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Show/Hide spoilers on any site
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This is a small script that add a button to show or hide the spoilers on any Stack Exchange site. The setting will then be remembered across the site.
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ChatterBox configuration option is confusingly worded
ChatterBox - user script that adds inbox integration to Stack Exchange Chat!
I'm confused over the option:
Mark items as unread when you view them:
Why would I want to mark items as unread when I ...
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How to get tags using the API?
I have a requirement in my application to show the technical skills (tags) in auto-complete format like Stack Overflow has.
Is there any example to get the tags from Stack Overflow using JavaScript +...
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How to login programmatically
I'm building an app for personal use. The app simply screen-scrapes the StackExchange homepage and checks whether I am currently logged in to StackExchange. This works fine.
However, if the app ...
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Software for Javascript?
Do I need any special kind of software to view the responses I get after requesting something? Like with Klout for example, I can get all the code returned as I need it, I just don't know where to put ...
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Unread messages in inbox query shows older inbox messages
I am using the /inbox/unread route to get the unread messages in a user's inbox. Recently (over the last couple of months, perhaps) I have noticed that the entries returned from this route initially ...
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How should we announce updates to our apps, scripts, libraries, etc?
Is there a recommended best way to let the stackapps community know that we've released an updated version of one of our projects?
We can edit the project's page and bump the version number, but this ...
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How to get the site name from document to pass to API?
Most APIs take a parameter site which must be set to the name of the site your queries are about.
For meta.travel or travel.
But of course sites have various names, for example gaming.stackexchange....
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How to login programmatically on Android?
I think my question is not a duplicate of this one: How to login programmatically
I have read the authentication document but, still, I am unable to get what's needed to login programmatically on ...
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last_activity_date meaning on /questions route
I would like to add a cache layer to my app for questions, answers and comments.
The last_activity_date parameter on /questions route seems a valid candidate (probably the only way available)
The help ...
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Comments are returning markdown.
Look at the output of the following:
http://api.askubuntu.com/1.0/questions/12218?comments=true
Output:
{
"comment_id": 12713,
"creation_date": 1289269467,
"owner": {
"user_id"...
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Is there a glossary of the properties returned in response to the Stack Exchange API?
While most items are self-explanatory, some aren't, and I was wondering if there was a glossary explaining all the properties in each of the response types?
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StackPromo: Free Q&A Advertising Service (beta)
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StackPromo is a free SE post advertising platform. Submit your posts. Webmasters can embed the ads on their site.
SUBMIT YOUR POSTS HERE: https://stackpromo.appspot....
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What is the best way to provide support for an unknowable number of StackExchange sites?
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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Stack Exchange v2.2 PHP API Client [closed]
I am developing a PHP library for interacting with the Stack Exchange API.
Most of the methods are unimplemented so far.
I am writing this post because I need to test some auth methods.
My app ...
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redundant data in users
this is an example of truly redundant data. the paths are documented. they don't need to be included in the results.
"user_questions_url": "/users/22656/questions",
"user_answers_url": "/users/...
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Why doesn't the API return a 'locked date' for this locked answer?
This answer has been locked, yet when I ask the API about this post it fails to return a locked_date:
It's a rather old lock, but I can't see anything suspicious in the timeline or the Post History.
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How to sort /questions/featured by bounty_closes_date
The API documentation describes tthe usage of /questions/featured. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to sort the result by bounty_closes_date, which is IMO the sort option making most ...
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Stats not showing the same values as the Site
I get less values in the api method that in the site, is this posible?
Example: form the API I get that SO has 709980 questions from site 701005
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Blur the topbar’s background
This stylesheet will make the background of the topbar show a blurred version of the contents below it. Note that I was unable to make the search box transparent (the icon was invisible), and I couldn’...
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Is there a SQL-like query for the API?
I've looked at the API docs.
However, I haven't found a way to do complex queries through the API such as I can do in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer query editor (select, joins etc).
Example: data....
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How to get all questions with a specific tag between certain dates
I would like to get all questions created and tagged with tag "R" between 2 dates.
I'm using parameters: tagged = R, sort = creation, fromdate and todate set to appropriate dates and site = ...
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New Meta sites out of order in /sites
I don't know if this is by design, but the ServerFault and SuperUser Meta sites don't follow their main sites in the response for the sites API route. Having linked_meta sites follow their main (...
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OAuth redirect_uri to https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success?xxx strips part of the query string
I have a browser extension that uses OAuth2 to retrieve an access token. As recommended by https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication, I use https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/login_success as the ...
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new throttle does not differentiate between api requests and requests made from viewing the site
Update:
I am unable to reproduce the case of interactive browsing affecting app quota. And will concede that the failures that prompted this post were likely far edge cases.
The remaining issue of a ...
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user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small
the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000.
it is apparent that this is the server-side field length.
the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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How do I find all questions/answers per a tag using .Net?
I want to get the list of questions based on tag name using .Net. can any one please let me know how to achieve this using .Net with API Version 2.2?
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Shouldn't there be a separate call for featured questions?
I find it rather peculiar that you can sort questions by featured. My arguments:
What does order mean in this case? It could mean the bounty amount (e.g. using desc would return the questions with ...
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How to use the API to show the user reputation? [duplicate]
How do I use the Stack Exchange API to let my users enter their Stack Overflow URL and then extract their reputation and show it in a profile controller in Rails?
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Answers suddenly not getting returned.
Try:
http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/questions/212
None of the answers are present.
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Can I change my user profile using the API?
It seems the API just allow me to retrive public information, but... is it possible to change, for instance, my "about_me" information using the API?
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Mismatch between user_id as reported in StackAuth 1.1 (invalid) and 1.0 (valid)
For the association id 1de2e2b0-2fb6-4db6-b90d-d0244ed5d13a, the StackAuth 1.1 call returns an invalid user_id of 73203 for Server Fault whereas the StackAuth 1.0 call returns the correct user_id of ...
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Add careers link and info to StackAuth
It might be nice to have access to a user's linked careers information via StackAuth if at all possible. One use I had in mind was integration into a sidebar widget.
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Post questions using API [duplicate]
Can I use the API for posting any question to Stack Overflow? I have a internal SharePoint site and whenever anybody has got any technical question they post it here. I want to post it automatically ...
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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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PLACEHOLDER - Obsidian Digital Garden plus Eleventy Serverless OAuth demo
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This is a proof of concept / "minimal, complete, verifiable example" of adding the Eleventy Serverless plugin to an instance of Obisidian Digital Garden's (...
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