Greasemonkey instructions

[Spike-from-NH]

The Greasemonkey-style commands interest me as a possible alternative to Firefox+NoScript to restrict different web pages differently. But all I see by way of documentation is a pointer to another project. Could you point me to a better specification, or set out the Greasemonkey syntax you support?

[woheller69]

https://wiki.greasespot.net/Metadata_Block

FREE Browser supports the following tags:

@match @run-at @name @run-at: If defined as "document-start" scripts run in onPageStarted() of Android WebView, otherwise scripts run in onPageFinished.

Other tags are NOT supported at the moment, e.g.

@include @exclude @grant @required

So basically you can run JavaScript on pages with an URL that matches an @match rule.

Example:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Github Old Feed
// @description  Replace the shit💩 new feed with the old one.
// @author       荣顶
// @version      1.6
// @license      MIT
// @homepage      https://github.com/wangrongding/github-old-feed.git
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @match        https://github.com/
// @match        https://github.com/dashboard
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
  'use strict';

  const feedContent = document.querySelector('.feed-content')
  const feedMain = document.querySelector('.feed-main')
  const sidebar = document.querySelector('.feed-right-sidebar')
  if (feedContent) feedContent.style.maxWidth = "unset"
  if (feedMain) feedMain.style.maxWidth = "100%"
  if (sidebar) {
    sidebar.style.maxWidth = "unset"
    sidebar.style.width = "900px"
  }

  fetch('https://github.com/dashboard-feed')
    .then(response => response.text())
    .then(text => {
      const parser = new DOMParser();
      const doc = parser.parseFromString(text, 'text/html');
      // Preserving the SSO container
      const dashboard = document.querySelector("#dashboard feed-container");
      const main = doc.querySelector('main');
      if (dashboard && main) dashboard.replaceWith(main);
    })
    .catch(error => {
      console.error('Fetching the dashboard feed:', error);
    });
})();

[Spike-from-NH]

Thank you!

[Spike-from-NH]

You note in #12 that you require @match with wildcards for a rule intended to match all websites. It would be an improvement (at least to @kurasami) to drop that requirement and have match-all be the default.

In the example above, the payload is a function with no name and no parameters, whose body is the desired actions. All enclosed in parens, with additional parens afterward? But in your example in #12, you just jump in, with an unadorned call to alert();.

[woheller69]

The script above is from here: https://github.com/wangrongding/github-old-feed

The function is started by the parentheses at the end of the code block. This is known as an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE). It is a way to execute a function immediately after it is defined, without having to call it explicitly.

[woheller69]

I don't like the idea of dropping the requirement for @match. Running everywhere also means running on any http only site. Users of this feature should carefully think about where these scripts should run.