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A curated list of Awesome Userscripts.
User scripts can improve your browsing experience, and open a lot of possibilities to make the sites you visit better by adding features, making them easier to use, or taking out the annoying bits.
- Scripts
How to use
To use user scripts you need to first install a user script manager. Here are the most popular managers:
- Greasemonkey - Firefox
- Tampermonkey - Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox (also with support for mobile Dolphin Browser and UC Browser)
There's no focused plugins to get Userscripts running on Internet Explorer, but the Adguard extension provide this feature.
Scripts
General
- AntiAdware - Remove forced download accelerators, managers, and adware on supported websites.
- Bypass Ads - Bypass Ads, Popups and count-down ads.
- Direct links out - Removes all 'You are leaving our site' and redirection stuff from links.
- Google Images direct link - Adds direct links to images and pages in google image search.
- Google Translate Keyboard Shortcut - Adds keyboard shortcut for quick swapping between active languages.
- Linkify Plus Plus - Turn plain text URLs into links.
- Mouseover Popup Image Viewer - Shows images and videos behind links and thumbnails.
- Select text inside a link like Opera - Disable link dragging and select text.
- Show and reload broken images - Show and reload broken images, even when it contains 'alt' tag.
- Show Password onMouseOver - Show password when mouseover on password field.
- URL Shortener Unshortener - Adds small button next to shortened URLs that will replace the shortened URLs with their real locations and vice-versa. Useful for when you don't want to blindly click links.
GitHub
- Github Reply Comments - Easy reply to Github comments.
- GitHub Commit Whitespace - Adds button to hide whitespace diffs from commits.
- Github Commit Diff - Adds button to show diff (or patch) file for commit.
- GitHub Monospace Editor - Provide MonoSpace font on GitHub textareas.
- GitHub PR Approvals - Require approvals in GitHub PRs before merging is allowed.
- GitHub User Info - Show user information on avatar hover.
- GitHub Image Viewer - Preview images from within the file listing.
- GitHub Dark Script - Apply the GitHub-Dark style to the site.
- GitHub monospace font toggle - Add a monospace font toggle to comments.
- GitHub Diff File Toggle - Add a toggle to each diff file (shift-click toggles all files).
- GitHub Toggle Code Wrap - Toggle code wrapping in files.
- GitHub Custom Emojis - Add custom emojis anywhere on GitHub.
- GitHub Make Tooltips - Convert all titles into GitHub tooltips.
- GitHub code colors - Add a color swatch preview to code.
- GitHub code folding - Add code folding to files.
- GitHub code guides - Add code guides to files and diffs.
- GitHub code show whitespace - Show whitespace (spaces/tabs/carriage returns) in files.
- GitHub collapse in comment - Toggle long code blocks in comments.
- GitHub collapse markdown - Togle markdown headers.
- GitHub custom hotkeys - Add your own custom hotkeys to all of GitHub.
- GitHub custom navigation - Add a custom navigation bar to link anywhere.
- GitHub diff files filter - Add a file type filter to diffs.
- GitHub diff links - Add next and previous buttons to each diff file.
- GitHub font preview - Preview OTF, TTF and WOFF font files.
- GitHub image preview - Add an image preview mode.
- GitHub indent comments - Use the tab key in comments.
- GitHub issue comments - Toggle the view of some issue comments and timeline entries.
- GitHub issue counts - Show the number of issues in repository view.
- GitHub issue highlighter - Highlight the linked issue.
- GitHub label color picker - Add an extensive color picker to the label editor.
- GitHub remove diff signs - Remove diff signs from file diffs.
- GitHub rtl comments - Add right-to-left indicators in comments.
- GitHub search autocomplete - Add a search filter autocomplete to all of GitHub.
- GitHub sort content - Sort lists and tables on GitHub.
- GitHub static time - Convert time ago into a time format of your choice.
- GitHub table of contents - Show a TOC window for Readme and wiki pages.
- GitHub title notification - Add a notification indicator to browser tabs.
- GitHub toggle expanders - Expand or collapse all commit titles.
- GitHub toggle wiki sidebar - Toggle wiki sidebar view.
- Gist to dabblet - Add a Dabblet link to Gists saved from Dabblet.
- Github News Feed Filter - Add filters for Github homepage news feed items.
- Github Pull Request From Link - Make pull request branches linkable.
- Github Pages Linker - Add a link to Github Pages (gh-pages) when available.
Privacy
- Remove Google Click Tracking - Removes Google's click-tracking from result links.
YouTube
- YouTube Link Title - Adds video titles, shows previews and embeds on click. Also supported: Vimeo, LiveLeak, Dailymotion, vidme, WorldStarHipHop, Vine, Coub, Streamable.
- YouTube Plus - YouTube Plus contains all kind of different useful functions which makes your visit on YouTube much more entertaining.
- YouTube Subtitle Download - Adds links to download video subtitles.
Tutorials
- Greasemonkey Hacks - Complete wiki book on Userscripts.
- Greasemonkey Tutorial for Beginners - How to create simple Userscripts and installing it using Greasemonkey.
Additional Catalogues
- UserScripts Mirror - Mirror of the original Userscripts.org repository (that is currently down).
Community
Contributing
Contributions are very welcome!
Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING for guidelines.
License
To the extent possible under law, Bruno Candido Volpato da Cunha has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
Two years ago, we compiled our 10 favorite Greasemonkey scripts, the site-fixing wonders you can load into Firefox's Greasemonkey extension for a better browsing experience. We've updated our picks, and there's a lot that's new.
