Discussion on changeLinks | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Ahal89 @ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:50:55 -0500

Ahal89 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:50:55 -0500

I don't have those characters on my keyboard so I wouldn't be able to begin testing. Try finding the link you want in the source, and then match the inner html.

Archived Comments, replied by SteveJ @ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:00:33 -0500

SteveJ — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:00:33 -0500

I cant get it to work on foreign language sites like pixiv.net?

Archived Comments, replied by crazian @ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:15:29 -0500

crazian — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:15:29 -0500

wow, thanks, i'm at work now, but i can't wait to say thanks to you, i'll try it when after work.

Archived Comments, replied by Ahal89 @ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:39:16 -0500

Ahal89 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:39:16 -0500

There you go crazian...in case you aren't familiar with regular expressions, something like this should accomplish what you want:

modifyLink ("Add .* as a Friend", "Desired Link Text", "Desired Link Path", 1);

If anyone is confused or has any questions, just let me know.
Cheers

Archived Comments, replied by crazian @ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:33:16 -0500

crazian — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:33:16 -0500

sweeeeeeet, when will that happen?

Archived Comments, replied by Ahal89 @ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:53:07 -0500

Ahal89 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:53:07 -0500

So if I understand you right, you want to be able to change a certain link which may have a different name depending on who's profile your on? eg. Add [insert name] as a Friend.

In this version here that is not possible, however it isn't hard to implement. I'll be implementing regular expressions soon, so you'll be able to do tons of stuff with the name matching.

Archived Comments, replied by crazian @ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:56:44 -0500

crazian — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:56:44 -0500

i wanna ask if you can make the "Actual Link Text" in var
for example,
this is something i wanna do,
Alan (Actual Link Text, which is Random)
www.facebook.com/detail.php?id=123456 (this is the person's actual address)
www.facebook.com/addfriend.php?id=123456 (this is the link that can direct add friend on page)

what shall i do with your script to make it work?

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:42:39 -0500

JoeSimmons — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:42:39 -0500

How about I add user script commands then? They can simply click "add change", pick the type, the title, the href, everything.

Archived Comments, replied by Ahal89 @ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:56:49 -0500

Ahal89 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:56:49 -0500

Sounds good. Keep in mind that since this script requires a fair amount of modification to the source from a users perspective, I want to keep it as simple as possible for users less experienced with javascript. So I'll make a "mode selection" method with an additional selection parameter that will call the appropriate modification method.

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:38:17 -0500

JoeSimmons — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:38:17 -0500

Ok I'll make the code I suggested and post the parts you need to change here. I might have separate functions for changing a link through the href, and changing a link through the title.

Archived Comments, replied by Ahal89 @ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:46:30 -0500

Ahal89 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:46:30 -0500

Another good idea, I'm on vacation for the rest of this week, but there are obviously tons of improvements to be made which I will do upon my return.

For the moment, feel free to modify the script to better suit your needs,

Cheers

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:03:27 -0500

JoeSimmons — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:03:27 -0500

Well what if 2 links have the same name?
oh and you can just change XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE to 6. Each snapshot type has a number (1-9)

I know another way to work the script that would interest me more.... if you let us supply a link's href, and supply a new text for it. So it searches for the href and replaces that link's text with our set one.

Archived Comments, replied by Ahal89 @ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:19:15 -0500

Ahal89 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:19:15 -0500

Thanks for the tips, as I guess you could tell I've only just started to dabble in JavaScript recently.

However I think I'll leave the option of using indexOf to the user. Consider a site like Facebook where there are many link titles which contain the word "friends" for example. You may wish to modify the "friends" link, but not the "5 of your friends" link. So if you would rather match substrings, then make the change that Joe suggested. Otherwise enter the text in exactly. What I will do, however, is make the equality case insensitive.

P.S, What I'll do later on (too busy now) is allow you to search using substrings, and give the option of only replacing the substring instead of the entire text.

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:57:36 -0500

JoeSimmons — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:57:36 -0500

Use document.evaluate not document.getElementsByTagName
And you should use if(link[i].innerHTML.indexOf(ExpectedName) !== -1){ not if(link[i].innerHTML==(ExpectedName)){ incase they don't put the EXACT text in.

Archived Comments, replied by Ahal89 @ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:32:55 -0500

Ahal89 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:32:55 -0500

I don't have a list of what sites this will work on for sure, though it seems to work well with wikipedia as well. You'll need to just use trial and error to figure out on what links it will work, and what ones it won't (works on almost all links in Google).

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:43 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:43 -0600

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