Userscript for Hacker News RSS

[sekrause]

If you're like me and sometimes read Hacker News through hnrss, you might want to open both the linked article and the comments page with a single key stroke. I wanted this as well, so I created the following userscript. It extends the keyboard shortcut o to open both the article and comments in new tabs.

I'm using it with Violentmonkey, you need to change @match to your own domain.

Feel free to use it and adjust it to your needs.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        yarr helper
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match       https://your.yarr.instance/
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      Sebastian Krause
// @run-at      document-idle
// @description 7/6/2023, 11:28:29 PM
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
  const open = function() {
    if (vm.itemSelectedDetails && vm.itemSelectedDetails.link) {
      const parser = new DOMParser();
      const htmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(vm.itemSelectedDetails.content, 'text/html');
      var comments = null;

      for (const p of htmlDoc.querySelectorAll("p")) {
        if (p.textContent.includes("Comments URL:")) {
          comments = p.querySelector("a").href;
        }
      }

      if (comments) {
        window.open(comments, '_blank');
      }

      window.open(vm.itemSelectedDetails.link, '_blank');
    }
  };
  keybindings["o"] = open;
})();