Is the chrome extension's source available anywhere?

There's no reason to have WEBrick listen on all IP addresses. As-is, any JS containing sensitive information could be exposed. While keeping credentials in the JS isn't a great practice, it's one thing for a user to store it in their home directory, and another to potentially have it exposed to anyone on the same network.

http://defunkt.io/dotjs/ is throwing up a 404.

Because of this change on Chrome, it now only allows extensions to be installed from the Chrome Web Store.

This way dotjs can work with websites that over-ride $.

It's works fine on most sites, but it prevents the "responsive zoom" from working, like Rasmus' http://rsms.me
Hope you can fix this, thanks.

For instance, on GitHub, I get the lock-with-warning-sign in the address bar. In the console, I see:

The page at https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs/issues/new displayed insecure content from http://localhost:3131/github.com.js.

And, of course, it doesn't matter if I have a github.com.js, because it still has to try to load it to find out.

I'd be surprised if this isn't a known issue, but I couldn't find an issue about it.

There shouldn't be a better way of updating process for updating the dots daemon? For what I know the procedure is: git pull, then uninstall it and install it again... wouldn't it be better to have an 'atomic' process like a rake task, or perform the whole installing/updating process via homebrew (don't know if this is possible because of permissions and stuff)?

Running rake without sudo:

~/code/dotjs: rake install
(in /Users/morgan/code/dotjs)
dotjs
-----
I will install:

1. djsd(1) in /usr/local/bin
2. com.github.dotjs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Ok? (y/n) y
cp -p bin/djsd /usr/local/bin
chmod 644 /Users/morgan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
starting djdb...
launchctl load -w /Users/morgan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
Could not open job overrides database at: /private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist: 13: Permission denied
launch_msg(): Socket is not connected

IMPORTANT! Drag builds/dotjs.crx to Google Chrome.
Chrome won't let me install it for you :(

dotjs installation failed
check console.app or open an issue

Running rake with sudo:

~/code/dotjs: sudo rake install
(in /Users/morgan/code/dotjs)
dotjs
-----
I will install:

1. djsd(1) in /usr/local/bin
2. com.github.dotjs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Ok? (y/n) y
cp -p bin/djsd /usr/local/bin
chmod 644 /Users/morgan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
starting djdb...
launchctl load -w /Users/morgan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
launchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping): /Users/morgan/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
nothing found to load
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [launchctl load -w /Users/morgan/Library/La...]
/Users/morgan/code/dotjs/Rakefile:54
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I am using Terminal.app on a fresh install of Mountain Lion and I am not logged in remotely.

If people are constantly adding keyboard shortcuts, it'd be nice to provide a helper.

Hey there. I'm running on:

OS X 10.7
latest Chrome 18.0.1025.142
Ruby 1.8.7

I cloned dotjs into ~/src
I ran rake install

~/src/dotjs: rake install
dotjs
-----
I will install:

1. The 'dotjs' Google Chrome Extension
2. djsd(1) in /usr/local/bin
3. com.github.dotjs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Ok? (y/n) y
Installing Google Chrome extension...
open -a 'Google Chrome' builds/dotjs.crx &
cp -p bin/djsd /usr/local/bin
cp com.github.dotjs.plist /Users/msutherl/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
starting djdb...
launchctl load -w /Users/msutherl/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
dotjs installation worked
drop files like google.com.js in ~/.js and enjoy hacking the web

In ~/.js I have a file called: github.com.js. Its contents are:

~: cat ~/.js/github.com.js 
$('#header .logo img')
        .css('width', '100px')
        .css('margin-top', '-15px')
        .attr('src', '//bit.ly/ghD24e')

And it doesn't work. Console.log shows the server is running with no errors. Nothing shows up in the Chrome console.

My hunch is that the extension is not installed. When I look in the Chrome extensions page, there's no mention of dotjs.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I've tried manually double-clicking on the extension file. When I do so, "open -a Chrome" appears to work, but the extension is not installed to my knowledge.

Any idea why this might be happening?

