Reddit fixer

By grunt547 — Last update Oct 11, 2009 — Installed 179 times. Daily Installs: 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

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// ==UserScript==
// @name	Reddit fixer
// @namespace
// @description	Clean up Reddit pages to be a little nicer, like old Reddit
// @include	http://reddit.com/*
// @include	http://*.reddit.com/*
// @require	http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

// Reddit fixer
// version 1.1.2 (2009-10-11)
// Copyright (c) Dan Fenwick, licensed under BSD

var unwanted = (['infobar', 'side', 'footer-parent', 'midcol', 'rank',
		'thumbnail', 'tagline', 'organic-listing', 'promotedlink',
		'arrow up','arrow down','searchpane raisedbox','description',
		'expando-button', 'expando'
		]); // some of these are often duplicates, but not always

var delete_count = 0;

function xpath(exp) {
	// build, count, kill elements in XPath result set
	var i, item;
	var result = document.evaluate(exp,
			document,
			null,
			XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
			null);

	for (i = 0; item = result.snapshotItem(i); i++) {
		item.parentNode.removeChild(item);
		delete_count++;
	}
}

function killElementsByClass(classes) {
	// generic by-class XPath search
	var i, len;

	// seek string ' TARGET ' in ' FULL CLASSNAME '
	for (i = 0, len = classes.length; i < len; i++) {
		xpath('//*[contains(concat(" ", @class, " "), " ' + classes[i] + ' ")]');
	}
}

// implement the 'hide/show comments links' menu command
// this uses JQuery as provided by Google (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/)
function commentToggle() {
	$("li.first").toggle();
}

// collapse the three-line block elements into an inline run-on via CSS
sheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length - 1];
sheet.insertRule('p.title, p.nextprev, p.titlerow, ul.flat-list, a.comments {display:inline; margin-left:0; margin-right:0.5em};', sheet.length);
sheet.insertRule('.md p,.md h1 {margin: 0 0 5px 0 !important};', sheet.length);
sheet.insertRule('div.md p + p {margin-top: 1px !important};', sheet.length);
sheet.insertRule('.midcol, .tagline {display: none !important};', sheet.length);
sheet.insertRule('.entry div .buttons li {display: none};', sheet.length);

// add a link to the subreddits page to replace the deleted sidebar one
link = document.createElement('a');
link.setAttribute('href', '/reddits/');
link.appendChild(document.createTextNode('/reddits/'));

// add a shortcut link to show/hide comments links
comment = document.createElement('a');
comment.setAttribute('href', 'javascript:void()');
comment.setAttribute('onclick', '$("li.first").toggle();');
comment.appendChild(document.createTextNode('comments'));

nextprev = document.getElementById('siteTable').parentNode.lastChild;
nextprev.appendChild(document.createTextNode('\n|\n'));
nextprev.appendChild(link);
nextprev.appendChild(document.createTextNode('\n|\n'));
nextprev.appendChild(comment);

// register link, 'shared' links, and reddits header
xpath('//div[@id = "header-bottom-right"]/*');
xpath('//ul[@class = "flat-list buttons"]/li[not(@class = "first")]');
xpath('//div[@id = "sr-header-area"]');

// move search box
document.getElementById('header-bottom-right').appendChild(
		document.getElementById('search'));

// toast elements with generic class query
killElementsByClass(unwanted);

// add mouse-over "# deleted" to reddit image in top left corner
document.getElementById('header-img').title = delete_count + " deleted";

// hide the comments links and add a command to restore them to view
$("li.first").hide();
GM_registerMenuCommand('Show/hide comment links', commentToggle);