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PLACEHOLDER StackOverflow App
[The app is under development]
StackOverflow App
Fast, clean, and distraction-free UI
Better wysiwyg editor
Native notifications
Cross-platform
and more...
Technology stack:
TypeScript
Electron
...
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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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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
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
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 ...
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Cannot authenticate with OAuth2
I was testing an app and suddenly I can't login any more.
Neither my app or the Stack App configuration hasn't changed, so I'm thinking this might be a bug on the API side.
The OAuth error seems a ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Post for StackExchange API
App is under development, please stay tuned for more developments.
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Placeholder - Mini-Mod
Mini-Mod is planned to be an app that helps the community moderate content
This also has automated features which require write_access
This is simply the placeholder which the app will be connected to
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2answers
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How can I retrieve the reputation I (or another user, fwiw) earned for a given tag from questions and answers?
(I've included the api-v2.3 because https://api.stackexchange.com/docs starts with Stack Exchange API v2.3.)
From this answer I see there's no way to get all questions with a specific tag.
However, ...
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LegacyProfiles - Bringing back the old profile stats
Preview
Note: The date is locale-based. Screenshot is in UTC
What is LegacyProfiles?
LegacyProfiles brings back user info removed from profiles in a recent profile update. It is powered by ...
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What's the relation between access_token, key, quota_max, and throttling?
From How API Keys Work (FAQ) I read that the limit of requests per day per IP is 300 without a registered key, or 10000 with it.
And this is what I see by experimenting myself: since I've not ...
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API "Hello World" code
The Stack Exchange API is based on HTTP and URLs, just like the web page you're browsing now. Except instead of HTML, the responses are all in JSON.
Let's say we wanted to call the /info method:
https:...
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Is it possible to get the response from a form POST?
This is related to my XYZ app to write comments.
I found a much neater way to submit the request using forms:
function post() {
se_url='https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/posts/'+se_postId.value+'/...
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1answer
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Is there a way to increase the contrast of the special highlighting that is applied to the OP of a question?
EDIT: as you can see, the OP is now highlighted a bit more clearly, in 2021! But this may change, or someone might want a more striking contrast.
When the Original Poster of a question comments ...
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Why doesn't my XMLHttpRequest call work in Excel?
I can make a simple API call in JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest:
<html>
<script>
function reqListener () {
out.textContent=this.responseText;
}
...
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App xyz - write comments anywhere
App xyz
Here's the code:
http://www.jmp-web.co.uk/seapi/seapi.htm
The first link returns the top 20 tags from Stack Overflow, the second link can add a comment to a post on any SE site.
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Stack Exchange API Types - a type declaration package for API types
Screenshot / Code Snippet
Usage example:
import {
CommonWrapperObject,
Errors,
Filters,
Tag,
} from "@userscripters/stackexchange-api-types";
export const getTagsAPI = ...
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Using StackEx as a prefix for the name of my app?
According to trademark guidance:
[...] Including one of the terms, "Stack" or "Exchange" or "Overflow" in your product name is generally okay.
I'd like to use "...
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1answer
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How can I write (edit) one of my answers?
I started to love the Python black formatter and I want all my code on Stack Overflow to be formatted like that. So I wanted to go over the answers and apply black / blacken-docs, check if anything ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Stack App post for access token creation write access Personal
Creating a placeholder post for enable access token creation with write access
Edit - Testing
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What am I allowed/not permitted to do with the API?
I have a site that will offer technical help and assistance for a certain niche of computer users. I can either host my own forums, or tie in with stack... but I want to be able to make money off it ...
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Load answers to a question with review-like wrapper HTML
I'm trying to implement this feature request in SOUP, but I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to actually load the answers.
I can just load the full question page (like this one, for example) ...
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trying to query answers for a question using the stack.php
I am trying to query stackoverflow and route it to my website via the following
<?php
require_once './stackphp_source_0.4/src/api.php';
require_once './includes/function.php';
// Begin by getting ...
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1answer
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Get points from Multiple sites in one call
Is there any way to get total points and badges from various sites (e.g. stackoverflow, sharepoint, wordpress etc.) in one call?