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That's not to say that the original 10 aren't worthy of your consideration. It's just that we've found a lot of cool new scripts in the following 2+ years, and some of the fixes and features those original scripts addressed have been implemented in Firefox 3, or changed by the sites themselves. This list is a bit Google-heavy, but that's to be expected—the search giant crafts all its web sites in the same kind of JavaScript that Greasemonkey works with, so geeks have the power to make Gmail, Google search, and other webapps much more useful and powerful.
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All of these scripts run best on Firefox with Greasemonkey installed. (If you're using Firefox and haven't already installed Greasemonkey, you'll need to do that before trying out the scripts below.) Some of them, however, can be loaded into other browsers, like Google Chrome's dev channel version, Safari with Greasekit, natively with Opera's user JavaScript tools, or apps like Trixie for Internet Explorer (which we haven't tested with IE 8, so apologies for any confusion).
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On with the user scripts!
10. Google Inline MP3 Player
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Self-promotion alert! Adam wrote this one, but it's not like it's a big money-maker for him (there's no money involved at all). All the Google Inline MP3 Player does is add a [Play] link next to any linked MP3 file you come across on the web, making it both easy to find them and super-easy to play them without having to wait for your browser plug-in, VLC, Windows Media Player, or whatever you've got on your system to load. It quickly inserts Google's/Gmail's player onto the page with the MP3 loaded for streaming, and you can hide the player again by clicking, well, [Hide Player]. Nice, simple, and works.
9. A Bit Better RTM
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There are, to be sure, a whole lot of Greasemonkey scripts that tweak the AJAX-y interface of one of our favorite to-do managers, Remember the Milk. This one, though, is the most elegant and useful if you're an RTM fan. It moves your lists to the left, where they're more visible and accessible, and lets you hide lists you don't normally examine (like, say, someday/maybe or shopping lists). It also adds more keyboard shortcuts that make RTM easy to get around, which is kind of a guaranteed fan-maker 'round these parts. All in all, a very helpful script.
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8. Twitter Search Results
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Apart from everything else you've heard about it, Twitter is a powerful, real-time search engine. With the Twitter Search Results user script installed, the top of your Google search results will also include the same results for that term you'd get from search.twitter.com, so you can see what's being discussed before you take a look at what's already been written.
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7. Google Reader Absolutely Compact
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If you're a Google Reader user, chances are you value speed and reading space over fancy light-blue menus and drop-down widgets. This Greasemonkey script/Stylish style, crafted by VIP Lifehacker reader Dustin Luck, isn't for everyone, but it does compact as much information onto the Reader page as is seemingly possible (before jumping over to terminal-style, text-only reading). Other Greasemonkey coders have mined a similar vein, releasing the eye-catching Helvetireader and the Google Reader for Wider Screens tweaks.
6. Google Docs Download
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For whatever reason, you can't just select a bunch of Google Docs files and download them in your chosen format. That makes a theoretically convenient web-based work space much less convenient. Google Docs Download steps into the void, adding a right-hand menu that, after searching out and/or selecting the files you need, offers a handy, Down-Them-All-friendly download link for all the formats Google Docs supports.
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5. TinyURL Decoder
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They make long URLs email friendly and save Twitter users from overflowing their 140-character limit, but shortened links from services like TinyURL, bit.ly, and many, many others can be a pain to click, wait, and then be disappointed by. This script lets you see what's behind
http://tinyurl.com/abc123
, http://bit.ly/lifehacker
, and all the others (those were, by the way, random typing, not links we created). We've covered Firefox extensions and bookmarklets that do the same, but they require clicks or mouse-overs to activate; TinyURL Decoder clarifies the entire web for you automatically.LongURL Expands Short URLs So You Know Where You're Going
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4. Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon
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A great little script that works in a tiny little space. Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon does, well, what you might presume it does, but does it really well: It adds a number to the standard Gmail Favicon that gets brighter as more unread messages pile up in Gmail. It maxes out at '99+', turns orange when you have a chat message, and changes to blue for the Google Apps users out there. Gmail offers a title bar tweak that puts just the number of unread messages in the front of your Gmail tab/window, but this little icon is far more intuitive and powerful.
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3. Invisibility Cloak
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Self-Promotion Alert Pt. 2: We made this one as well. It doesn't alter how web pages display and operate; instead it alters how you operate your web pages. If you're prone to more-frequent-than-necessary trips over to Twitter, Facebook, Fark, or any other time-sucking sites, just load them into Invisibility Cloak, as Gina describes in her write-up on banning time-wasting web sites, and you'll never see them before you hit that magic oh-well-work's-almost-over-anyways time—3pm on weekdays, by default, but you can set any time that applies to your work flow.
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2. Textarea Resize
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Some web sites give you just one line of space to type out a lot of information, like an address, article comment, or other mini-post. Textarea Resize pushes on the downward edge of any typing area and makes it one line bigger whenever you hit Ctrl+Enter, and knocks it back down with a Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Take that, web sign-up forms! Want more control over your text area sizes? Try this grab-and pull bookmarklet.
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1. Folders4Gmail
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Move from traditional email clients to Gmail's web interface, and the first thing you'll likely ask is, 'Where are the folders?' Folders4Gmail eases the transition and makes sense of Gmail's clever, unique, but sometimes hard-to-grok labels. Create a folder called, for example, 'Sports.' Next, create a folder named 'SportsSoccer.' 'Soccer' shows up nested under 'Sports,' and you can get as multi-level as you'd like, assuming you've got this neat little script installed to show them all as drop-down, folder-like containers.
So ends another compilation of 10 tweaks we hope you'll find useful in your day-to-day browsing. By all means, though, tell us the scripts you can't believe we left off, and the better versions of the scripts we didn't, in the comments.
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