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Asked: 2026-05-23T06:19:33+00:00

JScript does my head in most days, but poorly designed sites do it even

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JScript does my head in most days, but poorly designed sites do it even more. Foursquare’s is one such example in respect of its superusers.

Desired Outcome

A greasemonkey script that will look through each occurrence of the DIV class searchResult, and after the DIV class name append two new A HREF elements similar to these:

<a href="/venue/venueid/edit">Manage venue</a> <a href="/edit_venue?vid=venueid">Edit venue</a>

Scenairo

I would like to make the life of their superusers a little easier using Greasemonkey. The intent is to modify a specific page on the site (https://foursquare.com/search), and add a number of extra links to jump directly to specific pages for a venue that would make the workflow faster.

I’ve looked around for examples of how to do this (learn through reverse engineering), but I get stuck on if I should be using RegEx or something else.

Example

On the search results page (https://foursquare.com/search?q=dump&near=Perth%2C+Australia), there is a list of venues returned. The code for each venue returned on the search results looks exactly like this:

<div class="searchResult">
            <div class="icon"><img src="https://4sqstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/img/categories/parks_outdoors/default-29db364ef4ee480073b12481a294b128.png" class="thumb" /></div>
            <div class="info">
              <div class="name"><a href="/venue/4884313">Staff Smoking Spot / Dumpster Dock</a></div>
              <div class="address"><span class="adr"></span></div>

              <div class="specialoffer"></div>

            </div>

            <div class="extra">
              <div class="extra-tip"><div><a href="/venue/4884313">0 tips</a></div></div>
              <div class="extra-checkins"><div>10 check-ins</div></div>
            </div>
          </div>

Work so far

Looking around for answers, this is what I have come up with (below). Needless to say, it isn’t detecting where it needs to insert the A HREF elements at all, and doesn’t loop through all of the searchResult elements output on the page, let alone construct the link correctly.

// First version
var elmNewContent = document.createElement('a');
elmNewContent.href = sCurrentHost;
elmNewContent.target = "_blank";
elmNewContent.appendChild(document.createTextNode('edit venue'));
var elmName = document.getElementById('name');
elmName.parentNode.insertBefore(elmNewContent, elmName.nextSibling);
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  1. Editorial Team

    This is pretty simple using jQuery.
    Here’s the whole script, since it was a 5-minute job…

    // ==UserScript==
// @name     _Square away foursquare
// @include  http://foursquare.com/*
// @include  https://foursquare.com/*
// @require  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js
// @grant    GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

var SearchRezLinks  = $("div.searchResult div.name > a");

/*--- Link is like: <a href="/venue/6868983">Dumpling King</a>
    where 6868983 is venue ID.

    Want to add: <a href="/venue/venueid/edit">Manage venue</a>
    <a href="/edit_venue?vid=venueid">Edit venue</a>
*/
SearchRezLinks.each ( function () {

    var jThis       = $(this);
    var venueID     = jThis.attr ('href').replace (/\D+(\d+)$/, '$1');
    jThis.parent ().append ('<a href="/venue/' + venueID + '/edit">Manage venue</a>');
    jThis.parent ().append ('<a href="/edit_venue?vid=' + venueID + '">Edit venue</a>');
} );

GM_addStyle ( "                                 \
    div.searchResult div.name > a + a {         \
        font-size:      0.7em;                  \
        margin-left:    2em;                    \
    }                                           \
" );
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