I am playing with Tampermonkey scripts in JS. I have a website that shows the user's location and timezone in UTC format.
<span class="optional-wrapper">
<span class="UTCText"> ==$0
<!-- react-text: 60 -->
" (UTC "
<!-- /react-text -->
<!-- react-text: 61 -->
"+10:00"
<!-- /react-text -->
<!-- react-text: 62 -->
") "
<!-- /react-text -->
</span>
</span>
I want to read the UTC timezone (UTC +10:00) and convert it into a time. I tried something like this but it doesn't work. Can someone point me in the right direction where i can learn about this?
function getTimeZone(UTCText){
document.getElementsByClassName(UTCText);
console.log(UTCText)
}
At the moment I just want to print to the console so I know I am reading the timezone correctly.
To get the text from a static page, use .textContent
and then parse the string to extract the value you want.
Here's a demo:
var tzOffset = "Not found!";
var tzNode = document.querySelector (".UTCText");
if (tzNode) {
let ndTxt = tzNode.textContent;
let tzMtch = ndTxt.match (/(-?\d+:\d+)/);
if (tzMtch && tzMtch.length > 1) {
tzOffset = tzMtch[1];
}
}
console.log ("Found timezone offset: ", tzOffset);
<span class="optional-wrapper">
<span class="UTCText"> ==$0
<!-- react-text: 60 -->
" (UTC "
<!-- /react-text -->
<!-- react-text: 61 -->
"-10:30"
<!-- /react-text -->
<!-- react-text: 62 -->
") "
<!-- /react-text -->
</span>
</span>
However, that page looks to be using reactjs, which means it's AJAX-driven.
For AJAX'd pages, you often have to use AJAX-aware techniques such as waitForKeyElements. Here's what that looks like in a complete Tampermonkey userscript:
// ==UserScript==
// @name _Get timezone offset text from a span
// @match *://YOUR_SERVER.COM/YOUR_PATH/*
// @noframes
// @require https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js
// @require https://gist.github.com/raw/2625891/waitForKeyElements.js
// @grant GM_addStyle
// @grant GM.getValue
// ==/UserScript==
// @grant none
//- The @grant directives are needed to restore the proper sandbox.
/* global $, waitForKeyElements */
/* eslint-disable no-multi-spaces, curly */
waitForKeyElements (".UTCText", getTZ_Offset);
function getTZ_Offset (jNode) {
var tzOffset = "Not found!";
let ndTxt = jNode.text ();
let tzMtch = ndTxt.match (/(-?\d+:\d+)/);
if (tzMtch && tzMtch.length > 1) {
tzOffset = tzMtch[1];
}
console.log ("Found timezone offset: ", tzOffset);
}