don't rely on english text on page

README.md

@@ -25,5 +25,6 @@ For the same reason as the last question. That's how the `@match` directives are
 - ~~Figure out why it doesn't work on Firefox~~
 	- ~~It's because the `@run-at context-menu` header only works in Chrome based browsers. The context menu item *appears* in Firefox but doesn't do anything. Find a workaraound~~
 		- It's actually because of something extremely different and much, much weirder. `@run-at context-menu` actually does exist in Firefox now, but there's a bizarre CSP enforcement bug that causes Firefox issues. Details on the installation page
-- Don't rely on parsing human-readable text, won't work in other languages
+- ~~Don't rely on parsing human-readable text, won't work in other languages~~
 	- There's no good API or anything for this, going to need to parse the document structure
+	- Done

remote_instance_actions.user.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // ==UserScript==
 // @name         Remote Instance Actions
 // @namespace    https://hollymcfarland.com
-// @version      0.9
+// @version      1.0
 // @description  Easily limit a remote instance from your Mastodon instance via the timeline
 // @author       monorail
 <?php
@@ -21,16 +21,31 @@
     // This means it handles substrings weirdly, and interacts weirdly with suspending subdomains
     // But there's an override so it's not so bad
     function checkStatus(domain, callback) {
+        function resultsFound(response) {
+            // reconstruct the results page in memory
+            const parser = new DOMParser();
+            const resultsPage = parser.parseFromString(response, "text/html");
+
+            // .directory__tag is the class for the div with results, if it exists
+            // so its presense indicates that a result was found, and the current domain is likely limited
+            return resultsPage.getElementsByClassName("directory__tag").length;
+        }
+
+        // perform a search for limited instances that match the highlighted text
         let url = `https://${window.location.host}/admin/instances?utf8=%E2%9C%93&limited=1&by_domain=${domain}`;
         let request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         request.open('GET', url);
 
         request.addEventListener('load', function() {
-            if (request.response.includes("You don&#39;t have permission to view this page.")) {
+            if (request.status === 403) {
                 alert("You are not logged in to an administrator account.");
                 return;
             }
-            if (request.response.includes("No domains found.") || confirm(`${domain} may already be limited. Continue anyway?`)) {
+            if (request.status !== 200 && !confirm("Recieved unexpected HTML status code. Continue anyway?")) {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            if (!resultsFound(request.response) || confirm(`${domain} may already be limited. Continue anyway?`)) {
                 callback(domain);
             }
         });