Highest scored questions
2,813 questions
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Show a warning message when you follow a link to a deleted answer or comment
About:
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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OBSOLETE - Official Stack Overflow iOS App
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About
Stack Overflow is the can’t-code-without-it site where professional and enthusiast programmers ask their toughest questions and get answers from their peers. Learn, share and ...
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Flagging Percentages
About
In response to a feature-request on Meta Stack Exchange I've written a script that calculates and adds the percentages for each flag type while viewing the Flag Summary page.
Installation
This ...
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SE Chat Flagger Bot
This is a bot that sits in the MSE tavern. What does it do?
Smokey sends in a spam report.
You reply tp with a reason and it will flag the post accordingly.
NOTES:
This does not flag based on how ...
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Tell us that POST is required to write
While troubleshooting /posts/{id}/comments/add in order to answer Why am I getting a 404 when trying to post a comment?, it was noticed that the API path in question only responded to POST requests. ...
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Chrome Extension for Stackoverflow - Customize the color scheme
I created a google chrome extension that allows you to choose custom themes in order to make pretty the code that you read.
The extension injects CSS (Lite extension) and saves your preference theme. ...
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Diablo III's tooltip script for Gaming Stack Exchange
Blizzard has a userscript for displaying tooltips when linking to game element descriptions on their webpage. This user script adds this functionality to Gaming Stack Exchange by incorporating this ...
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Ban myself/enforced break userscript
Answer to Ban myself button on user profiles--MSO
Code and inspiration from Wikipedia's version
This userscript bans you from the site till a certain date, which you must edit in.even while logged out....
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StackTack - George Edison Remix (now with a few extra features!)
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StackTack was originally listed here on Stack Apps. The idea was terrific and Soviut did such an awesome job building the application that I decided to fork it. My original intention ...
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OBSOLETE - Live Home Page - Never touch the refresh button on the home page of a Stack Exchange site again!
Feature implemented and this script retired
This script is no longer needed since this feature is now built-in. This post will remain here for historical purposes.
About
Live Home Page is a ...
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Hacks for JL&U Site
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
Ruby support for pure links and text nodes
License
CC-BY-SA
Download
https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/104680
how to install userscript - https://...
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Moderator Annotated User Recent Activity Watch List
NOTE: If you are not a moderator, this script won't add anything for you. All it does is shows the user's timeline (which is publicly visible on their profile) on the moderator dashboard to make it ...
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OBSOLETE - StackImage 2 - Create Your Own Unique Custom Flair!
Examples
http://stackimage2.quickmediasolutions.com/4dd2fde77a2ca/stackoverflow/193619
http://stackimage2.quickmediasolutions.com/4dd3772eb3ae6/cooking.stackexchange/60
http://stackimage2....
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OBSOLETE - Stack Addict: Always-on StackExchange question viewer (Chrome Extension)
Stack Addict is a question-list widget accessible at any time, from any page you're on. Pressing a simple keyboard-shortcut brings up the question viewer, from which you can search, sort, and filter ...
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AskUbuntu Add-on for Firefox, Opera and Chrome
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Firefox
Opera
Chrome
About
The extension, called AskUbuntu Add-on, allows to easily track user info and questions from askubuntu.com.
This extension displays user reputation and badges ...
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OBSOLETE - Stack Up for iOS (1.0.1)
OBSOLETE - the app is not available anymore in the App Store
About
Stack Up is now available on the App Store.
Stack Up is a Stack Exchange client for iOS (4.0 only at the moment, but I'm working on ...
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SOAPI-REST: Complete Stack Overflow API specification in machine readable format
SOAPI-REST Services
At four hour intervals, SOAPI-WATCH parses the complete Stack Overflow API documentation and generates a complete object graph representing the API including all routes, ...
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Stackoverflow as an app on Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7?
Do you know of an app for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 that let me use stackoverflow.com and hast most (if not all) features of the site itself. Maybe there is one currently in development? ...
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Why can I access the API from a browser but not wget?
If I try to access the following from firefox everything works even if I'm not logged in
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users/19068?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow
However
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How to see which users upvoted a question?
I assume this information is tracked, since StackOverflow shows me the questions I have upvoted (when going to their question page, I can undo the upvote). I couldn't find any api call that gives this ...
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Stack Exchange userscript template / boilerplate
I find it annoying to have to type the entire list of Stack Exchange sites to include every single time I make a new userscript. Furthermore, jQuery isn't automatically included by default.
Is there ...
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Getting your [app] to show up in the AppStore
We've got a couple of [app]s out there for various iProducts:
GeeQe
StackUp
Six to Eight
But searching for "Stack Overflow" or "Stack Exchange" only finds StackUp (of the above) in the AppStore*. ...
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How to format time since xxx e.g. "4 minutes ago" similar to Stack Exchange sites
function timeSince(date) {
var seconds = Math.floor((new Date() - date) / 1000);
var interval = Math.floor(seconds / 31536000);
if (interval > 1) {
return interval + " years";...
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Roadmap - any update?