Any reason not to use jQuery 1.7.latest? What's the project's plan for keeping up with jQuery releases?

~/Library/LaunchAgents/ is not existing in non-MacOs. Can I change the path to somewhere else?

My .js isn't getting executed and I found this in the log:

no dotjs server found at localhost:3131

I guess the tiny webserver isn't getting started, I tried rebooting and shutting down other webservers and any other crazy proxy shit like Charles, just to make sure the port wasn't already being listened on.. Also checked netstat and I couldn't see anything using :3131.

I feel like a dummy but I'm out of ideas, any thoughts on how to resolve this?

Maybe not related, but I got this same origin policy notice as well, just above the "no dotjs server" line:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:3131/github.com.js. Origin https://github.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

jQuery (i.6.?) is pretty old, and there's a lot of updated/better functionality in newer versions.

I installed it, then made a directory in my home folder called .js like: ~/.js and then added your sample github.com.js file and code but nothing is happening. Also tried a google.com.js file and still nothing.

I asked around on Twitter and Google+ and some others had this exact same issue. Here's a snap:

I really want to start hacking on this, but I have no idea what to do. The install seemed to have gone perfectly:

Cloning into dotjs...
remote: Counting objects: 236, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (110/110), done.
remote: Total 236 (delta 119), reused 210 (delta 99)
Receiving objects: 100% (236/236), 344.72 KiB | 56 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (119/119), done.
Oscar-Godsons-Mac-mini:Dropbox oscargodson$ cd dotjs/
Oscar-Godsons-Mac-mini:dotjs oscargodson$ rake install
(in /Users/oscargodson/Dropbox/dotjs)
dotjs
-----
I will install:

1. The 'dotjs' Google Chrome Extension
2. djsd(1) in /usr/local/bin
3. com.github.dotjs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Ok? (y/n) y
Error: Can't write to /usr/local/bin. Try again using `sudo`.
Oscar-Godsons-Mac-mini:dotjs oscargodson$ sudo rake install
Password:
(in /Users/oscargodson/Dropbox/dotjs)
dotjs
-----
I will install:

1. The 'dotjs' Google Chrome Extension
2. djsd(1) in /usr/local/bin
3. com.github.dotjs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Ok? (y/n) y
cp -p bin/djsd /usr/local/bin
chmod 644 /Users/oscargodson/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
starting djdb...
Installing Google Chrome extension...
dotjs installation worked
drop files like google.com.js in ~/.js and enjoy hacking the web

Lastly the Chrome extension seems to be there:

Any ideas? I'm getting antsy to hack on Google+ and their redesign

I tried unsuccessfully installing the extension via the Chrome Web Store and manually. A co-worker installed it without issue on Chrome 24.

Store Install:

Manual Install:

What about creating an official online directory for scripts?

And maybe dotjs command to manage them?

You need to be root to write to /usr/local/bin/, so rake install needs to be executed as root. But the installation process also creates ~/.js/ if it doesn't exist, therefore the dir will be owned by root and the normal user can't write to it unless he uses sudo or (sudo+) chown.

Could you provide the same functionality, but for .css files? (in ~/.css).

I'd like this feature, primarily because it's safer to include unknown CSS files than JS, and it's hard to add additional styles solely in .js files.

I've been trying to mess around with Gmail using dotjs, since I'm trying to get rid of my greasemonkey and stylish scripts (cross-browser rocks!). However, it looks like the ~/.js scripts are loaded too early. So, the scripts don't work.

I think that this is because ~/.js scripts are loaded before the Gmail javascripts finish changing some things dynamically. Also, in the Chrome extension, it says something about loading the content script at document_start. Looking at this, should it be document_end, or is dotjs not the right option for what I'm doing? What do you think?

Stylish works, in this case.

not cool

Looks like it can't finde HOME. None of my scripts seem to work, it displays the error in the title when access the server directly in the browser.

Due to Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, any site may fetch any user script that exists on the user's system. A malicious site may try many domains to scrape as many user scripts as possible. Besides, site-specific scripts, they'll always be able to get the contents of default.js, which likely isn't as important as securing the site-specific user scripts.

