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Removing/disallowing app does nothing
I have just deleted/disallowed, the console app and the app I'm currently writing.
For the console the access token I was using before deleting the app carried on working, and when I got a new token, ...
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Auth dialog improvements (who's logged in, etc)
The auth dialog (client side) could do with a bit of improvement.
Specifically, showing the currently logged in user, and a link saying "not you?". Facebook does this and allows you log in as someone ...
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How many simultaneous queries may I make of the same Stack Exchange API?
I've been playing with some of the APIs that have paged results.
I've been doing a first call with pagesize=0 to determine how many pages there are then running a loop querying each page.
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Can UserScripts in the "scripts" tab be sorted in a similar manner as applications are in the "apps" tab?
If you bring up the Stack Apps home page (the apps tab), you will notice that the items are sorted according to their score and recent activity.
Can we please sort the UserScripts (the scripts tab) ...
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stackoverflow-cli, a *nix stackoverflow command line client
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This is a small libcurl-based C application for the command line. I started this simply to brush up on my C and Linux/POSIX skills. Plus, I am playing around with a netbook loaded ...
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Answers for Stack Exchange - universal iOS Stack Exchange search app
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This third-party app allows you to quickly search the full Stack Exchange network of sites from your iphone or ipad. It is nice for when you are away from your desktop or in a ...
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Moderator Annotated User Recent Activity Watch List
NOTE: If you are not a moderator, this script won't add anything for you. All it does is shows the user's timeline (which is publicly visible on their profile) on the moderator dashboard to make it ...
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How do I get a GreaseMonkey/UserScript to interact with the Live Preview?
I've converted a script that I hope to get embedded on a StackExchange site (Lego Answers) to a GreaseMonkey/Userscript but I'd like to get it interacting with the live preview when creating or ...
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Guidelines on app and library thumbnails
We now have better, user-friendlier display for apps and libraries and scripts:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/stack-exchange-api-1-1-and-improved-app-gallery/
We infer a number of things ...
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Invalidating access token vs de auth app?
Other that invalidating an access token doesn't remove the app from the apps tab (why not?) whats the difference between these two methods?
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Removing StackExchange dropdown and mobile version of auth dialog
Would it be possible to remove the StackExchange drop down (hot questions, sites, inbox) from the Auth dialog?
Typically when displaying dialog, you don't want the user to start browsing questions ...
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What are the paging parameters to the info method used for?
As far as I can tell, there can only be one info object returned from the info method, so why does the method take page and page_size?
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Policy on shipping working examples that use the explicit authentication flow in an SDK?
I'd like to ship a working example of using the explicit authentication flow in Stack.PHP. I have no trouble embedding the API key and app ID in the example. The problem lies in embedding the client ...
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Runtime error getting thrown with certain parameters on older 1.1 methods
This v1.1 URL is creating a runtime error:
http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/comments&min=1323731212
Example output:
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Same redirect URL for Approve and Reject
Why, when I'm requesting /oauth/dialog and selecting either of the options I get redirected to the same URL with different hash values? It's not a bug per-se, just an observation I made while ...
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Is there going to be an API for the Careers site?
Is there going to be an API for access to the careers site? I could understand that it would be different to the rest of the Stack Exchange APIs, but I could see that it could be useful for use cases ...
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Point of /users/{id}/inbox?
What is the need for the user ID in:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/user-inbox
Given that it will only return the inbox of the authenticated user, and deny a mismatching user id.
The only needed ...
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API v2.0 Developing desktop app
If I am developing a client side application, what kind of domain should I provide to 0Auth callback? Can it be a custom application-centric scheme (like myapp://oauthcallback/)?
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API V2 Private Beta Begins
It's about time this thing got under way. If you're participating in the private beta, you should receive an email to that effect.
If you were also a member of the V1.0 private beta, you'll notice ...
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Secure OAuth pages contain insecure content.
I noticed that some of the OAuth pages use insecure content (http:// content on an https:// page):
I'm not sure how easy this is to fix but it could potentially scare off some users who don't ...
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Register for the Stack Exchange V2.0 API Private Beta
It's getting to be that time (actually, it's about a month later than I'd hoped but still!), API V2.0 is shaping up and we're spending more and more time on UI polish rather than functionality.
So let'...
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Am I out of luck if my http client doesn't support gzip decoding?
I'm playing with the oauth2 support in v2-beta with an http client that doesn't support gzip decoding. (My client is http spec compliant but can't deal with the non-compliance of the api on this issue)...
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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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Frequent Message Manager - Easily store and send frequently used messages in chat?
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Have you ever said something in chat that made you think "I know I've said this many times before?" Perhaps you have a few common links that you reply to questions with on a frequent ...
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What is stackapps?
What exactly is stackapps?
I have search trhough the questions but did not find a straight forward answer. Why was stackapps build and why should I use it?
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Stack Overflow UI Translation via Greasemonkey
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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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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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Shows a link to the review page in the top link bar
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A super simple script that adds a review link to the top link bar.
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Has been tested with greasemonkey/Firefox on Mac ...
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LinkOverflow -- list of links in a Stack Exchange post
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This site useful to find the links that will appear on the stackoverflow post. Give the question url then site will parse the all answers and extract the list and it will mark it with tag.
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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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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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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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Prefered way to retrieve all search results
I'm trying to figure out a reliable way to retrieve all the results from a search query (in subsequent pages. My use case includes cases with more than 100 results (the maximum page size).
Looking at ...
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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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PHPstack - A PHP wrapper to the SE API
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PHPstack is meant to be an easy to use PHP wrapper for the Stack Exchange API.
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require_once('phpstack.class.php');
$so = new ...
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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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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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Stackoverflow API - get “received” upvote count of a user.
I'm currently using the Stackoverflow API to get a list of detailed user information (via http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/users-by-ids). There is an attribute called "up_vote_count" ...
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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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Error occurs when retrieving timeline for this question
Here is the question:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/51812/the-api-sandbox
Here is the API URL:
http://api.meta.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions/51812/timeline?pagesize=100?page=2
Here is ...
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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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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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Official IRC channel for stackapps?
Since this site exists to support people working on Stack Exchange applications, it would be nice if an 'official' IRC channel existed that people could visit to get help, discuss their applications, ...
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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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