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.

This page collects ways to use them with microformats.

Getting Started

Get Greasemonkey

• Download FireFox (required)
• Download Greasemonkey

Developing with Greasemonkey

• Dive Into Greasemonkey -- start here

Demo

Setup

• install microfomat-find: http://www.blogmatrix.com/include/microformat-find.user.js

[will ultimately be depreciating much of the code of this in favour of Mark Pilgrim's scripts for extracting the data]

Prebuilt hCard

• go to Neil Dunn's vCard: http://www.ndunn.com/2005/10/7/hCard
• 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
• 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% Grud on Greasemonkey and Microformats
• David Janes on "microformat find": Introduction, xFolk, hCard, hCalendar

Scripts

Some sample scripts:

hCard

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

http://www.blogmatrix.com/include/microformat-find.user.js

hCalendar

http://www.blogmatrix.com/include/microformat-find.user.js

xFolk

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

http://www.blogmatrix.com/include/microformat-find.user.js

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