Question

I’ve been playing around with a site, in which I want to continue clicking a button for i amount of times every interval seconds.

My code is:

clickbidBtn1 = function() {
    var bidBtn=document.getElementById("BidButton");

    var interval = 15000;
    for (var i=3; i>=0; i--){
    setTimeout(bidBtn.click(1);,i*interval);
};

I’ve found out that GM executes all i amount of clicks at the same time, not with the intended delay. is there a way to delay the time of click? Say i wanted the function to click the button every 15 second for i amount of times.

I was thinking of giving it some more variables, and adding one variable in the settimeout code part, which only executes @ the click, then comparing increased variables with current ones before going to the next settimeout… but haven’t thought it through yet… it seems to be a complicated process for a simple process… 🙁 i wll play around with it a bit

Answer 1

Use setInterval() for this.

One way:

var bidClickTimer       = 0;
var numBidClicks        = 0;

function clickbidBtn1 ()
{
    var interval        = 15000;
    bidClickTimer       = setInterval (function() {BidClick (); }, interval);
}

function BidClick ()
{
    numBidClicks++;
    if (numBidClicks > 3)
    {
        clearInterval (bidClickTimer);
        bidClickTimer   = "";
    }
    else
    {
        bidBtn.click (1);
    }
}

clickbidBtn1 ();

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Alternatively, without using global vars:

function clickbidBtn1 ()
{
    var interval            = 15000;
    this.numBidClicks       = 0;
    this.bidClickTimer      = 0;
    this.BidClick           = function () {
                                numBidClicks++;
                                if (numBidClicks > 3)
                                {
                                    clearInterval (bidClickTimer);
                                    bidClickTimer   = "";
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    bidBtn.click (1);
                                }
                            };
    this.bidClickTimer      = setInterval (function(thisScope) {thisScope.BidClick (); }, interval, this);
}

clickbidBtn1 ();