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Issue with JavaScript SDK
When using the JavaScript SDK to enable client side OAuth flow, I'm running into this issue: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'postMessage')
And the page gets stuck with the ...
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StackFlair - **Defunct** Generate flair for your Stack Exchange associated accounts
Note: This app, and the associated website have been offline since 2012.
The GitHub project may still be useful to you.
Sample flair styles:
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There have been several requests on Meta Stack&...
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Why are Stack Exchange API methods named like this
I'm curious about https://api.stackexchange.com/docs .
I looked up and studied the naming convention to make a REST api.
I've seen that in the naming convention, don't use verbs and in the case of the ...
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OBSOLETE - Freehand Circles Drawing Tool
What is it?
A userscript that lets you draw directly onto images on any Stack Exchange site to add freehand circles (or anything else you might like to add).
It has been designed to work like ...
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Main Stack Exchange network site API
The original Stack Exchange app has this cool feature where you can browse hot question from the entire network.
But at the current state I am not able to see a “Stack Exchange” site listed in the ...
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StackStats Chrome Extension (placeholder)
About:
Whether you want to keep track of your statistics or watch for an update on a post you've made, you'll be able to do it all with StackStats.
Currently in development, but would love to hear ...
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PLACEHOLDER Stackoverflow CLI
NOTE
The app does not do anything at the moment. I will remove this note when I am ready to put it in alpha.
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(not here yet, soon to be put here.)
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(See https://github....
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PLACEHOLDER - NLN comment bot
This bot is going into beta as a proof of concept soon once a bug in ChatExtange (chat library I'm using) is fixed or a work around is solves.
This bot will detect and auto-flag comments that may be ...
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Generate Headers - a utility package for validating and auto generating userscript manager headers
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Tired of writing out userscript headers by hand? Of small typos in your @match headers leading to wasted time? Generate Headers to the rescue: this utility package automates header generation ...
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Footer Remover Exchange - remove the unnecessary footer!
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I usually scroll to the bottom in Stack Overflow looking for interesting questions to answer. Hence, it's pretty annoying to see the footer since it doesn't contain any useful content beside the ...
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OAuth Domain can't satisfy redirect_uri AND Proxy url
Let's say I have an app called ExampleApp, with these details:
Client ID: 12345
Key: ThisIsTheKey123()
OAuth Domain: exampleapp.com
[√] Enable Client Side OAuth flow
[√] Disable ...
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Is it possible to get the response from a form POST?
This is related to my XYZ app to write comments.
I found a much neater way to submit the request using forms:
function post() {
se_url='https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/posts/'+se_postId.value+'/...
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Crew for Exchange 2.0 (Full iOS native client)
My all-new app Crew 2.0 is NOW AVAILABLE 🥳
Crew 2.0 was rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and today's update is a crazy one.
A completely revamped user interface, powerful markdown rendering, new ...
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OBSOLETE - New Q! - Google Chrome Extension notifies you of new questions of interest and inbox messages
Obsolete. Code last updated 7 years ago. Chrome store links are long dead. Source code still available though.
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A new question notification in Chrome 6 in Windows XP
A new answer and a ...
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Duplicate manager with automatic closure and duplicate list editing
Description
This is a userscript partly inspired by Aran Fey's Duplicate Target Manager and responds to this meta question (by myself) API to programmatically close questions as duplicate with ...
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Stack Exchange Global Flag Summary
This is a userscript that provides a networkwide flag summary for all Stack Exchange sites.
If you are logged into the Stack Exchange network and you have this script installed, you can visit the ...
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Stacky - A .NET client library (Full support for API v2.0)
Stacky - A .NET Client Library
The same great library now supports the 2.0 API!
https://bitbucket.org/lfoust/stacky
Sample Code
IUrlClient urlClient = new UrlClient();
IProtocol protocol = new ...
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Improve design of the Documentation's 404 page
The 404 page of the documentation has a rather awkward design; for example, a different header than other pages, and no footer. Can it be updated?
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Adjusting the question templates to better accommodate placeholders
From time to time, we see users posting placeholder questions using one of the templates. They have no useful information to add, so they just leave the template as is, which is very logical behaviour....
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RSS security in general and StackEye security specifically
Surely (or at least hopefully) I'm not the first to wonder about this (but a search on "StackEye security" gets me nothing).
All I really want to do is follow users on StackExchange and so I ...
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Where is it acceptable to store an access_token?
Obviously it isn't safe to broadcast any access_token to the public, especially those which are defined with no expiry date. It would also be considered a security issue if a list of registered access ...
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SE Toast/FancyOverlay Suppressor
StackExchange provides a variety of notices and toast messages, but sometimes they can get a bit annoying for experienced users.
This UserScript adds a Proxy to the two helper functions which cause ...
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Remove related questions from the middle of the page
Stack Exchange graduated the test of moving the related questions section in the middle of the secreen.
This section rarely provides actually relevant questions and it serves as a big distraction in ...
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Please "release" and/or document API version 2.3
I was playing around a bit with Fiddler to capture traffic from the Stack Exchange iOS app. To my surprise, it uses version 2.3 of the Stack Exchange API:
I noticed here that it has some extra ...
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Stack Mobile - View Stack Exchange Sites on Your Smart Phone or Tablet
Update:
Stack Mobile is about to get a breath of fresh air. I've just moved it to a brand new server with a blazing fast SSD.
