Can this bookmarklet be converted to Greasemonkey userscript?

Question

I'm not quite sure how to convert this code from a bookmarklet to a userscript because it uses URL-encoded characters:

javascript:var%20multiURL="";%20$('div.titlebox').find('ul.subreddits').find('a').each(function()%20{%20multiURL%20+=%20$(this).text().substr(3)%20+%20"+";%20});%20multiURL%20=%20multiURL.substr(0,multiURL.length-1);%20window.open('http://www.reddit.com/r/'+multiURL);void(0);

Ideas?

http://codepad.org/xfu7CS9Q – Jared Farrish Aug 08 '14 at 22:13 — Jared Farrish, Aug 08 '14 at 22:13

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

First, you have to convert the URL-encoded characters into regular ones, which Jared Farrish has kindly done with a bit of PHP wizardry. If you need to do this in the future, you can try this online URL encoder/decoder.

That gives you this JavaScript blob:

javascript:var multiURL=""; $('div.titlebox').find('ul.subreddits').find('a').each(function() { multiURL += $(this).text().substr(3) + "+"; }); multiURL = multiURL.substr(0,multiURL.length-1); window.open('http://www.reddit.com/r/'+multiURL);void(0);

Formatted and converted to proper JS:

var multiURL = "";
$('div.titlebox').find('ul.subreddits').find('a').each(function () {
    multiURL += $(this).text().substr(3) + "+";
});
multiURL = multiURL.substr(0, multiURL.length - 1);
window.open('http://www.reddit.com/r/' + multiURL);

Then, all that's left to do is use userscript notation and save it in a file with a name that ends in .user.js (important).

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Author's Name
// @namespace      Place where file is stored
// @include        Place(s) where userscript should run
// ==/UserScript==

var multiURL = "";
$('div.titlebox').find('ul.subreddits').find('a').each(function () {
    multiURL += $(this).text().substr(3) + "+";
});
multiURL = multiURL.substr(0, multiURL.length - 1);
window.open('http://www.reddit.com/r/' + multiURL);

It's important to note that this will run at every address listed with @include, so you might want to consider injecting a button or something onto relevant pages so that it doesn't run unnecessarily.

It appears that the `+` didn't carry over properly from the URL-decode: it should be fixed now. — AstroCB, Aug 08 '14 at 22:27
@adi Sorry; there were more encoding errors. It should work now. — AstroCB, Aug 08 '14 at 22:57

Can this bookmarklet be converted to Greasemonkey userscript?

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