Remove sports stories from the Guardian frontpage, as well as links to the sports sections. This requires that you use what is currently (Jun 2014) the "beta" version of the Guardian, although this will presumably one day become the main version.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Guardian Anti-Jock
// @namespace http://xyxyx.org/
// @include http://www.theguardian.com/*
// @version 0.5
// @description Remove sports stories from the Guardian frontpage, as well as links to the sports sections. This requires that you use what is currently (Jun 2014) the "beta" version of the Guardian, although this will presumably one day become the main version.
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
function getSection(sectionName) {
var sections = document.getElementsByTagName("section");
for (var i = 0; i < sections.length; i++) {
if (sections.item(i).attributes.getNamedItem("data-component").value === sectionName) {
return sections.item(i);
}
}
}
function getNavItem(name) {
var navItems = document.getElementsByClassName("nav__item");
for (var i = 0; i < navItems.length; i++) {
var navItem = navItems.item(i);
var link = navItem.children.item(0);
if( link.attributes.getNamedItem('data-link-name').value === name) {
navItem.parentNode.removeChild(navItem);
}
}
}
function removeFrontPageStory(pattern) {
var frontPageItems = document.getElementsByClassName("item__container");
for (var i = 0; i < frontPageItems.length; i++) {
var frontPageItem = frontPageItems.item(i);
var link = frontPageItem.children.item(0).href;
if (link.match(pattern)) {
console.log("Matches " + pattern + ":" + link)
var container = frontPageItem.parentNode.parentNode;
console.log("Container = " + container);
container.parentNode.removeChild(container);
}
}
// TODO
frontPageItems = document.getElementsByClassName("fromage__container");
for (var i = 0; i < frontPageItems.length; i++) {
var frontPageItem = frontPageItems.item(i);
var link = frontPageItem.children.item(0).href;
if (link.match(pattern)) {
console.log("Matches " + pattern + ":" + link)
var container = frontPageItem.parentNode.parentNode;
console.log("Container = " + container);
container.parentNode.removeChild(container);
}
}
frontPageItems = document.getElementsByClassName("headline-list__link");
for (var i = 0; i < frontPageItems.length; i++) {
var frontPageItem = frontPageItems.item(i);
var link = frontPageItem.href;
if (link.match(pattern)) {
console.log("Popular item matches: " + pattern + ":" + link)
var li = frontPageItem.parentNode;
var container = li.parentNode;
console.log("Container = " + container);
var result = container.removeChild(li);
console.log("Removed: " + result);
}
}
}
function removeContainingObject(thing) {
var container = thing.parentNode;
var parent = container.parentNode;
console.log("Removing link: " + thing);
parent.removeChild(container);
}
function removeLinks() {
console.log ("Removing links to jock stuff");
var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
var unhandled = {};
for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
var link = links.item(i);
if (link.href.match(/\/football\//) || link.href.match(/\/sport\//)) {
// console.log("Found matching link: " + link.href);
var linkClass = link.getAttribute("class");
// console.log("Class = " + linkClass);
if (linkClass) {
if (linkClass === "headline-list__link") {
removeContainingObject(link);
} else if (linkClass.match(/^item__link/)) {
removeContainingObject(link);
} else if (linkClass.match(/^linkslist__action/)) {
removeContainingObject(link);
} else if (linkClass.match(/^right-most-popular-item/)) {
removeContainingObject(link);
} else if (linkClass.match(/^fromage__link/)) {
removeContainingObject(link);
} else {
if (linkClass in unhandled) {
unhandled[linkClass].push(link.href);
} else {
unhandled[linkClass] = [link.href];
}
}
}
}
}
for(var propertyName in unhandled) {
console.log("Unhandled class: " + propertyName + ": " + unhandled[propertyName].join("\n"));
}
}
try {
var section;
section = getSection('sport');
if (section) {
section.style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
section = getSection('world-cup');
if (section) {
section.style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
var navItem = getNavItem("/sport");
if (navItem) {
navItem.style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
var navItem = getNavItem("/football");
if (navItem) {
navItem.style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
var navItem = getNavItem("/fashion");
if (navItem) {
navItem.style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
// removeFrontPageStory(/\/football\//);
// removeFrontPageStory(/\/sport\//);
removeLinks();
setTimeout(removeLinks, 100);
setTimeout(removeLinks, 1000);
setTimeout(removeLinks, 5000);
setTimeout(removeLinks, 10000);
} catch (e) {
console.log(e);
}