Greasemonkey Jquery Script to Click Links

Question

I\'m trying to do my first greasemonkey script. I\'m fairly new to jquery and javascript, so be easy on me.

Here is what I have so far.

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Answer 1

If you have jQuery loaded on the page you could just trigger the click event using jQuery

Answer 2

See: wiki.greasespot.net/Generate_Click_Events .

That Reddit link fires JavaScript and not JS that was set with jQuery.

Which means that in this case, you need to send an actual mouse event, like so:

setInterval ( function () {

    var clickEvent  = document.createEvent ("HTMLEvents");
    clickEvent.initEvent ("click", true, true);

    $("a:contains('load more comments')")[0].dispatchEvent (clickEvent);
}, 10000);

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Oops! I did not see that the question mentioned clicking "all of the 'load more comments'". (And that page has hundreds of them!)

To do that, use jQuery's each() function...

setInterval ( function () {

    var moreLinks       = $("a:contains('load more comments')");

    moreLinks.each ( function () {

        var clickEvent  = document.createEvent ("HTMLEvents");
        clickEvent.initEvent ("click", true, true);
        this.dispatchEvent (clickEvent);
    } );
}, 10000);

Answer 3

You are trying to simulate click event but this only works on events attached with jQuery. Events on load more comments links at reddit attached using html attributes. I.e:

onclick="return morechildren(this, 't3_i7hb5', 'c21ko21,c21kesz,c21klil,c21ko45,c21kro5,c21l90v,c21lo38', 3, '')"

to solve your problem you need to extract values from this attributes and call them separately.