📅 2025-04-30 — Session: Debugged and Optimized Tampermonkey Scripts for Upwork
🕒 00:10–00:25
🏷️ Labels: Tampermonkey, Upwork, Debugging, Api Testing, Chrome Extensions
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal: The session aimed to enhance the functionality and reliability of Tampermonkey scripts used on Upwork by enabling developer mode, optimizing API call intervals, and troubleshooting script execution.
Key Activities:
- Enabled Developer Mode: Followed a guide to activate Developer Mode in Chrome for Tampermonkey, facilitating script testing and troubleshooting.
- Optimized API Testing Intervals: Adjusted API call intervals to 1 minute to improve debugging efficiency and better monitor download behaviors.
- Troubleshot Upwork Script: Conducted a thorough examination of a Tampermonkey script for Upwork, ensuring proper execution and addressing potential issues.
- Clarified Extension Permissions: Reviewed and differentiated between site-level and extension permissions to ensure Tampermonkey scripts have the necessary access.
- Debugged Script Execution: Implemented debugging techniques for a Tampermonkey script to handle Upwork job downloads, including manual triggers and authorization checks.
Achievements:
- Successfully enabled Developer Mode for enhanced script testing.
- Improved API call testing intervals, resulting in faster issue identification.
- Resolved execution issues with the Upwork script, ensuring it runs as intended.
- Clarified permissions for better script access and functionality.
Pending Tasks:
- Further testing of the optimized API intervals to confirm stability over extended periods.
- Continuous monitoring of script performance on Upwork to identify any new issues.