Updated Fark Lite to work with the current version of Fark.com (as of 2015-08-27)
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/*
Fark Lite
Copyright (c) 2005, Rick Fletcher
Released under the GPL license
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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This is a Greasemonkey user script.
To install, you need Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
Then restart Firefox and revisit this script.
Under Tools, there will be a new menu item to "Install User Script".
Accept the default configuration and install.
To uninstall, go to Tools/Manage User Scripts,
select "Fark Lite", and click Uninstall.
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Changelog
0.3 2015-08-27 RCJ
update for Fark changes
0.2.2 2005/10/08
bug: no longer hiding the "view voting results" link on the comments page
0.2.1 2005/10/03
bug: updated to work with updated fark.com source
0.2 2005/10/02
new: refactored to use XPath
0.1 2005/07/20
initial release
*/
// ==UserScript==
// @name Fark Lite
// @version 0.3
// @namespace http://flet.ch/things/greasemonkey/
// @description Strips fark.com down to just the links. Hides links from categories you don't want to see.
// @include http://*.fark.com/*
// @include http://fark.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
(function () {
var farklite = {
config: {
hide_search: true, // remove the google search form at the top of the page
hide_side_columns: true, // remove the columns on either side of the page
fix_link_target: true, // make links open in the current window
strip_passthru_script: true, // make links direct (instead of passing through the go.fark.com script)
unwanted_categories: // links that are in these categories will be removed
[ "weeners", "satire", "video edit" ],
},
//fark_passthru_script_regex: /^http:\/\/\w+\.fark\.com.*l=([^&]+)/i,
fark_passthru_script_regex: /^http:\/\/\w+\.fark\.com\/goto\/[0-9]+\/(.*)/i,
// link_container_xpath: "//table[@class='nilink']/descendant::tr/td[position() = 1]/a",
link_container_xpath: "//a[@class='outbound_link']",
addCSS: function( css ) {
var head = window.document.getElementsByTagName( "head" )[0];
var style = window.document.createElement( "style" );
style.setAttribute( "type", "text/css" );
style.innerHTML = css;
head.appendChild( style );
},
fixLinks: function() {
var links = document.evaluate( this.link_container_xpath, document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null );
for( var link = null, i = 0; ( link = links.snapshotItem( i ) ); i++ ) {
this.config.fix_link_target && link.setAttribute( "target", "" );
this.config.strip_passthru_script && link.setAttribute( "href", unescape( link.getAttribute( "href" ).replace( this.fark_passthru_script_regex, "http://$1" ) ) );
this.config.strip_passthru_script && link.setAttribute( "onmouseover", "" );
this.config.strip_passthru_script && link.setAttribute( "onmouseout", "" );
}
},
removeUnwanted: function() {
for( var i = 0; i < this.config.unwanted_categories.length; i++ ) {
this.config.unwanted_categories[i] = this.config.unwanted_categories[i].toLowerCase().replace( /[^a-z]/, "" );
}
var link_category_xpath = "//tr[@class='headlineRow']/descendant::img[translate(@alt,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='" + this.config.unwanted_categories.join( "' or translate(@alt,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='" ) + "']/parent::*";
var links = document.evaluate( link_category_xpath, document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null );
for( var link = null, i = 0; ( link = links.snapshotItem( i ) ); i++ ) {
link.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild( link.parentNode );
}
},
}
farklite.addCSS( "td.howto, form div.howto:first-child, .banhead div, div.footnote { display: none; }" );
farklite.config.hide_search && farklite.addCSS( ".banhead form { display: none; }" );
farklite.config.hide_side_columns && farklite.addCSS( ".newtoolbar, .entirelefttoolbar, .entirerighttoolbar { display: none; }" );
farklite.removeUnwanted();
farklite.fixLinks();
farklite.fixLinks2();
})();
