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OBSOLETE - Stack2Blog - Turning your answers into blogs (For "sale")
Stack2Blog for Sale
Hi everyone!
Since we're working on a few other projects, we haven't worked on Stack2Blog in a while.
We still think it can be useful, especially with the rise of platforms like ...
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se-flair: HTML combined Stack Exchange site flair
Screenshots
Screenshots of some samples:
Tooltip with total reputation:
Tooltip with specific-site reputation:
Live PNG Samples:
About
se-flair produces combined-account flair in the form of a ...
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Fast Multi Platform Data Dump Import for SQL Server (2000/2005/2008), SQLite and MySQL
UPDATE:
Both soapi.info and skysanders.net have been offline for a while.
The application readme file and hosting will be moved to http://soapi.info/tools/soddi.aspx.
Links are in the readme text ...
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OBSOLETE - StackAnywhere - A Stack Exchange client for Android
Discontinued
In light of the release of the official Stack Exchange app, which has far more functionality, there seems little point in releasing further updates for StackAnywhere. I've made the ad-...
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George the Dev - Making Conversation in the Chat Rooms
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About
George the Dev is a chat bot for the Stack Exchange network of chat sites.
He currently hangs out in the Sandbox and is capable of understanding a few commands and those commands ...
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Overflow7 - Stack Exchange sites on Windows Phone 7
Video of 1.0
On YouTube - http://bit.ly/stackoverflowforwp7
About
This is a Stack Overflow app for Windows Phone 7 - it allows you to browse, read and bookmark Stack Exchange sites
Screenshot
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Deleting an application key? [duplicate]
There should be delete buttons on stackapps.com/apps https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/ so we can delete API-keys.
Or at least de-activate them? I mean, cancelled projects, etc...
A deletion button ...
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Hexadecimal user rep
About
Displays user reputation in hexadecimal. The code is quite simple if you want to do any tweaks. For users with rep >= 0x10000, it switches the font to Arial Narrow to prevent breaking layouts.
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answer
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Stackathlon 2.5: Leader board for users active on multiple sites
tl;dr New! See "More Athlons" below.
Screenshot
About
It's surprising how few people are active on multiple Stack Exchange sites. Well, maybe not so surprising. But it's a big world; you'd ...
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StackTray: The Stack Overflow tray application
Screenshot
Icon on left
Hover over icon
Context menu
Reputation Alerts
About
This application sits in your system tray and periodically checks Stack Overflow for any new badges or ...
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How to delete an OAuth (2.0) API key?
I created a couple of extra keys I don't need. Can I delete them? I don't see an option anywhere in the list or on the page for the key itself.
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Can I use "StackOverflow" in the title of my website?
According to the little tooltip I get when registering an app,
Do not: Use any of the full names for our websites in the name of your website or application.
By full name, do you mean "...
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Is there an API to upload images to SE's imgur installation?
Is there an API for uploading images to the StackExchange-specific imgur installation? I could use the main imgur site, but they don't keep the images indefinitely.
Use case: It would be ...
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Stack Exchange Java client library
Sample Code
/**
* The following will print out the current stats for the
* Stack Overflow site (stackoverflow.com).
*/
public class Example
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
...
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Stack Exchange in read-only mode
This userstyle aims to remove almost all interactivity with the Stack Exchange network for logged in users. Notably it leaves:
Chat
Following a post
Saves
Removes most other features that produce ...
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PHPstack - A PHP wrapper to the SE API
PHPstack
PHPstack is meant to be an easy to use PHP wrapper for the Stack Exchange API.
<?php
require_once('lib/requestcore.class.php');
require_once('phpstack.class.php');
$so = new ...
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Bug in the StackExchange Api ? getting "could not parse proxy url" when user not logged in
I think I may have stumbled upon a bug in the Stack Exchange JS API
I'm having a problem getting its authentication to work properly, and I just discovered that the same problem exist in the official ...
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Display absolute timestamps (in local time)
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
This script converts relative timestamps to absolute timestamps, displayed in your local time zone. For times less than one hour ago, I leave the "x mins ago" ...
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answer
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Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?
Twitter has the ability as part of its API to query the current rate limit status. Going to this url will show you how many requests can be made before the limit is reached:
{"remaining_hits":150,
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SENotify - Stack Exchange new question notification (perl/growl)
Output/Screenshot
Growl notification
Growl on Mac
Growl on Windows
Terminal output
$ perl SENotify.pl -s stackoverflow -r 60 -v
2 question found on serverfault at : Tue Jun 22 21:41:38 2010
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Prevent that posts tagged with app or library enter Community Wiki mode when the owner edits it 8 times
I've edited my App 8 times and my question has switched automatically to Community Wiki (I'm aware that it's reported in the faq).
The main reason of these many edits is my shaky english, but I can ...
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1
answer
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Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Currently, the only way to call the API from javascript is to use JSONP, but this can be cumbersome and has security issues. If the following header was included in all API responses, the API could be ...
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Stack Alert [Opera] - Keep tabs on your inbox without needing to have a Stack Exchange site open
Not using Opera?
