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Web-scraping bountied questions from Stack Exchange sites

I recently built my first web scraper in python, and decided to use SO and SE as test websites. Code ...
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SE Data Explorer: Users by City

I view users by city using this SQL query: ...
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SEDE query calculating user reputation averages

I've created the following SEDE query which calculates the reputation averages of users on a particular site. It also optionally excludes "new" users (users with rep of 1 or 101 so note 100% ...
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Finding solutions on GitHub and Stack Overflow

The first part of the code opens Chrome and navigates to GitHub. If I don't find my solution, I open a new tab with ctrlt. Then my code goes to Stack Overflow and searches there for solutions. ...
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How to make this query better (e.g. avoid repeating subquery in a query)?

Stack Exchange provides access to query their MS SQL databases. They have a table Posts where each post is either a question or an answer (see the schema on right ...
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Listing my StackEchange communities user id

Extending this answer solution, I've wrote the following bash script to get the html of my StackExchange accounts page and parse it to a YAML file. The objective ...
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Stack Exchange rev​iew queue notifications

A couple of days ago a user in chat asked us to spend more time in the queues. Kick starting my desire to get notifications for new items in the queues. Reviewing the queues has been something I've ...
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Get average post score of TOP 10 tags on StackOverflow using Stack Exchange Data Explorer

I want to use the Stack exchange data explorer in order to display some basic information about the top tags. The query should print the number of questions and answers, the average number of answers ...
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stat the word count for a given stackexchange user

Sometimes I would like use word count to describe someone's contribution, so, I wrote a query to stat the word count for a given stackexchange user, based on SEDE. click to run it online ...
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CodeReview question markdown downloader

This is an update to my earlier question From Q to compiler in less than 30 seconds. As with that version, this Python script automatically downloads the markdown from any question on Code Review and ...
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Get a notification when questions get posted

I like to help people on StackOverflow, matter of fact nowadays it depends on how quick you are when answering question. With that being said, I can't always keep a tab and an eye to refresh the ...
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Stack Exchange graph data - helper modules

Building on previous reviews Whilst not an iterative review I have tried to follow the advice provided to some of my older questions: KISS, in some of my previous questions I've over complicated the ...
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Zombie killers ranking

Code Review has a Zombie Problem and, in comparison to The Walking Dead TV Show, our survival doesn't depend on killing them all day every day. As a potential solution, I though it would be ...
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A tiny util to converts an SO URL to revised version

I am trying to write a util that converts an SO URL to revised version, for example, given this url: 'https://stackoverflow.com/q/57449318/10731613' this util ...
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Determine fragment identifier from HTML page in Swift

For an iOS app which helps me rolling back vandalism on Stack Exchange, I have a piece of Swift code which downloads a revision page (example) and tries to find the 'spacer' fragment just above a ...
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Get list of new questions from Stack Overflow

I would like to write a little pet project using Clojure to study it, something like Stack Overflow client. Here is a my first code to get list of new questions from site. I am in the very beginning ...
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Scraper to grab a Stack Overflow profile name

I've created a script in Python to log into stackoverflow.com using credentials and fetch the profilename once logged in. I've tried to do it using class. I created the methods within that class in ...
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Easy to use code preparation script for CodeReview questions

We all face questions that forget to include their code. Sometimes all of it, sometimes only parts, that make the rest of the question unfortunately incomplete and therefore off-topic. What if it was ...
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SEDE query to calculate net migrations quarterly from ELU to ELL

Over on EL&U Meta, someone raised the question of how many net migrations there are to/from our sister site, ELL. The following SEDE query calculates the net migrations by quarter (...
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Python tool to assemble CodeReview posts from source files

I hate having to format questions around here. Adding four spaces to each source file and the correct name at the top of each source file becomes a headache when I have to post longer questions. This ...
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Tampermonkey script to beautify related tags in Stack Exchange

I've got the following code which is ran inside tampermonkey (It's a userscript), but there is a variable that is being declared, used, then overwritten by the next line. I'm looking for a way to ...
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Find how much reputation a user had on a given date

I saw this question on MSE and went ahead and wrote a solution to it: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313561/determining-users-reputation-as-of-particular-date This calculates the ...
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Condensing a Table

Among the mod-tools there is a few that are intended to just help get a bird's eye perspective on what happens on the site. These tools generally consist of tables. Tables over tables. Stuff that ...
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Scraping StackOverflow's questions with Node.js

I'm new to node and web scraping in general but with some research I've written this working code. My goal is to get all questions from X Stack Overflow's pages sorted by most rated and save that ...
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Importing XML dump of Stack Overflow questions and answers into SQLite3

I have a 60gb+ XML file and, as you can see, I am using a Python script to extract the data and execute 'INSERT' statements to update my database. Being that the file is so large, will I run into ...
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Stack Overflow Tag Usage

I am trying to efficiently use the SEDE tool to get a list of tags a user has answered questions on, and their stats on each Tag. My code works for my account in 3185 ms, but if I try to run it on @...
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iOS Swift 3 app that requests data from the Stack Exchange API

This is my first Swift app, so I want to improve everything that I can about my code and know what I can do better. The app requests 10 developers from StackExchange API and displays them in a table ...
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The seasoned Zombie sniper: a query to find unanswered questions with specific tags

The query (on SEDE) This query builds upon the previous and includes the suggestions by rofl as well as the now mentioned activity index. ...
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The sniper: a Zombie searcher for specific tags

Sometimes, it's not enough to know what the easy prey is. You also need to know whether you will be able to hunt it down. What good is an almost turned haskell zombie if you cannot read the functional ...
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A wounded Zombie finder, or: how to find the almost dead undead?

