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I’ve turned my attentions back to Greasemonkey of late, mostly little things to squash some annoying misfeature or otherwise make a website less cumbersome to use, but I haven’t been publishing these scripts. Most of them are too simple to bother, but it seems to me the two I wrote earlier this evening might actually be useful to someone else.

The problem I had was that I needed to get my 800+ ratings out of Netflix because I’m canceling my account. (There’s lots of good reasons, there have been whole articles written in respected news outlets, but the fact of the matter is that even after going back to the one-at-a-time plan, I can’t justify the expense seeing as I’ve had the same movie for two months.) I decided to put them in AllConsuming because, unlike NetFlix, all the data you put into AllConsuming can be easily exported again. Here are the scripts:

• allConsumingInNetFlix.user.js - After every movie title on any NetFlix page, this script adds a link to an AllConsuming search for that title. It also adds a floating link (top left) to open a search window for all movie links on that page, for exporting your queue or your ratings.
• AllConsumingWorthIt.user.js - This replaces the select box on an AllConsuming item page with a series of radio buttons. This reduces the number of mouse clicks required to rate something from two to one. Believe me, when inputting over 800 ratings, those clicks add up.

It struck me as I was doing this that the first greasemonkey scripts I wrote, almost a year and a half ago, were to overcome shortcomings of the NetFlix site. Now, after DVD throttling and Netflix guilt, I’m writing scripts to free my data from them. Here’s hoping other sites I’ve lavished scripting attention on don’t meet similar ends.

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I told you mannequins are creepy.

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