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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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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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Extension; Access to layout and javascript of stackexchange network site instead of inject (Stacks is not defined)
Note: last update at the end of POST
I am developing an extension for community users.
Introduction:
The extension is under development on this github: https://github.com/IcarosNetSA/atsu
and these ...
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Using StackEx as a prefix for the name of my app?
According to trademark guidance:
[...] Including one of the terms, "Stack" or "Exchange" or "Overflow" in your product name is generally okay.
I'd like to use "...
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What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
For the /users endpoint in the Stack Exchange API v2.3, what does the modified filter in sort field look for?
It is unclear from ...
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Garbage (litter) filters - delete custom filters from the "more" dropdown
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Garbage (litter) filters is a userscript that allows users to delete custom filters from the top dropdown directly without scrolling down to the "custom filters" sidebar. Inspired by ...
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How can I get the access token to use the StackOverflow Rest API as an authenticated user?
I am trying to understand how the StackOverflow Rest API auth works. Just created an app to get an access token, Would like to use this token to increase my rate limit per day.
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Formatting and formatted content is missing for body in search excerpts call
The body returned by the search excerpts call seems to omit formatting and sometimes even formatted content. Example calls follow for this question: Does `inquestion` support multiple question ids?
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Does `inquestion` support multiple question ids?
The q parameter has an inquestion operator that can take a question id.
Can it take multiple question ids?
My use-case is as follows:
I want to get an array of questions with their excerpts.
However,...
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Question close, reopen, and delete votes in the post sidebar
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This is for users that cannot normally see these votes. On Stack Overflow that is less than 3,000 reputation points for close and reopen votes, and 10,000 reputation points for delete votes. The ...
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QStack (Android Mobile App)
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Insert a reasonably sized screenshot (or code snippet) of your
app here, so we can get a quick look at it and
an idea of how it works and what it might do for us.
App ...
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CollapsibleBanners - Save screen space when viewing questions
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What is CollapsibleBanners?
CollapsibleBanners is a userscript that allows you to collapse the 'Closed' banner on questions. This helps save screen space.
Download
Auto-update version (...
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Stack Exchange API Types - a type declaration package for API types
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Usage example:
import {
CommonWrapperObject,
Errors,
Filters,
Tag,
} from "@userscripters/stackexchange-api-types";
export const getTagsAPI = ...
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Script to keep mobile-view active
As you probably know SE is moving to the responsive view on there website meaning everything will look like the desktop kinda. Same with mobile devices. I’m new to SE for about 20 days, and I like the ...
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Community Diamond Restorer - Add the diamond back to Community's profile!
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After:
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This userscript, in response to this question, restores the "Moderator" label for the Community user, both in edit summaries and on the ...
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Call to search/advanced is treating tagged as an AND search, not OR [duplicate]
The docs for search/advanced (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search) have this to state about the tagged attribute:
"tagged - a semicolon delimited list of tags, of which at least ...
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Get total question views via API
I can currently get the total number of questions for a tag by using the total filter. This works well, but I'd like to get a total views count for the questions in that tag. I could iterate over each ...
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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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Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
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Activity Indicator is a userscript that displays a, well, indicator and some useful stats about your interactions with a given post. Inspired by this feature request, upon opening a post, the ...
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All Badge IDs on every network
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This script gets all the Badge IDs of every network. For more information go to this wiki post.
License
This script is under the MIT License on Github and is ...
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Answer accept indicator
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With Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow, I find that it would be nice to have an indicator. Some posts have multiple pages, and searching for the one post among ...
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Accepted Answer Pinner
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As of September 8th, 2021, accepted answers are no longer pinned on Stack Overflow and probably soon on other sites in the network as well. For some users, this is the realization of a long-...
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Turning meta off
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Based on Is there any way I can turn Stack Overflow Meta off?, this will give anyone a break from a site meta. It removes:
The home page, both "Featured on Meta" and "Hot Meta ...
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Simply makes the review overview stuff bigger
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When Visual design changes to the review queues was introduced, the review overview page seemed to change to having a smaller font size on post number and very small avatars. I think the white ...
