Greasemonkey Manual:API

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Greasemonkey Manual
Using Greasemonkey
Installing Scripts
Monkey Menu
Getting Help
User Script Authoring
Editing
Environment
API

This section of the manual will be short and sweet. As mentioned elsewhere, Greasemonkey provides several methods in its API to enhance the power of user scripts. They are listed here, with a brief description, but each separate method has its own page with more in-depth information, please continue reading there!

Headers

Metadata Block
Through JavaScript comments, Greasemonkey has metadata, which gives information about the script and provides resources and functionality to scripts.

comment2,

comment6,

comment6,

Other

GM_log
A function that accepts a parameter which will be routed to the Error Console, useful for examining values when writing a script.
GM_openInTab
Similar in spirit to window.open(), this function accepts a single parameter, the URL of a page to open in a new tab.
GM_registerMenuCommand
An advanced function which allows a user script to register a menu item, and command to run when clicked, in the Firefox user interface.