Tag: Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey: Fix links to PDFs in Bank Hapoalim

This fixes both the links to the PDFs and the embedding in the mailbox. Click on “View Raw” to install.

// ==UserScript==
// @name Bank Hapoalim
// @description Workaround bugs in Bank Hapoalim website to display pdf messages.
// @author Guy Rutenberg
// @namespace http://www.guyrutenberg.com
// @include https://login.bankhapoalim.co.il/portalserver/mailInbox#/folders/0
// @include https://login.bankhapoalim.co.il/ng1-portals/rb/he/mails#/folders/0
// @run-at document-idle
// @version 1.1
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
//
// @include url should be the url of the inner iframe containing the list of mails.
var MutationObserver = window.MutationObserver;
var myObserver = new MutationObserver (mutationHandler);
var obsConfig = {
childList: true, attributes: false,
subtree: true,
};
var target = document.getElementsByTagName('mail-manager')[0];
myObserver.observe (target, obsConfig);
function mutationHandler (mutationRecords) {
console.log('here');
mutationRecords.forEach ( function (mutation) {
for (var item of mutation.addedNodes) {
if (item.tagName == 'PDF-VIEWER') {
var url = 'https://login.bankhapoalim.co.il' + item.getAttribute('pdf-show');
iframe = item.querySelector('iframe');
iframe.src = url;
}
}
});
}
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Outbrained – Greasemonkey script to remove tracking Outbrain links

Outbrain is a service that provides related content links to publishers. It is used by some news sites I frequent, and recently I’ve been annoyed by its tracking behavior. When you hover your cursor above the link, it seems like a regular, benign link, but once you click on the link, it changes to an evil tracking URL. To add to the annoyance, it is not always easy to distinguish Outbrain “ads” from legitimate links at first sight.

To end this annoyance for me, I’ve written a little Greasemonkey script. It is currently set up to work for Haaretz, Ynet, Calcalist, and TheMarker, but it should work fine for any site using Outbrain if enabled.

Download: outbrained.user.js

Haaretz Premium Bypass Userscript POC

Haaretz‘s site became paywalled a couple of months ago, allowing users to read 10 “premium” articles before requiring payment. After a friend recommended their smartphone app, which unlike the site is free, I started reading it mainly on my phone. A few days ago I had no internet connection on my phone, and instead of seeing an article I saw an error page saying it wasn’t reachable (the usual Android built-in browser type). The URL was something like http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/smartphone-article/.premium-1.2070500, while the URL for the same article on the regular site is http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/world/middle-east/.premium-1.2070500. This of course got me curious, and a quick check showed that there is no problem accessing the mobile version from a desktop browser. So I went ahead and wrote a simple proof-of-concept Greasemonkey script to demonstrate replacing missing premium content on the desktop site with content intended for the smartphone app.
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A Greasemonkey Fix to the Top Menu in Sheilta (Open University)

Following comments in Fixing the Home Link in the Telem System (Open U), I’ve decided to fix the top bar links in the Sheilta system too.

The links in the top bar are JavaScript links that open in a new window when clicked. My Greasemonkey script turns them into regular links that you can open in a new tab.

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Fixing the Home Link in the Telem System (OpenU)

This post can be helpful for students of the Open University of Israel. As a student there, I found it very annoying that the link to the courses’ homepage in the Telem system is a JavaScript link. This prevents it from opening in a new tab and thus requires various workarounds to get back to the homepage in a different tab. So, a little while ago, I wrote a little Greasemonkey script to fix it.

// telem.user.js
// version 0.1 
// 2008-01-01
// Copyright (c) 2008, Guy Rutenberg
// Released under the GPL license
// http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
//
// ==UserScript==
// @name          OpenU's Telem - Fix Home Button
// @namespace     http://www.guyrutenberg.org/
// @description   Fixes the home button link in the telem system of the OpenU.
// @include       http://maagar.openu.ac.il/opus/*
// ==/UserScript==


home = document.getElementById('home');
if (home) {
    re = /javascript:find_home_page('(.*?)','(.*?)',/
    match = re.exec(home.href)
    home.href = 'http://telem.openu.ac.il/courses/'+match[2]+'/'+match[1]
}

This script changes the link to a regular, non-JavaScript link. I’ve tested it for more than a month now without finding any bugs. However, if you find something or have any suggestions, please comment.

Update: See A Greasemonkey Fix to the Top Menu in Sheilta (Open University); it has a fix for the top menu bar in the Sheilta system.