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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?
I'm starting to write a native Android client for Stack Overflow, and wondering what exactly is a valid OAuth domain name?
Is it the package name of my app?
Or do I have to point it to a server ...
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Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API
I see the Stack Exchange API but I'm unable to understand it. I don't think there is any fundamental tutorial showing how to use Stack Overflow fully in the API documentation.
I want some fundamental ...
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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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App as Power Platform custom connector
Trying to create a connector for Microsoft's Power Platform in order for others to be able to create Power Apps and Power Automate workflows against Stack* data.
I need a post in order to get write ...
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OBSOLETE - Find old display names of a user
As observed here, it can be
confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names
So I've made a simple API-based tool:
Old display names of a user
It ...
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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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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With Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow, I find that it would be nice to have an indicator.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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Duplicate Target Manager
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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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Toggle Stack Overflow Chat Sidebar
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On toggle hide sidebar:
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The sidebar will be automatically hidden. When you want to see the sidebar, take the mouse to the right edge of the screen and the ...
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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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OBSOLETE - Rebuilt as another app / Full-featured reputation loader
This version of app is obsolete. I've just started rebuilding it, will be life approximately today or tomorrow (Feb 5-6, 2023). New version is live! Check it there: Voting activity tracker v2: check ...
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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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OBSOLETE - Review Audit Detector
Motivated by the question Would a userscript to determine whether a review is an audit be illegal, I wrote a userscript for this purpose. The algorithm is as follows:
If the post score shown in review ...
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`key` is not valid for passed `access_token`, token not found (although seemingly valid authentication)
I've made an authentication flow for my app (which wants to read your inbox and sent notifications on your desktop). Which can be found here
For this, I have created a stack app on this site. With the ...
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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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"Could not parse uri [redirect_uri]" when trying to authenticate
I was just reading into this API and wanted to test it out before I would use it in a project.
I have added an application on this site and got all of the keys.
When I try to authenticate a user with ...
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Cursor decorations based on the April Fool's 2019 theme?
I've really enjoyed the April Fool's theme this year, most of all the cursor decoration. Could someone create a user script for me that activates the decoration everywhere on the network (chat can be ...
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How to solve bad_parameter error?
I'm trying to make the Stack Exchange API request using the key provided by Stack Apps. But whenever I try it always throws the below error.
{'error_id': 400, 'error_message': "key doesn't match a ...
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MyStacks - "Stack Overflow trilogy" iPhone app (free)
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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/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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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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Even though status-review has been made a moderator-only tag, it remains blue on this post
On this answer, status-review is mentioned. For whatever reason, the tag appeared as blue instead of red. I've also noticed that it does not appear on this post for some reason. I thought that ...
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Should we add review queues to the API?
Review queues are unsupported on the Stack Exchange API, and it could be useful to write an app that would review. Should we add it to the API?
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Stack Menu – Access Stack Overflow from the Menu Bar
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Stack Menu stays in the macOS menu bar to provide quick access to Stack Overflow. Search for programming problems and share answers without moving out from your ...
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Does a closed and/or deleted Stack Apps post still provide access to the API?
Registering your application as a Stack Apps app is necessary in order to obtain a higher request quota, authentication and write access to the API.
What happens if the question is closed because of ...
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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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API stopped allowing CORS requests
I'm currently using the API via JavaScript AJAX calls and it all of a sudden stopped allowing CORS requests.
I'm on localhost and I tried uploading my code to live and am still getting:
Access to ...
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How to register a Stack App with explicit OAuth 2.0 flow to a third party site?
I am about to integrate a Stack Overflow app to a third party website / integration service (Zoho).
The third party website's documentation mentioned that the redirect URL is https://deluge.zoho.com/...
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Show a warning message when you follow a link to a deleted answer or comment
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When you follow a link to a comment or answer you might end-up being confused if the answer or comment is removed.
This little userscript shows a warning on top of the page when the link you ...
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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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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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Dark Mode 4 Chats
A userscript that adds Dark Mode to Stack Exchange Chats, while also allowing you to customize themes and colors!
Version 0.2: still beta
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Since the introduction of ...
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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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LinkPreview - Protection against hazardous links
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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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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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How to get write_access to comment/answer on Stack Exchange
I'm trying to integrate the Stack Exchange API into my web app so I can fetch all posts as well as I can post answer or comments on them. I have successfully got access_token for no_expiry and ...
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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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window.opener is null in Stack Exchange login_success page
I am using the JavaScript SDK to authenticate Stack Exchange users in our application. But the dialog stays in "Authorizing Application" page, as I found there is a error thrown in this page:...
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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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StackApps Captcha doesn't work: "Invalid domain for site key"
The Captcha page on this site doesn't seem to be set up correctly, it shows an error message:
ERROR for site owner:Invalid domain for site key
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Draft Specification for API v2.0
We've started working on the next version of the Stack Exchange API.
The current draft specification is available, and we'd like to hear your feedback!
The headlining feature for this release is ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Custom Import Tool [closed]
Placeholder for a custom application allowing for internal uploading into a Stack Overflow for Teams instance.
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How to 'publish' an app after the development is complete?
I followed the steps and created a StackApp (registering a new OAuth app) and added a StackApp post as per question - My app has to be published first? But it's still under development
Now that my ...
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StackExchange Election: Primary counter
This user script adds a short overview table at the of the election page during the primary election phase on Stack Exchange moderator elections. The table lists all candidates, ordered by their ...
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How to get all tags' descriptions from the Stack Exchange API directly?
I know I can get one tag description by request such as "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/tag_name/wikis?site=dba".
But if I use it more than hundreds of times, I will get a ...
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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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so: A terminal interface for Stack Overflow
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This is a simple terminal interface to the Stack Exchange network. I created it as an exercise in learning Rust but also because I think it could be useful. It's for ...
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Unstar/unpin for room owners from a transcript
In a chat room room owners can unstar or unpin messages.
However, they can't do that from their chatroom transcript. If they want to cancel stars from way back they are forced to load older messages ...
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Stack Exchange Data Explorer
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Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) is an open source tool for running arbitrary queries against public data from the Stack Exchange network. Features include collaborative query editing for all ...
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