Find Thousands of Greasemonkey Scripts at Userscripts.org

If you've rolled up your sleeves and started to dig into all of the tools, extensions, and add-ons for Firefox, you've probably come across Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is a tool that allows you to write and import custom scripts to personalize Websites, automate frequent tasks, and, in some cases, completely change the layout of different sites and Web services so they work better for you.

The trouble with Greasemonkey is that you either have to write your own scripts, or scour the Web for someone else's scripts and tools. Userscripts.org hosts and organizes Greasemonkey scripts by tag, site, and category for easy searching and retrieval.






Some of the sites that I visit on a regular basis host their own Greasemonkey scripts that give users a way to customize specific attributes of the site that the designers don't really want to change for everyone. One site provides scripts that will make a comment field larger or the default text bigger, or even reorganize the layout of the site entirely to add or remove elements like a sidebar or RSS feed. A lot of sites don't provide Greasemonkey scripts, and it's up to the users to create and share them.



At Userscripts.org, anyone can upload and download over 8000 Greasemonkey scripts that customize and provide a number of tweaks and enhancements to thousands of popular Websites and services, from Gmail to Amazon.

All of the scripts uploaded by their creators (or the people who found them around the Web) are tagged with the site or service that they modify and can be updated by the script owner. Other users can comment on the scripts and the script writer can add comments as they update and post new versions.



All of the scripts at Userscripts.org are easily searchable by name, tag, or user. There are over a thousand active members at Userscripts.org, adding comments and uploading new scripts every day. The service is completely free, and the archive of scripts is growing. If you're a script writer or Greasemonkey enthusiast, let Userscripts provide the development environment for your scripts. If you're a Greasemonkey user, check out the massive collection of scripts available.