A script to add 'reply' links to comments on default Diaspora* (desktop) website interfaces, which will insert the current comment's author's handle in the new comment textarea.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Diaspora reply button
// @description A script to add 'reply' links to comments on default Diaspora* (desktop) website interfaces, which will insert the current comment's author's handle in the new comment textarea.
// @author Filip H.F. "FiXato" Slagter
// @version 5
// @include /^https:\/\/(www\.)?(plu|joindia)spora\.com/
// @run-at document-idle
// @grant none
// @namespace https://github.com/FiXato
// ==/UserScript==
// esversion: 6
// Latest version at: https://gist.github.com/FiXato/fed7eca2e044705a3c14253bf2184335
window.debugUserScript=false;
function consoleDebug() {
if (window.debugUserScript) {
return console.log.apply(null, arguments);
}
}
// Function by Dmitriy Kubyshkin and copied (with minor variable name modifications) from https://www.everythingfrontend.com/posts/insert-text-into-textarea-at-cursor-position.html
function insertAtCursor(textarea_element, textToInsert) {
const isSuccess = document.execCommand("insertText", false, textToInsert);
// Firefox (non-standard method)
if (!isSuccess && typeof textarea_element.setRangeText === "function") {
const start = textarea_element.selectionStart;
textarea_element.setRangeText(textToInsert);
// update cursor to be at the end of insertion
textarea_element.selectionStart = textarea_element.selectionEnd = start + textToInsert.length;
// Notify any possible listeners of the change
const e = document.createEvent("UIEvent");
e.initEvent("input", true, false);
textarea_element.dispatchEvent(e);
}
}
function get_hovercard_data(profile_url, link_element, callback_fn) {
consoleDebug('getting hovercard data for profile link: ', profile_url);
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', profile_url + '/hovercard.json', true);
request.onload = function() {
if (request.status >= 200 && request.status < 400) {
// Success!
var data = JSON.parse(request.responseText);
consoleDebug("hovercard JSON: ", request.responseText);
consoleDebug("hovercard data: ", data);
callback_fn(data['diaspora_id'], link_element);
} else {
consoleDebug("Unsupported HTTP status while retrieving hovercard data: ", request.status, request.responseText);
}
};
request.onerror = function() {
// There was a connection error of some sort
consoleDebug("Request error while retrieving hovercard data: ", request.status, request.responseText);
};
request.send();
}
function insert_handle_in_comment(handle, link_element) {
var new_comment_box = link_element.closest('.comment_stream').querySelector('.new-comment .comment-box');
consoleDebug("Inserting handle at ", handle, new_comment_box);
insertAtCursor(new_comment_box, '@{' + handle + '}');
new_comment_box.focus();
}
function add_reply_link(comment_element) {
consoleDebug("Comment: ", comment_element);
consoleDebug(comment_element.dataset);
if (comment_element.dataset.profile_link) {
consoleDebug('Comment already has a profile link: ', comment_element.dataset.profile_link, comment_element);
return;
}
else {
consoleDebug("No profile link");
comment_element.dataset.profile_link = comment_element.querySelector('.author-name')['href'];
consoleDebug('Profile link added to comment: ', comment_element.dataset.profile_link, comment_element);
}
var reply_link = document.createElement('a');
var new_comment_form = comment_element.closest('.comment_stream').querySelector('form.new-comment');
consoleDebug("new comment form: ", comment_element, new_comment_form);
reply_link['href'] = '#' + new_comment_form['id'];
reply_link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("reply"));
reply_link.dataset.profile_link = comment_element.dataset.profile_link;
consoleDebug('Reply Link: ', reply_link);
reply_link.addEventListener('click', function (e) {
if (!this.dataset.handle) {
consoleDebug('Could not find handle in dataset. Requesting from hovercard url', this);
data = get_hovercard_data(this.dataset.profile_link, this, insert_handle_in_comment);
}
else {
insert_handle_in_comment(this.dataset.handle, this);
}
});
consoleDebug('Reply Link with event listener: ', reply_link);
var control_icons = comment_element.querySelector('.control-icons');
consoleDebug('control-icons: ', control_icons);
control_icons.appendChild(reply_link);
}
window.mainContainerQueryPath = "#main-stream > div, #profile_container .row, #container";
function process_comments() {
var comments = document.querySelectorAll('.comment_stream .comments .comment');
if (comments) {
consoleDebug(comments.length);
consoleDebug("Adding reply link to comments: ", comments);
comments.forEach(comment_element => add_reply_link(comment_element));
}
else {
consoleDebug("Could not find comments");
}
}
(function() {
'use strict';
var stream = document.querySelector(window.mainContainerQueryPath);
var callback = function(mutationRecords) {
consoleDebug("mutationRecords callback");
stream = document.querySelector(window.mainContainerQueryPath);
mutationRecords.forEach(function(mutationRecord) {
if (mutationRecord && mutationRecord.type && mutationRecord.type == "childList") {
if (mutationRecord.target) {
if (!mutationRecord.target.className.includes('timeago')) {
consoleDebug(mutationRecord);
if(mutationRecord.target.className && mutationRecord.target.className.includes('comments')) {
process_comments();
}
}
}
if (mutationRecord.previousSibling && mutationRecord.previousSibling.className && mutationRecord.previousSibling.className.includes('stream-element') && mutationRecord.previousSibling.className.includes('loaded')) {
consoleDebug("Calling process_comments()");
process_comments();
}
}
});
}
if( stream ) {
new MutationObserver(callback).observe(stream, {
attributes: true,
attributeOldValue: true,
childList: true,
subtree: true
})
}
})();