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Stack Exchange API Types - a type declaration package for API types

Stack Exchange API Types adds type definitions for various API types

API Inconsistencies

In my opinion, one of the hallmarks of a good API is that it is self-consistent. It establishes easy-to-remember conventions and then follows them. As I'm trying to adopt the 2.0 API, I'm findi…

Removing Collectives™ from Stack Overflow

Inspired by the reaction to Beta release of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, I decided to create a small practical solution in the form of a user script. It will remove almost all traces of Collecti…

Sort Best First

Inspired by the Fastest Gun question on the central Meta, this script implements answer sorting based on a modified Wilson score. Installing the script adds a ‘Best’ button on question pages that a…

Garbage (litter) filters - delete custom filters from the "more" dropdown

Garbage filters is a userscript that allows users to delete custom filters from the top dropdown directly without scrolling down to the "custom filters" sidebar.

SymbolHound: Search Stack Overflow for special characters

See symbolhound.com SymbolHound is a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. I was always frustrated that I couldn't search for symbols like >> and && using Google or th…

Java exception when user age or location is unspecified in returned JSON

I am brand new to the Stack Exchange API and Android (well, self taught in the last four months). I have been working on creating a school project focused around Android and JSON. My initial idea w…

Change "👋 New contributor" into "💩 New contributor"

Changes the emoji on 'New contributor' labels from WAVING HAND SIGN into PILE OF POO

v0.1, wim

Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider

Ever since the Visual design changes to the review queues suggested edits have been too narrow. Especially when containing code blocks. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore. Screenshots Befor…

Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons

This script implements the suggestion from user1306322 to Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE, which was the original request that led to New St…

Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages

Restore syntax highlighting on revision and review pages

Get questions with body and answers

How can I get the latest 30 questions with body and answers using the api? And then, I want to get only first most voted 3 answers for each question. Is this possible with only one request? To ge…

Two minor typos in the API help

In http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help /users/{id}/answers Gets answer summary informatino for the user with 'id'. and in the Returns section of http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?met…

Minor typo on help page

On the API Routes help page, this: /users/{id}/favorites Gets summary information for the questions that have been favorited a set of users. should probably be: /users/{id}/favorites Ge…

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