Script for Autofilling Your Username When Voting

I would think it very unlikely that their TOS would not appreciate auto star rating but would be fine with auto name filling. Neither of those tasks are meant to prove you are human, and both of those tasks are unlikely to have a different result from day to day.

Changelogs now in this thread? Nice~

Now this is what the EMC forums were made for

May I suggest a change to your username section. This will access the Global JS variable EMC_USERNAME. No script editing involved for the end user .

Code:

usernameForm[i].value = EMC_USERNAME; // <--- CHANGE YOUR NAME

Oh wow, this suddenly got a lot of attention! I'm gladly taking suggestions and I'm happy to clarify anything I can. The original post is getting quite old, so it wouldn't surprise me if the instructions start having inaccuracies beyond the code.

Thank you very much for the suggestion! I'm trying to test it but I seem to be missing something... Where is that global variable set exactly? I can't get it to work with just that change, but such a simplification would be very welcome.

As for the automatic rating on Minecraft-Server.net, it's pretty much what 607 said:

(If I may rant, I have to add that I don't really understand why they introduced such a rating system in the first place. As far as I know, people can only vote for one server within a set time period, so obviously 99% of people are going to vote for their favorite server and give a 5-star rating. I can only see it as an annoyance to keep you half a second longer on their website watching ads—assuming you don't have an ad blocker.)

Let me still add the following instructions for transparency and clarity:
If you'd rather give some other rating than 5/5 stars on Minecraft-Server.net, feel free to change 'rate-10' on the second last line

Code:

document.getElementById('rate-10').click();

to 'rate-9' for a 4.5/5 rating, 'rate-8' for a 4/5 rating, etc.
If you instead wish to disable the automatic rating click altogether, you may comment out (=ignore) the line by prepending two slashes like this:

Code:

// document.getElementById('rate-10').click();

if you view the pages source you'll see its defined at the top of the page. Line 6 when I view source.

I ran a basic code in tampermonkey, however it still has the option for the username to be inputted in the quotes. But that defeats the purpose of adding the global var.

Code:

 var username = (EMC_USERNAME === undefined ? EMC_USERNAME : "");
alert(username);

edit: By the way, I also added https://empireminecraft.com/wiki/vote/ to the code so that the script runs on the vote page.

Ah, I see. Nice finding! Right now I'm a bit too busy to implement that (exams...) as I would need to figure out GM_setValue and GM_getValue for persistent storage including some error handling. I hope to be able to work on it in a month or two.

I understand. I think tampermonkey has a great library to manage setValue/getValue a little better than stock.


With your permission I'd like to make additions to your script. Credit will be given.

Sure, feel free to improve it as you see fit!

how does one get the changes that people are making?

I finally got the time to upgrade the script with the suggestion from ttyler333.

Changes:

• The code is now on GitHub for easier version management and due to the script having become longer.
• The script now reads your username on the vote page when you are logged in. It is no longer necessary to manually edit the script, but you may add a default username (on line 23) in case you tend to load the EMC voting page when not logged in, since that clears the username from storage. Exact details on how the script determines the username to be filled are shown in this flowchart.
• The old version of the script is available in the v1 branch of the GitHub repository in case someone has a specific use case where the new version does not work.
• The tip for using Firefox on Android has been removed as most add-ons, including Tampermonkey, no longer work in it. Alternative solutions are welcome.

Let me know if you encounter any bugs or if you have any other ideas for improvements!

I'm still going to use the old version due to voting for multiple different accounts...

Ah I see! I was wondering how people had it actually set up when they said they used this to vote with many accounts. I'll keep the old version updated as well then

(That gives me the idea that the storage could be used to rotate a set of usernames, but that's a project for another time!)

Looks good!

this looks great! I will be trying it soon

Thank you for making this!

After two years of websites remaining unchanged, TopG.org now changed their URL and the identifier for their username input field. I've updated the scripts accordingly:

• Version 2 reading the username from the voting page: Updated script // Differences
• Version 1 with a username fixed in the script: Updated script // Differences

Bumping this as I wish to thank op and commenters for their work and the comments.
Seems I understand some of the vote-y stuff more than I did before... Just gets me wondering more about why the votifier issues are still not increasing the vote count, even though voting is happening daily.

Minor script changes, based on the voting website's url. Plus an option to keep voting for several other accounts. This seems wonderful!!!
Are there any plans to add the little robot to pop up at my keyboard and hit the buttons for my, while I am sipping lemonade and watching funny videos on my phone?

I feel a bit bad bumping this old thread once again, but I think it's become a tradition that I announce updates, so here we go.

MinecraftServers.org changed the identification of their username input field, hence this update to fix the matching.

• Version 2 reading the username from the voting page: Updated script // Differences
• Version 1 with a username fixed in the script: Updated script // Differences

Hi Katy, sorry, I somehow never saw your kind reply as the forum notifications/alerts seem to be a bit buggy at times. Thank you for taking the time to write those words of appreciation! A little robot popping at your keyboard could have a hard time solving the Captchas to prove that it's actually a human and not a robot

I'm also glad to see the likes on these more recent comments to know that people still care 4 years after the original post

Surprisingly, 2 years have passed since the last necessary update. Nevertheless, Minecraft-Server-List.com recently decided to obsolete any scripts that were matching the input field by name by adding an extra 'n' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here's the update:

• Version 2 reading the username from the voting page: Updated script // Differences
• Version 1 with a username fixed in the script: Updated script // Differences

I've also realized that TopG.org has at some point added their own username persistence (if you tick the box), so if you prefer to rely on that instead of this script, you may remove the TopG.org matching directive on line 12 (for v1: line 11) from the script to deactivate it on that site.