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Instructions for installing a Tampermonkey userscript from a URL

Instructions for installing a Tampermonkey userscript from a URL

Step 1: Install Tampermonkey

Tampermonkey is a browser extension that lets you run userscripts, which are small programs that can customize websites by adding features or modifying existing ones.

https://www.tampermonkey.net/

select the tab for your browser follow the provided instructions

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Step 2: Find The Tampermonkey Logo On Your Browser Extension Bar

On the extensions bar of your browser, be sure that the Tampermonkey logo is pinned there, this will allow you to see when Tampermonkey has matched a site to modify by showing a red square with a number in it for each script active on the site.



Step 3: Open Dashboard

Click the Tampermonkey logo and choose "Dashboard".


Step 4: Open Utilities

Find the tabs to the right inside the Dashboard, click the tab labeled "Utilities".

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Step 5: Add Script URL

At the bottom of Utilities find "Import from URL" and Copy / Paste the URL.

Find the link in the reference documentation.

After adding the URL, click the [Install] button

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On the page that it switched to it will have another [Install] button, click it to finalize the install of the script.

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Step 6: Confirm Installation

Find and click the Installed Userscripts tab at the top of Tampermonkey

You should see the script in the list and the toggle under the Enabled column should be Green if it is enabled.

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Now go to the page and or if you already have it open in a tab refresh the tab with F5.

Congrats! You now have now installed a Tampermonkey script.

Enjoy :)






















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