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// ==UserScript==
// @name cnn.com cleanup
// @description Remove ads and other non-content, greatly simplified, works on www.cnn.com, blogs.cnn.com, money.cnn.com
// @include http://www.cnn.com/*
// @include http://*.blogs.cnn.com/*
// @include http://money.cnn.com/*
// @include http://*.fortune.cnn.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
/******* Other Suggestions
* In addition to this greasemonkey script I suggest using Adblock
* Plus, and NoScript.
* Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
* NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
*
****** NoScript settings:
* I personally enable the NoScript option:
* General -> Scripts Globally Allowed (dangerous)
*
* So besides just installing NoScript, I also have to blacklist the
* sites I wanted to block. For this site that includes:
* - cnn.com
* - turner.com
* - wordpress.com
*
****** Adblock Plus settings:
* I use EasyList, plus the following filter for this site. Note that you
* have to remove the "// " at the beginning of the line:
*/
// /http://(((metrics|symbolcomplete\.money)\.cnn\.com/)|((.*\.cnn\.net|i\.cdn\.turner\.com)/cnn/|.*\.(cdn\.turner\.com/cnn/.*((60x45|89x49)\.jpg|\.(css|gif))|turner\.com/money/|wordpress\.com/.*\.css)|money\.cnn\.com/cookie\.crumb))/
var item_to_replace = $x("//div[@id='cnnContainer']")[0];
var replace_with = $x("//div[@id='cnnLeftCol']")[0];
var item_to_replace2 = $x("//div[@class='cnnWsnr']")[0];
var replace_with2 = $x("//div[@class='cnnStoryPhotoBox']")[0];
/* Main article image on cnn.com homepage */
$x("//div[@class='cnnT1Img']").forEach(function(ad1) {
ad1.style.cssFloat = 'left';
ad1.style.width = '300px';
});
/* Text to support main image */
$x("//div[@class='cnnT1Txt']").forEach(function(ad1) {
ad1.style.cssFloat = 'left';
ad1.style.width = '50%';
ad1.style.height = '280px'; /* Makes Other News appear after image */
});
/* Other News */
$x("//div[@class='cnnT2s']").forEach(function(ad1) {
ad1.style.cssFloat = 'left';
ad1.style.width = '360px';
});
/* US, Politics, Entertainment, Travel, iReport, Crime, Business */
$x("//div[@class='cnnPartLeftCol']").forEach(function(ad1) {
ad1.style.cssFloat = 'left';
ad1.style.width = '340px';
});
/* Health, Tech, Living, Special Coverage, Science, Sports */
$x("//div[@class='cnnPartRightCol']").forEach(function(ad1) {
ad1.style.cssFloat = 'left';
ad1.style.width = '320px';
});
var stuff_to_remove = [
/* Link named "Vote for CNN Hero" */
"//a[contains(text(),'Vote for CNN Hero')]",
/* <LI> that contains a link with /video/ in the URL */
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'/video/')]/ancestor::li",
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'ireport')]/ancestor::li",
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'/si/')]/ancestor::li",
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'sportsillustrated.cnn.com')]/ancestor::li",
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'.ew.com')]/ancestor::li",
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'/TRAVEL/')]/ancestor::li",
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'/SHOWBIZ/')]/ancestor::li",
"//a[contains(attribute::href,'people.com/')]/ancestor::li",
/* Link that contains "Entertainment" somewhere */
"//a[contains(node(),'Entertainment')]",
"//a[contains(node(),'Travel')]",
"//a[contains(node(),'Sports')]",
"//a[contains(node(),'iReport')]",
"//span[contains(text(),'iReport')]",
"//div[@id='moneyNewsNav']",
"//div[@id='rightColumn']",
"//div[@class='cnnEndOfStory']",
"//div[@id='footerGroup']",
"//div[@id='cnnMoneyBanner']",
"//div[@id='shareMenuContainer']",
"//div[@id='rssMenuContainer']",
