Various userscripts for use on the web. Most scripts are designed to be cross-compatible with TamperMonkey and Userscripts for Safari but should work with any userscript manager that has the same syntax.
📰 AntiPaywall_NewsCorp: Bypasses most News Corp paywalls with an XHR and crawler UA header.
📰 AntiPaywall_NYT: Bypasses The New York Times paywall with simple CSS injection.
📰 AntiPaywall_TheAge: Bypasses The Age news paywall by clearing a counter in localStorage.
📰 AntiPaywall_WaPo: Bypasses Washington Post paywalls with an XHR.
🎮 SteamDepotDownloader: Generate download scripts on SteamDB for DepotDownloader to grab all manifests in a Steam depot.
📺 InvestigationDiscoveryDownloader: Generate download scripts for YT-DLP to download entire seasons of free access shows from ID/TLC.
📺 RedditDefaultVideoPlayer: Replaces the Reddit video player with the browser's default HTML5 player. 🚧 This script is unfinished. 🚧
📺 ReturnYouTubeMetadata: Returns YouTube's precise video view count and upload date to above the fold where it belongs.
These scripts are only tested on Chromium-based desktop browsers, but should work on any web browser that has a userscript manager extension such as TamperMonkey.
- Install TamperMonkey from the Chrome Web Store or equivalent browser add-on store.
- Click the script you want to install in the section above, then click Install Userscript on the page that appears. Provided TamperMonkey or an equivalent Userscript manager is present, you'll get a prompt to install the script.
You'll need iOS 15 or later to run userscripts in Safari.
- Install Userscripts from the App Store.
- Download a script from this page by clicking it in the section above, right clicking the Install Userscript link on the page that appears and choosing "Save as...".
- Transfer the downloaded script to your device via AirDrop, Email etc. and save it to a folder on your device using the Files app or similar.
- Open the Userscripts app, follow the instructions to set it up and choose the folder you saved your script(s) to as the Userscripts Directory.
- Open Safari and navigate to a webpage that's targeted by the script you downloaded.
- Open the Reader/Extensions menu from the address bar, then choose the Userscripts option from the Reader/Extensions menu and make sure the script you downloaded appears and is switched on.
Android browser support for userscripts isn't great. You'll need the Firefox Nightly browser from the Play Store. If anyone has a better method for running userscripts on Android, please open an issue or submit a pull request.
- Follow this YouTube video until 3:10 in order to install and configure Firefox Nightly with the Tampermonkey add-on.
- Choose the Utilities tab.
- Copy the URL for a script. You can do this by tapping one of the scripts in the section above and copying the Install Userscript link in the page that appears (Tap and hold > Copy Link).
- Paste the URL that you copied into the Import from URL section and click Install.
If you have any improvements, fixes or suggestions for future userscripts feel free to submit a pull request or open a new issue.
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