Script Summary: Modifies the outgoing links of books to that of download page of that book. Modifies only the URLs pointing to a gigapedia.com domain. Can recognize such links across the web, across all the pages.
Version: 1.2.last
FINAL NOTICE: Since Gigapedia has now shut down, so installing this script is useless. There is a new site Library.nu in its place, which uses captcha images and cannot be circumvented by any automated process including greasemonkey or any other addon (as far as I know). So this is the end of this script. I am leaving it here as an example for those wishing to learn how such things work. Thank you all for downloading and using this script.
By default when you click on a gigapedia link, it takes you to user comments about that item. If you are a user of gigapedia.com and use it to download all sorts of books you will be annoyed by this default behavior. You really are at gigapedia to download books, not to read comments about the posted link to that item.
So here is the remedy. This script will change all such URL's to the download page of the corresponding item. No more annoying wait for the comments page to load. Go directly to the download page. But don't forget to login to Gigapedia before you actually get a download page.
Version History
Date | Version | Changelog |
| Jan 14, 2009 | 0.0.1 | new script |
| Jan 16, 2009 | 0.0.2 | Corrected the behavior of pages belonging to the gigapedia domain so that they work as default inside the download page of the item. Clicking on comment works as usual. Only the first opening page of any item is affected by this script, rest is unchanged. |
| Jan 25, 2009 | 0.0.3 | More improvements along same lines |
| Jan 28, 2009 | 1.0.0 |
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| May 15, 2009 | 1.1 | Modified the code so that it works from inside Google Reader too. Will add more RSS based readers in future. |
| May 19, 2009 | 1.1.1 | Fixed an error which prevented some links inside gigapedia.com from being modified |
| Dec 26, 2009 | 1.1.2 | Cleanup of junk in redirected URL so that duplication of bookmarks (if any) are easily detected. |
| Dec 28, 2009 | 1.1.3 | More improvements along same lines |
| Jul 27, 2010 | 1.1.4 | Minor reorganization |
| Sep 15, 2010 | 1.1.5 | Now works with new Gigapedia. Gigapedia has been changed to have encrypted URLs from today. The old links will no longer work. |
| Oct 29, 2010 | 1.2 | Better working with Greasemonkey 0.8.6 |
| May 07, 2011 | 1.2.last | Shutdown of this script. No further development. |
