Command Chain Recipes

Pesala

@kyu3a Drag the camera icon to the address bar, then you can hide the status bar.

kyu3a

@pesala Thank you for replying! I could caputre without showing Status-bar.

kyu3a

Funny command chains were introduced in Makeuseof.com. It is "Netflix Mode". This chains will change Vivaldi to the mode watching Netflix for a hour intently.

Open Link in New Tab (Command Parameter: netflix.com)
Fullscreen Mode
Delay (Command Parameter: 5000)
Mute Other Tabs
Delay (Command Parameter: 3600000) (For 1 Hour)
Unmute Other Tabs
Fullscreen Mode
Close Tab

Source：
How to Use Vivaldi Command Chains to Simplify Your Workflow
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-use-vivaldi-commands/

derDay

general question:
is it possible, to adress the guestwindow?
at the moment, we can't give the URL of a tab (or a link) to guest window (links only to other profiles). with the command chain it would be possible, but I encountered, that I can't give the adress to a (new) guest window

any hints or tricks?

luetage

@derday Window commands of any kind are excluded from command chains, because a command chain runs as a process of the current window. I hope there will be a solution or workaround to this at some point.

luetage

These command chains had been featured in OP previously. Moved to collect links to all command chains instead.

Inspect UI

Opens DevTools for the user interface.

Open Link in New Tab
Paramenter: vivaldi://experiments
Delay
Parameter: 50
Developer Tools
Close Tab

{"category":"CATEGORY_COMMAND_CHAIN","chain":[{"defaultValue":"https://vivaldi.com","key":"f57b8092-9426-4bc8-8e39-fcf3e315b065","label":"Open Link in New Tab","name":"COMMAND_OPEN_LINK_DEFAULT","param":"vivaldi://experiments"},{"defaultValue":1000,"key":"2eb81004-6703-46db-9933-6afcfde924e4","label":"Delay","name":"COMMAND_CHAINED_SLEEP","param":50},{"key":"e6a1c7d5-21ad-4195-bc9e-95ebcb6ee2eb","label":"Toggle Developer Tools","name":"COMMAND_DEVTOOLS_INSPECTOR"},{"key":"f0a3a628-6977-4812-ab11-96a1d1fbc08d","label":"Close Tab","name":"COMMAND_CLOSE_TAB"}],"key":"cl12fs5mr00i42z5wtv7rvu1b","label":"Inspect UI","name":"COMMAND_cl12fs5mr00i42z5wtv7rvu1b"}

Copy Page Address

Copies current URL to the clipboard. Already available native as mouse gesture and from menu, but not as keyboard shortcut or quick command.

Focus Address Field
Delay
Parameter: 100
Select All
Copy
Delay
Parameter: 500
Focus Page

{"category":"CATEGORY_COMMAND_CHAIN","chain":[{"key":"96a396d8-d485-4f61-926b-bdab1eddaf94","label":"Focus Address Field","name":"COMMAND_FOCUS_ADDRESSFIELD"},{"defaultValue":1000,"key":"2eb81004-6703-46db-9933-6afcfde924e4","label":"Delay","name":"COMMAND_CHAINED_SLEEP","param":100},{"key":"ce41214f-6878-42ef-b120-3deb06cfcf2e","label":"Select All","name":"COMMAND_CLIPBOARD_SELECT_ALL"},{"key":"6dae1e1a-695b-41c5-9ca9-deb1fabe9cc9","label":"Copy","name":"COMMAND_CLIPBOARD_COPY"},{"defaultValue":1000,"key":"2eb81004-6703-46db-9933-6afcfde924e4","label":"Delay","name":"COMMAND_CHAINED_SLEEP","param":500},{"key":"f71373d5-f966-4603-b7c5-a4a1722b3989","label":"Focus Page","name":"COMMAND_FOCUS_WEBVIEW"}],"key":"cl12ftdyo00i52z5wyg8ux8vy","label":"Copy Page Address","name":"COMMAND_cl12ftdyo00i52z5wyg8ux8vy"}

Tab Scroll

Scrolls to top of the current page and scrolls back to initial position when toggled again. This is an existing browser modification, but works very well as command chain when assigning a shortcut to it. I’m using Shift-PageDown.

Open Link in Current Tab
Parameter: javascript:(()=>{let o=window.pageYOffset;if(o>0){window.sessionStorage.setItem("tabOffset",o);window.scrollTo(0,0)}else{window.scrollTo(0,window.sessionStorage.getItem("tabOffset")||0)}history.replaceState({},"",location.href)})();

{"category":"CATEGORY_COMMAND_CHAIN","chain":[{"defaultValue":"https://vivaldi.com","key":"0b01337b-4c13-4197-90c8-179c5c91cfff","label":"Open Link in Current Tab","name":"COMMAND_OPEN_LINK_CURRENT","param":"javascript:(()=>{let o=window.pageYOffset;if(o>0){window.sessionStorage.setItem(\"tabOffset\",o);window.scrollTo(0,0)}else{window.scrollTo(0,window.sessionStorage.getItem(\"tabOffset\")||0)}history.replaceState({},\"\",location.href)})();"}],"key":"cl12fv64y00i62z5wbv0ecyiy","label":"Tab Scroll","name":"COMMAND_cl12fv64y00i62z5wbv0ecyiy"}

luetage

Close Tab Move Left

Previous Tab (by Order)
Delay
Parameter: 100
Select Next Tab
Close Tab

Close Tab Move Right

Next Tab (by Order)
Delay
Parameter: 100
Select Previous Tab
Close Tab

Control which tab gets activated after closing a tab. I personally use alt-, and alt-. to operate. Currently the only downside is you gotta disable »include active tab in initial selection« in vivaldi://settings/tabs, or both your tabs will be deleted.

luetage

Close Stack

Select Current Tab
Close Tab

There is no keyboard shortcut to close a tab stack, this simple command chain creates it. Works only if your active tab is part of the stack.