So now it's 2011 and we should be getting some API updates. As a company you must have some kind of plan. So can you either say the API is never going to be updated or give a time frame to at least a ...
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StackMarks™ - Better bookmarks for a better experience
v1.4.2, 2021/6/10 UTC
Preview
Notice: There have been breaking changes to the UI. This preview is outdated (per version 1.0). View the most updated preview in the user manual at the bottom of this ...
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My registered apps are not showing in my profile; where can I find them?
I registered two apps in Stack Apps, but when I access my account, it shows no registered apps.
How can I mark them as my apps and how can access app settings (client id, key), etc?
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Keep getting HTTP 406
Not sure if this is a user or an API problem, but I keep getting HTTP 406 Not Acceptable when making API calls (for example http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats) from either IE 8 or Chrome 6.
Here ...
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Are there any restrictions on using icons/look-and-feel from the site(s)?
Can I haz non-logo icons from the site(s)?
I'm designing an app and my plan, assuming it pleases the court, is to use some of the icons/look-and-feel from the site.
For example:
The green and red ...
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Acceptable Use of Copyrighted Logos/Names?
Are any/some/all of the following considered acceptable use of the site names and logos?
I know that there is no "official policy" yet regarding this, but I figured I would show some ...
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Should we adjust the format of the dev-tip questions early on?
Update:
I've 'averaged' the few answers and comments and included the respective result below each question (all results are executed accordingly for some time already in most dev-tip posts). The ...
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API Key limit 10k is Per IP Address or Globally?
Getting started FAQ says No Key limit is IP Address based, but it does not say for with API Key.
When I test my API Key from different IP Addresses, I noticed that 10k limit is globally, limit is ...
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How to monitor questions for answers?
I am really struggling with this one...
Given a user ID, how can I monitor questions that that user has asked for new answers?
I'm worried the solution will look something like this:
Get all ...
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Userstyles to (semi) revert the new Top Questions design
These userstyles attempt to revert the unpopular changes introduced to the Top Questions pages.
See
Announcement ~ New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually
Source ...
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How about linking Stack Exchange to IFTTT?
Why is there no channel for Stack Overflow on IFTTT?
It would be great if I can mash up the Stack Exchange website with other web-based services like Google Reader or GMail, receive a SMS or ...
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Getting "application not configured for implicit grants" error trying to setup website
I had a developer setup StackExchange auth for a site last year and that still works fine. I have cloned that site and am in the process of changing out all of the relevant names and keys to the new ...
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Is there any support for Area 51 in the new API?
Does the new API support Area 51? Will there be support in the future?
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List all tags in use on stackoverflow
I am trying to list all tags used on stackoverflow here: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/tags and I cannot seem to list all.
How do I do it?.
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Could/Should the API evolve more agile rather than being blocked by v2 writing (and authentication) features?
The activity on Stack Apps has dwindled noticeably; this might be a topic for its own discussion, however I'd like to revisit the API roadmap beforehand to set a proper stage and expectations in this ...
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Add List of Libraries to "Get Started" sidebar
I suggest that a link to the List of libraries be added to the "Get Started" sidebar to provide a clear and obvious discovery path.
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Where did the "apps" tab disappear?
I may just be missing something, but there used to be an "apps" tab on the main page, which showed you a (sorted by vote) list of all the apps and libraries.
I can't find it anymore. Where did it ...
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Plans to expose details from the "accounts" tab of the user page?
One thing that I noticed was missing from the /users/ API was an ability to see what other Stack Exchange sites the user is associated with (what's usually available from the "accounts" tab of the ...
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Terms of the use for the API
What are the terms of use for the API? Are there any restrictions in terms of how I can use it, except for access limitations?
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Typos in API documentation
From the /posts documentation:
Most applications should use the question or answer specific methods, but /posts is available for those rare cases where any activity is of intereset.
intereset => ...
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Whatever happened to closed_reason?
When pulling back info on a closed question, I have come to expect closed_reason to be a present key if there's a closed_date. It seems that as of recently this is no longer true.
Proof: https://api....
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Suggested Edit Queue v2.0
The Sales Pitch
This user script enhances the suggested edit queue to remove the usability annoyances we all know and love hate.
Suggested Edits will not jump to the top when casting the deciding ...
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Can I determine the post that caused a user to earn a badge?
Some badges, like 'Yearling' are associated with a user. Other badges, like 'Great Question' and 'Great Answer' are associated with a post as well.
When I fetch the recipients of the badges, I get a ...
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API for user next achievement/badge requirement?
If you look at your user profile you can see:
visited x days, x consecutive
So for the achievement/badge "Fanatic - Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive day" I can calculate the number of ...
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OBSOLETE - Add Timeline and Revisions Links
Obsolete: Script no longer works on any Stack Exchange site. Updated version found here.
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About
This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds both timeline and revision links to ...
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Stacktacular: Stack Exchange client for WebOS
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About
Stacktacular is a Stack Exchange client for WebOS. I created it mainly to scratch my own itch: viewing Stack Overflow using the phone browser was a bit painful, and no one had built ...