grunt-userscript-meta

Generate the userscript metadata-block with package.json

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-userscript-meta --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-userscript-meta');

The "userscript-meta" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named userscript-meta to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig(). This plugins reads the information from the package.json where more can be added in a userscript object. The pkg object and a destination is required.

grunt.initConfig({
  pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'), //global pkg
  'userscript-meta': {
    your_target: {
      options:{
        pkg:  grunt.file.readJSON('other_package.json') //overwrites the global pkg
      }
      dest: 'src/userscript.meta.js'
    },
  },
});

Options

options.pkg

Type: Object Default value: The global pkg object.

The global pkg object can be overwritten for each task.

Package.json examples

Basic example

{
  "name": "Test Userscript",
  "description": "Testing the grunt-userscript-meta module",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Zod-/grunt-userscript-meta",
  "author": {
    "name": "Julian Hangstörfer",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "userscript":{
    "namespace": "https://github.com/Zod-"
  }
}

//Produces

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Test Userscript
// @namespace    https://github.com/Zod-
// @description  Testing the grunt-userscript-meta module
// @version      0.1.0
// @author       Julian Hangstörfer
// @source       https://github.com/Zod-/grunt-userscript-meta
// @license      MIT
// ==/UserScript==

pkg.userscript.name

The name for the userscript will be taken from pkg.name but localization can be added via pkg.userscript.name.

{
  "name": 'userscript name',
  //...
  "userscript": {
    "name": {
      "fr": "french userscript name",
      "de": "german userscript name"
    }
  }
}

//Produces

// ==UserScript==
// ...
// @name     userscript name
// @name:fr  french userscript name
// @name:de  german userscript name
// ...
// ==/UserScript==

pkg.userscript.description

The same can be done for the description.

{
  "description": 'description',
  //...
  "userscript": {
    "description": {
      "fr": "french description",
      "de": "german description"
    }
  }
}

//Produces

// ==UserScript==
// ...
// @description     description
// @description:fr  french description
// @description:de  german description
// ...
// ==/UserScript==

pkg.userscript.resource

Resources can be added via pkg.userscript.resource

{
  //...
  "userscript": {
    "resource": [{
      "name": "resName1",
      "url": "resUrl1"
    }, {
      "name": "resName2",
      "url": "resUrl2"
    }]
  }
}

//Produces

// ==UserScript==
// ...
// @resource     resName1 resUrl1
// @resource     resName2 resUrl2
// ...
// ==/UserScript==

pkg.userscript.require

This plugin can generate require urls for the specific userscript hosts (only greasyfork for now).

{
  //...
  "userscript": {
    "require": {
      "greasyfork": [{
        "id": "1-greasemonkey-test-style"
      }, {
        "id": "42-disable-modal-dialogs-for-automation",
        "version": "12584"
      }]
    }
  }
}

//Produces

// ==UserScript==
// ...
// @require      https://greasyfork.org/scripts/1-greasemonkey-test-style/code/code.js
// @require      https://greasyfork.org/scripts/42-disable-modal-dialogs-for-automation/code/code.js?version=12584
// ...
// ==/UserScript==

pkg.userscript.other

Every other metakey can be added via the other object which can be either a single value or an array.

"userscript": {
  "other": {
    "include": ["url1", "url2"],
    "grant": ["GM_setValue", "GM_getValue"],
    "run-at": "document-start",
    "require": ["url3", "url4"]
  }
}

//Produces

// ==UserScript==
// ...
// @include      url1
// @include      url2
// @grant        GM_setValue
// @grant        GM_getValue
// @run-at       document-start
// @require      url3
// @require      url4
// ...
// ==/UserScript==

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

0.1.0

Added functionality