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HF Thread Citing

Makes citing threads convenient and useful!

  1. // ==UserScript==
  2. // @name        HF Thread Citing
  3. // @author      Emylbus
  4. // @namespace   sublyme.net
  5. // @description Makes citing threads convenient and useful!
  6. // @include     *.hackforums.net/showthread.php*
  7. // @exclude     *.hackforums.net/showthread.php*&*
  8. // @version     1
  9. // @grant       none
  10. // ==/UserScript==
  11.  
  12. function getThreadTitle(){
  13.     // Grab the title from the navigation menu.
  14.     var navArray = document.getElementsByClassName('navigation')[0].innerHTML.split('\n');
  15.     for(i = 0; i < navArray.length; i++){
  16.         // The open page is given an "active" class, coupled with my @include I can know that this will give me the thread name.
  17.         if(navArray[i].indexOf('class="active"') != -1)
  18.         {
  19.             // Screw regex, yay ugly string splitting! &nbsp; is the character between thread tags and their title.
  20.             var threadTitle = navArray[i].split('class="active">')[1].split('</span>')[0].replace('&nbsp;',' ');
  21.             var threadString = "[url="+window.location+"][b]"+threadTitle+"[/b][/url]";
  22.             return threadString;
  23.         }
  24.     }
  25.     return "ERROR: Could not determine the thread name! :(";
  26. }
  27.  
  28. function getThreadOP(){
  29.     // Grab the user name and profile link from the first post. Coupled with my @exclude I know that this will only get the first post on the first page, hence OP.
  30.     var authorArray = document.getElementsByClassName("post_author")[0].getElementsByClassName("largetext")[0];
  31.     var authorProfile = authorArray.getElementsByTagName("a")[0];
  32.     
  33.     // For some reason trying to parse a staff member's name, I would constantly get fucked up by this strong tag. Don't need it for my purposes anyway.
  34.     var authorName = authorProfile.innerHTML.replace("<strong>","");
  35.     
  36.     // Again, screw regex!
  37.     authorName = authorName.replace(">","<").split("<");
  38.     
  39.     // Some tricksy stuff to grab the name from the middle of tags.
  40.     authorName = authorName[Math.floor(authorName.length/2)];
  41.     var authorString = "[url="+authorProfile+"]"+authorName+"[/url]";
  42.     return authorString;
  43. }
  44.  
  45. function generateCitation(){
  46.     var citation = getThreadTitle()+" by "+getThreadOP();
  47.     window.prompt("Press Ctrl+C to copy thread citation!",citation);
  48. }
  49.  
  50. function main(){
  51.     // This took me forever to figure out, turns out userscripts aren't directly injected into the site code so you need to use an event listener.
  52.     document.getElementsByClassName('navigation')[0].innerHTML = document.getElementsByClassName('navigation')[0].innerHTML + '<small><a title="Cite this thread!" href="javascript:void(0);" id="citer">[cite]</a></small>';
  53.     var elementLink = document.getElementById('citer');
  54.     elementLink.addEventListener("click", generateCitation, true);
  55. }
  56.  
  57. main(); // Dunno if I should be putting javascript in a main() function, but that's how I grew up with other languages so :P