Greasmonkey script annotates IMDb movies with their decoder-ring percentile ranks
Posted on July 11, 2007
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:
- the decoder ring itself
- my talk Fun with Numbers: R and Perl and IMDB data
- Mining gold from the IMDb