tampermonkey-copy-url

A Tampermonkey userscript to copy nice-looking URLs to the clipboard.

Installation

1. First, you need to install the Tampermonkey extension for your browser, which can be found at: https://www.tampermonkey.net/
2. If you are using Firefox, follow the one-time configuration in the sub-section below.
3. You have to decide whether you want to always track the latest version (known as the live branch) or one of the release branches (which start with release/). Go to https://github.com/olivierdagenais/tampermonkey-copy-url/branches/all and make your choice.
4. Navigate to the userscript/index.user.js file.
5. Activate the Raw link. Tampermonkley should detect that a UserScript is there and prompt you to install it.
6. Tampermonkey will check for updates and prompt you to upgrade when a new version is released.

Firefox one-time configuration

Since version 87, Firefox's Clipboard API is disabled by default and will result in an error like:

Uncaught ReferenceError: ClipboardItem is not defined

Clipboard support can be enabled by following these steps:

1. Open a new tab and navigate to about:config
2. Find the dom.events.asyncClipboard.clipboardItem item and set it to true.

Development

1. Install dependencies with yarn install.
2. Run unit tests with yarn test.
3. Generate userscript with yarn run build.
4. Import generated userscript to Tampermonkey by local file URI.

Using the Node.js container

To avoid having to install anything (except Podman!), just prefix any node or yarn command with ./podman_node. For example: ./podman_node yarn install

Debug

Allow Tampermonkey's access to local file URIs (Tampermonkey FAQs) and import built userscript's file URL.

Release process

1. The release.sh script has 2 actions:
   1. createBranch for when we're ready to prepare a release for a new minor or major version, by branching off of the contents of main: bash release.sh createBranch "1.2"
   2. createPatch for when we want to prepare a release for a new patch version (after adding fixes to the release branch); we just need to provide tha MAJOR.MINOR portions and the PATCH portion will be automatically incremented: bash release.sh createPatch "1.2"
2. Next we push the branch and its release tag: git push origin release/1.2 --tags
3. Optionally, we can update the live branch with a release: bash prepublish.sh v1.2.0
4. Finally, we push the live branch: git push origin live