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This script is no longer necessary; please visit Announcement: Keyboard shortcuts are now integrated into the site for an updated status on this. Screenshot About This is the official keyboard ...
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About 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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History June 6, 2012: Fixed an issue that can cause major problems with chat. December 17, 2013: Fix an incompatibility with the Winter Bash code. Screenshot Before: After: About Instead of showing ...
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Obsolete: The site has been down hard for a couple of years. Reference: Shog9's answer on Meta SE The GitHub issue The Stack Exchange Elections Statistics Page is a simple single-...
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Offline! This app is no longer supported. But perhaps the source code at GitHub may be useful. Screenshots Main Page Supports all Stack Exchange sites via StackAuth Search for users on any site to ...
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General Heat detector is a StackApp whose goal is to catch offensive, rude, snarky comments, and comments that leads to abusive content (offensive, spam posts, or previous offensive comments). It is ...
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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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Screenshot About I've never been a fan of the reputation graph, but it seems a few people miss it since it has been removed. This user script adds a little "graph" link to a user's reputation tab. ...
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Roomba Forecaster ( install ) ( GitHub ) Roomba Forecaster is a user-script that shows the question's status with respect to being deleted by Roomba. This script adds a "roomba" status line ...
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v.1.3 of MyStacks, an unofficial iPhone app for browsing questions on the Stack Overflow trilogy sites, is now available in the app store. Current Version Saves articles offline once viewed Choose ...
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Screenshots (source: edgylogic.com) (source: edgylogic.com) (source: edgylogic.com) About Stackdump was conceived for those who work in environments that do not have easy access to the ...
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What is Guttenberg? Guttenberg is a bot that searches for plagiarism or duplicated answers on Stack Overflow. It's currently running in SOBotics under the user Guttenberg. Implementation Every 60 ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet 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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About Lurks in the shadows of the chat. It executes commands at the request of the user, sending messages as the user who runs it. You can talk to it the StackOverflow SandBox room if you want to ...
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About This user script makes it easier to edit long questions and answers by doing the following things: It constrains the height of the Markdown preview to 500 pixels by default, so you can see the ...
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This userscript is a revival of sorts for the old SE Editor Toolkit, which was abandoned some time ago. It only really provides the autocorrect aspect for the foreseeable future, which I find to be ...
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#Obsolete: Links are dead; no source code. About Stack Exchange Notifier is a handy extension for Google Chrome browser that displays your current reputation, badges on Stack Exchange sites and ...
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SOCVFinder Background This bot was developed to address the following issues: The problem of duplicated questions, that not only confuse search engines but also encourage rep hunts by copying and ...
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How many times have you been overwhelmed by your desire to set fire to people in Stack Exchange chat? Well now you can! Arqade Fire Get Chrome Extension Get Grease Monkey User Script Arqade Fire is a ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet (click to make bigger) About Keeps the 2019 April Fool's Day theme, all the time! Inspired by this post on Meta.SE Download Get it from GitHub, or below: // ==UserScript== //...
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Screenshots About Stack Exchange is a network of 100+ question and answer communities on everything from software programming to cooking, photography, and gaming. With this app you can: Track ...
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About This is a Greasemonkey script that allows you to click code regions on Stack Overflow (or other Stack Exchange sites) and have it expand to whatever size it needs. Get rid of those pesky scroll ...
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App no longer available for use and not in development. Screenshot / Code Snippet About This basic website allows users to organize their Stack Overflow favorites by tags, or search through ...
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RebolBot is a chat bot with a natural English dialect interface, specifically targeting the StackOverflow chat rooms. Yet it has a modular design, can post tweets to Twitter, and could be modified ...
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About They're back! Although they were created for April 1st, you can now enjoy them throughout the whole year! Simply install this UserScript and commence upvoting and downvoting. License The ...
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There are two versions of FireAlarm. One version is written in C, and the other is written in Swift. This post is about the Swift version. FireAlarm is a chatbot Ashish Ahuja and I have been ...
