Discussion on YouTube Title Adder | Userscripts.org

Seems broken again, replied by Lych

Lych — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:56:48 +0000

Hi Smiths,

This script seems to be broken on fark's video page again. I have the following scripts installed: Anti-Disabler, Youtube Title Adder, and Fark Link Redirect Remover.

EDIT: It seems to work again. Funny, I haven't changed my setup... strange.

Problem?, replied by AnchorPorter

AnchorPorter — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:13:50 +0000

Fixed it right up! Thanks!

Problem?, replied by Smiths

Smiths — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:50:41 +0000

working on it now to figure out what youtube did

fixed - 2.1r1 out. believe it or not, it was youtube changing a single quote to a full quote in the embed code

Problem?, replied by AnchorPorter

AnchorPorter — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:09:01 +0000

Just recently this script stopped working for me, entirely. I tried disabling it, I tried uninstalling it, I even took Greasemonkey all the way out and put it all back in piece-by-piece, and still no luck.

In the archived thread, I noticed a few people also had a similar problem, but no fix was posted, and Google hasn't been any help.

Any advice, anyone? Please?

Thanks

Archived Comments, replied by J Smith

J Smith — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:23:51 +0000

any idea why this script doesnt work in opera?

Archived Comments, replied by BorisTheBrave

BorisTheBrave — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:28:43 +0000

I recommend adding the following lines directly before the if ((link.innerHTML ... part.

var w=videoname[1].toLowerCase().split(/\s*\b\s*/);
var v=link.innerHTML.replace(/<[^>]+>/gi,"").toLowerCase().split(/\s*\b\s*/).filter(function(t){return t.length>2});
if(v.filter(function(t){return w.indexOf(t)!=-1}).length/v.length>0.5) return;

This checks if the link already has the correct name, and then doesn't change it if it does. I have mine set up to change the 'mouseover' text regardless.

Archived Comments, replied by Smiths

Smiths — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:08:12 +0000

It looks like those pages need to be added to the exclude list. What's the URL of a favorites page?

I don't use YouTube really (hence my hatred of blind links), and definitely don't use it enough to have an account and page on it... so I just exclude pages that affect me.

you can add in the excluded pages under greasemonkey...manage user scripts... and select the YouTube Title Adder and click "Add" under the "the following sites are excluded..." box.

Archived Comments, replied by jtr3030

jtr3030 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:22:00 +0000

Here are some screenshots that might help explain:

Before installation:

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1060/ytfavs8...

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/8118/ytsubs888...

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/679/ytvid888...

After:

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4059/ytvid99...

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/2336/ytsubs999...

http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ytfavs9...

Archived Comments, replied by jtr3030

jtr3030 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:15:31 +0000

I wanted to use it on YouTube. The problem is that the "Subscriptions", "My Videos", and "Favorites" pages only show half the title or so for each video, so you never know what each video actually is before clicking on it. They don't even have a hover feature. That's the main reason this script interested me.

Then when you watch a YouTube video on the YouTube site, there are links to other videos and all the titles get appended to and the whole page is a huge mess. You can barely read the comments or anything.

I've tried messing with the script but I'm programming illiterate so I broke it. I'll try again though.

Do you know if there is a way to just extend the file name rather than append to it? Or maybe erase the original file name at least partially and just view the appendage?

Archived Comments, replied by Smiths

Smiths — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:47:18 +0000

{ link.innerHTML = '' + link.innerHTML + " (YT: " + videoname[1] + ")"; }

That is how it outputs after a link. You can play with that for formatting.

As far as showing up for "many links on the site", I am not sure what you mean. You may just want to add an exclusion in Greasemonkey for specific sites if it's a bother.

Right now, it excludes:
// @exclude http://*.youtube.com/*
// @exclude http://youtube.com/*
// @exclude http://*.google.*/search?*

Archived Comments, replied by jtr3030

jtr3030 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:01:27 +0000

Is there any way I can remove the first part of the title and just display the "(YT:" part? Then is there anyway I can remove the "(YT:" part so just the title appears?

Also, the "(YT:" links are appended to many links on the site and the page is filled with them.

I really want something like this - I even made a forum post about it - but this is much too buggy.

Archived Comments, replied by Barnfish

Barnfish — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:27:19 +0000

Also stopped working for me. I tried uninstall/reinstall, still not working.

Archived Comments, replied by rargy

rargy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:06:54 +0000

Hmm, it recently stopped working for me. Not sure if it's the scripts problem or my own.

Archived Comments, replied by bl_nk

bl_nk — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:44:07 +0000

Unbelievable! Thank you!!!

Archived Comments, replied by Smiths

Smiths — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:30:25 +0000

You can comment out the line:
link.innerHTML = '' + link.innerHTML + " (YT: " + videoname[1] + ")"; with a // to avoid the innerHTML changing, then it'll just modify the title.
I'll see what making the identifier exclude images that are links to a video (like a Youtube button on Fark, for example) does.

Archived Comments, replied by bl_nk

bl_nk — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:16:43 +0000

I am loving this script!

However it also adds titles to image links which tends to mess up the layout of pages. It would be a really nice addition to make the YT titles optionally show only in mouse-over tips - for text links too :)

Just my two cents :]

Archived Comments, replied by Smiths

Smiths — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:58:31 +0000

You know, doing all these scripts I never caught on to changing the Title = having to uninstall old one (since I just upload the script by pasting the source code from my machine).

I apologize to all for having to uninstall/reinstall. I'll keep it titled as "1.2" from now on, even if i make changes.

Thanks for the heads up!

Archived Comments, replied by bl_nk

bl_nk — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:02:56 +0000

Yes you were right, didn't notice any change in load times.

You shouldn't change the name of the script though, makes upgrading more complicated as users have to uninstall the previous version.

Archived Comments, replied by Smiths

Smiths — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:50:38 +0000

You'd be surprised how it really doesn't.

Archived Comments, replied by bl_nk

bl_nk — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:08:50 +0000

I bet this damages pageloads a lot

Archived Comments, replied by Bloigen

Bloigen — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:17:12 +0000

Inspired idea and great work.

Highly recommended to all reading this page.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:45 +0000

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