🤖 Userscripts

Scripts for automating work among my commonly used websites

🏡 Home / 🤖 Userscripts

Pages

🧾⛵ Sailthru

What are userscripts?

Userscripts are scripts that run on certain sites, allowing custom functionality and styles to be added to pages. I've used these userscripts to greatly improve the capabilities and usability of several of the tools I use day to day. You can find my suite of userscripts here.

Installing a userscript manager

Get started my installing a userscript manager of your choice. I prefer Violent Monkey but others should work too.

Adding new scripts

Scripts can be added manually be copying and pasting the code from the Github repo, but it's generally recommended to instead add scripts via a URL. This way the script will auto-update. This does mean that any custom settings will be reset, for these cases it may be better to paste the code instead.

  1. Click the extension, then the Gear icon to open the dashboard.
  2. Click the '+' in the top left corner and choose 'Install from URL'
  3. In a separate tab, navigate to the script of your choice.
  4. Click the 'Raw' button on the right hand side: alt text
  5. Copy and paste this URL into the ViolentMonkey URL box.
  6. Click 'OK', then 'Confirm Installation' on the next page.
  7. Reload the dashboard to see the new script added.

Now when you navigate to the page from '// @match' near the top of the script, the script will execute.

Editing Variables

Sometimes, scripts will use variables that need to be customized before they can properly run.

  1. To update, go to the dashboard using the instructions above.
  2. Click on the code button for the script in question. Looks like this: </>
  3. Near the top of the file right after the information at the top should be the variables that are modifiable. - They will all use 'let' or 'const'

Refreshing Scripts/Pull Updates

By default, enabled scripts will update every day.

If this is disabled, or you want to check more often, head to the dashboard and click the refresh button in the top left, or the one each script to only check one at a time. If an update is found, the script will automatically update.

Reporting Issues

If you encounter any issues, please report them on the Github repo. I will do my best to address and fix them in a timely manner.

So far this totals approximately 250 hours of work.