Removes some of fark.com's tracking redirects.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Fark Redirect Remover
// @namespace https://github.com/pdkl95/user_scripts
// @description Removes some of fark.com's tracking redirects.
// @include http://www.fark.com/*
// @version 1.0
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
/*
fark-redirect_remover.user.js
A user script to remove fark.com's tracking redirects.
Copyright (C) 2015 Brent Sanders
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
(function () {
var link_selector = 'a.outbound_link';
var links = document.querySelectorAll(link_selector);
var link_regex = /^http:\/\/www.fark.com\/goto\/[0-9]+\/(.+)$/;
// fark tuncates the url when it is longer than this limit,
// which means we have to use the redirect logger to lookup
// the actual url.
var max_url_length = 99;
var fix_link = function (link) {
var url = link.href;
if (link_regex.test(url)) {
var md = link_regex.exec(url);
if (md.length === 2) {
var givenurl = md[1];
if (givenurl.length > max_url_length) {
// probable truncated url
} else {
var newurl = 'http://' + givenurl;
link.href = newurl;
}
}
}
};
Array.forEach(links, fix_link);
})();