Greasmonkey script annotates IMDb movies with their decoder-ring percentile ranks
Posted by Tom Moertel Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:49:00 GMT
Sam at rephase.net has harnessed the earth-shattering power of the IMDb movie-rating decoder ring to create a Greasmonkey script that annotates IMDb-listed movies with their percentile ranks. Now you don’t need to look up a movie’s “star rating” in the decoder ring to see where the movie ranks; the ranking appears right on the movie’s IMDb page.
Do check out the script itself to see how Sam cleverly embeds a copy of the decoder ring and plucks scores from it as needed.
For more on the IMDb movie-rating decoder ring, see:
Embedding the decoder ring text like that is more about absurd inefficiency than cleverness, but I figured it’d make upgrading marginally easier if/when you update the data again. I’m happy to throw away any number of wasted cycles if it saves me two whole minutes down the track… ;)
Thanks for the link. (And the decoder ring!)
cool!