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Serel returns a JSON Parse error for the 'C#' tag
When I try requesting the tag c# via Serel, I get an error.
This is the error I am getting:
INFO][2013-02-25 02:06:42] Making request to /2.0/tags/c#/info?site=stackoverflow&key=mykey
JSON::...
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Write comment API failing with error_id: 500
I am trying to test post comment with the following URL
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/posts/10305691/comments/add?key=HIDDEN&access_token=HIDDEN&site=stackoverflow&preview=true&...
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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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Answer delete votes in the post sidebar
About
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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Removing Collectives™ from Stack Overflow
About
Inspired by the reaction to Beta release of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, I decided to create a small practical solution in the form of a user script.
It will remove almost all traces of ...
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Make better use of the space in profiles, like profiles used to be
About
The change to user profiles discussed in Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive has introduced some empty space. It can be seen directly in Profile page is very empty, revert to ...
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Dragon: an automatic editor
Placeholder removal
While the placeholder tags have been removed, this project is still very much experimental - Dragon now works, but it doesn't always work well. Common sense while using is still ...
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38answers
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StackApplet — Bringing Stack Exchange Notifications to Your Desktop [Large scale rewrite in progress]
Rewrite In Progress
I am currently in the process of completely rewriting this application from scratch. The code for the old version was an absolute disaster, written nearly four years ago when ...
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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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User sort by last_modified_date always return errors
I am using this API to get users info sorting by last_modified date, https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/users#page=1&pagesize=100&order=asc&sort=modified&filter=!9YdnSBVWs&site=...
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PLACEHOLDER - Stack App post for access token creation write access
Creating a placeholder post for enable access token creation with write access
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Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance
About
Activity Indicator is a userscript that displays a, well, indicator and some useful stats about your interactions with a given post. Inspired by this feature request, upon opening a post, the ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Stack App post for access token creation with write access
Creating a placeholder post for enable access token creation with write access
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2answers
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Generate Headers - a utility package for validating and auto generating userscript manager headers
About
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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What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
What does the /users endpoint look for when sorting on modified date?
For the /users endpoint in the Stack Exchange API v2.3, what does the modified filter in sort field look for?
It is unclear from ...
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After successfully retrieving 180 pages, the API gracelessly, semi-silently, fails
I'm trying to synchronize tags using the Stack Exchange API and this works for about 180 pages, but around 180 pages it always ends with an exception that seems to indicate that there is no HTTP ...
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API Inconsistencies
In my opinion, one of the hallmarks of a good API is that it is self-consistent. It establishes easy-to-remember conventions and then follows them.
As I'm trying to adopt the 2.0 API, I'm finding ...
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Sort Best First
Inspired by the Fastest Gun question on the central Meta, this script implements answer sorting based on a modified Wilson score. Installing the script adds a ‘Best’ button on question pages that ...
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Garbage (litter) filters - delete custom filters from the "more" dropdown
About
Garbage (litter) filters is a userscript that allows users to delete custom filters from the top dropdown directly without scrolling down to the "custom filters" sidebar. Inspired by ...
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SymbolHound: Search Stack Overflow for special characters
About
See symbolhound.com
SymbolHound is a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. I was always frustrated that I couldn't search for symbols like >> and && using Google or ...
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1answer
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Java exception when user age or location is unspecified in returned JSON
I am brand new to the Stack Exchange API and Android (well, self taught in the last four months). I have been working on creating a school project focused around Android and JSON. My initial idea was ...
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Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider
About
Ever since the Visual design changes to the review queues suggested edits have been too narrow. Especially when containing code blocks. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore.
Screenshots
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Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons
About
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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Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages
About
Some time ago, Stack Exchange moved to highlight.js v11. One of the breaking changes of this version was the removal of the HTML auto-passthru, which SE uses to indicate addition/deletion in ...
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Get questions with body and answers
How can I get the latest 30 questions with body and answers using the api?
And then, I want to get only first most voted 3 answers for each question. Is this possible with only one request?
To get ...