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Is there a way to get a user's account ID given his site's user ID?
I'm trying to modify this userscript of mine to make it work on all sites but I couldn't find a way to get the account ID (i.e., network profile ID) for a user.
Is this possible?
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How can I fetch the answers posted in last week based on tags of the question?
I see that tags are present only for questions. How can I get the answers to these questions given in last week (if any) having specific tags?
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Anonymize short links [duplicate]
“Share” links under questions and answers include one's UserId, which may not be desirable for those who want to keep separate online identities at SE and elsewhere. (Pointed out at Meta Stack ...
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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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Duplicate list edit diffs in post timeline
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/timeline pages:
/revisions pages:
duplicate list reorderings:
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The native post timeline displays "duplicate lists edited" event as a barely readable ...
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Export SO Developer Story to devstory.fyi
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devstory.fyi allows you to import your SO Developer Story so you can continue to manage it once SO sunsets this feature.
You can import and fully manage your story. You can share (if you want) a ...
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Get a list of posts you've voted on that have been edited
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Many posts over the years have asked for ways to systematically ensure up- and down-votes are as up-to-date as the posts they were cast on, whether by notifying as soon as a post was edited, or ...
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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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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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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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replace text with icons
Exist any way to replace text with icons?
Like this example:
I have tried to re-write/replace the html from an extension in the site but I have not achieved anything functional; with the relative ...
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JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 3)
I am trying the following simple code to get JSON from the Stack Exchange API and it gives me the following error:
JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 3)
Here is my script:
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StackExchangePy: Python3 wrapper for StackExchange API
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StackExchangePy is another python package for StackExchange API, written in python3.
License
The package is under GPL3 license.
Download
To install it, type pip3 install stackexchangepy in your ...
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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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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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Why has my daily quota increased from 10k to 2 billion?
I'm using the Stack Exchange API with an access token and API key, and I was just checking my remaining quota. According to the documentation, this should be a number (somewhat) lower than 10,000, ...
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Early warning for new questions with problematic tags or titles
Leaves a temporary comment on new Stack Exchange questions with problematic tags or titles. Some of the issues detected by the bot:
a non-descriptive title
a vague tag used as the only tag
all tags ...
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PLACEHOLDER - App Carmin.tv (prod)
The App is for Prod environment
https://www.carmin.tv/
Carmin is a video platform of major french Scientific Institutes (IHES, CIRM, IHP, CIMPA) sharing contents from Research (courses, interviews, ...
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Remove users' accept rates from the API
The accept rate of users isn't shown on the site since more than 6-8 years. Nevertheless, it's still returned by default on most calls returning user details. It doesn't serve any purpose anymore, and ...
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/me/associated doesn't return meta sites anymore
The documentation of /me/associated says:
You can filter the network_users returned by this method with the types parameter. Specify, semicolon delimited, main_site or meta_site to filter by site.
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Increase/Decrease Indentation Buttons for the Editor
Some people, myself included, thought that buttons to adjust the indentation of code blocks would be useful, since apparently such buttons in all likelihood won't be implemented offically i tried to ...
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How do I search answer bodies for Markdown links?
The /search/excerpt query enables searching answers for specific text, but searching for Markdown links returns results that don't seem to match the query at all. For instance, the following query ...
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/articles api filtering on tag does not return any results
I am attempting to pull the articles from my company's collective. They are all returned when no tagged filter is used.
This should return results for the articles tagged wso2 or is there a different ...
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Fetch all questions of a particular tag from the Stack Exchange API in Python
I am trying to fetch all questions of the Swift tag from Stack Overflow. I created the query using https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions and wrote a simple wrapper in Python.
def fetch_question(...
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Stack Exchange API in Chrome extension
How I can connect my extension to the API? I tried to use this example code for connecting:
SE.init({
clientId: 1,
key: '?',
channelUrl: '?',
complete: function (data) { alert('...
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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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Get reputation changes across all sites without querying each one individually
I'm looking to make an app that shows your reputation changes throughout the network. /me/reputation-history/full almost accomplishes this, but it's on a per-site basis. I only want one query to get ...
