Firefox user: script to remove spoilers from homepage

[sanbikinoraion]

Hi,

I wrote a little greasemonkey scirpt to remove spoilers from race results section:

// ==UserScript==
// @name despoil cyn
// @namespace http://www.random-productions.co.uk
// @description Removes spoiler headlines from Cycling News
// @include http://www.cyclingnews.com/
// ==/UserScript==


var allDivs, thisDiv;
allDivs = document.evaluate(
"//ul[@class='articles']",
document,
null,
XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
null);

for (var i = 0; i < allDivs.snapshotLength; i++)
{
thisDiv = allDivs.snapshotItem(i);
var as = thisDiv.getElementsByTagName('a');

for (var j=0;j<as.length; j++)
{
if (as[j].href.indexOf('/stages/') != -1)
{
var pos = as[j].innerHTML.indexOf('Stage');
if (pos == 0)
as[j].innerHTML = as[j].innerHTML.substring(0,10);
}
}
}

To use it, install greasemonkey. Then, go to cyclingnews homepage, go to your menu 'tools - greasemonkey - new user script', fill in & submit form, paste the code above into your text file and save it. Then reload cycling news.

Any problem let me know!

NB. the script will probably break eventually since the site developers will almost certainly change how stuff is displayed eventually. But for now...

 

[agaler]

You might want to apply your script to

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/73rd-tour-de-suisse-2009-upt

and

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/73rd-tour-de-suisse-2009-upt/stages

as well. Maybe hide the blocks with custom css and then reshow it in the script so you can't see the spoilers while the script executes.

 

[sanbikinoraion]

Good plan! I will think about that later.

 

[Crikey]

Perhaps you could create a separate website that takes the CN page, modifies it according to the hacks described and then reposts the results...you could probably sell a lot of adspace on a site like that...

 

[agaler]

I'd imagine that might breech copyright in some way.