User:The Transhumanist/StripSearchInWikicode.js

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// <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">

/* StripSearchInWikicode.js: strips search results down to bare pagenames, and formats each item in wikicode as a bullet list item for easy copying/pasting into list articles. For vector skin only.

This script is partially operational, as it could be improved by the removal of resultant blank lines.

Brief comments are provided within the sourcecode below. For extensive explanatory 
notes on what the source code does and how it works, see the Script's workshop on 
the talk page.

*/

// ============== Set up ==============

// Start off with a bodyguard function to reserve the aliases mw and $
( function ( mw, $ ) {

    // we can now rely on mw and $ within the safety of our “bodyguard” function, to mean 
    // "mediawiki" and "jQuery", respectively

    // ============== ready() event listener/handler ==============
    // below is jQuery short-hand for $(document).ready(function() { ... });
    // it makes the rest of the script wait until the page's DOM is loaded and ready
    $(function() {
        
		// ============== activation filters ==============
        // Only activate on Vector skin
        if ( mw.config.get( 'skin' ) === 'vector' ) {

	        // Run this script only if " - Search results - Wikipedia" is in the page title
			if (document.title.indexOf(" - Search results - Wikipedia") != -1) {

				// End of set up
			
        	    // =================== Prep work =====================
				
				// Variable declarations, etc., go here

            	// ================= Core program ================= 

                $( function() {

					// Strip out redirected entries
					//$(".mw-search-result-heading").has(".searchalttitle").remove();
					$("li").has(".searchalttitle").remove();

					// Strip out linefeeds
					var str = $(".mw-search-results").html();
					var regex = /\n/g;
					$(".mw-search-results").html(str.replace(regex, ""));

					// Development note: Sort the search results (sort the array)
					// var x = document.getElementsByClassName("mw-search-result-heading");
					// x.sort(); // causes script to not run
					// $(".mw-search-result-heading").sort(); // doesn't seem to do anything

					// Add wiki formatting (bullets and square brackets) to the first child of each mw-search-result-heading, 
					//which happens to be an anchor (<a>) with the page title of that search result
					$(".mw-search-result-heading").children(':first-child').before('* [[').after(']]');

				    // hide elements by class per http://api.jquery.com/hide
                    $( ".searchalttitle" ).hide();
                    $( ".searchresult" ).hide();
                    $( ".mw-search-result-data" ).hide();

					// Hide interwiki results (per http://api.jquery.com/hide)
					$('#mw-interwiki-results').hide();

					/*
					// Inspect the raw text, so you can look for \n linefeeds
					$(".mw-search-results").each(function(index) {
    					let mwsr_text = JSON.stringify($(this).text());
    					alert(mwsr_text);
					});
					*/
                } );
            }
        }
    } );
}( mediaWiki, jQuery ) );