Note: it may take up to a day or two for DNS changes to ...
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Auto-Editor: a user script for automatically correcting common errors
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This user script adds a button when editing Stack Exchange sites that automatically fixes many common grammar, spelling, capitalization, and usage errors.
Installation
Install a user script ...
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400 - Bad Request - Invalid URL errors with HTML response
Since a few weeks, I'm getting 400 - Bad Request errors now and then, on pretty standard API calls like fetching post details. This is the response I get:
<DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
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Userscripts Configurer - One script to configure them all
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UserScripts Configurer is a shared configuration controller for UserScripters' userscripts.
How to use
Configurer is exposed as a global accessible via UserScripters.Userscripts....
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Custom Fonts User Script: Revert or Improve the Font Updates
Recently, Stack Exchange decided to switch to system fonts. For those of you who prefered the old appearance, or would like a different font to appear in code blocks or across the site as a whole, ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Just a post to register my app, nothing special
Just a post to register my app, nothing special.
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Stack Exchange Global Types - a type declaration package for global objects exposed by Stack Exchange
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Stack Exchange global types is a type declaration package adding or augmenting type definitions for global objects exposed by Stack Exchange for client-side ...
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How does 1 request every 5 seconds exceed the 30 requests per second limit?
I'm doing a run every 5 seconds for this API call:
url = "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/no-answers?pagesize=30&fromdate={date_today}&order=desc&sort=creation&site=...
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Why are these answers dated before the question was asked?
Does anyone know why some answers are shown with a date before the question was asked?
Here are a couple of examples:
Why doesn't Java have compound assignment versions of the conditional-and and ...
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OBSOLETE - SymbolHound: Search Stack Overflow for special characters
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See symbolhound.com
SymbolHound is was a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. I was always frustrated that I couldn't search for symbols like >> and && using ...
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Clarify read-only vs. write operations for Teams in documentation
The API page about Stack Overflow for Teams says (emphasis mine):
Starting with the release of Stack Overflow For Teams, the Stack Exchange API exposes read-only access to data stored in private ...
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StackExchange API, OAuth for other sites than Stack Overflow
I'm implementing the OAuth system through StackExchange API, here is the guide.
I've already integrated the OAuth system with stack overflow with the following parameters:
Token URL: https://...
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OBSOLETE - Droidstack for Android - now with chat support! [closed]
Obsolete - coded for decommissioned version of the API. This app unmaintained since Feb 2011. Source code still available; all other links dead or empty.
Current status
I'm not actively maintaining ...
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Obtain the list of questions associated to answer_ids without losing the information of which question comes from which answer_id
This is a follow up to a previous question of mine, and the starting point is that, given a list of reputation objects retrieved via /users/{ids}/reputation, I can easily retain only the entries with ...
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Request for user script to calculate Wilson confidence ratings for posts
I came across the following blog post on the Internet recently: How Not to Sort by Average Rating:
PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to ...
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Can I use the Stack Exchange API to build a "GH Archive" like project?
I'm not sure if I can use Stack Exchange API to build a https://www.gharchive.org like project?
I studied the API throttling documentation but I am not sure.
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My app has to be published first? But it's still under development
Okay, I want to build an App that allows me to create questions on Stack Exchange. I registered it here on Stack Apps but now when I want to create a question I get this message:
{
"error_message": ...
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Uncaught channelUrl must be under the current domain
I'm developing a Stack Chrome extension that will make use of the API. I'm following the instructions on the API docs here.
My OAuth and host websites are set to stackexchange.com in my Stack Apps ...
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Stack Exchange Dump 2 MySQL - Load the data dump into a database with Python
I created a a utility to load the Stack Exchange data dump into a MySQL database:
https://github.com/stephenostermiller/stack-exchange-2-mysql
It is written in Python so it should in theory work on ...
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Why doesn't my XMLHttpRequest call work in Excel?
I can make a simple API call in JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest:
<html>
<script>
function reqListener () {
out.textContent=this.responseText;
}
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What to do about the tsunami of placeholder apps created because of a poorly written tutorial?
Last months, we're seeing more and more placeholder apps created by people who are following a certain Android tutorial. I'm not going to give examples because it's really hard not seeing them. I feel ...
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Duplicate list edit diffs in post timeline
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Screenshot / Code Snippet
/timeline pages:
/revisions pages:
duplicate list reorderings:
About
The native post timeline displays "duplicate lists edited" event as a barely readable ...
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OBSOLETE - Soapi.JS : fluent JavaScript client library for the Stack Exchange API
OBSOLETE
This library uses the old API, and the soapi.info domain doesn't work anymore. There's still an archive on CodePlex.
Soapi.js
If you are looking for a full featured, compact JavaScript ...
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Download data for specific tag
How to download all the data just for a specific tag (say
[compiler-error])?
On Stack Overflow, there are around 19000 questions tagged with [compiler-error].
So, I was hoping is it downloadable w.r.t ...
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Please add the existence of the Meta tag to What is Meta
On our Help Center Page What is Meta the following sentence is used:
Feel free to ask questions about Stack Apps on Stack Apps, tagging them with the discussion or support tags.
Can we somehow add ...
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Voting Overcharged - A userscript for automatically voting on posts depending on various conditions
About
Voting overcharged allows users to automatically vote on posts upon triggering various conditions.
Inspired by Why does accepting answers not automatically upvote them?.
Current version includes:...