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Non-English Language Question Analyser
This is a simple Bot which uses Stack Overflow public API and chat to continuously scan new questions and report in chat the ones which are most likely not written in English.
This project can be used ...
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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.
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Install a user script ...
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Why does this minimal filter return no results at all?
I tried to create a 'minimal' filter
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions#order=desc&sort=activity&filter=!34JvAEfIUyU-&site=stackoverflow&run=true
for the 'question' object, ...
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Hide answer sorting for a single answer
StackExchange hide sorting for a single answer
A userscript that removes the sorting combobox in questions when there is only one answer available.
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For users who prefer a cleaner UI ...
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How do you access the StacksEditor to set markdown from a user script?
I'm trying to revive Astro CB's auto edit corrections script. I've got a lot of it updated, improved, and working with Stack Exchange changes since 2015.
One thing that stuck on is setting the ...
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SEDE Parameter Autofiller
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When using the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, one often needs to provide their own user ID as input parameter for the query. Formerly, this would be filled in ...
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When using the Advanced Search API endpoint, how soon after the edit grace period is question data updated?
I'm using the Questions Advanced Search API to retrieve Stack Overflow questions with a specific tag that were created in the last 15 minutes.
I've written a script which runs every fifteen minutes ...
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(Should we) add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs?
This answer is posted by a staff member, but you have to go to the user's profile to actually see that.
Can we add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs like on all meta sites? [♦ Mod] labels aren't ...
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How to retrieve paged API results in C# and Silverlight
In this tip we are going to leverage the SimpleRequestFactory and gather a multipage response.
Let's pull the first 5 pages of 100 users on stackapps.com.
NOTE: for Silverlight, substitute Newtonsoft....
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Add API method for network-wide search
Just like stackexchange.com has a networkwide search, it would be nice to have an equivalent of excerpt-search which searches the entire network at once. That would save me 360 calls (per-site metas ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Stack Overflow NAA NLP
An app similar to Natty and DharmanBot, with the difference that classification of NAAs is done with the help of natural language processing using a deep learning model trained on existing Natty ...
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How do I get notified of events in SE chat?
I'm writing userscripts to interact with Stack Exchange Chat. I'd like to be notified when things happen (e.g. messages added, removed, edited, users joining, etc.). I know that I could use a ...
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Answerable, a recommender of unanswered questions
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Answerable is a Python program that finds unanswered questions on Stack Overflow that you could be able to answer.
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At first I didn't know about the StackExchange API, so I planned to ...
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Improve error message when attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation
When attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation, like happened here: API to submit a Suggested Edit, the API returns the following:
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"error_id": 407,
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A script to freely re-assign/remap/rebind the Stack Exchange hotkeys
the original Stack Exchange announcement from 2014
At least the hyperlink Ctrl + L and code Ctrl + K shortcuts go against the common web standards — in combination with the SE editor not behaving ...
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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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Duplicate manager with automatic closure and duplicate list editing
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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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PLACEHOLDER Stack Overflow App
StackOverflow desktop app (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
IMPORTANT: This app is under development. This is a hobby project so no deadlines, no commercial.
Fast, clean, and distraction-free UI
Better wysiwyg ...
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"is_edited": false or "is_edited": true as an option in the API response
When working with the Stack Exchange API I noticed that there is important data (at least for what I thought to do) not available, whether the question, answer or comment was edited or not:
{
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StackWatcher - Live tiles for Windows Phone 7
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Add some glanceable Stack Exchange reputation tiles to your Windows Phone 7 home screen. Some obvious features are yet to be built:
More information on the user screen, maybe a ...
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Magic Answer References - a userscript for making proper post referencing easier
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Referencing other posts properly by hand is tedious: one has to link to users' profiles as usernames are subject to change any time, as well as to their post. Magic ...
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Post Box Highlighter - Highlight a post box background
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Post Box Highlighter adds a "highlight" button to every post's action menu that allows one to temprorarily highlight the background of the target post.
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June 6, 2012: Fixed an issue that can cause major problems with chat.
December 17, 2013: Fix an incompatibility with the Winter Bash code.
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