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Reaching and Pulling Environment Variables in TamperMonkey

Currently my Office is running a AHK script to pull environment variables. These Env Variables are then used as a specific outputted data when closing tickets as my Office has a ticket closing environment. This works for the time being however I am looking into automating this process and starting off just trying to auto close the tickets when a specific key is pressed. I have been able to perform this task but I have to basically have static variables in the TamperMonkey script for each user. Everyone using this ticket site has the specific environment variables already due to the AHK script and want to try and implement this into the Tampermonkey script without having to change the site completely.
I have locally hosted the site and used Node to do this and I am successful in doing this but it does not work on the Tampermonkey route. I have been using process.env.ENV_VARIABLE on the node side but I am trying to refrain from completely implementing this on the site itself. I have added some basic variable examples in a Autohotkey Script already being used.
GetGreeting() {
global greeting
return greeting
}
GetSalutation() {
global salutation
return salutation
}
GetUserName() {
Envget, e_Ticketname, Ticketuser
return e_Ticketname
}
When a specific Key is pressed it should write the specific message and include said specific Env Variables. Currently I don't think I have it where Tampermonkey can actually understand the Environment Variables as it keeps giving a undefined error. Any Ideas.

So upon further investigation it does not appear to be a way to interact with the OS inside the browser. I will be looking into another way to do what I am looking for. Thank you!

You are able to access and run local files as JavaScript code in Tampermonkey using \\ #require
So if you're able to have a local file with the content in this format:
variables = {
var1: "hello there"
}
Then in the script, add this line and add the path to the file.
// #require file://Path\to\file
Since all the file has is an assignment to a variable, then you can access that in the script
console.log(variables.var1) // logs "hello there"
For this you need to give the extension access to file URLs:
go to chrome://extensions
Tampermonkey > Details
Allow access to file URLs
You'll still need a way to generate the file in that format in the user machine though, either manually, or some code running locally.
A way to generate the file, could be using Node locally, but if you're running that locally, at that point another way to get local data is to serve it using a simple http server (like Node server), then you could make a request from Tampermonkey using fetch or GM_xmlhttpRequest
As a side note, a hack I use to run code locally triggered with Tampermonkey, is to use the localexplorer extension. The extension allows you to open files and folder from the browser using "localexplorer://" urls, so then with javascript you can do window.open(local_url) and it will run or open that file/folder. The file can also be a .bat file, and you can run anything from it (including Node code).
There are some security considerations for using this though if you're worried other websites might be able to open files in your system. but the extension prompts you every time you try to open something with localexplorer
If you're still interested on this, a way I use for it to work without the prompt with less risk is this:
The prompt also lets you click the checkbox of Always open links of this type in the associated app for each domain. So then what you can do, is have a specific domain you choose for this, to always use that domain to open localexplorer links, and use a format of your choosing, like secretdomain.com/?C:\\path\\to\\file, and grant access to always open the links on that domain. Then use Tampermonkey to run some code on that domain so that when it detects that specific url format, to redirect the page to a localexplorer url, like this
location.href.replace(/htt.*:\/\/secretdomain.com\/\?/,'localexplorer:')

<!DOCTYPE html> in JS file

I am referencing two JS files in my map.HTML header. Chrome console gives
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
Here is why I'm confused. When I click on the Chrome Console error message, it takes me to the Sources tab. Under Sources, it puts me on the relative JS tab, and shows code starting with < !DOCTYPE html> then continues with a ton of code that is not in my map.html file or JS file. Presumably this is generated when the JS is read?
The two JS files are:
https://github.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension/tree/master/dist
https://github.com/calvinmetcalf/leaflet-ajax/tree/gh-pages/dist
I am opening map.HTML locally with Chrome using a simple python server using a batch file (python.exe -m http.server).
I am sure this is very basic, but it's confusing me because I reference plenty of other JS files both online and locally and I don't get this error.
Thanks

If you try https://github.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension/blob/master/dist/leaflet.timedimension.min.js in your browser, you will get an HTML page.
If you try https://raw.githubusercontent.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension/master/dist/leaflet.timedimension.min.js you will get what seams a source javascript file. But your browser may also consider it text/html, because that's what github sends in content-type header.
You can use third party sites which will serve files with appropriate content-type header, (example: https://rawgit.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension/master/dist/leaflet.timedimension.min.js ).

