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PLACEHOLDER - Test App
The App is currently under development and / or only meant for private use.
When the author of this App, Script, or Library is ready, they will update this post.
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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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StackTray: The Stack Overflow tray application
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Icon on left
Hover over icon
Context menu
Reputation Alerts
About
This application sits in your system tray and periodically checks Stack Overflow for any new badges or reputation. ...
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OBSOLETE - RoboStack: A Google Wave robot for the Stack Exchange API
OBSOLETE - Google Wave doesn't exist anymore.
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For a video snapshot visit http://code.google.com/p/robostack/.
About
Unlike a Jabber/XMPP robot, this application is a Google ...
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Stack Overflow start page for Google Chrome
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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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SOCharts: Charts by Tags
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I created this small app as a weekend hack. It shows the reputations, upvotes, downvotes and accepted answers for a user against the tags for the answers.
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I wanted to know how many ...
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OBSOLETE - SE Editor Toolkit
Looking for Maintainer
I have not had the capacity to maintain this project in any meaningful way, but the source code is quite clear and reasonably well documented. If you would be interested to ...
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Add a color highlight to closed questions in the question lists
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Adds a color highlight to closed questions. Inspired on a question asked by Hakan Fıstık
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The script will highlight the close reason found at the end of a question ...
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OBSOLETE - SEdictionary: A Domain-specific Dictionary for Software Engineering Terms
We developed a domain-specific dictionary for terms in Software Engineering called SEdictionary. The dictionary includes the the definitions of software-specific terms, abbreviations and synonyms, ...
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Marking inbox items as read in api v2.2
I'm aware of this question, but it applied to an older (readonly) api version.
Given that API 2.2 is read/write, I figured this might be possible now.
Is there any way for an application using the ...
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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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Fortnightly Topic Challenge Automation on Puzzling.SE
Used for (meta.)puzzling.stackexchange - Creates & edits the corresponding meta posts with information from the main and meta site. E.g. creating a post for the new challenge every 2 weeks and ...
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OBSOLETE - StackBook - let your Online Community friends know what you're doing on Stack Overflow
About
StackBook helps mashup service for you let your Online Community (right now only Facebook) friends know what you're doing on Stack Overflow.
License
MSPL
Access
http://stackbook.mourfield.com/
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Pronoun Assistant
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About
It's hard to miss these days - the Code of Conduct is about to change. It will emphasize the importance of using the correct pronoun when referring to a user in third ...
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Fast Multi Platform Data Dump Import for SQL Server (2000/2005/2008), SQLite and MySQL
UPDATE:
Both soapi.info and skysanders.net have been offline for a while.
The application readme file and hosting will be moved to http://soapi.info/tools/soddi.aspx.
Links are in the readme text ...
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How to revoke an access token generated for my application?
I generated an access token for my application and shared it with some people. Now, I wish to revoke the access token and generate a new one. I don't find any way to revoke that token.
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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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Automark as read
The following simple script reverts the most significant one of the inbox ‘improvements’: it marks all inbox messages as read as soon as the inbox is closed.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Stack ...
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Stack-Trac - List stackoverflow/serverfault/... questions that are related to your Trac tickets
About
This little app will look at the summary from the currently viewed Trac ticket and find related questions & answers on stackoverflow, or other stackexchange sites.
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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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Custom Sidebar Links
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Custom Sidebar Links is designed for adding user-selected links to the sidebar. By default, it includes a link to the Stack Overflow Teams website, as well as a link to Google. The ...
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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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Stack Exchange Chat API Documentation and Bot Boilerplate (finally)
Chat Documentation
GitHub Link:
https://github.com/jbis9051/JamesSOBot/blob/master/docs/CHAT_API.md
Description:
I know many people have created bots in different languages. Thats why I need your help ...
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Differences between versions 1.x and 2.x of the Stack Exchange API?
I had written a Java Wrapper for the Stack Exchange API, version 1.x, Which was working perfectly.
But, since 12 May 2014, services for version 1.x have been shutdown and my Wrapper stopped working.
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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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What are the rules for Discord bots posting to Stack Exchange?
I'm a member of a community that has its own Stack Exchange site and I'm wondering where I can find some insight into the rules of creating a Stack App that does the following:
We have a pretty strong ...