For example, if I create a ~/.js/example.com.js file and then go to any site and do an XHR request from the command line to http://localhost:3131/example.com.js, I will be able to get the response with the default.js appended with whatever I put in example.com.js

Might a solution be for the WEBrick server to check the Referer header and verify that the request is authorized? Alternatively, there could be a secret key that the Chrome extension sends along with the request which must be validated by WEBrick.

Chrome 18.0.1010.0 dev, as of writing on OSX 10.7, using git master.

jQuery fails to load now, preventing dotjs from ever succeeding in doing anything.

These errors show up in the js console on every page load:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'firstChild' of null        chrome-extension://bddflceddabhdabcnlilghjgcfenejpa/jquery.js:16
Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined                            chrome-extension://bddflceddabhdabcnlilghjgcfenejpa/dotjs.js:1

Any thoughts on what might be the problem?

Just use filesystem API:
http://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystem.html

If the user installs Google Chrome.app in ~/Applications rather than /Applications, rake install will fail on the open command.

I have the following situation:

I want to do a redirect after the change of a select input, but window.location doesn't work.

I have something like this

$("select").change(function(){
  window.location = "http://google.com"
});

Is there a reason for this?

Thanks for the feedback

... just sayin' :)

All is well when I "Proceed Anyway" -- until I restart Chrome. Then the warning comes back.

Got errors when trying to install:

edge/dotjs[master]% rake install
(in /Users/josh/code/edge/dotjs)
dotjs
-----
I will install:

1. The 'dotjs' Google Chrome Extension
2. djsd(1) in /usr/local/bin
3. com.github.dotjs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Ok? (y/n) y
Installing Google Chrome extension...
open -a 'Google Chrome' builds/dotjs.crx &
cp bin/djsd /usr/local/bin
cp com.github.dotjs.plist /Users/josh/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
starting djdb...
launchctl load -w /Users/josh/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
dotjs installation failed
check console.app or open an issue

And here is the console.app output:

https://img.skitch.com/20110219-t6yb5qey2g9ttrntw7dnd2ij25.jpg

I can't access objects declared in the page.

Last week I upgraded from v11. to 13.0.782.112. Ever since then dotjs has stopped working. I looked into it and the issue seems to be caused by Chrome no longer sending Origin headers inside of extensions.

Has anyone else noticed this happening or is it just me?

I don't really know what the problem is and if it can be fixed, but I tried to add a js file for Facebook and it did an error in the console log before loading successfully the file (twice though, I don't know if it's normal, I just installed dotjs for the first time)

Console error:

Refused to connect to 'https://localhost:3131/facebook.com.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "connect-src https://.facebook.com http://.facebook.com https://.fbcdn.net http://.fbcdn.net .facebook.net *.spotilocal.com: https://.akamaihd.net ws://.facebook.com:* http://*.akamaihd.net".

I get the following output when attempting rake install:

rake install
(in /Users/max/Documents/Workspace/scratch/dotjs)
dotjs
-----
I will install:

1. The 'dotjs' Google Chrome Extension
2. djsd(1) in /usr/local/bin
3. com.github.dotjs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Ok? (y/n) y
Installing Google Chrome extension...
open -a 'Google Chrome' builds/dotjs.crx &
cp -p bin/djsd /usr/local/bin
cp com.github.dotjs.plist /Users/max/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
chmod 644 /Users/max/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
starting djdb...
launchctl load -w /Users/max/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.dotjs.plist
Bug: launchctl.c:2325 (23930):13: (dbfd = open(g_job_overrides_db_path, O_RDONLY | O_EXLOCK | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR)) != -1
launch_msg(): Socket is not connected
dotjs installation failed
check console.app or open an issue

If I run ls -l /usr/local/bin/djsd I get the following output:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max staff 918 Apr 29 11:52 /usr/local/bin/djsd

But running launchctl list | grep github gives no results.

Any news on support for this extension on windows?

