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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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Burninator toolkit
Please note, the tag burninator script requires 10k rep to use. Sorry, noobs!
I pass on to you, dear taxonomist terrorists, the burninator toolkit.
This toolkit consists of two user scripts which, ...
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Manual Draft Save - Save a draft on demand
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About
This small script adds a save button to the editor bar that allows you to instantly save the contents of the editor as a draft. Although this happens automatically every minute or ...
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OBSOLETE - StackCenter - your one-stop app for everything Stack Exchange
OBSOLETE: The site and app have been down for years.
Update: StackCenter has been completely rewritten to use Soapi.JS2. I have also made some changes to the UI.
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StackCenter is a ...
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Stack Exchange - Favorite Users
TL,DR: Browser addon that highlights answers and questions by your favorite users!
See it in work:
And the easy config via user's profile:
Just like many other people before us, even we once began ...
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Find old display names of a user
As observed here, it can be
confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names
So I've made a simple API-based tool:
Old display names of a user
It ...
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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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OBSOLETE - StackImage - Generating Images of Questions and Users [Now with Global Flair!]
RIP June 23, 2010 - July 4, 2013
All of the features that StackImage provides are either available with the built-in flair on each Stack Exchange site or provided by StackImage's successor: ...
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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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Why Content-Encoding gzip rather than Transfer-Encoding gzip
The API responses are returned in gzipped format. But by using Content-Encoding gzip, the burden of unzipping is on the user of the API. On the other hand if the server uses Transfer-Encoding gzip, ...
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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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What to do about the tsunami of placeholder apps created because of a poorly written tutorial?
Last months, we're seeing more and more placeholder apps created by people who are following a certain Android tutorial. I'm not going to give examples because it's really hard not seeing them. I feel ...
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Stack.PY - A Python Module for Accessing the Stack Exchange 2.1 API
Now on PyPI!
You can now find Stack.PY on PyPI, Python's package index. This means that you can install the package simply by running the following command in a terminal:
pip install stackpy
About
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OBSOLETE - SOAPI-WATCH: A realtime service that notifies subscribers via Twitter when the API changes in any way
Obsolete:
This app no longer works. It uses a version of the API that was decommissioned in May of 2014.
Links and the domain are also long dead.
SOAPI-WATCH
This post was one of the two that were ...
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StackGeography, a Stack Exchange question mapping site
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(source: apphb.com)
About
Ever wanted to see just what kind of locations are posting to the various Stack Exchange sites at any given time? Even if you haven't, you'll find ...
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Thumbnail Uploader
Sparked off by https://gardening.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251/better-image-embeddeding-and-viewing, https://diy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/549/change-the-image-upload-so-that-a-thumbnail-...
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tag-trends: a web app for viewing the popularity of Stack Overflow tags
About:
tag-trends is a web app that lets you visualize the popularity of Stack Overflow tags over time. Just enter a tag and you can see how many questions were asked about it each month.
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I downvoted because
What did you do?
I made a free thing.
http://idownvotedbecau.se/
It's not specifically targeted at Stack Overflow, or at the other Stack Exchange websites, but I made the thing because I wanted to use ...
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Register for the Stack Exchange V2.0 API Private Beta
It's getting to be that time (actually, it's about a month later than I'd hoped but still!), API V2.0 is shaping up and we're spending more and more time on UI polish rather than functionality.
So let'...
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What is an oAuth domain
What is the oAuth domain that is mentioned in the StackApps app registration form? I googled it but couldn't find a good description.
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Select Code Block Buttons Script
Shows a select-button on mouse over on code-blocks to select the whole block for easier copying.
Sorry to not provide a file for download but i am sure you will manage somehow, adjust includes as ...
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Accessing Authenticated User's Close/Delete History
I'm working on the PHP chatroom's cv-pls backlog UI. Many users and myself would like the ability to track which questions we have already handled though close/delete votes. To be able to do that I ...
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OBSOLETE - Stack Insight - Track a User's Activity Over all Stack Sites
OBSOLETE - Site is dead. And domain has been un-hosted and/or parked since 2013.
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Web application to show how all a user has been involve in the different stack sites over time.
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Stackoverflow.com Enhancer (sticky top bars)
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Stackoverflow.com Enhancer was created this a while ago, to save me scrolling up and down Stack Overflow, by making the top bars stick to the top of the window ...
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Stack Exchange Global Review Summary
Global Review Summary
This script adds a 'reviews' tab to your network profile, which will show your review totals across the network.
Installation
Install the userscript with
this direct link or ...
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StackImpact - What's your impact?
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I like to make contributions to Stack Exchange, and in return I gain rep. However, I find that rep doesn't really tell the whole story about what my contributions mean to the site. ...
