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Digg Washer

Adds a small, user-friendly app under the All News section of a Digg page that allows you to specify keywords or topics by which to hide articles. It can also toggle on/off the sidebar.

I wrote this script because the Digg de-n00ber no longer works and the topic filter script was not user-friendly. I also wanted one script to Digg them all so I added in a Sidebar hiding feature.

So there you have it, a customizable, user-friendly Digg filter so you can filter out all the stupid "Britney Shaves her Head" headlines.

My code is partially based on the aforementioned scripts. Thanks guys for helping me learn Greasemonkeying.

Apparently some ppl are having trouble finding what this script adds. To find it, search the digg homepage for the text "Show Options"




Sep 11, 2007
Timbo Script's author

Thanks to teridon for keeping this up-to-date. See his script linked below.
 
Aug 29, 2007
teridon Scriptwright

I have updated this script to work with the latest (i.e. late August 2007) version of Digg. Also, I added the capability to filter by username! It's called "Digg Washer v2", Get it here
 
Aug 28, 2007
sqladmin User

ACK!! Please help! Is not available for the new version of Digg!!
 
Aug 17, 2007
sqladmin User

"i would do a barrel roll if i could filter articles based on the user that submitted it."

i second that!!

good one mugnebot!
 
Jul 20, 2007
mugnebot User

thank you for this script. the amount of dupe submissions to the video section has made my visits to digg increasingly irritating.

i've got a feature request. a lot of video spamissions these days come from a small group of users promoting sites that pay for views (like flicklife). i would do a barrel roll if i could filter articles based on the user that submitted it.
 
Jul 16, 2007
sqladmin User

thanks but still works great for me. tested on different machines.

one work of caution though... don't click the 'Clear' link by accident. i had hundreds of news articles filtered out. HUNDREDS... all gone by accidentally clicking 'Clear'

left to repopulate them again. adding words left and right now.
 
Jul 8, 2007
teridon Scriptwright

Digg seems to have updated their pages. The story text is now in the second paragraph of the enclosure. So you need to change line 71 to: var text = document.evaluate("div/p[2]/text()", div, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null).stringValue;
(add the [2] to the p)
 
Jun 1, 2007
sqladmin User

Instructions:

Once you have the script installed you can add keywords by doing the following:

Step 1.
Click: Show Options
('show options' is located above the first article)

Step 2.
Type your keyword in the digg search box
('search box' is located at the top-right of the page just beside the 'logout' link)

Once your word is typed in you can then click
Add HideWord

Step 3.
Refresh the page, and you will now see your HideWord listed next to 'Add HideWord' and any articles with your keyword will be filtered out of Digg, and replaced by the next article in line.

Now you can enjoy Digg in all it's splendor without all the garbage you don't care to see.

IT'S OH SO NICE!
 
May 21, 2007
sqladmin User

this works great!!

i'm hiding key-words like crazy! any thing i
don't want to see; is gone once i add it's key
word.

MANY THANKS FOR THE SCRIPT!!

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