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Screenshot Video of app in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zflMRXt2c&hd=1 About I created this app because I wanted to see what my friends and co-workers were doing on StackOverflow. I ...
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Not using Firefox? Don't worry, Stack Alert is available for other browsers as well. Visit the appropriate page for your browser below: Google Chrome Opera Screenshot / Code Snippet ...
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'Saviour' of Lost Souls Meta sites, but especially Meta Stack Exchange, see a lot of 'lost souls', users who have no idea that they're on Meta (e.g. because of a suboptimal email or a Stack Overflow ...
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Note: the new inline editing breaks this user script pretty seriously, so it doesn't work at the moment. I will be working on fixing it to work with the new system when I get a chance, but it may take ...
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Question code is obsolete. But the answer code and the code linked in the comments still work. About This script adds Ctrl+B (bold), Ctrl+I (italic), Ctrl+K (code), and Ctrl+L (link) shortcuts to ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet Below is a screenshot of the inbox with two viewed yet unread messages: About Preserves new Stack Exchange Inbox messages until they are actually read, not just viewed in ...
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Screenshot About This script was originally inspired by SE Editor Toolkit. Unfortunately, the toolkit is packaged as a Safari extension and as such is unusable in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. I had ...
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Having read through come of the questions on here it's my understanding that v 1.0 of the API is for read-only access to real-time data, pretty much what's available in the data dump. Write support is ...
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Screenshot About SOwhat is a Qt-based application that attempts to mimic the Stack Overflow website. License SOwhat is released under the MIT license. Download Currently, this is what I can offer: ...
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Description This is a userscript that lets you mark questions as commonly used duplicate targets, and replaces the default question search in the close dialog with one that searches through your ...
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Update: This script was previously called "Insert APT Link" but has now been renamed. As such, you need to uninstall any previous versions before installing the new one. Screenshot / Code ...
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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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I've made a userscript that allows you to self-destruct comments that you've made. You can get it at Github. Get started install Tampermonkey, or Greasemonkey get an access token install the script ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet About This small bookmarklet will allow anyone to use the "vulnerability" of the API that it allows you to check the up/down vote count - a feat you could normally achieve ...
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Burnaki The purpose of this project is to monitor burnination efforts on the Stack Exchange network. The goals are threefold: tracking the progress by watching for close votes / reopen votes / delete ...
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Screenshot About Rank Overflow is a website to calculate your Stack Overflow reputation rank in all leagues easily and with one click. I created this page because I wanted to know my percentage of my ...
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Screenshot About StackRating.com tracks user ratings which is a measure of users “skill”. It does so by comparing the number of upvotes on the answers of each question and uses the formula of the Elo ...
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Please note, the tag burninator script requires 10k rep to use. Sorry, noobs! I pass on to you, dear taxonomist terrorists, the burninator toolkit. This toolkit consists of two user scripts which, ...
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OBSOLETE - Domain is no longer working and Twitter account hasn't been active since 2010. Get tweets about new questions on Stack App sites About I am fed up sitting all day refreshing the home page ...
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RIP June 23, 2010 - July 4, 2013 All of the features that StackImage provides are either available with the built-in flair on each Stack Exchange site or provided by StackImage's successor: ...
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Screenshot About This small script adds a save button to the editor bar that allows you to instantly save the contents of the editor as a draft. Although this happens automatically every minute or so,...
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The Stack Exchange API has a couple of calls that return a list of flag_option objects. These objects contain a couple of properties that can be used to identify the flag you need. For example, when ...
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Screenshot / Code Snippet (source: apphb.com) About Ever wanted to see just what kind of locations are posting to the various Stack Exchange sites at any given time? Even if you haven't, you'll find ...
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Description The aim of this project is to write a simple bot which will monitor all new answers posted on Stack Overflow and flag the ones which are not answers in accordance to the guidelines ...
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