AO3 Navigation Tweaks

[theaeblackthorn]

Hi all,

I made a greasemonkey script for AO3 that has some handy shortcuts in it.


Essentially this is just me sharing with the rest of the internet something I made to make my ao3 reading easier.

With this script:

- when viewing the works page in AO3, left arrow goes back a page in the pagination, right arrow goes forward a page, like tumblr's navigation.
- when viewing an individual work in AO3, left arrow goes to the next chapter, right to the previous chapter
- when on a work pressing the following keys causes the following behaviour:
-- 'd': downloads the .mobi version of the fic
-- 'k': leaves kudos
-- 'm': marks it for later
-- 's': subscribes
-- '#': sets the filters to 'english' and 'completed works only'*

Like I said, not comprehensive, just something I made to make my reading experience lazier and I thought other people might like as well.

(*pretty tailored to me, but I've left it in there incase someone else wants to use it)

It'd be great to hear if anyone else finds it helpful :)

Comments

[sylvaine]

Oh hey, that is awesome! Thanks for sharing; I'll definitely be making use of this! (And the "filter by English and completed works only" is particularly useful to me! :D)

[theaeblackthorn]

Thanks! It's always the first thing I do before I get tempted to read a wip XD

[isweedan]

OMG! What a cool thing to make!

But is it really "left arrow goes to the next chapter, right to the previous chapter"? That sound so backwards!

[theaeblackthorn]

XD no, no it's not, I'm useless with my lefts and rights in writing, but the code should work the right way!

[poulpette]

Do you like virtual baked goods? 'cause I'd be happy to send you tons of them :D

I'll need to make some edits to suit my use, but I've longed for a script like that for a while now. Thank you for sharing this :D

ETA 1: After testing, sadly, only the left/right arrow keypresses work for me. Probably due to the fact that I have a french AZERTY keyboard. I'll investigate.

ETA2: I've managed to get everything but the download part working by replacing the keydown function by its keypress counterpart.

ETA3: Managed to make the download work & to allow some flexibility for the download format. I'll add what I modified below in case it is of use to someone else.

if(e.which == 100 ) //if 'd' hit, download the work under specified format
{
	var dlformat = 1;
	// Download format:
		// 0: mobi 
		// 1: epub 
		// 2: pdf 
		// 3: html 
	
	var location = jQuery('#downloads li a').eq(dlformat).attr('href');
	if (location!=null)
	{
		window.location.href = location;
	}
}

[theaeblackthorn]

Hey,

Mmm virtual baked goods! Aha, and that's interesting, I switched it last night from keydown to keypress because a chrome mac user was having trouble with the arrow events not registering which switching to keypress seemed to fix on chrome and ff on a mac, and ff on a pc. (I'm a ff user, using a mac at work and a pc at home [I'd never read fic at work <.<])

Thanks for tracking it down! Can you let me know your setup, browser and os? I'm curious about it now...

[poulpette]

Oh, I should have included that info as well *facepalm* So sorry! I'm using a win7/FF(latest beta) combo.

From what I've read on keypress/keydown, keypress only guarantees character keys, not the arrows key. Maybe if you separated the arrow keypress to a different function? Keep keypress for the char keys and keydown for the rest? *shrugs*

[isweedan]

HELPFUL LIKE A HELPING THING! \o/ &epub;

[isweedan]

Oh hey, is it supposed to ignore the letters you type when you make comments? (mine isn't?)

[theaeblackthorn]

Oh, that's a good idea! Thanks, I'll split them up :)

[theaeblackthorn]

It should ignore any typing in an input field/textarea. What browser/operating system are you on? I'll have a look :)

[isweedan]

I am in firefox 19.0.2 and Windows 7!

[eosrose]

Super awesome! The only thing that could make it better is if there was a shortcut to leave anon kudos if you're logged in (I want this feature so bad, you don't even know, lol). I'm going to use this script like crazy. I don't know how I ever lived without it!

Edit: In the interest of being a better person, anyone know how to modify this to automatically leave kudos when I download something?