Right now I'd like it to work on domain and all of it's sub domains - examples:

foo.domain.com
bar.domain.com

It seems as if I need to have two seperate js files:

foo.domain.com.js
bar.domain.com.js

It would be cool if there were wildcard support where all subdomains were included by default by having a file: domain.com.js and then if you want target sub domains only you would have foo.domain.com.js

Though I suppose this could be achieved by looking for regex's in the url using javascript...

upgrade

I got a 500 error while using the install instructions from http://chriswanstrath.com/dotjs/. Simply changing the url from http://github.com/defunkt/dotjs to https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs.git did the trick.

I wrote a userscript so a friend could use dotjs in his Fluid SSBs.

https://github.com/sj26/dotjs-fluid

<3 ~/.js!

So I've been using dotjs for a while now and I love the concept of it and how it works. Having said that, I'm on the fence about it auto including jQuery. I write a lot of my code without jQuery, and am more than ok with loading it myself if it is needed.

It seems like an unnecessary extra resource to load in some cases (which sometimes may cause a slight delay in my dotjs script in executing).

Also what happens if a website is already using jQuery... does that mean it's loading it twice - and if it is, is it being overwritten with the old version of jQuery (1.6.2 last I checked) that dotjs loads?

I just got a new mac with retina display, downloaded the latest chrome, and I was trying to install dotjs, but chrome gives me the message "Extensions, apps, and user scripts can only be added from the Chrome Web Store." When I click on "Learn more" it takes me to this site: http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664769&p=crx_warning
apparently they did this for security reasons to prevent installations from other sites, but it doesn't say anything about installing from your own computer. Is this something we can work around? Or does the new chrome kill dotjs?

Any interest in this? If so I'd be happy to hack on it a bit.

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT #MREG RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE
64589 top 5.6 00:00.37 1/1 0 24 33 936K 264K 1516K
0- kernel_task 1.6 02:26:40 67/2 0 2 1006 17M 0B 257M
64583 ruby 1.3 00:00.26 2/1 0 20 60 4892K 244K 5936K
217 mongod 1.2 28:46.78 8 0 41 48 1468K 244K 3468K

Perhaps switching to another server would be better?

I tried to upgrade from dotjs 1.5 to 1.6 today, and to my dismay:

Extensions, apps, and user scripts can only be added from the Chrome Web Store" - http://cl.ly/image/3Z2v3g2K2W3x

My short-term solution was to unpack the extension:

git clone http://github.com/defunkt/dotjs
cd dotjs
rake install
# (prompt)
cd builds
cp dotjs.crx dotjs.zip
unzip dotjs.zip
# (load unpacked extension in chrome)

?

I found myself putting all of the behaviors needing to be applied globally into the one default.js. This caused the file to get quite messy; same goes for sites that I have multiple independent user scripts that I want to get applied. I would prefer to be able to stick traditional *.user.js files into my ~/.js directory and have their @include/@match metadata checked against the requested domain to determine whether they get concatenated in the response.

In addition to passing the domain to the local web server, perhaps the entire URL should then be passed so that user scripts can match more granularly at the path level, not just by domain.

I have no idea why, but it appears each script for the associated site is being run twice for me.

[~] cat ~/.js/github.com.js 
console.debug("Loaded ~/.js/github.com.js");

// From README
$('#header .logo img')
  .css('width', '100px')
  .css('margin-top', '-15px')
  .attr('src', '//bit.ly/ghD24e')

[~] ps aux | grep djsd
tsigo      441   0.3  0.2  2506740  10040   ??  S     4:01AM   0:00.75 ruby /usr/local/bin/djsd
tsigo      515   0.0  0.0  2425712    280 s000  R+    4:07AM   0:00.00 grep djsd

And the extension is only installed once.

When I load a github.com page, I see the message twice in my console output. I'm using Chrome and the latest version of the code in your repository.

I had an idea that it was probably a bad interaction with some other extension, but I just disabled every extension except dotjs and the problem persists.

Uninstall/reinstall didn't work either.