Soupmonkey

In my last blog-post , I discovered an easy way to manipulate DOM before rendering it in Elinks using BeautifulSoup library.

I called it DevTools for ELinks, but as one reddit user correctly noted, it's conceptually more similar to user-scripts.

That gave me an idea to completely separate rule-files for individual domains in a similar way that Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey and similar user-script managers do.

So, I introduce soupmonkey!

The usage is simplified as well - all you have to do is clone the repository into your ~/.elinks/ folder and decorate the pre_format_html_hook in the hooks file. So your ~/.elinks/hooks.py might look like this:

import soupmonkey

@soupmonkey.inject
def pre_format_html_hook(url, html):
    return html

And that's it!

As of writing this article, there are only scripts for Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, HackerNews and nixers.net, but I hope that more will follow.

If you find this interesting and would like to help or just suggest a webpage, feel free to fire-up an issue or PR on github!

Note: The latest elinks package in Debian is missing the Python support. You might have to build it with python support manually, if that's the case for your distribution as well.