greasemonkey

About GreaseMonkey

Greasemonkey is a powerful tool for customizing Firefox.

Turnabout is a tool for IE for the same purpose. Its APIs are largely compatible with Greasemonkey, allowing for cross-browser user scripts.

Opera can also run Greasmonkey scipts using the built-in support for user javascripts.

While there is no way to extend Safari directly, Safari Guide will allow you to run JavaScripts (though not GreaseMonkey scripts) against the front page in Safari.

This page collects ways to use them with microformats.

Getting Started

Get Greasemonkey

• Download FireFox (required)
• Download Greasemonkey

Developing with Greasemonkey

The page formerly linked from here (http:// diveintogreasemonkey.org/) isn't active any more, -- so don't start here.

• Maybe Greasemonkey Wiki might be a good starting point instead.

Demo

Setup

• install microfomat-find-gm5: http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/06/05/microformats-have-arrived-in-firefox-15-greasemonkey-06/. Note: This does work with FireFox 1.5+/GreaseMonkey 0.6.4+, now!

Prebuilt hCard

• go to Neil Dunn's vCard: http://www.ndunn.com/2005/10/7/hCard (ed: dead link)
• look for the [hCard] icon and click on it
• click on "Add to Address Book"
  • note the magic of the data: URI here ...

Dynamic hCard

• go to http://we05.com/presenters.cfm (ed : dead link - feb 2006)
• select any presenter
• look for the [hCard] icon and click on it
• click on "Show as Text"

hCard Mapping

• go to: http://www.blogmatrix.com/company_main/
• look for the [hCard] icon and click on it
• click on "Show on Google Maps"
• go "ooo and ahh" ...

xFolk demo

• go to: http://thecommunityengine.com/home/archives/2005/10/xfolk_vegomatic.html
• look for the [xFolk] icon and click on it
• look up tags on other services

Resources

Posts and Articles

• Bud Gibson on Follow-up to Greasemonkey & Microformats
• Alf Eaton on Extracting microcontent (XSLT, GRDDL, RDF)
• http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-October/001112.html
• Phil Windley on Greasemonkey and Microformats
• 90% Crud on Greasemonkey and Microformats
• David Janes on "microformat find": Introduction, xFolk, hCard, hCalendar

Scripts

Some sample user scripts:

tails

http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension/ (shows all, works with 1.5)

http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension-03/ (newer version of tails)

SmartZilla

http://www.stripytshirt.co.uk/features/firefox/smartzilla (exports data)

hCard

http://diveintomark.org/projects/greasemonkey/hcard/

http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/06/05/microformats-have-arrived-in-firefox-15-greasemonkey-06/ (updated for FF 1.5/Greasemonkey 0.6.4)

hCalendar

http://randomchaos.com/software/firefox/greasemonkey/googlehcalendar/googlehcalendar.user.js

hCalendar to Google Calendar extension

Convert hCalendar to Google Calendar

http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/06/05/microformats-have-arrived-in-firefox-15-greasemonkey-06/ (updated for FF 1.5/Greasemonkey 0.6.4)

xFolk

http://thecommunityengine.com/resources/xfolk-veg-o-matic.user.js

http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/06/05/microformats-have-arrived-in-firefox-15-greasemonkey-06/ (updated for FF 1.5/Greasemonkey 0.6.4)

RelLicense

http://diveintomark.org/projects/greasemonkey/rellicense/

XFN (Magic Line)

http://diveintomark.org/projects/greasemonkey/magicline.user.js

GRDDL/RDF

http://alf.hubmed.org/microcontentextractor.user.js

adr | geo - GreaseRoute

http://code.highearthorbit.com/greaseroute/index.php

adr | geo -GreaseRouteEmbed

http://code.highearthorbit.com/greaseroute/index.php

See also

• firefox-extensions - other tools for customizing Firefox.