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se-dashboard.click - Interactive plots and statistics for Mathematics Stack Exchange
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A dashboard with interactive plots and various statistics for Mathematics site.
Watch this week's top users race in real time! What does it take to win: answers, questions or bounties?
Lament ...
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PLACEHOLDER - HeapExchange
PLACEHOLDER post so that I can have write access.
HeapExchange is an Android app designed to bring the power of Stack Exchanage to your fingertips.
🔍 Browse trending sites, questions by tag or topic
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PLACEHOLDER - Telegram Bot for StackOverflow Updates
App is telegram bot for getting updates on links that user sent.
It uses StackExchange API for getting answers for questions (/questions/{id}/answers) and information about questions (/questions/{id})....
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Always show all watched tags in right sidebar
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The watched tags list in the right sidebar are truncated if they exceed a threshold. See
Watched Tag list suddenly shortened and requiring manual expansion
This userscript addresses this ...
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Pro-forma replies for Discussions
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Discussions on Stack Overflow is the place where "Lost Souls" end up these days, worse than meta sites.
Discussions moderators (and curators) need to provide some insight on why the ...
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Should placeholder answers to prevent API key privileges from being revoked as a result of SE's automated process to delete questions be deleted?
Many of us know that in order to get an API key with extra privileges (such as write access or higher rate limits), it's necessary to have a question here, and as such this site allows users to post &...
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Octostack - Stack Overflow for iOS
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WIP 🚧
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iOS/iPadOS 18+
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Fully written using Swift 5.
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'/comments/{id}/upvote' endpoint not detecting `site` parameter
I am trying to experiment with the API for my project.
I am trying to upvote a comment on the SO website to test out the API. My POST request is returning with a status code of 400.
The response -
{&...
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PLACEHOLDER - Simpler UI
PLACEHOLDER post so that I can have write access. Because, you know, it's supposed to function like SE...
More info about my application.
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Answer Hider - adds box and buttons to hide answers on posts
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This script allows a user to hide answers on a post, both from the answer itself or from a central box at the top. This might be helpful when reading responses to ...
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AI NLN detection bot
This post is to test and develop a bot (currently named NLNBot, subject to change if anyone comes up with a good name) to detect No Longer Needed (NLN) comments on Stack Overflow and report them to a ...
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Democratizing editing Discussions
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Since the introduction of Discussions on Stack Overflow, we have dealt with lack of features. Upon asking for the vital features to be implemented, we have seen some efforts, e.g. an API ...
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Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions
This post is to enable authentication with the version of Sentinel that I'm (cocomac) hosting. See also OBSOLETE - Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions.
In early February 2025, there ...
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What categories of app functionality are there?
Greetings from the Stack Exchange Community Management Team.
I am part of a group looking at API usage and we're curious about types of apps, beyond the breakout of app/script/library; considering ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Thoughts about "StackDesk" app that I am developing
As a developer, I've often found certain features on Stack Overflow challenging to use. After discussing these difficulties with fellow developers, they shared similar experiences. This led me to ...
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Getting a "Forbidden" response when calling the API from code, but not when using the exact same URL in a browser
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I'm just trying the SO API, and have run into a basic problem.
If I enter the following URL in a web browser...
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions?...
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PLACEHOLDER - Thomas Ward Testing, Development, and Personal Usage
This is a placeholder post for ongoing usage of my API key(s) for development, testing, and personal usage only.
There is no intent to publish or provide public applications, libraries, or scripts ...
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Delete without refresh
A script that allows you to cast a delete vote on a post immediately after casting a downvote that makes the post score negative, without having to refresh the whole page.
// ==UserScript==
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SO Stats - Track your stack overflow activity
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I created the SO Stats app because I wanted a simple and convenient way to track my Stack Overflow activity and progress. As a frequent user, I was always curious about how my reputation was ...
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Do I need to be working on an app to get the API key?
I want to use the API, and I want the higher query limit (I want to scan my inbox every five minutes and then text me the results), but I don't want to have to release an app.
Can I get an API key ...
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Hide the newly introduced homepage widgets
See the updates in the answer below; also check out the commit history for additional changes.
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The new widgets can clutter the homepage for those of us who are not interested in them.
I created ...
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Fix keyboard shortcuts for navigating lists
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Inspired from Support paging keyboard shortcuts in NAtOQ 10k-tools and Support paging keyboard shortcuts in Staging Ground. Currently several places that show a paged list of items do not ...
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Comment Image Upload - upload images directly from the comment box!
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Comment Image Upload script allows one to upload images directly from the comment box: by dragging and dropping them, pasting them from other sources, or selecting them from the ...
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Formattingalo: MORE formatting in Chat.SE!
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This userscript allows you to underline your text, change the color, and even the size!
Formatting guide
Format
Syntax
Non-text parameters
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Underline
^^^text^^^
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How to Resolve "Applications must have a registered Stack Apps post to write" Error when Requesting Write Access via OAuth?
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I am developing an application that integrates with Stack Overflow’s API, and I need to enable write access for it. I’ve successfully registered my application on the Stack Apps ...
