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Authorization dialog shows wrong API version
If you go on this doc page and click on Get Token, you'll see this:
Minor bug, but still, I thought it would be nice to fix this inconsistency :)
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Review Assistance 1.0
Review Assistance 1.0 is a script designed to help you review the Close Vote Queue and Reopen Vote Queue in Stack Overflow only.
In future, we will look forward to add it's support to all SE sites.
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Stack Search - Chrome extension
Stack Search is the chrome extension you’ve always dreamed of!
Stack Search adds to your Google Search results a filtered set of the most relevant answers from your top trusted coding sources: ...
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Close hammer warning
Power users may have experienced this situation before: They see a question that’s clearly a duplicate, so they hunt down the duplicate target and close the question. It’s only then that they realize ...
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access_token not present in /oauth/access_token response
When using the explicit oath authentication for stack apps, I have problem receiving the access_token. A user goes to /approve and is then forwarded to approve the app. When redirected back to my site ...
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How do I future-proof my app to work with every SE site?
I just wrote an app for Chrome extensions and received a request to make it cross-StackExchange compatible.
If there's eventually going to be more sites than just the few listed and I don't really ...
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The tags array is missing from answer results
I'm probably missing something very obvious but it seems like /users/{ids}/answers forgets to include the tags badge in the resulting answer object:
tags (2.1) an array of strings
Nowhere does ...
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Bounty Notice Viewer - View the notice from Home page
Inspired by my own meta question: Show the bounty notice/reason on hover instead of “this question has an open bounty worth x reputation”,
I created a userscript which helps to view the bounty notice ...
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No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' for oauth/access_token
Following the Stack Apps documentation Authentication (explicit) section I crafted this AJAX call
$.ajax({
url:"https://stackexchange.com/oauth/access_token",
type:"...
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Clone the tags in questions page, if the tags are not visible in the initial window
About
If the tags are not visible in the initial loaded page, this script will copy and paste the tags after the post title.
If the tags position is not less than the current window's height, then ...
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RO Chat Message Delete Option
Description:
Gives room owners the ability to delete other users' chat messages from the message popup menu:
On confirmation, the message will be deleted. The ability is available for up to 2 ...
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Chat Move Helper / Bot Cleanup Tool
Description:
Extends the room-owner move message tool in chat to make it easier to quickly clean up after bots by moving their messages, commands, and replies to them. Adds a couple visualization ...
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What token parameters to use for OAuth2 Authorizaton?
I'm trying to connect a piece of desktop software to the Stack Exchange web service through OAuth2. I've read the docs but the problem is that what it talks about is subtly different to what ...
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How do I get information about top users of a Stack Exchange community?
I was going through the stack exchange API and I want to extract information about, say, top 20 users of a particular stack exchange community. How do I use the API for that?
I tried on this page ...
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Please add gallery thumbnails to this site's search results
I would like to link to a list of all my stuff, but I'd like it to display with thumbnails and excerpts (like it does on tag searches).
Is this possible? It seems like a reasonable use case, but for ...
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Top Bar for Chat Rooms
As of 1.12, thanks entirely to Shog9's efforts, this now works on Firefox as well as Chrome!
Description:
Provides a fully functional top bar, including realtime notifications, easy chat server ...
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More Share Links (Markdown / HTML / BBCode)
Description:
As of 1.04, this now also works with Firefox / Greasemonkey.
Adds share links in additional formats, and also lets you omit user ID from links:
Features:
Adds Markdown, HTML, and ...
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Clickable Links in Revision Comments
Description:
This is a really simple userscript that turns URLs in revision history comments into clickable links:
Features:
Works in both revision list and single revision links.
Download:
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Sidebar Answer Status
Description:
As of 1.10 this now also works in Firefox / Greasemonkey.
This is a userscript that modifies the Linked and Related sidebar lists to show answered status and other info:
Download:
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Good looking, higher quality Stack Exchange flairs!
Higher quality flair for your Stack Exchange accounts.
Want a flair like this?
Or this:
Or even this?
It's easy! Simply use this URL:
https://timtjtim.co.uk/API/1.0/flair/SITENAME/USERID/COLOR
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Permission to link to Stack Overflow webpages from my app?
Update: My problem has now been resolved. I've added details at the bottom of this post.
I wrote a little Android app (Stack Flower) that allows customized searches of Stack Overflow. If the user ...
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/tags search multiple words (“or”) inname
Is there any way to search for tags... but for ex "aa bb" so I want back the tag "aa-cc" and tag "aa-ccbb". at the moment the inname searches for "aa bb" so only a tag called "aa bbcc" will be a ...
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PPCG App Tokens
If you are answering a challenge in PPCG tagged [stack-exchange-api], you have probably exceeded your API limit by now. This app allows you to use a higher limit by using the app tokens provided:
KEY:...
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XMPPExchange: An XMPP bridge for chat
Screenshots
You can use it to use chat on CLI too, with the help of profanity:
Note: You need to run /online when you login to enable relaying.
(Quick how to use: apt-get install profanity, ...
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Regional 12-hour timestamps
This script is a modification of Kip's "Display absolute timestamps (in local time)"; I have his permission to post this. Most of the credit for the script goes to him.
About
This script displays ...
