Userscripts.org

In part for not knowing about the other one (my search skills also wouldn't have figured out that Autopagerize removed rather than added paging, though) but first and foremost, this was an experimentative study I had been brewing on for a while, in writing generic cooperating user scripts that meet one another over a micro format (stigmergy), augmenting the microformat in different ways.

This key bindings script augments the same microformat as the unpaginator, but in a different way: instead of pulling in next page's items into this page, it adds keyboard bindings to scroll to the next item on the current page, so you can move up and down the item list by pressing m / p (rather arbitrarily picked, to sit well with how I read online comics, which uses j, k, l and n for related purposes implemented by same script and another), over and over again.

As you'll note, the two scripts run independent of one another, so if you install both, you get both features -- infinite scrolling and keyboard navigation of the items, even to new items that get added as you tap your way through them.

The main beauty of all of it is that all three (or more) parts can be maintained, developed, improved, added or removed independently of one another: any scriptwright can add a new site to the system, without communicating with me or anyone else, anyone that has a use for the properties these microformat consumers use can make new scripts using them for whichever purposes, and you don't have to opt in to all features making use of the data, only those you like.

(Based on the data items Autopageresize adds, it does not do precision cutting of only the item nodes from the pages it unpaginates, as my variant does, but if all one wants is something to undo pagination that system might be the better pick, given its large user base.)

Fun, isn't it? :-)

Aquilax: if you haven't already, feel free to copy and edit this script to do what you like. You won't have to change the microformat producers, and if you want your custom behavious only on a few sites, you can regulate that with the @include and @exclude patterns. Good luck!

My remotely hosted version (small link below the install link) is 0.8 only, though, but sports a live editor for microformat producers, for advanced xpath wranglers, which you activate by running the bookmarklet javascript:void(craft()) (be sure to be logged in on userscripts.org too, or I assume their token verification for uploading scripts will fail).

(You also might want to change namespace from what I put in mine before you post.)

The version installable here works without 0.8, but all but one of its microformat producers (that I've made, that is) don't.

<Beware!>

The development build I run at the moment is here, but it is potentially dangerous and untested in the large; it may quite possibly wipe your entire list of GM scripts, so be sure to backup if you consider running it (we have fixed/regressed that symptom three times already, so it could be there still, or again).

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(Also, I could be a shady guy linking a malware infested xpi; there are lots of good reasons to wait for a real 0.8 once available.)

I wrote up a blog post about the technical stigmergy / ecology / microformat aspects of this script and its many companions that is probably of interest to fellow scriptwrights wanting to extend this hack to other sites or consume the same data it does. Click the "pagination microformat" tag on the right to find them all.