Command Chain Recipes

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

erazer101

I just answered a question here and tought this might be useful for others as well.
I know there is a "Search Engine with Selection" recipe allready but I think I have found a cleaner way of doing it with just a single javascript line and no delays. The ability to add a custom shortcut for every search engine is also a game changer...

Result:
Highlight/select Text, Hit a custom shortcut > a new Tab opens with the results of the search engine of your choice.

Known Issue:
Currently only suitable for URLs where the search term is at the end of the URL. (could be solved with some more Javascript)
I will use google as an example. To change the engine just replace the URL in the parameter below with your searchengine url.
Here are some working URL examples that you can try.
'https://www.amazon.com/s?k='
'https://maps.google.com/?q='
'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/'
'https://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw='

TIP:
How to find those URLs if you can't google them like for not so popular sites?
Here is what i do: I just do a search with the term "TEST" on the site I want the search URL for. Than i check the URL on the result page.
For example searching TEST on amazon will forward you to:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=TEST&__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Than I just delete everything behind the keyword, in this case:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=TEST
Than i hit enter again to check if the shortened URL still gives the expacted result page and in most cases it does.
Now all you need to do is remove the TEST from the URL as well and you have your search engine URL.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=
But dont forget to add the single quotation marks ' in the parameter!

nuff said...
here is the Recipe:

Chain Name:
HotkeyHighlightSearch

Command 1:
Open Link in Current Tab (Javascript will take care of opening the result in a NEW tab)

Parameter:
javascript:var root = 'https://www.google.com/search?q='; var selection= ''+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);var myurl = root+selection;window.open(myurl);

Now go to Settings>Keyboard>Chains (at the very bottom of the keyboard settings)
add Shortcut to "HotkeyHighlightSearch" e.q. CTRL+q

BTW instead of selecting/highlighting text and pressing your shortcut you could also highlight the text and then press F2 and type "HotkeyHighlightSearch" and hit Enter.

//MODEDIT: added inline code tags

luetage

@erazer101 Matter of taste. The delays don’t really slow my version down considerably and the upside is you can use existing engines from settings by nickname. Moreover your javascript shows up in the address field and obfuscates the current url. Anyway, it’s good to have the choice.

erazer101

@luetage thanks a lot for the feedback. I agree being able to use existing search engines is a real benefit.
Since I only use a handful of engines it’s still ok to setup for me.

I hate the corrupted URL…didn’t realize it before you mentioned it.
Seems like Vivaldi opens the script in the current TAB therefore putting the script in the address bar and run it from there.
There would be a simple solution by just using “open link in new tab” as Vivaldi command and changing the javascript/parameter to open in same tab.
But it seems like you can’t run any javascript function with the “open link in new tab” command. All it does is opening a new empty tab.
E.G.: Open link in new tab > Parameter: javascript:window.open("https://www.youraddress.com", "_self") only opens an empty tab for me..

Not sure if this is a bug or missing feature but I reported both issues as bug.
-add support for javascript in "open in new tab" command chains VB-82849
-add command type "run javascript" to be able to run scripts in background without address bar, just like clicking a bookmarklet. VB-82850

BTW...not sure if any admins read this but the request feature site misses a command chain category.

shifte

Only an ordinary History Panel
1, History Panel
2, Select All

luetage

@shifte Is the better version of the existing command!

shifte

New Tab Position:　As First Tab

1, New Tab
2, Delay
parameter: 100
3, Pin/Unpin tab
4, Pin/Unpin tab

I don't use "Ctrl+t" at all, but...I got an idea.

ukanuk

New Stacked Tab

I set this chain to Ctrl+T to always puts the new tab in a stack, either in the existing stack or in a newly created stack if the active tab was a top-level tab. "New Tab" and "New Top Level Tab" already exist as keyboard shortcuts. However, the "New Tab" command has different behavior depending on whether the active tab is a new top-level tab, or already part of a stack.

