Updated: "Easier Subscribe" script for remote instance communities.

Hey all,

Here is a amateur script that will add a “easy subscribe” button to the community subscription box that will automatically link you back to you home instance’s search page, ready to click into the sub from your instance and subscribe. It should make your adding remote communities “slightly” easier than the manual method. You will need a Javascript Injector addon for your browser. I am using “JS Injector” for firefox. Make sure to get an addon that supports allowing the script to run on all sites. This will only add the button on the communities main page (/c/ in the url). Make sure to change the homeInstance var to your home lemmy instance where your account is. Feel free to use, copy and make it better (and less amateur!).

You will have to refresh the community page once before the button appears. Something to do with the javascript injector addons not being able to run when lemmy’s “client.js” script runs forever (live updater script I beleive). However, once your on a /c/ and refresh once that script doesn’t run. UPDATE: FIXED!

Remote Community:

Enjoy, I hope it is of use. Remember never run a script that you don’t understand.


// Easier Subscribe Script 
/* EDIT YOUR HOME INSTANCE */
var homeInstance = "https://thesimplecorner.org";
/* ---------------------- */
/* Script */
var url = window.location.href;
var currentPage = url;
var broken = url.split('/c/');
var site = broken[0];
site = site.replace('https://', '');
var community = broken[1];
var subString = homeInstance + "/search/q/!" + community + "@" + site + "/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1";

function update(comm, page) {
  var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
      console.log("updating html xhr");
      document.querySelectorAll('[role="alert"]').forEach(function(el) {
        el.innerHTML += "<br /><br /><a href=" + subString + " target='_blank'><button>Easy Subscribe</button></a>";
      });
    }
  }
  xhttp.open("GET", this, true);
  xhttp.send(page);
}
//Browsing remote instance
setInterval(function() {
  url = window.location.href;
  if (currentPage != location.href) {
    broken = url.split('/c/');
    site = broken[0];
    site = site.replace('https://', '');
    community = broken[1];
    subString = homeInstance + "/search/q/!" + community + "@" + site + "/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1";
    // page has changed, set new page as 'current'
    console.log("Easy Sub Running...");
    if (document.querySelector('meta[name="Description"]').content.includes("Lemmy")) {
      console.log("On lemmy");
      if ((url.includes(homeInstance) == false) && (url.includes("/c/"))) {
        console.log("On remote instance community");
        update(community, url);
      }
    }
    currentPage = location.href;
  }
}, 500);
// Direct to community
if (document.querySelector('meta[name="Description"]').content.includes("Lemmy")) {
  console.log("On lemmy");
  if ((url.includes(homeInstance) == false) && (url.includes("/c/"))) {
    console.log("On remote instance community");
    update(community, url);
  }
}