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AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE
No more re-typing the same comments over and over!
This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned ...
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Browsing method documentation consumes 4 quota units per page
Is it my imagination (scratch that, it's definitely not), or does simply browsing method doc pages (without using the "Run" function) consume quota?
From Bash using httpie and jq (on a ...
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Is there any way to get statistics by tag?
We are Stack Overflow Teams users. We want to get the statistics by tags.
Currently only StackExchangeApiClient.getStatistics API is found which include all team's data.
And can the https://...
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Stack.PY - A Python Module for Accessing the Stack Exchange 2.1 API
Now on PyPI!
You can now find Stack.PY on PyPI, Python's package index. This means that you can install the package simply by running the following command in a terminal:
pip install stackpy
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When are Stack Apps questions shown with thumbnails instead of regular statistics?
Today I was browsing a tag here and I noticed that on the first pages, all questions are shown with thumbnails (most of the time, just the default one):
However, from page 5 on the formatting is like ...
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SE Header Fix userscript
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This is a userscript to revert Stack Exchange's recent header bar styling change. It re-dims the icons and re-formats the little "unread" numbers above the ...
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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With Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow, I find that it would be nice to have an indicator.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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developerstory.dev: Re-home your Story, or download as JSON
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Hi, I'm Jess Telford, I created developerstory.dev 👋
When I heard StackOverflow will be discontinuing their Developer Story feature*, I couldn't just let my story get deleted! Being a developer ...
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A service to help people to download their Dev Stories before the Stack Overflow DS sunset
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Manfred launches a website that allows any StackOverflow user to download their Developer Story data as a JSON file, without requiring registering or providing any ...
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How to get all communities a user is associated with?
Is there a way to get all Stack Exchange communities in which a user is active? I mean the list of communities that are displayed on a user's network profile.
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Sticky Post Headers & Question Table of Contents
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Post Headers & Question TOC
Sticky post headers to help when scrolling long posts / comment threads
User, revision history, post timeline ...
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Should status-reproduced be made a mod-only tag?
status-review has been recently made a mod-only tag, but status-reproduced remains a normal blue tag. While not currently used on any questions (except this one, for demonstration), eventually it ...
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Using API to collect tag information - data differences
I am trying to get a list of the most popular tags on Stack Overflow.
According to the SO page, these are the most popular tags as of today:
The Python tag has 6690 questions asked this week alone.
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Floating vote buttons (script)
Tampermonkey script that brings back an old Stack Exchange feature that never made it out of beta:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Sticky post vote buttons
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
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Why does the 'Apps' tab show hot questions and the 'Scripts' tab high scoring questions?
The Stack Apps homepage has two unique tabs which are not present on other sites: Apps and Scripts. There is a slight difference between the two, which is visible upon hovering:
That's right, the '...
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How can I retrieve more than 25 pages from the Stack Exchange API v2.3?
I'm trying to find a way to retrieve all the results from a search query from the Stack Exchange API v2.3. My use case includes more than 25 pages (I already use the maximum page size of 100).
The ...
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Control Chat Volume of ping sound in any chatroom
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This script adds a sound volume control to each SE chatroom.
I created it after seeing complaints about the sound being too loud.
The script hooks-up into the volume ...
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Alignment issue in the Apps, Scripts tabs
There is an alignment issue in the Apps and Scripts tabs. The user name and the tag are not aligned right indent.
Screenshot for reference:
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Rejoin Favorite Chatrooms
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This script adds a link to rejoin favorite chatrooms, even if you're in multiple ones already:
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When you're in only one chatroom on a server, there's an orange button ...
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Post for Stack Exchange API
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As an internal enterprise code , this will not be available to the public.
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Our application is a Microsoft Internal application used for internal purposes.
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Not ...
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Add link to network and chat profiles
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The recent design update to the profile page removed the ability to easily navigate to a user's network profile, even though they chose to hide their profile. Since ...
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Stack Overflow /questions design reversion to pre-2022 layout
This set of user styles, written in Stylus, adjusts the CSS of the /questions page (on Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow only) to appear as it did before the recent New post summary designs. The ...