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Differentiate Staging Ground posts from regular questions
Version 2.3 of the SE API does not clearly distinguish between questions that are on Stack Overflow's Staging Ground and questions on its main site. This comment on a SmokeDetector GH issue details it ...
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Pronoun Assistant Reloaded
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Based off of Glorfindel's excellent userscript, this userscript displays users' pronouns (as mentioned in their chat or main site bios) under their usernames in chat ...
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How do I handle token expiration in my application?
This request is responded to with either an error (HTTP status code 400) or an access token of the form access_token=...&expires=1234. expires will only be set if scope does not include no_expiry, ...
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NATO(Q) keyboard navigation for pages
THIS HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY Fix keyboard shortcuts for navigating lists WHICH ADDRESSES THIS AND OTHER KEYBOARD SHORTCUT ISSUES
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Inspired from Support paging keyboard shortcuts in NAtOQ 10k-...
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Add link to network profile from chat profile
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Under the Parent User label a link is added to the network profile of the chat user:
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From a chat user profile you only have link to the parent site of a user. This ...
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Stack Exchange data dump downloader and transformer
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With Stack Exchange, Inc.'s recent data dump restrictions, the official SE data dump on archive.org is dead, and single-click downloads of the entire data dump are too.
This program is meant to ...
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Introducing StackPulse: a real-time Cross-platform Stack Overflow question notifier
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I'm excited to share a new tool I've been working on called StackPulse. It's designed to help developers stay on top of new questions in their areas of expertise on Stack Overflow.
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Is there a way to upload an image to i.sstatic.net using Python?
I am developing an image generation bot for chat (for example, chat.stackexchange.com).
I can generate the image correctly, but when it comes to posting the image, I have no idea how to upload the ...
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approved Staging Ground review statistics
Are you curious on how the questions you approved in the Staging Ground are doing or do you want to see statistics for questions approved in the Staging Ground overall?
I wrote a user script that ...
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Documentation describing fields for api stack exchange
When I looked through the StackExchange documentation, I didn't find any documentation describing the fields. I have to study the request and response for a long time in order to understand why this ...
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View other OP posts in the Staging Ground
During the beta tests in the Staging Ground, there were some cases where the author wrote a posted a copy of the question that bypassed the Staging Ground process. This user script shows me the ...
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Custom Staging Ground Comments
With the release of the Staging Ground on Stack Overflow, I want to share the userscripts I wrote for it during its Beta tests.
The Staging Ground offers some built-in comment templates but if you ...
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WebSocket Defibrilator - try to keep SE websockets (and in-page updates) working
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Websockets on Stack Exchange provide live updates on a page - for example, showing there are new notifications, or new answers, or new comments, etc.
These are unreliable in some cases. If ...
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Flag searcher - search in your flagging history
I don't know any good way to search for your own flags by custom accept/rejection reasons, title, flag text or detailed flag type (e.g. "Not an Answer") hence I wrote a user script for that ...
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Logout from all devices by default
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Inspired from Add option to make "log out of all devices" the default
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Direct install (GitHub)
See the code on GitHub
// ==UserScript==
// @name Logout ...
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Looking for an app that allows me to view interesting unanswered questions on SE sites using UserId
I am interested in finding interesting unanswered questions on different SE sites using my UserId.
While I am aware of this SEDE query that exists, the problem with it is that it seems that with ...
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Fix for network filter deletions
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See the report: Can't delete the filter called My Filter.
In short, deleting a filter redirects the browser to the page to immediately create a new filter, therefore you can never ...
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Propose Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange as OAuth provider to demo-eleventy-serverless-oauth
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Eleventy is a static website generator. On version 1 it added support for severless functions. During the beta, the Eleventy maintainer created a demo for using ...
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Jardín Digital de Rubén
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Jardín Digital de Rubén is a digital garden having Spanish as the primary language. Some notes might be written in English.
One of the uses will be to publish drafts ...
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SO Link-only Parser: Parse Stack Overflow for potentially link-only answers
The provided Python script is designed to identify potentially "link-only" answers on Stack Overflow for a specified time period and set of tags. It does this by leveraging the Stack ...
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Fix for the network search pagination
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Problem
See the report Pagination on stackexchange.com search is broken
The pagination in the global search is broken. It only shows 15 results even when the page size is set to something ...
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Stackexchange oauth2.0 is suddenly failing
No changes in stack apps or my code, it was working fine for a while, suddenly it stopped working now.
I get "InternalOAuthError: Failed to obtain access token"
After more details inspection,...
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Expand Code to Fullscreen on StackExchange Site
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Script practice.
Toggle Fullscreen on Hover: When users hover over a code block, a 'Fullscreen' button appears. Clicking this button will expand the code block to fill the entire screen, ...
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Show Deleted Answers at head for Stack Exchange
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Script practice.
To view your own deleted answers/questions on a Stack Exchange account, you always need to scroll all the way down to see the "Deleted answers" tag. I've written ...
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