Change Settings:

Settings > Tabs > New Tab Position:

After Active Tab

Chain:

New Tab
Delay
Parameter: 100
Select Previous Tab
Stack Tabs

Note it does have some disadvantages. Maybe you guys can find a better workaround? Also see this post and that post.

Have to set "After Active Tab" in settings, which undesirably changes "New Top Level Tab" command behavior.
Slows down the entire browser a bit by adding delay to every new tab opening.
Causes some visually distracting flashing in the tab bar as the chain selects tabs and re-groups them.
Doesn't change how bookmarks open, as OP notes in that post.

New Top Level Tab at End

The "After Active Tab" setting changes the "New Top Level Tab" command behavior, but with Vivaldi v5.1 we can now restore the desired behavior (albeit with some visually distracting motion in the tab bar). And note this still doesn't fix how bookmarks open.

Chain:

New Top Level Tab
Move Tabs to End

Pesala

@ukanuk If you enable:

Include Active Tab in Initial Selection

New Tab
Stack Tabs

Should stack the new tab with the current tab without any delay, and whatever the new tab position.

ukanuk

@Pesala , I only see that option under "Tabs > Tab Features > Tab Selection". Do you see it in a second place? In any case, it was already enabled for all my testing.

Without changing the "New Tab Position" setting, I found that Vivaldi stacks the new tab with whatever tab is to its left -- "Previous" tab apparently means the one to the left of the current tab, not the previous one by recent order.

Without the delay, I found that Vivaldi actually stacked the Previous Tab with the second previous tab -- the just-newly-created tab apparently doesn't appear quite quickly enough to be included as part of the initial selection.

luetage

New chain Open Selection

This used to be »Search Engine with Selection«. In an update a while ago we got the ability to search any engine with parameter, which made this previous chain obsolete. The difference to the inbuilt command »Search with Selection« is being able to open addresses which aren’t hyperlinks.

@ukanuk If you’re happy with your chain, we can include it. I have to admit I forgot about it after seeing it initially.

ukanuk

@luetage Yep, I've been using my chain as-is for a month now and don't see anything changing until/unless Vivaldi changes stuff.

Aperrizio

Figure out the publish date of an article (if hidden):

Open link in current tab with-----> javascript:window.open("https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+" "+('&as_qdr=y15'))

This script will search the link on Google, from 15 years ago. The date appears on Google.

luetage

@aperrizio Nice idea, included.

pafflick

@luetage I discovered that there is no need to define a variable when "restoring" the URL. I believe that adding a delay is not necessary either. Changing the URL with replaceState shouldn't affect the execution of the code. If anything, it's added at the end, so it should be the last thing to execute anyway.
For example, I changed this (from your "Dark (Invert)" snippet):
setTimeout(()=>{const t=window.location.href;window.history.replaceState("stateObj","",t)},300)
into:
history.replaceState({},"",location.href)
and it works just as well (or slightly better, since the change of the URL is almost unnoticeable).

luetage

@pafflick Can’t recall why I introduced a timeout, it’s been too long. But great if it continues to work for you without it.

ukanuk

@luetage, I added a new chain to my previous post. My old "New Stacked Tab" chain required changing a setting that adversely affected "New Top Level Tab" behavior, and my new command "New Top Level Tab at End" functionally restores the desired behavior using new v5.1 commands.

pafflick

Thought I'd cross-post this here (from the Copy from adress bar in a formated way (like on MS Edge) feature request thread):

Copy the current page's URL & title as a rich text

(eg. copy Home | Vivaldi Forum instead of https://forum.vivaldi.net)

Command 1: Open Link in Current Tab
Command Parameter: javascript:function copy(c){c.clipboardData.setData('text/html','<a href="'+location.href+'">'+document.title+'</a>');c.preventDefault();}document.addEventListener("copy",copy);document.execCommand("copy");document.removeEventListener("copy",copy);history.replaceState({},"",location.href);