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Getting 405 when trying to post a comment
I'm trying to post a comment to The API Sandbox, I did one using the interactive documentation, but when trying to use my own code, it doesn't work. Instead, I get status code 405 (Method not allowed)
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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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How to convert unix timestamp to .NET DateTime
What is the format of the "creation_date" that is returned from a search of questions? I've been looking all over here and can't figure it out. I want to convert it to a regular DateTime ...
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Retrieving list of c# questions
I am trying to retrieve list of C# questions using http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions?title=true&tagged="c#".
But I get JSON response related to c questions.
Response :
{
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Why Content-Encoding gzip rather than Transfer-Encoding gzip
The API responses are returned in gzipped format. But by using Content-Encoding gzip, the burden of unzipping is on the user of the API. On the other hand if the server uses Transfer-Encoding gzip, ...
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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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Update Teams API documentation to reflect dependency on tier
The documentation 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 Teams.
This is slightly ...
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Items response empty after article POST request
I'm trying to post an article using StackExchange's Teams API then try to pull that new article's id from the API response.
The article gets posted but the items field is empty :
{"items":[],...
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How to format an url-friendly slug for question urls
I would like to construct a slug starting from the question title.
It would be useful to apps that want to show the original link to the question in a human readable way.
On StackPrinter i have this ...
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Disable enter for submitting comments
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This user script disables the default behavior of the enter key submitting a comment. With this script installed, you must explicitly click the Add Comment button to submit your comment.
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Advanced Search Helper, Saved Search (Bookmarks), and Navigation Improvements
This userscript is part of SOMU (SO-mod-userscripts)
Searchbar & Nav Improvements
(Parent) Option to search child meta
(Meta) New search bar on meta sites, and option to search parent site
(...
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All Communities Loader - making better use of the /users/hidecommunities page
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All Communities Loader is a script for enhancing the /users/hidecommunities page by listing all communities instead of only 12 at a time (inspired by this discussion), ...
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How to get statistic data for specific tags which belong to a specific team?
I just want to get statistic data for specific tags which belong to a specific team.
For example, for tags: "abc", I want to know how many users viewed the questions which have the "abc&...
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Search by team API - want to have same query results in StackOverflow.com site
I just want to have same query result like stackoverflow.com did. I read this post:Searching on Stack Overflow and using the API give different results?.
looks like /search/excerpts is the right ...
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
Our site is a bit special and different in some places compared to "regular" sites in the Stack Exchange network.
For example:
We are are both a Meta and a Main site.
We have a special API ...
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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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Automate the process of flagging non constructive comments from User Supplied data
Warning
While entering a comment ID, you should be careful because some comments may be removed with a single flag (if it already have some flags).
Some comments may still constructive even if it ...
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Is there an API call that can get me a user's access_token?
I'm trying to create a connector between Microsoft's Power Platform and the Stack API. Since the server ↔ server auth flow is happening outside of code I control, I can't grab the access_token from ...
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Request Throttling Limits
What are permissible requests "speeds?"
The API will cut you off if you make more than 30 requests over 5 seconds to any single endpoint (currently 30 requests per second, https://api....
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How do I see the differences between two or more SE API filters and merge into a filter which includes all requested properties (i.e. is a superset)?
For SmokeDetector, we have several SE API filter values in use. Notably, there are separate filters for the /answers/*, /questions/* and /posts/* routes. From an organizational standpoint, I'd like to ...
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Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Multiple tags come back unordered
I am using
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/wikis-by-tags#tags=c%23%3Bsql%3Bexcel%3Bphp&filter=default&site=stackoverflow
and the response is
"items": [
{
"...
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Is the Stack Overflow App available on iPhone?
There used to be an App of Stack Overflow on iPhone. But I don't find it in the App Store anymore.
Is it removed from the App Store?
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Comments in user timeline are returning Markdown
In users/{id}/timeline, the detail field for comment events is formatted with Markdown and not HTML. Is it normal?
I saw in the question Comments are returning markdown that the API should return HTML ...
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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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Stack Exchange login hangs on Windows 10 Mobile?
I am working on a Stack Exchange App (Stack App for Windows 10 PC/Mobile and Windows 8.1 Mobile).
I have a user login set up and using the WebAuthenticationBroker in Universal Windows Platform, to ...
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Reputation losses aren't reflected in the API
This includes reputation recalculations (e.g., the latest) and (speculative) when people take upvote back.
First case you can see on standard stackauth/users query: it displays meta reputation before ...
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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 ...