📅 2025-04-30 — Session: Debugged and Optimized Tampermonkey Script for Upwork
🕒 00:10–00:30
🏷️ Labels: Tampermonkey, Upwork, Debugging, Chrome, API
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The goal of this session was to troubleshoot and optimize a Tampermonkey script used for downloading job data from Upwork.
Key Activities
- Enabled Developer Mode in Chrome for Tampermonkey userscripts to facilitate debugging.
- Reduced API call intervals to 1 minute for better testing and observation.
- Investigated and resolved issues with the Tampermonkey script execution on Upwork.
- Clarified permissions required for Tampermonkey scripts to function correctly on Upwork.
- Enhanced debugging techniques by adding manual triggers and logging features to the script.
Achievements
- Successfully enabled Developer Mode in Chrome to assist in script debugging.
- Optimized API testing intervals, allowing for more efficient identification of issues.
- Improved the script’s execution reliability on Upwork by adjusting permissions and debugging methods.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the optimized script on different browsers and environments to ensure compatibility and robustness.