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The cute little blue box on flag dialogs
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Based on Use the same location for Submit button in the comment flag dialog as in the post flag dialog which asked for the buttons to go on the right side, and Question Close Updates: Phase 1 ...
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Does the [ruby-on-rails] tag add relevant context on top of [ruby]
We have the tag ruby-on-rails (7 questions) which is
... an open source full-stack web application framework written in Ruby. It follows the popular MVC framework model and is known for its "...
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View close/reopen votes without 3k rep
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This script enables you to view the close/reopen votes on a post without unlocking the cast close and reopen votes privilege unlocked at 3000 reputation.
Powered by Stack Exchange API.
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LinkPreview - Protection against hazardous links
In Action
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Links can be dangerous when clicked recklessly, especially when they are hidden by a title.
LinkPreview helps solve this problem by providing a way to view where links points to ...
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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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Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
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Live preview of the new counter:
The counter also preserves the "heatmap" colour coding:
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Disclaimer: please note that the script will not allow you to ...
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Answer delete votes in the post sidebar
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Users with more than 1000 reputation points can see delete votes in the post timeline, but it's much more convenient to have this information fetched and added to the sidebar:
Note that the ...
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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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Answer link titles in user profiles deserves closed status too
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User profiles show post closed status on the "Questions" tabs, but not on the "Answers" tabs. As noted, partially by me, in Should “duplicate” and “closed” attributes be ...
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Show the protected banner to everyone
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According to What is a "protected" or "highly active" question?, users with more than 10 earned but less than 15,000 reputation points aren't shown the protected banner:
It ...
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Make better use of the space in profiles, like profiles used to be
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The change to user profiles discussed in Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive has introduced some empty space. It can be seen directly in Profile page is very empty, revert to ...
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Bring back the layout!
Important notice:
This update to site layout broke a lot of the layout adjusting scripts partially or completely. It affected my script as well - as of now, only pure-CSS adjustments work properly (...
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LegacyProfiles - Bringing back the old profile stats
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Note: The date is locale-based. Screenshot is in UTC
What is LegacyProfiles? (install, unminified)
LegacyProfiles brings back user info removed from profiles in a recent profile update. It is ...
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EasterEggExchange: Enable all easter eggs in chat
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This script will enable all easter eggs in chat, namely:
Cthulhu
Send <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> and quotes from this answer fly around your ...
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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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Save the waffles! Bringing back custom 404 pages to Stack Exchange
As per Aaron's answer, the change is temporarily reverted due to the backlash, so the userscript is not necessary for now. To compensate for the loss in usefulness, I decided to add per-site user ...
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Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons
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This script implements the suggestion from user1306322 to Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE, which was the original request that led to New ...
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Can "trends" be queried with the Stack Exchange API?
I've studied the Stack Exchange API to some extent (although I'm a newbie to such things), and it appears I can query the database using many criteria. But does Stack Exchange store any "trends&...
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ChatOvercharged - making inserting markdown links in chat convenient
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Chat Overcharged is a userscript that aims to improve the quality of life of chat users. It is a living project, and more features are going to be added as the ...
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Don't let me interact with this user's posts (for sockpuppets, mostly)
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The main purpose of this script is to prevent one from accidentally interacting with questions/answers posted by a sock of their own (but it can also be used to avoid interacting with posts from ...
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CDNSaver - never look for a CDN link twice
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Stack Snippets provides a great shortcut for popular library CDN links via the dropdowns on the left sidebar. However, it's uncustomizable, and when it comes to ...
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Removing Collectives™ from Stack Overflow
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Inspired by the reaction to Beta release of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, I decided to create a small practical solution in the form of a user script.
It will remove almost all traces of ...
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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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high_resolution_icon_url points to a non-existing image for Area 51 Discuss
In 2013 this bug was reported: Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
Since then a lot has improved. Most urls found in high_resolution_icon_url on the site type as returned by the /sites endpoint ...
rene♦
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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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