Awesome Userscripts

A curated list of Awesome Userscripts.

User scripts can improve your browsing experience, and open a lot of possibilities to make the sites you visit better by adding features, making them easier to use, or taking out the annoying bits.

Contents

• How to use
• Scripts
  • General
  • Ads
  • GitHub
  • Google
  • Media
  • Privacy
  • YouTube
• Tutorials
• Community
• Additional Catalogues
• Contributing
• License

How to use

To use user scripts you need to first install a user script manager. Here are managers for various browsers:

• Greasemonkey - Firefox
  • Supports GM 4 userscripts.
• Greasemonkey for Pale Moon - Pale Moon
  • Supports GM 3 userscripts.
• Firemonkey - Firefox
  • Supports GM 4 userscripts and some GM 3 userscripts.
• Tampermonkey - Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox (also with support for mobile Dolphin Browser and UC Browser)
  • Supports both GM 3 and GM 4 userscripts.
• USI - Firefox
  • Supports some GM 3 userscripts.
• Violentmonkey - Chrome, Firefox, Maxthon, Opera
  • Supports both GM 3 and GM 4 userscripts.

The most popular userscript managers are Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey, and Violentmonkey.

There’s no focused plugins to get Userscripts running on Internet Explorer, but the Adguard extension provide this feature.

Scripts

General

• Direct links out - Removes all “You are leaving our site” and redirection stuff from links.
• Linkify Plus Plus - Turn plain text URLs into links.
• Select text inside a link like Opera - Disable link dragging and select text.
• Show and reload broken images - Show and reload broken images, even when it contains “alt” tag.
• Show Password onMouseOver - Show password when mouseover on password field.
• URL Shortener Unshortener - Adds small button next to shortened URLs that will replace the shortened URLs with their real locations and vice-versa. Useful for when you don’t want to blindly click links.

Ads

• Anti-Adblock Killer - Bypasses anti-adblock functionality in websites.
• AntiAdware - Remove forced download accelerators, managers, and adware on supported websites.
• AdsBypasser - Bypass Ads, Popups and count-down ads.

GitHub

• Github Reply Comments - Easy reply to Github comments.
• GitHub Commit Whitespace - Adds button to hide whitespace diffs from commits.
• Github Commit Diff - Adds button to show diff (or patch) file for commit.
• GitHub Monospace Editor - Provide MonoSpace font on GitHub textareas.
• GitHub PR Approvals - Require approvals in GitHub PRs before merging is allowed.
• GitHub User Info - Show user information on avatar hover.
• GitHub Image Viewer - Preview images from within the file listing.
• GitHub Dark Script - Apply the GitHub-Dark style to the site.
• GitHub monospace font toggle - Add a monospace font toggle to comments.
• GitHub Diff File Toggle - Add a toggle to each diff file (shift-click toggles all files).
• GitHub Toggle Code Wrap - Toggle code wrapping in files.
• GitHub Custom Emojis - Add custom emojis anywhere on GitHub.
• GitHub Make Tooltips - Convert all titles into GitHub tooltips.
• GitHub code colors - Add a color swatch preview to code.
• GitHub code folding - Add code folding to files.
• GitHub code guides - Add code guides to files and diffs.
• GitHub code show whitespace - Show whitespace (spaces/tabs/carriage returns) in files.
• GitHub collapse in comment - Toggle long code blocks in comments.
• GitHub collapse markdown - Toggle markdown headers.
• GitHub custom hotkeys - Add your own custom hotkeys to all of GitHub.
• GitHub custom navigation - Add a custom navigation bar to link anywhere.
• GitHub diff files filter - Add a file type filter to diffs.
• GitHub diff links - Add next and previous buttons to each diff file.
• GitHub font preview - Preview OTF, TTF and WOFF font files.
• GitHub image preview - Add an image preview mode.
• GitHub indent comments - Use the tab key in comments.
• GitHub issue comments - Toggle the view of some issue comments and timeline entries.
• GitHub issue counts - Show the number of issues in repository view.
• GitHub issue highlighter - Highlight the linked issue.
• GitHub label color picker - Add an extensive color picker to the label editor.
• GitHub remove diff signs - Remove diff signs from file diffs.
• GitHub rtl comments - Add right-to-left indicators in comments.
• GitHub search autocomplete - Add a search filter autocomplete to all of GitHub.
• GitHub sort content - Sort lists and tables on GitHub.
• GitHub static time - Convert time ago into a time format of your choice.
• GitHub table of contents - Show a TOC window for Readme and wiki pages.
• GitHub title notification - Add a notification indicator to browser tabs.
• GitHub toggle expanders - Expand or collapse all commit titles.
• GitHub toggle wiki sidebar - Toggle wiki sidebar view.
• Gist to dabblet - Add a Dabblet link to Gists saved from Dabblet.
• Github News Feed Filter - Add filters for Github homepage news feed items.
• Github Pull Request From Link - Make pull request branches linkable.
• Github Pages Linker - Add a link to Github Pages (gh-pages) when available.

Google

• Endless Google - Load more results automatically and endlessly.
• Google Images direct link - Adds direct links to images and pages in google image search.
• Google Translate Keyboard Shortcut - Adds keyboard shortcut for quick swapping between active languages.
• Reddit Search On Google - Adds a button to your Google searches to show only Reddit posts.

Media

• Handy Image - Displays the full size image for many image hosting websites, skipping popups and other annoying stuff.
• Image Max URL - Finds larger or original versions of images/videos for thousands of supported websites, including a customizable image popup feature.
• Mouseover Popup Image Viewer - (Deprecated) Shows images and videos behind links and thumbnails.
• Mouseover Popup Image Viewer (updated fork) - An updated fork of MPIV, maintained by one of Violentmonkey’s developers.
• Picviewer CE+ - Powerful picture viewing tool which can popup/scale/rotate/batch save pictures automatically.

Privacy

• Remove Google Click Tracking - Removes Google’s click-tracking from result links.
• Remove Yandex Redirect - Removes Yandex’s click-tracking from result links.

YouTube

• Hide YouTube recommendations - Hides the thumbnails and titles of the recommended videos to reduce distraction and procrastination.
• Iridium - Adds a lot of extra functionality to YouTube, including pop-out videos, extra control over video/comment feeds, and much more.
• YouTube Link Title - Adds video titles, shows previews and embeds on click. Also supported: Vimeo, LiveLeak, Dailymotion, vidme, WorldStarHipHop, Vine, Coub, Streamable.
• YouTube Plus - YouTube Plus contains all kind of different useful functions which makes your visit on YouTube much more entertaining.
• YouTube Subtitle Download - Adds links to download video subtitles.

Tutorials

• Greasemonkey Hacks - Complete wiki book on Userscripts.
• Greasemonkey Tutorial for Beginners - How to create simple Userscripts and installing it using Greasemonkey.
• Video - GreaseMonkey Userscript Development

Additional Catalogues

• UserScripts Mirror - Mirror of the original Userscripts.org repository (that is currently down).
• Greasy Fork
• OpenUserJS

Community

• Stack Overflow
• #greasemonkey on Freenode
• r/userscripts on Reddit

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome!

Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING for guidelines.

License

To the extent possible under law, Bruno Candido Volpato da Cunha has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.