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Most general purpose libraries are not written to operate within the Greasemonkey [[sandbox]] and thus may not work properly, so tread carefully.
Most general purpose libraries are not written to operate within the Greasemonkey [[sandbox]] and thus may not work properly, so tread carefully.


== jQuery ==
function showsimilar() {
var similarposts=document.evaluate(".//a[@rel='async' and contains(@href,'oldest=') and contains(@href,'newest=') and contains(@href,'expand_story_uid=')]", document, null, 6, null);
var i=0, l=similarposts.snapshotLength;
if(l > 0) {
do {
var evObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
evObj.initMouseEvent('click',true,true,window,0,0,0,0,0,false,false,false,false,0,null);
similarposts.snapshotItem(i).dispatchEvent(evObj);
} while(++i < l);
}
}


For a simple example, here is a way to load and use jQuery in your user scripts.
window.setInterval(showsimilar, 1000);
Note that @require works by downloading the files once, at install time, and is thus fast and efficient.
 
<pre class='sample-good'>
// ==UserScript==
// @name          jQuery Example
// @require      http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js
// ==/UserScript==
 
(function() {
    // This will be executed onLoad
    // Append some text to the element with id #someText using the jQuery library.
    $("#someText").append(" more text.");
}());
</pre>


== YUI ==
== YUI ==

Revision as of 12:44, 13 April 2010

With the @require metadata imperative, one can include entire extra files into a user script. This can also be used for including entire third-party libraries like jQuery or YUI.

Most general purpose libraries are not written to operate within the Greasemonkey sandbox and thus may not work properly, so tread carefully.

function showsimilar() { var similarposts=document.evaluate(".//a[@rel='async' and contains(@href,'oldest=') and contains(@href,'newest=') and contains(@href,'expand_story_uid=')]", document, null, 6, null); var i=0, l=similarposts.snapshotLength; if(l > 0) { do { var evObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents'); evObj.initMouseEvent('click',true,true,window,0,0,0,0,0,false,false,false,false,0,null); similarposts.snapshotItem(i).dispatchEvent(evObj); } while(++i < l); } }

window.setInterval(showsimilar, 1000);

YUI

Sometimes using the @resource imperative alongside @require can be helpful.

YUI has a nice tool to bundle your required libraries on the fly. After you receive your script source (Loading Script and CSS Directly box) use the @require key for the script and @resource for the CSS (if any).

For example: 

// ==UserScript==
// @name           YUI Example
// @require        http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.8.0r4/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js&2.8.0r4/build/element/element-min.js&2.8.0r4/build/datasource/datasource-min.js&2.8.0r4/build/datatable/datatable-min.js
// @resource       yCSS http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.8.0r4/build/datatable/assets/skins/sam/datatable.css
// ==/UserScript==

// add Yahoo! css to head
var yCSS = GM_getResourceText("yCSS");
GM_addStyle(yCSS);

Without @require

For older versions of Greasemonkey (before 0.8) or for other user script managers, there is an alternative approach. This, however, does not have the download-once-at-install-time benefit, so you should not reference servers that you do not own (i.e. jquery.com or yahoo.com). Read about this technique at jQuery & Greasemonkey.

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