Linkify Plus

Turn plain text URLs into links. Supports http, https, ftp, email addresses.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

(I already have a user script manager, let me install it!)

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name        Linkify Plus
// @version     2.1.4
// @namespace   http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/
// @description Turn plain text URLs into links.	Supports http, https, ftp, email addresses.
// @include     http*
// @exclude     http://www.google.tld/search*
// @exclude     https://www.google.tld/search*
// @exclude     http://music.google.com/*
// @exclude     https://music.google.com/*
// @exclude     http://mail.google.com/*
// @exclude     https://mail.google.com/*
// @exclude     http://docs.google.com/*
// @exclude     https://docs.google.com/*
// @exclude     http://mxr.mozilla.org/*
// ==/UserScript==
//
// Copyright (c) 2011, Anthony Lieuallen
// All rights reserved.
//
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
//
// * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, 
//   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
// * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, 
//   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation 
//   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
// * Neither the name of Anthony Lieuallen nor the names of its contributors 
//   may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 
//   without specific prior written permission.
//
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" 
// AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 
// ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE 
// LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 
// CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 
// SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 
// INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
// CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 
// ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 
// POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
//

/*******************************************************************************
Loosely based on the Linkify script located at:
  http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/linkify.user.js

Version history:
 Version 2.1.4 (Aug 12, 2012):
  - Bug fix for when (only some) nodes have been removed from the document.
 Version 2.1.3 (Oct 24, 2011):
  - More excludes.
 Version 2.1.2:
  - Some bug fixes.
 Version 2.1.1:
  - Ignore certain "highlighter" script containers.
 Version 2.1:
  - Rewrite the regular expression to be more readable.
  - Fix trailing "." characters.
 Version 2.0.3:
  - Fix infinite recursion on X(HT)ML pages.
 Version 2.0.2:
  - Limit @include, for greater site/plugin compatibility.
 Version 2.0.1:
  - Fix aberrant 'mailto:' where it does not belong.
 Version 2.0:
  - Apply incrementally, so the browser does not hang on large pages.
  - Continually apply to new content added to the page (i.e. AJAX).
 Version 1.1.4:
  - Basic "don't screw up xml pretty printing" exception case
 Version 1.1.3:
  - Include "+" in the username of email addresses.
 Version 1.1.2:
  - Include "." in the username of email addresses.
 Version 1.1:
  - Fixed a big that caused the first link in a piece of text to
    be skipped (i.e. not linkified).
*******************************************************************************/

var notInTags = [
	  'a', 'code', 'head', 'noscript', 'option', 'script', 'style',
	  'title', 'textarea'];
var textNodeXpath =
  	".//text()[not(ancestor::"+notInTags.join(') and not(ancestor::')+")]";
// Built based on:
//  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme
//  - http://www.regular-expressions.info/regexbuddy/email.html
var urlRE = new RegExp(
    '('
    // leading scheme:// or "www."
    + '\\b([a-z][-a-z0-9+.]+://|www\\.)'
    // everything until non-URL character
    + '[^\\s\'"<>()]+'
    + '|'
    // email
    + '\\b[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\\.[a-z]{2,4}\\b'
    + ')', 'gi');
var queue = [];

/******************************************************************************/

linkifyContainer(document.body);
document.body.addEventListener('DOMNodeInserted', function(event) {
	linkifyContainer(event.target);
}, false);

/******************************************************************************/

function linkifyContainer(container) {
	// Prevent infinite recursion, in case X(HT)ML documents with namespaces
	// break the XPath's attempt to do so.	(Don't evaluate spans we put our
	// classname into.)
	if (container.className && container.className.match(/\blinkifyplus\b/)) {
	  return;
	}

	var xpathResult = document.evaluate(
		  textNodeXpath, container, null,
		  XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);

	var i = 0;
	function continuation() {
		var node = null, counter = 0;
		while (node = xpathResult.snapshotItem(i++)) {
		  var parent = node.parentNode;
		  if (!parent) continue;

		  // Skip styled <pre> -- often highlighted by script.
		  if ('PRE' == parent.tagName && parent.className) continue;
		  
			linkifyTextNode(node);

			if (++counter > 50) {
				return setTimeout(continuation, 0);
			}
		}
	}
	setTimeout(continuation, 0);
}

function linkifyTextNode(node) {
	var i, l, m;
	var txt = node.textContent;
	var span = null;
	var p = 0;
	while (m = urlRE.exec(txt)) {
		if (null == span) {
			// Create a span to hold the new text with links in it.
			span = document.createElement('span');
			span.className = 'linkifyplus';
		}

		//get the link without trailing dots
		l = m[0].replace(/\.*$/, '');
		var lLen = l.length;
		//put in text up to the link
		span.appendChild(document.createTextNode(txt.substring(p, m.index)));
		//create a link and put it in the span
		a = document.createElement('a');
		a.className = 'linkifyplus';
		a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(l));
		if (l.indexOf(":/") < 0) {
			if (l.indexOf("@") > 0) {
				l = "mailto:" + l;
			} else {
				l = "http://" + l;
		  }
		}
		a.setAttribute('href', l);
		span.appendChild(a);
		//track insertion point
		p = m.index+lLen;
	}
	if (span) {
		//take the text after the last link
		span.appendChild(document.createTextNode(txt.substring(p, txt.length)));
		//replace the original text with the new span
		try {
			node.parentNode.replaceChild(span, node);
		} catch (e) {
			console.error(e);
			console.log(node);
		}
	}
}