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📖 A curated list of Awesome Userscripts.

Awesome Userscripts

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.

Contents

• How to use
• Scripts
  • General
  • GitHub
  • Privacy
  • YouTube
• Tutorials
• Community
• Additional Catalogues
• Contributing
• License

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, Safari, Opera, Firefox (also with support for mobile Dolphin Browser and UC Browser)

There's no focused plugins to get Userscripts running on Microsoft Edge or 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.
• 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 Comment Enhancer - Add features to enhance comments, wiki and contact page on GitHub.
• GitHub Commit Whitespace - Adds button to hide whitespace diffs from commits.
• 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.

Privacy

• Remove Google Click Tracking - Removes Google's click-tracking from result links.

YouTube

• Download YouTube Videos as MP4 - Adds a button that lets you download YouTube videos.
• 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.
• Video - GreaseMonkey Userscript Development

Additional Catalogues

• UserScripts Mirror - Mirror of the original Userscripts.org repository (that is currently down).
• Greasy Fork
• OpenUserJS

Community

• Stack Overflow
• #greasemonkey on Freenode

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.