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NAABot - Bot which finds and flags problematic answers on Stack Overflow
Description
The aim of this project is to write a simple bot which will monitor all new answers posted on Stack Overflow and flag the ones which are not answers in accordance to the guidelines ...
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StackedDeck: Watch Your Favorite Tags, TweetDeck-Style
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About
Download StackedDeck
StackedDeck allows you to watch as questions with your favorite tags come streaming in. Add as many columns as you like and StackedDeck will ...
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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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stacknotify google chrome extension
About
Your Stack Overflow notification inbox, right into your browser's toolbar.
it checks for new notifications every minute
shows a notification badge for new items
supports all Stack Exchange ...
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Android app for Stack Overflow
Is there any android app for Stack Overflow available?
Which basic features must I include if I develop this app? Ideas are appreciated.
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Stack Reminder - Remind Yourself About Posts
About
Stack Reminder allows you to save questions/answers to a special list, each with their own custom flag to remind you why you wanted the reminder in the first place.
This tool is a great ...
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OBSOLETE - soapi-notify : Stay ahead of the pack with new question notification V1 release
Obsolete:
This app no longer works. It uses a version of the API that was decommissioned in May of 2014.
soapi-notify
Stay ahead of the pack
soapi-notify is an easy to use windows application ...
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List of Votes by Authenticated users
In the API documentation for the question type, it says that you can access, for a specific question, whether or not the authenticated user (in the private_info scope) upvoted/downvoted the question.
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OBSOLETE - Swatch: A Firefox plugin for monitoring Stack Exchange sites for interesting changes
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A Firefox extension that lets you monitor your account activity on any Stack Exchange site that support the Stack Apps API. Automatically refreshes on a set interval to display ...
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Review Stalker Reloaded: A cross-site dashboard for reviews
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Originally based very loosely on the OBSOLETE - Review Stalker user script, this script has been rewritten several times since then. Its purpose is to be a one-stop pinned tab, always checking ...
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API Endpoint Changes Coming In Version 2.0
As work has progressed on the upcoming second version of our API, we've come to a bit of an impasse that's going to force a semi-radical change.
Here's the root of the issue:
once you've gotten an ...
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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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Get a list of posts you've voted on that have been edited
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Many posts over the years have asked for ways to systematically ensure up- and down-votes are as up-to-date as the posts they were cast on, whether by notifying as soon as a post was edited, or ...
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OBSOLETE - SOStacked: Stack Exchange iPhone client
OBSOLETE - App is not available anymore and website is down.
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Awesome feature set.
Powerful search, beautiful display
Pick your favorite and ignored tags
Log into your account, ...
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SE like I like it userscript
About
Here's yet another Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey userscript for Stack Exchange. It adds the following enhancements:
Within preformatted code blocks, double-click to select all.
In the post ...
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Stack Overflow View - Visual Studio code extension
About:
This is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows developers to search Stack Overflow inside of the text editor, to quickly access answers and view questions.
Screenshot / Code Snippet:
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CopyPastor - Monitoring plagiarized posts on Stack Overflow
Background
Guttenberg is a chatbot which reports plagiarized posts on Stack Overflow. CopyPastor is a web dashboard for Guttenberg. Guttenberg sends all the data upon detection of a plagiarized post ...
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Stack Notifier - a chrome extension to show new questions and inbox notifications
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About
Stack Notifier is a chrome extension which notifies you whenever new questions are available in your selected tags. This will help you to give your answers quickly ...
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StackDoc - Adding Stack Overflow data to online documentation
Inspired by Jeff's tweet about crowd sourced documentation I've started a Chrome extension to add data from Stack Overflow to existing online documentation.
It's early days at the moment, but I think ...
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StackInbox v2.2 - Inbox client for Mac (Now with notifications)
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2.2 Notifications, now you can switch between Inbox items and notifications, unread number will show in the scope bar. More of the preview text is shown. Fixed bug where menu ...
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undercurrent - a few tweaks to the user interface of Stack Overflow
Websites evolve and so does StackOverflow. However sometimes it takes a while for features to mature fully and being subjected to involuntary beta tests can be frustrating.
Since merely moaning ...
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What is SOAPI and why should I care?
Let me answer the last question first:
Why should you care?
You shouldn't care unless
you are a .NET or JavaScript coder who can leverage robust client access libraries for the Stack Exchange API ...
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OBSOLETE - SOAPI-EXPLORE: Self-updating single page JavaSript API test harness
SOAPI-EXPLORE
this post was one of the two that were listed regarding SOAPI.
For a full overview of the SOAPI eco-system see What is SOAPI and why should I care?
For a more robust API discovery tool ...
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Transmogrify offtopic MSO posts
See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/134710/178438
Oftentimes, MSO is cluttered with offtopic programming questions asked by those who want to circumvent a question ban. These posts are eyesores, and ...