Gesturefy: Feature Request - Copy Link Text

[mortyobnoxious]

Just like "Copy Link URL", "Copy Link Text" would be great if it's possible.

[Itchiii]

I'm not sure if I understand you right. You want to copy a text that is marked as a link?

For Example THIS TEXT ?

[mortyobnoxious]

yes, that is correct:

<a href="https://example.com">Link Text</a>

I want to copy "Link Text". Firefox doesn't have this by default. That would be nice if it's implemented..

[xuecci]

is this feature added? @Itchiii it will be helpful thanks

[mortyobnoxious]

@xuecci Hi, i added this as userscript and it's working. It copies link text on links, it copies page title if mouse is not on a link or gesture didn't start on a link.

function copyfunc(data) {
let input = document.createElement("textarea");
      document.body.append(input);
      input.value = data;
      input.select();
      document.execCommand('Copy');
      document.body.removeChild(input);
}
let node = TARGET;
    while (node !== null && !node.href) {
    node = node.parentElement;
  }
  if (node) {
  copyfunc(node.text.trim());
  } else {
  copyfunc(document.title.trim());
}

[Robbendebiene]

@mortyobnoxious Interesting, in theory this should not work :D
Note: Currently user scripts still suffer from an issue, where the content policy of websites like Github can block their execution. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267027)

Since the clipboard API is somehow working you can also use the following approach like this.

let node = TARGET;
while (node !== null && !node.href) {
  node = node.parentElement;
}
if (node) {
navigator.clipboard.writeText(node.text.trim());
} else {
navigator.clipboard.writeText(document.title.trim());
}

[mortyobnoxious]

Thank you, this is nicer :D

Yes it doesn't work on Github and Twitter, apparently because of the CSP.

[Robbendebiene]

As you were! Your approach is better since mine does not work on http websites (also called insecure contexts).

[mortyobnoxious]

@Robbendebiene Hi, this is unrelated to the topic.

let node = TARGET;
while (node !== null && !node.href) {
  node = node.parentElement;
}

if (node) {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(decodeURIComponent(node.href));
}
else if (TARGET.tagName === 'IMG') {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(decodeURIComponent(TARGET.src));
}
else {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(window.location);
}

I have this userscript to copy _link url_, _img src url_, _location url_.

Is there a way to show my "labels/command name" with this:

For example inside my userscript, instead of using alert('image url copied'), can i use extension's way of showing commands/labels when gesture is applied like this:

[Robbendebiene]

Currently not, you can only assign one label to your gesture at the moment.
You can display a message yourself (like you already did with alert, but alert is probably quite annoying). With some html and css you could create your own less annoying message.

[mortyobnoxious]

@Robbendebiene Thank you, good idea. So i made this and it works.

function alertthis (alerttext){
    let removefirst = document.getElementById("removethis");
    if (document.body.contains(removefirst)) {removefirst.remove();}
    let elem = document.createElement('div');
    elem.style.cssText = 'z-index:99999!important;position: fixed!important;top: 50%!important;left: 50%!important;transform: translate(-50%, -50%)!important;background-color: #11131a!important;color:#8798A5!important;padding: 5px 10px !important;font-family: Trebuchet MS !important;font-size: 13px !important;'
    elem.setAttribute("id", "removethis");
    elem.innerHTML = alerttext;
    document.body.appendChild(elem);
    setTimeout(function(){ elem.remove(); }, 1500);
}

let node = TARGET;
while (node !== null && !node.href) {
    node = node.parentElement;
}
if (node) {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(decodeURIComponent(node.href));
    alertthis("URL Copied");
}  else if (TARGET.tagName === 'IMG') {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(decodeURIComponent(TARGET.src));
    alertthis("IMG URL Copied");
} else {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(window.location);
    alertthis("Page URL Copied");
}

I'm using this "alertthis" function with two more gestures. Instead of copying and pasting it in every userscript gesures, is there a way to use it once with all userscripts?

[Robbendebiene]

Nice script, but there is no way to share this function without using a user script add-on like Greasemonkey.