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OBSOLETE - Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages
Obsolete
This script is now obsolete; a permanent fix has been implemented by Stack Exchange.
About
Some time ago, Stack Exchange moved to highlight.js v11. One of the breaking changes of this ...
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SECharts - various charts and interesting findings on all SE sites (as of August 2012)
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SECharts - StackExchange charts application is a static web application where you can browse some data regarding all 37 SE sites. I have created SECharts to learn ...
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How can I quickly get an access token for personal use?
Registering your application or script gets you a higher daily quota and is fairly simply; a step by step guide is documented here: I only need a key, what do I do?
However, what if I do want an ...
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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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Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider
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Ever since the Visual design changes to the review queues suggested edits have been too narrow. Especially when containing code blocks. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore.
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DEPRECATED - Bookmark users - Fetch the list of users that bookmarked a question on any Stack Exchange website
This userscript no longer works because Stack Exchange has replaced bookmarks with "saves" in October 2022. Saves are private and so can't be queried via the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.
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please expose stackauth via a url that is consistent with the api
Most libraries and apps need to version themselves by adding the version number to the url and subsequently most of the http request code includes this information in the url building process.
the ...
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NATO tool link shortcut
This is a basic userscript which saves one click and some waiting time.
If you are anxious like me and don't like to head over to the (10k) Tools page, wait for the page to load while chasing the ...
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Is it logical to make two versions of an app, one for prod and one for dev?
Let's say I'm working on an app on a local dev server, localhost:1234 for example. Once I feel ready, I upload any changes to a GitHub repo and have those changes sync with an online website, for ...
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SSL handshake error after Stack Overflow back on - anything related to SSL certification changed?
I'm building a Stack Overflow app for BlackBerry10. Earlier today (Feb 16, 2014), Stack Overflow was down and after it came back up my app starts to have this issue.
My app works fine when it's in LTE,...
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/oauth/access_token not redirecting back to my redirect_uri
I am trying to implement Stack Exchange using oAuth 2.0. I am able to get CODE but, when I try to get access_token through this code:
<?php
if(isset($_GET['code']))
{
?>
<form method="...
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Overwhelmed by unorganized information [duplicate]
As you can see I am a newbie, and trying to use Stack Exchange API for a school project.
I spent 3 hours just trying to understand How to get started. Is there an example for me to follow? or A ...
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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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Is the StackExchange API free of charge?
I am brand new to StackApps, so please bear with me for a question that is hopefully obvious to most regular users.
As far as I can tell, there is no charge for accessing the StackExchange API. ...
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Using scripts on iOS with the Userscripts app never seem to work?
I'm using the Userscripts app for mobile Safari. My phone is an iPhone 13 running 15.6.1 operating system. I use this app for other scripts. So it does, at least for some things, work as expected.
I ...
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Userstyles to (semi) revert the new Top Questions design
These userstyles attempt to revert the unpopular changes introduced to the Top Questions pages.
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Announcement ~ New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually
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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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RPG.SE Chat Fudge dice: a userscript for Fate & Fudge games
RPG.SE's chat rooms support dice rolls as an easter egg. This script will convert d6 rolls that you see into Fudge dice, using the ordinary conversion rules: 1–2 = minus, 3–4 = blank, 5–6 = plus.
You ...
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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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Stack Overflow for Teams support
I am reading this documentation https://stackoverflow.help/en/articles/4385859-stack-overflow-for-teams-api where they mention the need to create a PAT to access StackOverflow for Teams API (https://...
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Is there a way to use the API without using localhost or a web domain?
I'm developing an SO chrome extension in React with TypeScript.
I've been reading the guide on how to use the API with OAuth and it looks fantastic for what I'm trying to do.
The problem is that the ...
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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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Better Paginator - a userscript to add a page-number-box to the paginator
Better Paginator
Install
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The code is in this file on GitHub.
About
This script adds a box to the paginator where you can type in a page number (i.e., on the Questions page), ...
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StaXNetwork - UWP Stack Exchange client
About
StaXNetwork is a UWP app for browsing, asking, searching and answering questions on the whole Stack Exchange network.
Features
Browse through and search for questions on all Stack Exchange ...