Don't worry, Stack Alert is available for other browsers as well. Visit the appropriate page for your browser below:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Screenshot / Code ...
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Porkchat: A Chrome extension with lots of chat tweaks!
Install
Install from the Chrome Web Store
About
Porkchat is a Chrome extension that bundles together a lot of scripts I have written for Stack Exchange chat over the years. It is fully configurable - ...
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Get favorited tags of user
This was requested in 1 and declined because of a missing authentication method.
Now that authentication is in place, is there a way to retrieve the favorited tags of a user (myself)?
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How to call the API via JSONP in Plain Old JavaScript
This tips demonstrates how to call the API in JavaScript without the need of jQuery or other frameworks.
In a lot of cases you will find that the JSONP implementations provided in various frameworks ...
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Wilson confidence rating calculator
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
The Wilson confidence rating provides an alternative way to rate answers and questions, which may be more meaningful than just the number of upvotes minus the number ...
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1
answer
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Marking inbox items as read in api v2.2
I'm aware of this question, but it applied to an older (readonly) api version.
Given that API 2.2 is read/write, I figured this might be possible now.
Is there any way for an application using the ...
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API V2 Musings: What would you like to see
Answers should take the form of feature requests/modifications that are either obviously beyond the scope of v1 and or have been status-declined or status-deferred
They will be indexed here in the Q.
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StackTagz - Track the topics you are interested in over time
StackTagz
http://stacktagz.com
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
StackTagz analyses your participation in StackExchange sites by looking at which tags you are active in. A question, an answer or a ...
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1
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ThirdPlace JavaScript chat library
Screenshot / Code Snippet
var room = ThirdPlace.Room.GetCurrentRoom();
var message = new ThirdPlace.Message;
message.room_id = room.id;
message.content = "ThirdPlace.js is a library which abstracts ...
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Detecting StackExchanges with non-standard "plugins" (e.g. MathJax)
Some recent StackExchanges are starting to include site specific 3rd party JavaScripts - for example, cstheory.stackexchange.com (and math.stackexchange.com) both use what I think is MathJax to render ...
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How the /sites method is meant to be used
The /sites method is used to enumerate all sites in the network. If your [app] is meant to run against more than a single site (and many are) this method is how you should be discovering new sites in ...
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Stack Exchange Improvements - Sticky top bar, new text editor, and more
About
This chrome extension replaces the text editor with a much better one that supports markdown, indentation, code formatting, and more! Also provides options for making the top bar sticky, and ...
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Should we add a "this site is not affiliated to Stack Overflow.." disclaimer to our website app?
I've checked legal section but it does not say anything specific of this aspect apart from:
Do feel free to explain that your product is built on the Stack Exchange platform so people understand your ...
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The field body_markdown is not returned for comments [duplicate]
Using the method questions-by-ids to get the comments on a particular question, I do not get body_markdown returned despite it being selected in the filter.
Here is the test query to reproduce the ...
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Finding a user given their (exact) display name
For my app, I allow people to "register" themselves on my site by typing in their Stack Overflow (etc) name. Now it does allow you to use your ID if you know it, but I find that typing in usernames is ...
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"Informed" badge shown as Next badge, but doesn't exist on this site
On my profile page, the Informed badge is shown as the next badge to obtain:
Clicking it even shows a popup with a link to the Tour page, but it looks quite different from other SE sites. Looking at ...
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StackTack - George Edison Remix (now with a few extra features!)
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About
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 ...
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OBSOLETE - Official Stack Overflow iOS App
Screenshots
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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Separate Request Quotas for Authorized [app]s
Imagine, if you will, you have a popular [app] hosted on a cloud computing service which is also used by a number of other [app]s. If this service forces clients to share IPs (and they all do, in ...
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How to delete apps in StackApps?
I have registered an app in Stack Apps. I am trying to delete it, but unable to find the solution. Is there a way to delete it?
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How can I get the access token to use the StackOverflow Rest API as an authenticated user?
I am trying to understand how the StackOverflow Rest API auth works. Just created an app to get an access token, Would like to use this token to increase my rate limit per day.
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Stacked Odds - Finding the questions that you can answer
Screenshot / Code Snippet
More screenshots can be found in the extension gallery.
About
Stacked Odds is an extension for Chrome that stacks the odds in your favour when looking for questions to ...
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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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1
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OBSOLETE - Add Timeline and Revisions Links
Obsolete: Script no longer works on any Stack Exchange site. Updated version found here.
Screenshot
About
This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds both timeline and revision links to ...
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1
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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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StackList - List Your Apps, Track Bugs, and More!
StackList
http://stacklist.quickmediasolutions.com/
Update: There are already quite a few apps and libraries listed and the number is growing by the day. Don't put off listing yours!
StackList is a ...
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Custom Sidebar Links
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About
Custom Sidebar Links is designed for adding user-selected links to the sidebar. By default, it includes a link to the Stack Overflow Teams website, as well as a link to Google. The ...
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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 ...