Userscript

For use of userscripts on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:User scripts.

A userscript (or user script) is a program, usually written in JavaScript, for modifying web pages[1] to augment browsing. Uses include adding shortcut buttons and keyboard shortcuts, controlling playback speeds, adding features to sites, and enhancing the browsing history.[2]

On desktop browsers such as Firefox, userscripts are enabled by use of a userscript manager browser extension such as Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey. The Presto-based Opera-supported userscripts (referred to as User JavaScript[3]) are placed in a designated directory. Userscripts are often referred to as Greasemonkey scripts, named after the original userscript manager for Firefox.

On Wikipedia, a user scripts feature is enabled for registered users that allows them to install userscripts to augment editing and viewing of the encyclopedia's pages.[4]

  1. ^ "User script". Computer Hope Dictionary. Computer Hope. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2017-08-19. script that is run in a Web browser to make live changes to a Web page. These scripts are oftentimes used to add some functionality to a page or to change its appearance. These are typically written in JavaScript, but can be written in other languages as well.
  2. ^ "userScripts - Mozilla | MDN". developer.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  3. ^ "User JavaScript". Opera.com. Opera.com. 2012-06-02. Retrieved 2017-08-31. User JavaScript allows you to specify local JavaScript files for Opera to include on every page that you visit.
  4. ^ Broughton, John (2008). "Chapter 21: Easier Editing with JavaScript". Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. p. 401. ISBN 978-0596515164. You can customize Wikipedia in ways that make your editing easier with user scripts, which are written in JavaScript code.