"//div[@id='IEContainerR']",
"//div[@id='storyBrandingBanner']",
"//div[@id='clickIncludeBox']",
"//div[@class='storybyline']",
"//div[@class='storytimestamp']",
"//div[@id='siteFeatures']",
"//div[@id='cnnHeader']",
"//div[@id='cnnRightCol']",
"//p[span/@class='cnnBlogFiledBy']",
/* Bold text that follows a paragraph <P> that follows div snap_preview */
"//div[@class='snap_preview']/p/strong",
"//div[@class='cnnOverlayMenuContainer']",
"//div[@class='cnnBlogContentDateHead']",
"//div[@class='cnnGryTmeStmp']",
"//div[@class='cnnBlogCommentBar']",
"//div[@class='cnnPartHeader']",
"//div[@class='cnnContentHeader']",
"//div[@class='cnnAll']",
"//div[@class='cnnMpPartners']",
"//table[@class='cnnPL']",
"//div[@class='cnnSuperBox']",
"//div[@id='cnnMpPopNews']",
"//div[@id='cnnMoPo']",
"//div[@class='cnnPad18TRL']",
"//div[@id='cnnHeader']",
"//div[@id='cnnSCFontButtons']",
"//div[@class='cnnTopNewsModule']",
"//p[@class='cnnTopics']",
"//p[@class='cnnAttribution']",
"//div[@class='cnnStoryElementBox']",
"//span[@class='cnnEmbeddedMosLnk']",
"//div[@class='cnnStoryToolsFooter']",
"//div[@class='cnnMosaicContentCol']/div[@class='cnnUGCBox']",
"//div[@id='moneyEconNav']",
"//div[contains(a/text(),'Previous articles')]/following::*",
"//div[@class='cnnBlogPolicy']/following::*",
"//div[@class='cnnBlogPolicy']",
"//div[@id='brow']/preceding::*",
"//div[@id='brow']",
"//div[@id='continue']/following::*",
"//div[@id='continue']",
"//div[@class='cnnAC360_BlogButtons']",
"//div[@class='cnnWireBoxFooter']",
"//div[@class='cnnBoxFooter']",
"//div[@class='cnnEmbeddShare']",
];
/* Clean up AC360 blog (remove topnav, simplify heading), move image to bottom of page */
var main_div = $x("//div[@id='cnnAC360_blogBodyLeft']")[0];
if (main_div) {
var day = /.*<div[^>]* class=.cnnBoxContent.*?>([^<]*)<\/div>/gi.exec(main_div.innerHTML)[1];
var title = /<a[^>]* class=.cnnAC360_headerL.*?>([^<]*)<\/a>(?:<br>)*/gi.exec(main_div.innerHTML)[1];
var time = /<div[^>]* class=.cnnAC360_BlogAuthor.*?>Posted: ([^<]*)<\/div>/gi.exec(main_div.innerHTML)[1];
var picture = $x("//div[@class='cnnStoryPhotoBox']")[0].innerHTML;
main_div = $x("//div[@class='snap_preview']")[0];
main_div.innerHTML = '<DIV align=left><B>' + title + '</B><BR><I>' + day + ' ' + time + '</I>' + main_div.innerHTML + picture + '</DIV>';
$x("//div[@class='cnnStoryPhotoBox']").forEach(function(ad1) { ad1.parentNode.removeChild(ad1); });
var item_to_replace1 = $x("//div[@id='cnnAC360_contentHolder']")[0];
var replace_with1 = $x("//div[@class='snap_preview']")[0];
if (item_to_replace1 && replace_with1) {
item_to_replace1.parentNode.replaceChild(replace_with1, item_to_replace1);
}
}
function $x(p, context) {
if (!context) context = document;
var i, arr = [], xpr = document.evaluate(p, context, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
for (i = 0; item = xpr.snapshotItem(i); i++) arr.push(item);
return arr;
}
if (item_to_replace && replace_with) {
item_to_replace.parentNode.replaceChild(replace_with, item_to_replace);
}
if (item_to_replace2 && replace_with2) {
item_to_replace2.parentNode.replaceChild(replace_with2, item_to_replace2);
}
stuff_to_remove.forEach(
function(xpath) {
$x(xpath).forEach(
function(item) {
item.parentNode.removeChild(item);
}
);
}
);
/* Remove <span> tags (preserve text) for links inside of div cnnHeaderLnk */
$x("//div[@class='cnnHeaderLnk']/a").forEach(function(ad1) {
ad1.innerHTML = ad1.innerHTML.replace(/<span[^>]*>([^<]*)<\/span>.*/gi, '$1');
});
/* Remove <a> tags, but preserve and bold the text for all links in div cnnHeaderLnk */
$x("//div[@class='cnnHeaderLnk']").forEach(function(ad1) {
ad1.innerHTML = ad1.innerHTML.replace(/<a[^>]*>([^<]*)<\/a>/gi, '<b>$1</b>');
});
