HACKER Q&A
📣 petargyurov

Any extension or script that lets you tag HN users?


There are lots of interesting people on HN. Is there a browser extension or script (TamperMonkey?) that lets you create a tag for particular user that is rendered next to their name each time it occurs on the page? I believe Reddit had/has this feature but I haven't used it in a long time so I don't know.

Doesn't have to be fancy, just something that works. Can save data in localStorage.

EDIT: I use Firefox.

  👤 nness Accepted Answer ✓
I haven't come across any, but its a good feature to have (and a fun coding challenge) so I put together this Tampermonkey script:

https://github.com/lachlanmcdonald/hackernews-user-tags

(not thoroughly tested, so use at your own peril. HN runs in quirks mode and there is some nasty global namespaced JS. If you have any issues, do let me know)

👤 brudgers 

  // ==UserScript==
    // @name     HN brudgers
    // @match  https://news.ycombinator.com/*
    // ==/UserScript==
    for (let link of document.querySelectorAll('.hnuser')) {
      if (link.innerText == 'brudgers' ) {
        link.style.color = 'blue';
      }
    }
Worth noting that this type of script is fragile.

Whenever HN changes it's HTML, CSS, Javascript, or code-generating code, it might stop working.

👤 rozenmd
F5bot scrapes HN for certain strings, you could set it up to look for your username (you get emailed when it sees new occurrences)