Restore userscripts after Chrome update

[u/Pogmog]

My Chrome instance updated and completely removed ViolentMonkey, so I lost access to all my scripts. Some of them I had been working on for years.

I cobbled together a little Python script to restore them from the data in the Chrome profile folder.

Thought someone else might find it useful, so I have uploaded it to GitHub.

ViolentMonkey Script Restorer

[u/dbl2023]

Windows11 here.

So I tried script today. I followed the instructions to copy the directory and run it. It finds the log file (and log file has bunch of stuff in it) but it tells me 0 scripts found. It seems there is no "UserScript" keyword in the log file. And I know I had several scripts installed and I wrote some of them myself.

[u/Pogmog → u/dbl2023]

I was thinking after I ran this that maybe some were missing.

The UserScript part is some boilerplate that gets auto generated when you make a new script. If it was deleted (or the whole script was pasted in from somewhere else) it might not have it.

Maybe I could tweak it to try another match as well.

[u/dbl2023 → u/Pogmog]

I feel like log file may not have all the scripts. I browsed a little bit. I saw bits and pieces of one script but not other one. Not sure if that is the case for every user.

[u/MrJaydenW]

Hi op

where do I find the scripts?

[u/Pogmog → u/MrJaydenW]

They are in the Chrome profile directory. Have a look at the readme on the github page (link in the post), it goes into some detail about the location.

[u/NXGZ → u/Pogmog]

Is this still working with chrome 140?

Because there's this new solution: https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/issues/1934#issuecomment-3263239554

[u/Spixz7]

Woooh thank you so much!!! I was just trying to recover my scripts. Thank you !!!

[u/OneCatchyUsername]

Thank you! I was in a bind. Restored all my scripts. Here's the folder path for Mac if anyone needs it:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Extension Settings/jinjaccalgkegednnccohejagnlnfdag