The Zombies are on their way to eat our statistics. Fortunately, we have a way to get rid of them: our votes. However, we need to find them first. The /unanswered section is too large and contains ...
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Beating the queue

Inspired by this question on CodeReview, and because I'm never able to beat the queue. I'm just too slow I guess.. :( I made a little python utility that reads the queue's information every 30 ...
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SE main site tag ratings based on Wilson score confidence interval

In "How Not To Sort By Average Rating", Evan Miller explained in simple terms and demonstrated with compelling examples that the usual naïve methods of calculating the average rating are flawed, and ...
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Posts that probably need editing

I wrote this Data Explorer query (reproduced below) some time ago that helped identify posts containing potential spelling/punctuation errors and earned me a Copy Editor badge on Anime.SE. ...
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Bookmarklet that helps Stack Exchange users farm reputation

I made a bookmarklet called RepAdvisor (more info at this link) that rates Stack Overflow questions based on how easy it is to gain reputation by answering them. ...
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Onebox hider for Stack Exchange chat

I sometimes don't like to look at images in chat. When they're just a URL then I'm fine, as then I have the choice to look at the image or not, and blends in with the other text. Therefore, I decided ...
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Fetching the total amount of SE reputation accumulated

Since I am new to R, I have pulled this code together in kind of a rag-tag way, but I am wondering, is there something similar to list comprehensions (in Python) I can use in R to make this simpler? ...
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IGB Stack Flair – A dynamic flair for Stack Exchange sites

I created the Stackapp IGB Stack Flair a while ago and I think it's a good time for a revision now. Is there anything that can be done better, shorter, more elegant, more performant, etc.? I thought ...
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PANDAS DataFrame operations to analyze top Server Fault tags [closed]

I am working on learning how to do frequency analysis of Server Fault question tags to see if there is any useful data that I can glean from them. I'm storing the raw data in Bitbucket for global ...
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Badger - The tumbleweed detector

I have written a small program to query the Stack Exchange API, specifically for badges. The main idea of the program is to return the new list of Tumbleweed posts on Stack Overflow, every 10 minutes. ...
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Who are these lurkers?

Last night in The 2nd Monitor there was a discussion about postless users - I wanted to see how many there are, whether they're one-timers that showed up once, registered and never came back, and ...
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Where are my downvotes?

I've been thinking my posts aren't that great, and so I've been wanting to improve them. One sure fire way to do this is to look at all of my downvoted posts. Not knowing if Stack Exchange allows you ...
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SmokeDetector report notifier

This script is a userscript designed for giving a notification when the bot SmokeDetector posts a message in the Charcoal HQ or any other room were he is active. The script has 3 modes of operating, ...
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Simple CodeReview Questions Notifications for OSX

Some days ago, I figured out that I'd like to get a notification every time a new question is asked here. So, I've made a really simple Python script, which uses ...
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Showing links to Contributor Breakdown on Stackoverflow Docs

So Stackoverflow Documentation has added "Contributor Breakdown". For any given topic (and example) people can display who contributed in which way. That page is only available if you know the link ...
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Load and parse Stack Exchange data dump XML into DB table

I have put together a stored procedure to load and parse the Stack Exchange Data Dump into a relational database (akin to Stack Exchange Data Explorer). Each site has 8 XML files like these: The ...
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Add timeline link to questions and answers on Stack Exchange

The following script is meant to be a user script, but it should work on the console. It takes the id of the question and adds the corresponding /posts/id/timeline ...
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Who likes that post?

Following on from my last question, I've been continuing to look at what information is available from the SE Data Explorer, I thought it would be interesting to know who else had favorited a question....
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Retrieve high views per day questions with few answers

I've been messing around with the SE Data Explorer and I've come up with a query that basically returns information about questions that have a high number of views per day, that have few or no ...
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Data Explorer query that makes bar graphs

I wrote a query for SEDE that I think is pretty cool. It uses the currently available graphing capabilities (scatter plots) to create a bar graph. I have used it as the subject for a self-answer on ...
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Userscript to add Prettify extensions on SE

I wrote a userscript (to be run with Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey on Stack Exchange sites) to include a Prettify extension and enable syntax highlighting for a language which isn't supported by default. ...
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