In the future, try to do more research before posting here, otherwise a lot of people are going to downvote your questions, and even insult you.
A simple Google search for the differences between html and javascript may be a good start. The first step would be to remove those doctype lines. They mean nothing in Javascript. Just like the word granola has no meaning in Japanese. Different languages.
However, looking at your code, I don't see any DOCTYPE text in your javascript. In order to really debug this, you're going to want to open your webpage (html) in a browser (I recommend Chrome) and press F12 to open the developer tools. Go to the console and trace the error back through all of the files to find the origin.
In order to check and make sure that you're trying to pull javascript files and not html, take all the src urls you're using and paste them in a browser. If you land on a webpage, that url will serve up html, not javascript like you want. If you get a wall of text, you're probably referencing it correctly.
Correct: https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v3.0.1/mapbox.js
Incorrect: https://github.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension/blob/master/dist/leaflet.timedimension.min.js
Hopefully this helps before this question gets deleted or put on hold. Also notice that people are going to downvote me for actually answering and trying to help.

You can't directly reference code stored in a github repo like you're trying to.
The URLs you're listing aren't javascript files; they're github webpages. That's why they contain HTML doctypes and code you don't recognize -- it's the github website code.
You can get the URL for the actual javascript files by clicking the "raw" button at the top of any of those pages (after selecting a specific individual file -- the urls you gave were for directories, not individual files.) For example:
This is an HTML file: https://github.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension/blob/master/dist/leaflet.timedimension.min.js
This is the raw javascript:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension/master/dist/leaflet.timedimension.min.js
(That said, I don't believe it's a good idea to treat github like a CDN; usually you would use that purely as a repository and host the actual files in use elsewhere.)

NodeJs temporary file creation, serve and deletion using tmp or something else

I am trying to make a compiler in which users make code at abc.com/newProject and their output is in an iframe, that iframe need to be served files that are made at the abc.com/newProject. So I will be doing a POST of JSON obj at abc.com/compile-project that will create files and those will be used by the iframe, after being used those should get deleted. Files are basically JS files that iframe will fetch using script in header.
So a pseudo-code will look something like this:-
app.post('/compile-project', function(req, res){
//Directory created using node tmp
//files created in the directory
//These files are accessible using <script src="/js/file1.js"></script>
//when the current connection requests the files they get deleted
});
Any help will be appreciated thanks.....

I am trying to make a compiler [...] Any help will be appreciated thanks.....
I would strongly discourage you from doing that if you don't know what you're doing (and considering the fact that you're asking how to save a file then apparently you don't).
The requirements that you described are extremely simple but you need to have much deeper understanding of everything that's going on to avoid serious security problems that you will encounter with no doubt along the way.
What you describes can be done without even using a file system, since all your files are served only once so it doesn't make much sense to store them in actual files. But even if you insist on the file system then all you need is to use fs.mkdtemp to create a temporary directory, use something like the uuid module for unique IDs to use in the filenames, then use fs.writeFile to write a file. This is all you need for the file upload endpoint. Now in the download endpoint all you need is to use fs.readFile to read the file and fs.unlink to remove it. That's it.
Now, it will surely get you into trouble of failures on browser reloads, back button not working, and finally security issues of people being able to serve any random code from your servers leading to vulnerabilities too numerous to even list here.
Take a look at the source code of repl.it and JS Bin on GitHub:
https://github.com/replit/repl.it
https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin
to appreciate the scope of the project that you are willing to undertake.

cannot find js file

I have stucture code like this:
I try to load javascript into php file like this:
But i have an error like this:
This is my html :
And this is another javascript:
And i try to copy paste the link, and i got an error 404 not found. How can i fix it? Thanks.

