How to write a script that repeats the original link?

Question

I have a link called

www.example.com/previewAndAccept.php

but when I click the link, sometimes it redirects to:

www.example.com/NoMoreHits.php

Since it redirects I can't use the google chrome auto refresh script to refresh the URL, since it would be refreshing the second link instead of the first. My question is, is there a way to write a script to repeatedly check the original link every second?

Isti115 · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-17 22:37:13Z

Well, supposedly TamperMonkey has access to the window.location object, so you could set window.location.href directly to the desired URL instead of just using window.location.reload().

In your example something like this could work:

setInterval( () => window.location.href = 'http://www.example.com/previewAndAccept.php', delayInMilliseconds )

ps.: Simply window.location = 'http://www.example.com/previewAndAccept.php' should work as well. Make sure to specify the protocol (http or https), otherwise the browser might just append the text to the end of the current path instead of replacing it.

But if the @match is www.example.com/previewAndAccept.php, it'll just stop once it gets to www.example.com/NoMoreHits.php and stop refreshing, won't it?
Well, does adding www.example.com/NoMoreHits.php as a match have undesirable side effects? If not, then that could be a solution to this problem.

talalUcef · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-17 22:31:17Z

Try this :

window.setInterval(function(){ var a = document.getElementById('linkId'); if (a) { a.setAttribute('href', 'www.example.com/previewAndAccept.php'); } }, 1000);

<a href="www.example.com/previewAndAccept.php" title="this link" id="linkId"> Link </a>

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