Question

I am trying to append a small autofreshing javascript to a page that already has jQuery.

I don’t have control of the site, so I can’t add a simple script to the HTML that would appear after each refresh.

I have to run the script in the console otherwise the page will only refresh once.

Here’s what I’m trying:

var x = function(){
  // reload the page
  jQuery('html').load(window.location.href);

  // recurse every 5 seconds
  setTimeout(x, 5000);
};

// init
x();

This is generating an appendChild error. I’m guessing I’m just going about this a bit wrong.

Answer 1

Despite the lack of belief that this is possible, this solution, while not perfect, is certainly working quite well

(function x(){
  jQuery('html').html('<iframe width="100%" height="' + $(window).height() + 'px" src="' + window.location.href + '"></iframe>');

  setTimeout(x, 5000);
})();