javascripthttp-redirectgreasemonkey

How to skip a forum's confirmation page?

I'm writing a Greasemonkey script for a forum where, if you hit "Submit" on a post you've written, you will be taken to a notification page saying 'Your post has been posted".

I'm trying to get around this by skipping this page entirely.

So far the only solution I've come up with is:

// @include        *posting.php?mode=reply*
// ==/UserScript==
// @run-at document-start

{
location.href = document.referrer
}

It's probably a complete roundabout way, but it's not quite what I was looking for. I'm hoping to skip the confirmation page entirely and just reload back to the page you were just at immediately. I've tried history.go(-1) as well, but no dice.

Any ideas how to achieve something along those lines?

Solution

  • The reason your script did not work well, is there are errors in the code you posted. The metadata block is corrupt and the @run-at directive is outside of the block.

    Additional issues:

    1. You probably should use location.replace() to keep the confirmation page from cluttering up the history and the back button.

    2. @include *posting.php?mode=reply* will slow all of Firefox down unnecessarily. This is because Greasemonkey will have to do a deep, character-by character comparison of every URL.

      Don't start @includes (or just about any comparison in any programming language) with a multi-char wildcard if you can help it. Better to have multiple includes like so:

      // @include     http://SITE_1/posting.php?mode=reply*
// @include     http://SITE_2/posting.php?mode=reply*
//etc.


    So, this script should work well enough for you: In practice, you'll never see the confirmation page (I use this technique myself) :

    // ==UserScript==
// @name        Whatever
// @include     http://SITE_1/posting.php?mode=reply*
// @include     http://SITE_2/posting.php?mode=reply*
// @include     http://SITE_3/posting.php?mode=reply*
// @run-at      document-start
// ==/UserScript==

location.replace (document.referrer);


    Note that approaches like Rab Nawaz's answer can give a better UI experience, but it is not as simple as his answer shows. You need to capture many forms, buttons, and links -- on a typical forum page. Everything does not post to the same destination, and how you would handle the results varies wildly depending on the action.

    The location.replace() is a good tradeoff of UI smoothness against potentially large code complexity.