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StackExchange Election: Primary counter
This user script adds a short overview table at the of the election page during the primary election phase on Stack Exchange moderator elections. The table lists all candidates, ordered by their ...
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stackoverflow-java-sdk: a Java wrapper for the Stack Exchange API
I have released a beta snapshot version of a Java wrapper for the Stack Overflow API at http://code.google.com/p/stackoverflow-java-sdk/. Please try it and provide your feedback.
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Registering app for API 2.0 key without Oauth domain
I'm trying to register an app, but it states that I need to add an OAuth domain. But I have Enable Client Side OAuth Flow disabled, because I don't need it right now.
I basically have two questions:
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Bug in the StackExchange Api ? getting "could not parse proxy url" when user not logged in
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in the Stack Exchange JS API
I'm having a problem getting its authentication to work properly, and I just discovered that the same problem exist in the official ...
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Why does the API lack (proper) HTTP cache control headers?
I've just read Kevin's answer to Do I need API key to use StackAuth API? and been quite surprised that the API doesn't seem to facilitate proper HTTP caching already:
You really shouldn't be ...
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StackWidget for Android
StackWidget 1.1
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About
StackOverflow home screen widget.
Displays hottest question - click widget to see top 10 hottest.
New in 1.1:
- Change question category (newest, by tag)
- Switch ...
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PHPstack - A PHP wrapper to the SE API
PHPstack
PHPstack is meant to be an easy to use PHP wrapper for the Stack Exchange API.
<?php
require_once('lib/requestcore.class.php');
require_once('phpstack.class.php');
$so = new ...
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OBSOLETE - StackAd - An Easy Way to Display Open-Source Ads on Your Site/Blog
Note:
This page is due for an update but until then you can add StackAd to your site by adding:
<script type='text/javascript'
src='http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/stackad/stackad.min....
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Sloshy the Thawman: A simple bot for keeping Stack{Overflow,Exchange} chat rooms alive
On https://chat.stackoverflow.com/ and https://chat.stackexchange.com/, chat rooms will freeze after some two weeks of inactivity. While this is fine and status-bydesign, some rooms are worth keeping ...
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Get Comment markdown, copy comment code to clipboard
About:
This userscript adds flyover buttons to every comment to fetch that comment's code (markdown).
Reference this post, and this post on Meta Stack Overflow.
Features:
The markdown is paste-...
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Add a dedicated bot login to Stack Apps
When dealing with chat bots, especially those like SmokeDetector, you'll often want to log in directly from the code. The problem? There's no easy way to do this, especially now that Open ID is being ...
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Advanced Search Helper, Saved Search (Bookmarks), and Navigation Improvements
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Searchbar & Nav Improvements
(Parent) Option to search child meta
(Meta) New search bar on meta sites, and option to search parent site
(...
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SE-Chatbot, a bot for the chat rooms
I created a chat bot for the Stack Exchange chat rooms.
The bot is open-source and the code is hosted on GitHub.
The bot is licensed under CPOL (The Code Project Open License) v1.02. You can find a ...
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Unicorn voting animations for everyone! FOREVER! (2014 edition)
var p="https://i.stack.imgur.com/"
function t(e,b,a,c,f,g){e=$("<div />").css({width:c,height:f,backgroundImage:"url("+p+e+")",position:"absolute",top:a,left:b,display:"none"}).appendTo("body");...
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Stackstabilizer - A Windows 8 Metro Stackoverflow app (version 4, 11-09-2012)
About Stackstabilizer
Stackstabilizer is a Stackoverflow reader for Windows 8. It helps you browse content on Stackoverflow, and allows you to sign in.
In-app search
It provides in-app search (...
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Add Share buttons to the "link" box
Spawned by https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/136760/178438
This script adds share buttons to the "link" box. (They don't come immediately, they are spawned by mouseover)
Installation
Click here to ...
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jsFiddle preview for Stack Overflow
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About
Adds embedded jsFiddle preview to the questions/answers posts by clicking on Show jsFiddle button
License
MIT License.
Download
Direct link at userscripts.org
Project at ...
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Let me Ask Jon Skeet for you (LMAJSFY)
Let me Ask Jon Skeet for you (LMAJSFY)
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than Ask Jon Skeet for themselves.
Enter your search term and click ...
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StackTack WordPress Plugin - Embed Stack Exchange Questions in Your Blog.
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Have you ever asked a question or posted an answer to a question on a Stack Exchange site and said to yourself "I sure would like to share this on my blog?" Well, you could just ...
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Reputation Tracker now covers SOFU, Meta SO and Programmers SE
I don't know if anyone's actually using my Reputation Tracker tool, but it now lets you select which sites you want to see reputation for.
For example, the URL for me to find out how I've done today ...
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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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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 ...
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Stack Exchange reputation graph total reputation overlay
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About
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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Display absolute timestamps (in local time)
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About
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" ...
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Stacks for Android [closed]
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxscheglov.stackoverflow
Features:
Supports all the sites in the Stack Exchange network
Easy access to over a million questions and answers, on ...
