ViolentMonkey problem with download

[crzsotona]

Hello,

LTKDIFMU on Violentmonkey cannot download files, it opens as binary blob instead, could you investigate please?

[lethak]

Hi,

At first glance and without investigating much it appears VM do not support the 'saveAs' option.

I know of no solution yet unless not using GM_download with VM,

I will look to do this for the next version of the script using GM_info

link & sources:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27487828/how-to-detect-if-a-userscript-is-installed-from-the-chrome-store/27494812#27494812
• https://www.tampermonkey.net/documentation.php#GM_info
• https://violentmonkey.github.io/api/gm/#gm_info

EDIT:

For future research into the subject:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20508788/do-i-need-content-type-application-octet-stream-for-file-download
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44235879/force-the-browser-to-download-file-as-csv-from-url
• polyfil https://gist.github.com/ccloli/832a8350b822f3ff5094

Workaround

Use tempermonkey

[ReflexivR]

So tampermonkey works OK downloading still?

[ReflexivR]

Just checked and tampermonkey works great downloading still. There's really no benefit to running violentmonkey, right? I would just tell users to switch. Thanks for your script!

[ReflexivR]

Downloads do appear to be mp4 rather than mp3 files though. Is this intended?

[lethak]

Yeah don't worry about that, it will still work anyway. The actual format is the one you are listening and depends on the audio quality of your free/premium account.

[lethak]

On the next release:

Reverted to old track download method when NOT using Tampermonkey

Those users will be reverted back to the old ways of downloading via window.open(url).
It means those users will not be able to have an automatic normalized file name for the time being, but can still manually download.

Tampermonkey users are not impacted.