This small UserScript is designed to enhance the Code Golf SE site by making it easier to see the length of each entry and the current ...
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Room Topic Change Helper
When the room topic changes, don't you wish you knew what it used to be before the change? Well now you can!
This script automatically updates room topic change posts with the previous topic so you ...
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What timezone is used in the API?
When a timestamp is used, for example the fromdate parameter in /questions, what timezone are dates in? Is the number supposed to be in milliseconds or in seconds?
To get the current time to pass as ...
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Old Meta.SE Stars
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This userscript reverts the design of the Meta Stack Exchange buttons:
New design:
With script:
It was inspired by this post on Meta Stack Exchange.
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You can download the script from ...
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Helping people is 'noise or pointless'?
How to batch up multiple id requests to maximize economy and still avoid (400) Bad Request [closed]
closed as noise or pointless by Kevin Montrose♦ Aug 16 at 23:15
This question does not add anything ...
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Enhanced Ctrl + L and URL templates for comments, answers and questions
Shortcut Ctrl + L to add links to a comment.
Define URL templates to make it easier to insert links to documentation.
Shortcut Ctrl + L to remove a link in a comment ([caret>|](link) -> caret>|)....
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StackEngine - facebook app to embed reputation, badges, etc. from user Stack Exchange Accounts to profile tab
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What is Stack Engine?
All profiles on Facebook have tabs. For example, users have a 'Photos' tab and a 'Links' tab by default.
StackEngine is an application for Facebook to embed reputation, ...
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API returns delete vote count for questions, but not for answers
The questions method of the API returns the number of delete votes among other kinds of votes: sample query.
But the answers method does not have a delete_vote_count field available in the filter:
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Suggested Edits Queue for Mere Mortals
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This Java command-line app gives you access to the Suggested
Edits queue using the
Stack Exchange 2.0 API. It is ideally
suited for users in the 2000 <= reputation < 5000 range....
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Is the "link" URL enough to uniquely identify an "inbox_item"?
I've been looking at the documentation on the inbox_item type, and I was wondering what is the correct way to uniquely identify an inbox_item?
Is the "link" URL enough to uniquely identify an "...
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Auto-completion of user name for @-replies in comments
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To use, type an "@" then start typing a few characters of the user's name. Then hit Ctrl+Space. The script will then search for usernames that match what you've ...
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OR operator for StackOverflow API
I'm trying to get a list of questions from the SO API for a number of tags,
At the moment I am using the ; operator to separate the tags in the URL but the thing is this only brings up questions that ...
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(Unofficial) Stack Overflow, Windows Phone app forgets its place when sleeping
Sometimes, when I'm reading a question on this (unofficial) Stack Overflow, Windows Phone app, the phone goes to sleep.
When I wake it up, it's forgotten I was reading a question, and has gone back to ...
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Simplify Community Bulletin widget
This Stylish script:
Hides the recently added bold category titles;
Removes post vote counts;
Reduces space used by widget.
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("...
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Widget Of Awesomeness, an extended profile JavaScript widget
2010-07-17: Due to lack of interest I'm shutting down the hosted version of this.
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The Widget Of Awesomeness lets you embed a simple widget on any page that will display your ...
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StackTack - George Edison Remix (now with a few extra features!)
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StackTack was originally listed here on Stack Apps. The idea was terrific and Soviut did such an awesome job building the application that I decided to fork it. My original intention ...
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Why I think Area51 needs an API.
Okay, I have to admit that I never dreamed I would be advocating an API for Area51. But here I am doing it :)
I think we need an API for Area51. Granted, the whole concept of questions and answers is ...
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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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Area 51 sites api [duplicate]
Why does http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/stackauth-methods/sites not list Area 51 (http://area51.stackexchange.com/)
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Quick Media Solutions - The First Tool to Take Advantage of Write Access in v2.1 of the API!
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http://quickmediasolutions.com
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Quick Media Solutions is my personal website where most of the web services and tools I have written reside. I recently rewrote the entire ...
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Is it safe to assume the API will be at api.<DOMAIN>?
I'm writing an application that will eventually allow you to use it for any StackExchange site. Thus, I'm allowing users to input the domains of the sites they want to use (e.g. stackoverflow.com). I'...
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