Support for Github Enterprise

[erikdw]

My company uses GitHub Enterprise, and that's where I really want this functionality.
Maybe there could be an option for applying the widening changes a list of sites?

[moreati]

It looks like https://github.com/jamesmmchugh/wide-github is a fork that matches any URL. Or prawnpie/wide-github@20c7002 shows how to make a version specific to your organisation.

[xthexder]

I would recommend just forking this and changing the URL yourself. I'm hesitant to make this work on enterprise because it would require running some JS on every site to figure out if it's github or not (because there's not standard enterprise url).

[erikdw]

@moreati : thanks! I was able to use @jamesmmchugh's repo and it worked for my company's Github Enterprise setup (our domain starts with "github.", I'm assuming that's why it worked given the URLs in the manifest). Thankfully James had instructions on his repo's README for loading an unpacked extension, because I had no idea how to load this.

@xthexder: I was thinking something along the lines of adblock where you can add hosts/URLs for the change to be applied. But given I know nothing about chrome extension development, I cannot guess whether that's a ton of work or not.

[erikdw]

So for future reference here's how I accomplished it:

1. cloned https://github.com/jamesmmchugh/wide-github (notably the latest commit was 75f545c)
2. followed Chrome instructions for loading unpacked extension, pointing at the base dir of the cloned repo: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted#unpacked
3. Profit.

[ygrek]

greasemonkey for firefox allows to add "included sites" url pattern

[erikdw]

@ygrek : can you give more info on that proposal?

[ygrek]

it's not a proposal, greasemonkey plugin for firefox has the functionality to change url patterns builtin, so I can use thise userscript for github enterprise just adding one line in plugin settings

[xthexder]

In Greasemonkey if you select "Manage User Scripts..." you can add something like *https://github.* to "Included Pages" under the wide-github preferences.

[erikdw]

@xthexder : thanks for the detailed explanation (I don't know anything about greasemonkey or other browser plugin development/hacking stuff). @ygrek : thanks for original idea.

[ygrek]

ftr tampermonkey for chrome also allows to override include pattern without modifying script - convenient

[fregante]

I recently published 2 modules that might help you with this:

https://github.com/fregante/webext-domain-permission-toggle
https://github.com/fregante/webext-dynamic-content-scripts

You'd just need:

npm i webext-domain-permission-toggle webext-dynamic-content-scripts

// in background.js
import 'webext-dynamic-content-scripts';
import addDomainPermissionToggle from 'webext-domain-permission-toggle';

addDomainPermissionToggle();

And some adjustments to manifest.json

Here I wrote more about how it works too.

This only works for the browser extension and not the userscript. The only code that runs is to check whether the extension has permission to the current URL.

[LunaticoCR]

So for future reference here's how I accomplished it:

1. cloned https://github.com/jamesmmchugh/wide-github (notably the latest commit was 75f545c)
2. followed Chrome instructions for loading unpacked extension, pointing at the base dir of the cloned repo: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted#unpacked
3. Profit.

An even easier option perhaps for those not interested in cloning the repo etc. These instruction are for Brave Browser, but should be very similar for Chrome.

1. Install the extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wide-github/kaalofacklcidaampbokdplbklpeldpj
2. Go to extension location, for macOS it's ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Profile\ 4/Extensions/kaalofacklcidaampbokdplbklpeldpj (make sure to point to the right profile number)
3. Right-click the kaalofacklcidaampbokdplbklpeldpj directory and chose compress to zip it up
4. Back to extension in your browser and remove the Wide GitHub extension
5. Back to your extensions folder and unzip the extension you zipped in step 3
6. Open the /manifest.json file and add your GHE domain to the $.content_scripts.matches list and save this change
7. Open the extension section in the browser and go to developer mode, select "Load Unpacked" and go to the kaalofacklcidaampbokdplbklpeldpj directory and click select
8. This will install the modified extension