Restores the subscriber count on Reddit subreddits.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Restore Reddit subscriber count
// @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match *://*.reddit.com/r/*
// @grant GM.xmlHttpRequest
// @version 0.5.3
// @license MIT
// @author https://github.com/wlonkly/
// @description Restores the subscriber count on Reddit subreddits.
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
// captures up to "/r/subreddit". technically you can also get
// an about.json from an individual post page with a different data
// structure, but that's more work than this.
const statsUrl = window.location.href.split('/').slice(0,5).join('/') + "/about.json";
console.log("subreddit stats URL: " + statsUrl);
GM.xmlHttpRequest({
method: 'GET',
url: statsUrl,
onload: function(response) {
try {
const resp = JSON.parse(response.responseText);
let subscribers;
if (resp.data?.subscribers !== undefined) {
subscribers = resp.data.subscribers.toLocaleString();
} else {
subscribers = "[unknown]";
}
// Find target element and append
const div = document.createElement('div');
div.textContent = subscribers + ' subscribers';
// this renders properly on new reddit and is not used on old reddit
div.classList.add('flex', 'items-center', 'text-neutral-content-weak', 'w-max');
// class="hover redditname" for old reddit, slot="community-details" for new reddit
const target = document.querySelector('h1[class="hover redditname"], [slot="community-details"] rpl-tooltip:last-child');
if (target) {
target.after(div);
} else {
console.warn('Target element not found, appending to body');
document.body.appendChild(div);
}
} catch (error) {
console.error('Failed to parse stats:', error);
}
},
onerror: function() {
console.error('Failed to fetch stats');
}
});
})();