AO3 Kudos tools

[poulpette]

Hello everyone,

After theaeblackthorn posted their greasemonkey script last week, I was inspired to make my own, the AO3 kudos tools.

The script does three things:
- change the background of the kudos ♥ button to a white on green gradient if you have already given kudos to the work,
- highlight your username in the kudos list (white on green background, rounded shape),
- highlight other usernames in the kudos list (white on blue background), if you have listed their username in the script.

ETA: You will have to edit in your username in the script to make it work for you.

I mostly use the last feature to have a quick gauge of whether people I know have similar tastes in fanfic to me have read/liked the work.

If anyone decides to try this, I'd be glad to know if the contrast is correct accessibility-wise.

EDIT 2013.07.03: I've updated the script, anyone having trouble with the script should update to the latest version. Don't hesitate to PM me if something breaks down :)

Comments

[isweedan]

We will not speak of how long it took me to realize I had to edit to fill my own name in for the script. >.>

It's looking good now! \o/

Thank Youuuuuuuu

[poulpette]

I actually had a bit of a similar experience with the tracklist myself while developing. I'd commented out the line at some point and didn't notice for a while #^.^#
Safe to say I lost quite a bit of time wondering why the code didn't do anything when it was supposed to.

I'm glad you find the script useful.

[i_paint_the_sky]

I would never have figured this out if you hadn't commented about it =P It's my first Greasemonkey script, actually, so I'm still trying to figure it all out. Looks like it will be useful though, since I often lose track of what I've given a kudos to before.

[isweedan]

Hee, that's half of why I decided to mention it in the comment. Glad to be helpful!

(userscripts are GLORIOUS THINGS :DDDD There are many more cool ones for ao3 and for pinboard too if you use that)

[i_paint_the_sky]

I am definitely going to have to explore a bit more and see what's out there.

[sylvaine]

Oooh this is awesomely useful! Thank you for sharing!

[poulpette]

For a while I was worried nobody but me would find the script anything remotely useful.

Thank you for trying it out!

[mumblemutter]

This is super cool! Thank you for sharing. :-)

[poulpette]

#^.^# Thank you for trying it out

[i_paint_the_sky]

Hurrah, I got it to work! I am very excited to use this!

[stepps]

Hi, mod here :) No worries about tagging, I've got it :)

[poulpette]

Thank you!

[hardboiledbaby]

Oh, kewl! Thanks muchly :)

[arduinna]

Ah, lovely! I couldn't get it to work on my laptop for some reason, but it works like a dream on the desktop - I must have had a setting wrong. Thanks so much!

[msraven]

I really love this tool, but a few weeks ago, it stopped working for me. Does anyone know why? I'm using it via Tampermonkey on my Chrome browser.

Any help would be great. I'd love to get it working again.

[poulpette]

Thank you for letting me know about this, I'll investigate it on my end. Hopefully I'll find a fix.

By any chance did this happen around April?

[msraven]

No, I want to say it was later than that. Sometime in June. I hope you find a fix, I really enjoyed having it work.

[poulpette]

I've just updated the script and tested it on chrome, it should work now, but let me know if it doesn't I'll keep trying.

You'll have to re-set your username and tracklist (if you use that feature) so save those in a text file if you can.

[msraven]

Yes! Thank you so much for the quick fix. :D

Script Broken?

[msraven]

Not sure what happened, but the kudos tool is broken for Chrome again. :(

I know it was working yesterday (9/4) and this morning, it's not (9/5).

Any thoughts on how to fix it?

Re: Script Broken?

[poulpette]

Hi,

your browser probably updated, and 'fixed' the bug that allowed me to use AO3's JQuery. I'm afraid I don't know how to make that work again at the moment.

I'll keep an eye out and update you if I find a way to fix the script.

[tephra]

I hate to bother you with commenting on an ancient post, but if you are still maintaining this script you probably want to know that Firefox Quantum (57+) has totally broken it. It was working great before the update, and I was completely willing to blame the bare bones Greasemonkey 4 update for the problem, but it doesn't work with Tampermonkey either.

Tampermonkey does indicate there is an error in the script so here's a screenshot:



The red X says "Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression" in the hovertext.

I enjoyed the script for years and miss it, but I totally get it if you have moved onto other things. :)

[tephra]

Replying just to let other people that might be having similar problems know that I did eventually get this working again. With Firefox 57 and Tampermonkey this script must be the first one run on AO3, if you have others, such as AO3 Savior, running before Kudos Tools it doesn't seem to work. Also double check you have the usernames in there with the proper capitalization.

Sorry, not maintaining the script at the moment.

[poulpette]

Hi,

First, I'm glad that you found the scrip useful, and for letting me know the script was broken.

At this time I do not have the time to tinker again with it (new full time job, YAY) but if I do, I'll be sure to let you know that another version is up.

Though, if anyone wants to fix this, they are welcome to take over :)

Re: Sorry, not maintaining the script at the moment.

[tephra]

Congratulations on the new job!

I figured you had probably moved on to other things, but on the off chance you had just moved to other platforms I thought I should say something. :)