This script redirects user-specified URLs to new ones, by replacing part of the URL.
NOTE: this script does NOT work in ViolentMonkey (as the extension does not provide access to user-overridden matches/includes, which this script requires).
How to Use
- Install with your extension of choice (Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey, etc.)
- In the script settings, add the sites you want to affect to either the user includes or user matches.
- Navigate to one of your included/matched sites - this script should be active, and you should see a Configure redirect settings option. If not, something is wrong with your user includes/matches.
- Click the Configure redirect settings option to show the config pane. See the Settings section below for how to use it.
- After saving your settings, redirection should be active - navigate to a matching page to test it.
Settings
This script works by replacing pieces of the URL. Its replacement settings live in your extension's toolbar menu (when you're on a page where the script is active).
For example, in Tampermonkey:
Simple
Each line in the Targets field will be replaced by the same line in the Replacements field.
For example, consider these settings:
| Targets |
Replacements |
| In |
Out |
| Up |
Down |
With these settings, we would redirect as follows:
Advanced
A URL-wide find/replace can be too much - it's very easy to replace something you don't want.
For example, say you want to redirect from company.com/phone to company.com/call. You might use these settings:
| Targets |
Replacements |
| action |
do |
| phone |
call |
That mostly works, but there's an issue:
| Page |
Redirects To |
Notes |
| company.com/phone |
company.com/call |
|
| company.com/action/getinfo |
company.com/do/getinfo |
|
| company.com/action/find-my-phone |
company.com/do/find-my-call |
<-- We didn't want to replace phone here! |
Option 1: Make targets more specific
One way to get around this is add more text to the start and/or end of the targets (and since we want to keep that text, also add it to their replacements).
For example, we might add company.com/ to the start to make sure we only replace our desired bit:
| Targets |
Replacements |
| company.com/action |
company.com/do |
| company.com/phone |
company.com/call |
This works fine, but it's clunky when we're adding the same text to the start/end of every target and replacement.
Option 2: Prefix/Suffix options
If you're always adding the same text to the start/end of your targets (and replacements), you can instead use the Prefix and Suffix options.
Any text in these fields is added to the start/end of every target and replacement, so you don't have to add it manually.
So for our example above, we could instead use:
Prefix = company.com/
| Targets |
Replacements |
| action |
do |
| phone |
call |
Changelog
- 1.0 (5/11/20)
- 1.1 (3/17/21)
- Make URL matching case-insensitive
- 2.0 (5/29/25): Major rewrite!
- Added a proper settings page using GM_Config:
- No more messing around with JSON in extension/script storage!
- The settings page can be launched from any included/matched site - look for the "Configure redirect settings" option under your extension (Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey, etc.) menu.
- Added support for different settings per site (previously all sites used the same settings).
Source: GitHub. Please direct all issues/questions there.
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