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Flack Overstow - Generate spam from Stack Exchange posts
Some of my own "quotes" from Stack Overflow:
I know, there is no way to explain the way Python treats variables and parameters.
This will remove all characters on Earth.
I modified the function and ...
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Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python
I am trying to use the Search option to get the list of results from SO.
I have tried using pagesize=50 and I still get large number of titles returned.
Is there another option to limit that search?
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Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python
Total results vary with page size
The idea of producing a transparent iterator (getting the next page as needed) is cool, but it just isn't working; the page size affects the total number of results ...
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StackPrinter: The Stack Exchange Printer Suite
status-completedI asked this as a question, but apparently the convention is to report bugs/feature requests in the announcement thread.
It appears, that the MathJax extension mhchem is currently not ...
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How do I add newlines when editing a post body via the API?
The \r\n issue was solved when I changed to a POST request.
But, since I was retagging questions (didn't really need to change the body, just resend it), I ended up using the body_markdown, encoded ...
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StackPrinter: The Stack Exchange Printer Suite
The default bookmarklet javascript has problems when used with mathoverflow. Because annoyingly mathoverflow ends with a .net
instead of a .com. I made some changes so that it could also work with ...
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StackPrinter: The Stack Exchange Printer Suite
Here is a small script (stackprinter) which uses Stack Printer from the command-line:
#!/bin/sh
type wkhtmltopdf || { echo >&2 "wkhtmltopdf command is required. Aborting."; exit 1; }
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Stackathlon 2.5: Leader board for users active on multiple sites
Great design and great idea. I don't know whether many people still look at this, but I discovered it today and if it was advertized and used more.
Some suggestions for Stackathlons:
Quantitive ...
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Flack Overstow - Generate spam from Stack Exchange posts
These all come from my mechanics.stackexchange profile.
There's a post here: whatconsumer.co.uk whose top post seems to be burning an over-rich fuel mixture.
Hmm, I wonder what they're running their ...
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How can I extract user information on Stack Overflow using Python and the Sack Overflow API?
The API presents individual features behind individual URLs. The information on the profile page is combined from several sources; to get the details you requested, you will have to submit multiple ...
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Fetch all questions of a particular tag from the Stack Exchange API in Python
The first thing to point out is that you should understand that fetching all posts with a tag is going to result in huge quota usage for any relatively popular tag , as well as take a significant ...
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Is my script's API usage okay?
This isn't really a place to code-review your script, even if it uses the API.
Here is were you would publish your script1.
However, after a quick glance at the code, I don't see any glaring ...
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JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 3)
That URL is the URL of the documentation page, so you'll get HTML back and not JSON. You'll need to replace it with the URL next to the 'Run' button (right-click and choose Copy Link, it should start ...
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Stack API doesn't return json with encoding of UTF-8
That data is stored as HTML in the database, as are more fields (e.g. the about_me field right above the location). Presumably, this is done for performance reasons. ü is the HTML entity ...
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I want a python program example for more requests a day
You are subject to throttling.
You can get more calls by first registering your application. After that you get access to a detail page which includes a value for key. The description for that field ...
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Got a Bad Status Line
I suspect some new throttling kicked in on Saturday. When I slightly increased the delay between page= queries, the problem went away.
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Stackdump, an offline browser for StackExchange sites
supportstatus-resolved
I've been searching for a Stack Exchange offline version, for research purposes at my University, then I found this.
I have been trying to figure out how to exactly run the ...
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Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python
I can't figure out how to fetch the text body of the answers and comments to a question given the question id. Also I can't figure out what are the supported sites(variable Name) in the method name ...
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Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python
Seems very unreliable to me. Using the GitHub number of answers example results in a NeedsAwoken error, while the scrolling list of questions makes a StackExchangeError.
List of errors (community can ...
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Py-StackExchange: An API wrapper for Python
support
How can I access the q in the questions method?
In the Stack Exchange API, Usage of /search/advanced:
q - a free form text parameter, will match all question properties
based on an ...
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