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Q102: How to install new scripts to Tampermonkey?

A102 There are different ways to achieve this:

• Go to this page to learn about the different script sources. If you found a page then search for a script, open the script's page and click at the install button. ( video tutorial)

• Search GitHub Gist and Github for userscripts. Then click it at the "view raw" link. ( video tutorial)

• You can also search for scripts at your preferred search engine. Then search for a link that ends up on ".user.js" and click it

• If you have a URL to a script, just paste it to Chrome's Omnibox.

• In the Tampermonkey dashboard, click on the "Add a new script" button. This will open a new editor window where you can write or paste your userscript. Enter the code for your userscript in the editor window. Make sure to include the correct metadata at the top of the script, as this is required for Tampermonkey to recognize it. The metadata should include the @name, @match and @description fields, which specify the name of the script and the URL pattern that it should run on.

  Once you have entered your userscript code, click on the "Save" button to save it. Your userscript will now appear in the list of installed scripts in the Tampermonkey dashboard. ( video tutorial)

• Go to Chromes extensions page, enable the "Allow access to file URLs" checkbox at the Tampermonkey item, create a file with the file extensions ".user.js" and drag-and-drop it to Chrome.