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Show number of answers accepted
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About
Ever wish you could tell more about a user's acceptance rate than just the percentage? Sure, you can hover over the acceptance rate to view the number of questions ...
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What's with the reputation here on Stack Apps?
This site is only a couple of hours old, yet there are 33 users with over 2000 rep and 9 with over 4000. Are these values holdovers from dev.meta.stackoverflow.com, where everyone started out with ...
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Are wrappers considered applications?
I went to get an API key for my StackOverflow C++ wrapper, and discovered that this involves registering an "application".
Does the wrapper count as an app?
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Version 1.0 released 9th of July
For a lot of us, that would be next Friday.
At some point - most likely after noon PST - version 0.9 of the API will be replaced with the final 1.0 release.
There are no expected interface changes ...
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How to convert unix timestamp to .NET DateTime
What is the format of the "creation_date" that is returned from a search of questions? I've been looking all over here and can't figure it out. I want to convert it to a regular DateTime ...
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Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?
Twitter has the ability as part of its API to query the current rate limit status. Going to this url will show you how many requests can be made before the limit is reached:
{"remaining_hits":150,
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Unable to get access token
I am trying to get a non-expiry access token, like so:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth?scope=no_expiry&redirect_uri={{some_uri}}&client_id={{some_value}}
I am repeatedly getting the error:
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Bartlett—new questions, inbox items, and reputation in OS X
Bartlett is a Mac application that lets you keep track of the most recent questions, inbox items, and reputation items on your favorite Stack Exchange sites.
You can be notified of new items by Growl ...
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iStack for iPad
iStack iPad currently isn't available on the appstore, it's in development as is getting towards the end of the first version.
I'm now starting to look for beta testers, you will need an iPad device,...
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Is it appropriate to register for a "Dev" app key?
When an app is in early development stages, it is quite common not to have an Icon, a Name, a Website, or even a description.
I'm considering registering one key which I could use in all my Alpha ...
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Stack Alert [Opera] - Keep tabs on your inbox without needing to have a Stack Exchange site open
Not using Opera?
Don't worry, Stack Alert is available for other browsers as well. Visit the appropriate page for your browser below:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Screenshot / Code ...
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Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Currently, the only way to call the API from javascript is to use JSONP, but this can be cumbersome and has security issues. If the following header was included in all API responses, the API could be ...
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OBSOLETE - Stack Overflow ebooks for Kindle
Obsolete: Links are dead, except for the source code which is very dated.
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About
These books contain the top questions from a selection of the top tags on Stack Overflow. The top ...
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Prevent that posts tagged with app or library enter Community Wiki mode when the owner edits it 8 times
I've edited my App 8 times and my question has switched automatically to Community Wiki (I'm aware that it's reported in the faq).
The main reason of these many edits is my shaky english, but I can ...
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Can we get access to key-usage metrics?
Will developers ever get a chance to see how often their app key is being used?
Or how many unique IPs are used the key?
Or any other random metrics that might be interesting?
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SENotify - Stack Exchange new question notification (perl/growl)
Output/Screenshot
Growl notification
Growl on Mac
Growl on Windows
Terminal output
$ perl SENotify.pl -s stackoverflow -r 60 -v
2 question found on serverfault at : Tue Jun 22 21:41:38 2010
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OBSOLETE - SkillRep - experiment in computing a skill focused reputation
Update: Now offline/closed. See the answer, below.
Reputation, on the Stack Overflow Site, is mostly a measure of a user's contribution.
That's fine but sometimes, when looking at a user you ...
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Stack Fiddle - Easily create a jsFiddle from Stack Overflow
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http://www.bolsterweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/doc-21.png
About
Stack Fiddle is a Google Chrome extension that updates the code blocks on Stack Exchange sites. Each code block gets ...
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OBSOLETE - SOREP: Trilogy Site Ranking - For those who need to know
Note, all of the app links, below, are dead. And the domain is parked.
SOREP is a service that does a nightly index of all users ordered by reputation and makes that information available via REST.
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A service to help people to download their Dev Stories before the Stack Overflow DS sunset
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About
Manfred launches a website that allows any StackOverflow user to download their Developer Story data as a JSON file, without requiring registering or providing any ...
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Review Audit Detector
Motivated by the question Would a userscript to determine whether a review is an audit be illegal, I wrote a userscript for this purpose. The algorithm is as follows:
If the post score shown in ...
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Stack-Ed, Website and iPhone App
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The Stack Exchange platform is changing the way that we learn. Stack-Ed is an educational tool that was built to help people learn from the best of the best within the Stack ...
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Firehose JSON streaming event service
Code Snippet
Using curl:
$ curl http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow
or, in a browser, http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow.
About
This "firehose" ...
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Stack Overflow start page for Google Chrome
About
Basically, what it does is it aggregates questions from Stack Exchange sites, and shows them on your New Tab window. You can select what sites you want to display, filter questions by tags, ...
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StackBuffer - awesome StackOverflow interface (HTML5, CSS3)
Screenshot of StackBuffer.com interface
About
StackBuffer is open source project providing HTML5 and CSS3 interface for StackOverflow API. This project is actually experiment trying to prove that ...