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// ==UserScript==
// @name time.com cleanup
// @namespace http://localhost/
// @description Removes ads and other non-content, greatly simplified
// @include http://*.blogs.time.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
/******* Other Suggestions
* In addition to this greasemonkey script I suggest using Adblock
* Plus, NoScript and AutoPager.
* Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
* NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
* AutoPager: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
*
****** 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:
* - time.com
* - addthis.com
* - wordpress.com
* - revsci.com
* - adsonar.com
* - timeinc.com
* - quantserve.com
* - atwola.com
* - sphere.com
*
****** AutoPager settings:
* URL Pattern: http://*.time.com/*
* Link XPath: //a[@class='next']
* Content XPath: //div[@class='artTxt']
*
****** 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://.*\.((quantserve\.com|wordpress\.com|feedburner\.com)/.*|timeinc\.net/((.*\.css|time/(i|images|blogs|photoessays|quotes|potw|covers|columnist|cartoons|rd)/.*\.(gif|jpg|png))|.*/(50|77|147)_.*\.jpg))/
var item_to_replace = $x("//div[@id='blogs' and @class='wrap']")[0];
var replace_with = $x("//div[@class='snap_preview']")[0];
var item_to_replace2 = $x("//div[contains(attribute::class, 'wrap') and (@id='health' or @id='us' or @id='election' or @id='world' or @id='entertainment' or @id='entertainment' or @id='business' or @id='travel')]")[0];
var replace_with2 = $x("//div[contains(attribute::class, 'ltCol')]")[0];
var stuff_to_remove = [
"//div[@id='footer']",
"//div[@id='articleFooter']",
"//div[@class='rtCol']",
"//div[@id='header']",
"//div[@class='articleTools']",
"//p[@class='eyebrow']",
"//div[@class='thumb']",
"//p[@class='byline']",
"//div[@class='byline']",
"//div[@class='credit']",
"//h2",
"//div[@class='rLinks']",
"//div[@class='date']",
"//div[@id='col3']",
"//div[@class='artTools']",
"//div[@class='enlarge']",
"//div[@id='connectStory']",
"//div[@id='articleSideBar']",
"//div[@class='artTxt']/p[string-length(normalize-space(node()))=0]/br",
"//div[@class='nav']",
"//div[@class='sectheader']",
"//div[@class='breadcrumb']",
];
/* Move picture to bottom */
/*var picture = $x("//div[@class='photoBkt']")[0];
$x("//div[@class='photoBkt']").forEach(function(ad1) { ad1.parentNode.removeChild(ad1); });
var main_div = $x("//div[@class='ltCol']")[0];
main_div.appendChild(picture);*/
var inline_story_links_regex =
/(?:\(?<a href=[^>]*>(?:Read TIME|Read "|See (?:a |the |pictures|[1-9][05])|See .*? of the week)[^<]*<\/a>\.?\)?\.?|\(<a href=[^>]*>See [^<]*<\/a>\)\s*$)/gi;
$x("//span|//div[@class='artTxt']/p[a]").forEach(function(item) {
item.innerHTML = item.innerHTML.replace(inline_story_links_regex, '');
if (item.innerHTML.match(/\(\d+ of \d+\)/)) {
item.parentNode.removeChild(item);
}
});
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;
}
stuff_to_remove.forEach(
function(xpath) {
$x(xpath).forEach(
function(item) {
item.parentNode.removeChild(item);
}
);
}
);
/* Rebuild simpler main page for www.time.com */
var main_div = $x("//div[@id='home']")[0];
if (main_div) {
main_div.style.backgroundImage = 'none';
var featured_news = $x("//div[@class='featNews']")[0].innerHTML;
var latest_headlines = $x("//div[@class='lathd']")[0].innerHTML;
var most_popular1 = $x("//div[@class='mpop']/ul/li[1]")[0].innerHTML;
var most_popular2 = $x("//div[@class='mpop']/ul/li[2]")[0].innerHTML;
var must_reads = $x("//div[@class='reads']")[0].innerHTML;
var more_inside = $x("//div[@id='moreInside']")[0].innerHTML;
var temparray = /^.*?(<li>.*)\n(^.*<\/?li>.*\n)*/gm.exec(latest_headlines);
latest_headlines = temparray.shift();
main_div.innerHTML = '<STYLE>a, a:link, a:visited {text-decoration:none; color:#000; cursor:pointer;}</STYLE>'
+ '<DIV id=z style="font-size:9.23333px; font-family:arial,sans-serif;">'
+ '<DIV id=a style="float:left; width:350px;">'
+ featured_news + '</DIV>'
+ '<DIV id=d><B>Must Read</B>' + must_reads + '</DIV><BR>'
+ '<DIV id=b>'
+ '<B>Latest Headlines</B>' + latest_headlines + '</DIV><BR>'
+ '<DIV id=c style="float:left; width:350px; clear:left;">'
+ ' ' + most_popular1 + '</DIV>'
+ '<DIV id=e style="float:left;"><BR>' + most_popular2 + '</DIV><BR>'
+ '<DIV id=f style="clear:left;">'
+ '<B>More inside</B>' + more_inside + '</DIV><BR>'
+ '</DIV>';
/**** Featured News fixups ****/
/* Insert heading before first item and change bold H3 to, wrap with a UL to indent under the heading, add space after heading */
$x("//div[@class='tout first']").forEach(function(item) {
item.innerHTML = item.innerHTML.replace(/<h3>(.*?\s?<\/a>)<\/h3>/gmi, '<B>Featured News</B><BR><BR><UL><LI>$1');
});
/* Make bold H3 links just regular links, and wrap them with another UL to indent them more */
$x("//div[@class='tout']").forEach(function(item) {
item.innerHTML = item.innerHTML.replace(/<h3>(.*?\s?<\/a>)<\/h3>/gmi, '<UL><LI>$1');
});
/* Make bullets next to each other, no extra padding */
$x("//div[@class='tout' or @class='tout first']/ul").forEach(function(item) {
item.style.marginTop = "0";
item.style.marginBottom = "0";
});
/**** More Inside fixups ****/
/* Make two columns side-by-side, col1=US through World, col2=Business through Entertainment */
$x("//div[@id='col1']").forEach(function(item) {
item.style.width = '350px';
item.style.cssFloat = 'left';
});
/* Ensure last column (col4=Best & Worst lists through Travel) starts on a new line after col1/col2 (col3 is deleted) */
$x("//div[@id='col4']").forEach(function(item) {
item.style.clear = 'left';
});
/* Make lists immediately follow the section title without extra spacing */
$x("//div[@id='col1' or @id='col2' or @id='col4']/div/ul/h3").forEach(function(item) {
item.style.marginTop = "0";
item.style.marginBottom = "0";
});
}
/* Simplify heading on blogs.time.com */
var main_div = $x("//div[@class='entryBody']")[0];
if (main_div) {
var title = /<h1 class=.entryTitle.*?><a[^>]*>([^<]*)<\/a><\/h1>/gi.exec(main_div.innerHTML)[1];
main_div = $x("//div[@class='snap_preview']")[0];
main_div.innerHTML = '<DIV align=left><B>' + title + '</B><BR>' + main_div.innerHTML + '</DIV>';
}
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);
}
