vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui

To manually add custom javascript modifications to the vivaldi web browser one needs to do the following:

• Add the javascript file to vivaldis resource directory (on arch this is /opt/vivaldi/resources/vivaldi)
• Add an entry in the window.html (pre vivaldi 6.2: browser.html) file in the same directory.

This is not too complicated, but I have noticed that when vivaldi is being updated, the window.html file is overwritten, meaning that step 2 needs to be repeated after every update.

It also gets a bit messy to manage multiple mods.

If vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui is launched without any command line arguments, it will update the window.html file to include all javascript files located in PREFIX/share/vivaldi-UI-js, (PREFIX defaults to: /usr). The vivaldi-UI-js/ directory is automatically created by the script when new mods are added.

Any files with .js extension passed as arguments will get added or updated.

installation

If you use Arch Linux you can get vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui from AUR.

The AUR package will also install a pacman hook that will execute the script whenever vivaldi is updated.

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Use the Makefile to do a systemwide installation of both the script and the manpage.

(configure the installation destination in the Makefile, if needed)

By default the generated and installed script will have the shbang: #!/bin/bash , this can be configured by using the SHBANG make macro. ( make SHBANG='#!/usr/bin/env bash' )

$ git clone https://github.com/budlabs/vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui.git
$ cd vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui
# make install
$ vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui -v
vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui - version: 2020.11.22.7
updated: 2020-11-22 by budRich

usage

vivaldi-autoinject-custom-js-ui [OPTIONS] [FILE...]
-h, --help             | Show help and exit
-l, --list             | Prints all installed js modifications
-r, --remove  FILENAME | Remove FILENAME
-v, --version          | Show version and exit