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HF Thread Citing

Makes citing threads convenient and useful!

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 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.

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

// ==UserScript==
// @name        HF Thread Citing
// @author      Emylbus
// @namespace   sublyme.net
// @description Makes citing threads convenient and useful!
// @include     *.hackforums.net/showthread.php*
// @exclude     *.hackforums.net/showthread.php*&*
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

function getThreadTitle(){
    // Grab the title from the navigation menu.
    var navArray = document.getElementsByClassName('navigation')[0].innerHTML.split('\n');
    for(i = 0; i < navArray.length; i++){
        // The open page is given an "active" class, coupled with my @include I can know that this will give me the thread name.
        if(navArray[i].indexOf('class="active"') != -1)
        {
            // Screw regex, yay ugly string splitting! &nbsp; is the character between thread tags and their title.
            var threadTitle = navArray[i].split('class="active">')[1].split('</span>')[0].replace('&nbsp;',' ');
            var threadString = "[url="+window.location+"][b]"+threadTitle+"[/b][/url]";
            return threadString;
        }
    }
    return "ERROR: Could not determine the thread name! :(";
}

function getThreadOP(){
    // Grab the user name and profile link from the first post. Coupled with my @exclude I know that this will only get the first post on the first page, hence OP.
    var authorArray = document.getElementsByClassName("post_author")[0].getElementsByClassName("largetext")[0];
    var authorProfile = authorArray.getElementsByTagName("a")[0];
    
    // For some reason trying to parse a staff member's name, I would constantly get fucked up by this strong tag. Don't need it for my purposes anyway.
    var authorName = authorProfile.innerHTML.replace("<strong>","");
    
    // Again, screw regex!
    authorName = authorName.replace(">","<").split("<");
    
    // Some tricksy stuff to grab the name from the middle of tags.
    authorName = authorName[Math.floor(authorName.length/2)];
    var authorString = "[url="+authorProfile+"]"+authorName+"[/url]";
    return authorString;
}

function generateCitation(){
    var citation = getThreadTitle()+" by "+getThreadOP();
    window.prompt("Press Ctrl+C to copy thread citation!",citation);
}

function main(){
    // This took me forever to figure out, turns out userscripts aren't directly injected into the site code so you need to use an event listener.
    document.getElementsByClassName('navigation')[0].innerHTML = document.getElementsByClassName('navigation')[0].innerHTML + '<small><a title="Cite this thread!" href="javascript:void(0);" id="citer">[cite]</a></small>';
    var elementLink = document.getElementById('citer');
    elementLink.addEventListener("click", generateCitation, true);
}

main(); // Dunno if I should be putting javascript in a main() function, but that's how I grew up with other languages so :P