November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 9m
English
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Hack #82. Automatically Link to Printer-Friendly Versions
Get the content without the cruft by changing selected article links to "printer-friendly" versions.
Most online news sites offer printer-friendly versions of their articles. Such pages usually contain the entire article text in one page, instead of forcing you to click through to read multiple pages. They also leave out the site's global navigation bar. They might also have fewer ads, or no ads at all.
Well, that all sounds appealing to me; why isn't that the default? This hack makes it the default, by changing links to selected news sites to point to the printer-friendly article instead.
The Code
This user script runs on all pages. It uses regular expressions to find specific patterns in link URLs and then performs site-specific alterations to change the link to point to the associated printer-friendly page instead. Of course, it works only on links to the sites it knows about, but it can easily be extended with knowledge of how other sites associate normal article pages and printer-friendly pages.
Save the following user script as bstopthepresses.user.js:
// ==UserScript== // @name Stop The Presses! // @namespace http://diveintomark.org/projects/greasemonkey/ // @description make links point to printer-friendly versions // @include * // ==/UserScript== var urlPage = window.location.href; for (var i = document.links.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { var elmLink = document.links[i]; var urlHref = elmLink.href; // Yahoo News if ((urlHref.match(/\/\/(story\.)?news\.yahoo\.com\//i)) ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.