Open Clipboard in New Tab

New Tab
Delay
Parameter: 300
Focus Address Field
Paste and Go

Whenever you copy a link by clicking on a dedicated webpage button, or you copied it in another application, this is the way to open the link in a new tab painlessly.

luetage

For me personally command chains have replaced bookmarklets. There is no good reason (other than sync) for saving Javascript code as a bookmark when using Vivaldi.

DeepL

Open Link in Current Tab
Parameter: javascript:(function%20translate()%7Bfunction%20se(d)%20%7Breturn%20d.selection%20?%20d.selection.createRange().text%20:%20d.getSelection()%20%7Ds%20=%20se(document);for%20(i=0;%20i%3Cframes.length%20&&%20!s;%20i++)s%20=%20se(frames%5Bi%5D.document);if%20(!s%20%7C%7C%20s=='')%20s%20=%20prompt('Enter%20text%20to%20translate%20with%20DeepL','');open('https://www.deepl.com/translator#'+document.documentElement.lang+'/en/'%20+%20(s%20?%20encodeURIComponent(s)%20:%20'')).focus();%7D)();

Grabs your current selection and sends it to DeepL for translation.

Dark (Invert)

Open Link in Current Tab
Parameter: javascript:(d=>{var css=`:root{background-color:#fefefe;filter:invert(100%)}*{background-color:inherit}img:not([src*=".svg"]),video{filter: invert(100%)}`,style,id="dark-theme-snippet",ee=d.getElementById(id);if(null!=ee){ee.parentNode.removeChild(ee)}else{style=d.createElement('style');style.type="text/css";style.id=id;if(style.styleSheet){style.styleSheet.cssText=css}else{style.appendChild(d.createTextNode(css))}(d.head||d.querySelector('head')).appendChild(style)}setTimeout(()=>{const t=window.location.href;window.history.replaceState("stateObj","",t)},300)})(document);

Similar to the invert filter in page actions. The difference is it tries to leave images alone and it doesn’t reload the page when toggled. See https://gist.github.com/frontdevops/8aea1e0252dd826488dad63319e3ec88

luetage

OP contains a collection of all command chains now, for an easier overview going forward.

legobuilder26

@luetage Love this, but didn't want to change the setting, so I slightly modified it:

Close Right

Next Tab (by Order)
Delay 100
Select Previous Tab
Select Current Tab (actually deselects it)
Close Tab

Close Left

Previous Tab (by Order)
Delay 100
Select Next Tab
Select Current Tab (actually deselects it)
Close Tab

luetage

@legobuilder26 This requires the exact opposite setting, good find. I dream of selection commands being independent from the setting when called from a command chain.

shifte

Mute for 3 minutes.
Cup Noodles Timer

1, Open Link in New Tab
　parameter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5CAQU6KsMI (your taste video)
2, Mute All Tabs
3, Delay
　parameter: 30000
4, Delay
　parameter: 30000
5, Delay
　parameter: 30000
6, Delay
　parameter: 30000
7, Delay
　parameter: 30000
8, Delay
　parameter: 30000
9, Unmute All Tabs

luetage

@shifte haha

Pesala

Periodic Reload Context Menu

To add the periodic reload menu to the Page Context menu so that you don't have to move your mouse cursor to the tab bar:

Add a new Command Chain for each reload period that you wish to use: Name the Commands as 1 Minute, 2 Minutes, etc.
In Settings, Appearance, Menu Customisation, Page Context Menu, add a new folder named "Periodic Reload*
In the new folder, add your Command Chains for 1 Minute, 2 Minutes, etc.

Periodic Reload Command Chains.png

Custom Reload Submenu.png

derDay

@pesala
you can already add this menu without a command chain
search for perio at the commands section

Pesala

@derday Been there, done that, but it does not work. There are no timer settings when the period command is added to the page context menu.

derDay

@pesala
strange, works for me since "ages"

luetage

@pesala You need to add [Periodic Reload], this will give you the submenu. @derDay is right, it works already.

Pesala

@luetage I added the “Periodic Reload” command, not the “[Periodic Reload]” submenu. The former does nothing, and should probably not exist in the list of Application Commands.

Anyway, if you create Command Chains for each period that you need, you can customise the subfolder to contain only those commands that you actually use.

It is that time of the month again when the developers need to update a lot of things before the Stable build. The feature request for Right-click menu option for periodic tab reload also needs to be tagged as DONE, which is what led me on this wild-goose-chase.

I reported the bug as:

(VB-82802) Periodic Reload Command Does Nothing