/* |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Greasemonky chaff script |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | gets rid of chaff from twitter | | 2008-12-21 | Author Nick Taylor 2008 - nick@tangerineworks.com | | Released under the GPL license | http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | This is a Greasemonkey user script. | | To install, you need Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ | Then restart Firefox and revisit this script. | Under Tools, there will be a new menu item to "Install User Script". | Accept the default configuration and install. | | To uninstall, go to Tools/Manage User Scripts, | select "twitBlocker", and click Uninstall. | | */ // set up the auto-loader bit // // ==UserScript== // @name Twitblocker // @namespace http://tangerineworks.com/ // @description hides chatterers in your twitter display // @include http://twitter.com/* // ==/UserScript== loadjQuery(); // generic jquery loader run_when_ready('twitBlocker()'); // twitBlocker() is the function that will be run when jquery is ready /* |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | loadjQuery |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | creates a link in the bit to the latest jquery script from : | http://jquery.com/src/jquery-latest.js | */ function loadjQuery(){ var jqueryLink = document.createElement('script'); jqueryLink.src = 'http://jquery.com/src/jquery-latest.js'; jqueryLink.type = 'text/javascript'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jqueryLink); } /* |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | run_when_ready |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | The normal $function onload thing doesn't work here, so we loop until jquery has loaded, then | run a function who's name is passed in as a parameter | | */ function run_when_ready(functionToRun) { if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { window.setTimeout(run_when_ready(functionToRun),100); }else { $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; eval(functionToRun); } } /* |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | twitBlocker |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | script to hide people who are bombarding twitter with so many messages its doing your head in. | | It puts down a cookie that expires with the browser, and is depending on the containing having | a class which contains '.hentry' and an identifier for the person you want to block | | */ function twitBlocker() { var blockList; var blockList=readCookie('block_twits'); if (blockList!=null){ var s=blockList.split(','); for (i=0;i if (blockList!=null){ blockList=blockList+','+twit; }else{ blockList=twit; } createCookie('block_twits',blockList,0); tweets.remove(); } }) } /* |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | cookie handling stuff |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Courtesy of : http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html | */ function createCookie(name,value,days) { if (days) { var date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000)); var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString(); } else var expires = ""; document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/"; } function readCookie(name) { var nameEQ = name + "="; var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) { var c = ca[i]; while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length); if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length); } return null; } function eraseCookie(name) { createCookie(name,"",-1); }