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Small but Handy: Show a warning message for 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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1answer
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“backoff” missing when updating questions
I updated a couple of questions with the questions/{id}/edit method and got the following error:
{
"error_id": 407,
"error_message": "You cannot perform this action for another 14 seconds",
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Test application: cwsh (Placeholder)
I'm testing out the Stack Exchange API with a tiny script that fixes a typo.
It's written in PHP and used the implicit client-side OAuth flow to get the access token.
Lessons learned
{"error_id":...
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1answer
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
On API doc pages, the “link” link at the top-right of the “Try It” sections presents a URL with the wrong domain name:
For example, on docs/similar, the URL displayed will be:
https://api....
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StackWatch - Glitch app to send Web Push Notifications on new questions
I made a very simple node app to give me chrome push notifications when new questions are posted in tags I am interested in:
I have tested it working in Chrome and Firefox.
Demo Site
This is a ...
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Vinder: Stack Exchange Voting Tinder (Placeholder)
Placeholder, suggestion by Simon Forsberg.
The purpose of this application is to allow a more convenient method of voting on Stack Exchange posts, while creating a shuffle and supporting lower-...
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ModColorFix for Chat
Just a very very simple userscript that changes the moderator usernames in chat from blue to green.
Requested by and built for @doppelgreener on becoming a mod.
Link to Github Repo
Link to install
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Stack Overflow Android App (Placeholder)
This is a placeholder for the Stack Overflow Android app.
Parallel to the Stack Overflow iOS App, these are Stack Overflow only versions of the Stack Exchange apps.
More information to come soon.
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Moderation request: Please make `app-key` a synonym of `api-key`
Refer to Are "api-key" and "app-key" the same thing?.
Although I've now retagged the questions that used app-key, there are still plenty of places where the redundant term is ...
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1answer
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Will the Stack Exchange API work with an org-specific Stack Overflow site?
We have a company-specific Stack Overflow site for folks to ask questions with the company. It has a *.stackoverflow.com domain/URL.
Would I be able to use the Stack Exchange API to access the ...
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1answer
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Implicit OAuth flow puts the access token in the hash?
The implicit OAuth flow puts the access token in the hash.
However, I would like to get that in the query (from example.com/hi#access_token=123456 to example.com/hi?access_token=123456) for it to work ...
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Generic Bot – A Moderation Chatbot
Generic Bot is a chatbot meant to help with moderation tasks on Stack Overflow. You can find the bot in the SOBotics chatroom.
Flag Tracker (Userscript)
When you flag a post, this userscript will ...
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Stack Flower: a simple Android app for searching Stack Overflow
Stack Flower is a simple Android app for browsing Stack Overflow, with some useful search customization options. You can easily make queries like
Posts from this week tagged "android", ranked by ...
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1answer
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Is it okay to just send the API key (without implementing oauth-2 login)?
I'm writing a small Android app that issues customizable queries and displays the results in a read-only format. I might implement oauth-2 in a future version, but want to leave it out of version 1.0 (...
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Adding tags for questions tagged inconsistently (Placeholder)
I'm adding a new tag to all questions that satisfy certain rules, to keep tagging more consistent.
See Which tag(s) to use for Python typing questions for details.
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TACUC - The ATaco ChatExchange Userscript Collection
A collection of Userscripts focused around Stack Exchange's chat.
To install these, you need TamperMonkey, although GreaseMonkey apparently works.
GitHub
Auto Chat Jax
This userscript simply ...
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Documentation or API method for `option_id` information, for the `/flags/options` API calls?
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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Stackb0t | Messenger chatbot for Stack Overflow
Stackb0t
Screenshots
Say hi / hello to get started..
Get unread inbox and reputation changes
About
It sends unread inbox + reputation changes in Messenger once registered.
Why did I create it? ...
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Mass find and replace in answers, questions and titles of questions
1. Briefly
I don't find, how I can mass replace string in multiple answers, questions and titles of questions of any Stack Exchange site.
2. Example
For example, I want to replace incorrect form of ...
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How to get the number/count/total of tags/badges/something from the API?
I see we can fetch tags via the API, which works fine
but, sadly, there doesn't seem to be a way to get the count of all possible tags.
Currently the Stack Overflow Tags page shows 36 tags per page ...
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Only Stack Overflow has documentation, but the API erroneously lists documentation privileges for all sites
Privileges related to Stack Overflow Documentation are displaying in every other site's API data.
Using Meta Stack Exchange, for example, /2.2/privileges?site=meta returns the following documentation ...
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StackSurfer iOS App
StackSurfer Screenshots:
About
“StackSurfer – Search Faster, Work Smarter”
StackSurfer provides a smarter way to search for questions and answers in Stack Overflow. You can search for questions ...
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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names
A picture says more than a thousand words:
These users aren't called "Bhargav Rac" and "Tunak", but Bhargav Rao and Tunaki.
This happens on both the 'apps' and 'scripts' tabs of the Stack Apps ...
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GrafOverflow - Metric collection for Stack Exchange
GrafOverflow
A metric collection script for the Stack Exchange API.
View Some Realtime Stats
Here is a link for you to view some stats in real* time, with one year of history!
GrafOverflow
*Stats ...
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DSS: Facilitating API authentication for desktop apps
desktop-stack-serv
Auth server for desktop applications authenticating with the Stack Exchange API.
What?
The Stack Exchange API enables applications to get data about Stack Exchange sites or
users....