Chrome stores .user.js scripts in a .ldb, which isn't in a user accessible format to recovery. On some versions of macOS the provided python script can't compile the leveldb package. As a workaround, we can use the node level package to recover our userscripts.
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April 17, 2025 12:48
[Chrome/Tampermonkey] Extract *.user.js scripts from LevelDB backup
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| <!-- View it live here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/waZOjB --> | |
| <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.4.4/angular.min.js"></script> | |
| <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/JustMaier/6ef7788709d675bd8230/raw/3d39d50e66d8d77e05656ed7dd09298be7e86f1f/ngClickCopy.js"></script> | |
| <script> | |
| angular.module('app', ['ngClickCopy']) | |
| </script> | |
| <div ng-app="app"> | |
| <button ng-click-copy="Hello World">Copy</button> | |
| </div> |