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Reddit subscriber count userscript - now moved to Greasyfork, see downloadURL
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// ==UserScript== | |
// @name Restore Reddit subscriber count | |
// @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts | |
// @match *://*reddit.com/* | |
// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest | |
// @version 0.3.1 | |
// @author https://github.com/wlonkly/ | |
// @downloadURL https://update.greasyfork.org/scripts/550811/Restore%20Reddit%20subscriber%20count.user.js | |
// @description Re-adds the missing subscriber count on Old Reddit subreddit pages. | |
// ==/UserScript== | |
(function() { | |
'use strict'; | |
// captures up to "/r/subreddit". technically you can also get | |
// an about.json from an individual post page with a different data | |
// structure, but that's more work than this. | |
const statsUrl = window.location.href.split('/').slice(0,5).join('/') + "/about.json"; | |
console.log("subreddit stats URL: " + statsUrl) | |
GM_xmlhttpRequest({ | |
method: 'GET', | |
url: statsUrl, | |
onload: function(response) { | |
try { | |
const resp = JSON.parse(response.responseText); | |
let subscribers; | |
if (resp.data?.subscribers !== undefined) { | |
subscribers = resp.data.subscribers.toLocaleString(); | |
} else { | |
subscribers = "[unknown]"; | |
} | |
// Find target element and append | |
const div = document.createElement('div'); | |
div.textContent = subscribers + ' subscribers' | |
const target = document.querySelector('h1[class="hover redditname"]'); | |
if (target) { | |
target.after(div); | |
} else { | |
console.warn('Target element not found, appending to body'); | |
document.body.appendChild(div); | |
} | |
} catch (error) { | |
console.error('Failed to parse stats:', error); | |
} | |
}, | |
onerror: function() { | |
console.error('Failed to fetch stats'); | |
} | |
}); | |
})(); |
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