Permissions
When the host is correct, and the file is in the right place, and you have no other networking problems, you may sometimes still get a 404 because of bad file permissions. If a server does not have permission to access a file, it may send out a 404 error in response. The reason why some "Not Authorized" error is not given instead, is that this would reveal more information about the files than you, the owner of the server, may intend. The way to respond to requests for privileged files without revealing whether or not they exist is to give a 404.
On Windows, you can view and change the permissions from the File Explorer by right-clicking on the file or folder, then going to Properties -> Security -> Edit. For more information, see the notes on permissions on Microsoft's site.
File Types
Besides permissions, a server must also be configured to serve the type of file you are accessing. If files with different extensions are served, but .js files are not, check the configuration of your server to make sure that .js files aren't blacklisted (or not whitelisted, as the case may be).
Directory Location
You should also verify that the files are actually stored in the top-most directory of the web server if that's how you are accessing them. If they aren't, you may need to prefix the path with the path from the webserver root to your application directory. E.g., instead of fusioncharts/..., you may need /path/to/fusioncharts/... or ../../path/to/fusioncharts.
Other Considerations
In your particular case, you should also verify that the files inside the fusioncharts folder are actually structured the way you think. (E.g., is there really a js/[insert name here].js file inside the fusioncharts folder?
If none of that solves your problem, try to take something that is working and gradually make it more and more similar to the files that aren't working. By figuring out at which point you go from a working setup to a not working setup, you may discover the problem.

If you are referring to a file with path: /ui/new-file.js
then,
1.In html file include
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ui/new-file.js"></script>
2.In server.js or app.js whichever you have, include
app.get('/ui/new-file.js', function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'ui', 'login-file.js'));
});

Assuming you are using codeigniter, you can use base_url() function to include JS files in your codeignitor view template file.
<script src="<?php echo base_url(); ?>fusioncharts/js/fusioncharts.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
codeigniter default view template is called welcome_message.php and this file is located in application/view folder.
This is how I include js files in my codeigniter projects. Hope this will help.

In the html you can write *script** in the head or in the body, but not in your file js, delete this in fusionCharts.js
<script type=text/javascript>
In fusionCharts.js write only the function without the script

If you are developing locally, try clearing your cache.
Google Chrome likes to use the cached JavaScript files instead of the real ones.
Clearing your cache should resolve the issue.

Understanding ms-seo for meteor

I'm trying to use ms-seo package for meteor but I'm not understanding how it works.
It's supposed to add meta tags to your page for crawlers and social media (google, facebook, twitter, etc...)
To see it working according to the docs all I should have to do is
meteor add manuelschoebel:ms-seo
and then add some defaults
Meteor.startup(function () {
if(Meteor.isClient){
return SEO.config({
title: 'Manuel Schoebel - MVP Development',
meta: {
'description': 'Manuel Schoebel develops Minimal Viable Producs (MVP) for Startups',
},
og: {
'image': 'http://manuel-schoebel.com/images/authors/manuel-schoebel.jpg',
}
});
}
});
which I did but that code only executes on the client (browser). How is that helpful to search engines?
So I test it
curl http://localhost:3000
Results have no tags
If In the browser I go to http://localhost:3000 and inspect the elements in the debugger I see the tag but if I check the source I don't.
I don't understand how client side added tags have anything to do with SEO. I thought Google, Facebook, Twitter when scanning your page for meta tags basically just do a single request. Effectively the same as curl http://localhost:3000
So how does this package actually do anything useful? I feel stupid. 27k users it must work but I don't understand how. Does it require the spiderable package to get static pages generated?

You are correct. You need to use something like the spiderable package or prerender.io to get this to work. This package will add tags, but like any Meteor page, it's rendered on the client.
Try this with curl to see the result when using spiderable:
curl http://localhost:3000/?_escaped_fragment_=
Google will now render the JS itself so for Google to index your page correctly you don't need to use spiderable/prerender.io, but for other search engines I believe you still do have to.

An alternate answer:
Don't use spiderable, as it uses PhantomJS which is rather resource intensive when bots crawl your site.
Many Meteor devs are using Prerender these days, check it out.

If you still have some problems with social share buttons or the package, try to read this: https://webdevelopment7636.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/social-share-with-meteor/ . It was the only way I got mine to work. You don't have to worry about phantomJS or spiderable to make it work fine.
It is a complete tutorial using meteorhacks:ssr and meteorhacks:picker. You have to create a crawler filter on the server side and a route that will be called by it when it is activated. The route will send dynamically the template and the data to a html on the "private" folder, and will render the html to the crawler. The template on the private folder will be the that gets the metatags and the tag.
This is the file that will be on the private folder
I can't put the other links with the code here, but if you need anymore help, go to the first link and see if the tutorial helps.