how do you start with greasemonkey?

[chronodekar]

I'm using firefox and I just installed the greasemonkey addon. Now what?

I went to their wiki page, but I can't find any kind of tutorial there. I'm suspecting that I'll need to learn javascript to do anything useful with this, am I correct ?:hmm:

Every few months, I keep encountering it, but I've never figured it out.😕

 

[Ken g6]

There are two things you can do with it pretty easily. One is to get other peoples' scripts. You can find them at userscripts.org; but an add-on called Greasefire helps you find them for whatever page you're on.

This being the programming forum, you probably want to create some scripts yourself. So try Platypus. I used it to make a script that removes the left-side column on this site. (Then I edited it to make it more robust and smaller; but it probably would have worked anyway.)

P.S. It sure is nice having one tag for all kinds of URL. 🙂

 

[chronodekar]

:| Umm... I DO know how to load up other people's scripts. But, what I do not understand is the language it's written it. It most certainly is not Perl!

What I'm looking for is the equivalent of "Hello World". Is there such a thing for greasemonkey?


And going a bit off-topic here, with vB can we setup PM alerts if a new reply comes to a thread we're subscribing? I miss that from fusetalk.

-chronodekar

 

[chronodekar]

Ok, I think I found what I wanted here,

http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/

Kinda surprising that I didn't get it the first time around... :whiste:

Hmm... I need to update our references thread with this soon.

-chronodekar

 

[Ken g6]

I've been getting into Greasemonkey more lately, and I've discovered there are forms of life more advanced than the Platypus. (No offense to the user named Platypus. 😛)

I found this tutorial very useful; but I already had previous experience with Javascript, the DOM and XPath.