Tampermonkey ignores @exclude

Question

I'm working on the translation of the dashboard/admin of Shopify using Tampermonkey.

For security purposes, there's some parts of the Shopify Admin Dashboard I don't want Tampermonkey to work with. There's text created by the merchant (in products, pages, collections, templates...) which Tampermonkey would replace which is really dangerous.

There's 2 approaches to solve this:

"Instruct" Tampermonkey not to translate the content inside forms. (which seems to be the best approach)
Use the @exclude directive.

I've used the latter but the script is not listening to @exclude. Here is the userscript:

// ==UserScript==
// @name       Shopify_Admin_Spanish
// @namespace  http://*.myshopify.com/admin
// @version    0.1
// @description  Tu tienda Shopify, por detrás, en español!
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/products
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/collections
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/blogs
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/pages
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/themes
// @match      https://*.myshopify.com/*
// @copyright  microapps.com
// ==/UserScript==

PS. I did all checks using Google Chrome, and am not willing to use any other browser.

You can try adding '/' at the end of the excludes... I had to do that on greasemonkey before it would recognize some of my includes — Kat Cox

Brock Adams Brock Adams · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-24T07:33:10

@exclude is very precise. You need to put a trailing asterisk on each of the exclude lines. EG:

// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/products*
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/collections*
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/blogs*
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/pages*
// @exclude    https://*.myshopify.com/admin/themes*

Consider (and install) this Tampermonkey script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name     _match and exclude testing
// @match    http://*.stackexchange.com/*
//
// @exclude  http://*.stackexchange.com/questions*
// @exclude  http://*.stackexchange.com/tags
// @require  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js
// @grant    GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

$("body").prepend ('<h1 style="background: yellow;">Match Script fired on this page.</h1>');

If you then visit arduino.stackexchange.com/tags, the script won't fire, but when visiting:

it will!

Changing the second exclude line to:

// @exclude  http://*.stackexchange.com/tags*

fixes the problem.

If you still have difficulty, specify your versions of Chrome, Tampermonkey, and operating system. And, provide target page(s) that demonstrate the problem.

Tampermonkey ignores @exclude

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