Comments on Matt Blodgett: Rotten Tomatoes + Netflix + Greasemonkey = RottenF...

paras, It seems that userscripts.org is experienc...

2011-04-05T08:30:20.615-04:00

paras,

It seems that userscripts.org is experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment. I'm getting 502 errors all over the site.

Try back later and hopefully the site will be functioning again.

Matt, i am sure i am doing something wrong, but wh...

2011-04-05T04:18:54.048-04:00

Matt, i am sure i am doing something wrong, but when i try to install the script i get a 502 error.

Eugene, Thanks for the tip about your API! I'...

2011-03-29T20:32:51.618-04:00

Eugene,

Thanks for the tip about your API! I'll take a look.

Matt, this is super-useful-awesome! (I wish there...

2011-03-24T17:35:14.938-04:00

Matt, this is super-useful-awesome! (I wish there was a word that combined all three). By the way, we (rottentomatoes.com) have a new developer api in beta - http://developer.rottentomatoes.com - check it out :)

Curtis, That's an interesting approach! I nev...

2011-01-16T18:28:50.656-05:00

Curtis,

That's an interesting approach! I never thought to scrape Google search results.

Hey, awesome script! I was able to solve the Netfl...

2011-01-10T00:58:52.538-05:00

Hey, awesome script! I was able to solve the Netflix to Rotten Tomatoes url problem by using google as an intermediary. In other words, the request url becomes http://www.google.com/search?q=rotten%20tomatoes%20 + movieTitle. After making this request all you have to do is scrape the google search page for the proper RT movie url and the rating itself (google includes the movies current rating in the summary). The specific code I used to do the scraping is as follows:

var pos = responseHTML.search(/Rating: \d+/g);
var rating = pos > 0 ? '' + parseInt(responseHTML.substring(pos + 8, pos + 10)) : 'No';

Note this only grabs the rating, not the proper RT url. It's ugly but it works.

Cheers,
Curtis

This is fantastic! I was really expecting to spend...

2010-07-11T03:09:58.993-04:00

This is fantastic! I was really expecting to spend the next few hours writing this myself, but then I thought on the slim chance that someone already had done it.

Thanks Matt!

Matt, Rotten Tomatoes supports IMDb-Related Linki...

2010-05-26T15:07:43.270-04:00

Matt,

Rotten Tomatoes supports IMDb-Related Linking. For example, you can link to Punch-Drunk Love (2002) using this URL:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/alias/?s=Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

This will result in a 302 response with a location header of /m/punchdrunk_love/

Hey man, awesome script. One thing I noticed as fa...

2010-03-24T18:15:13.020-04:00

Hey man, awesome script. One thing I noticed as far as reverse-engineering the RT API is that a title like "Punch-Drunk Love" resolves itself to http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/punchdrunk_love/. Just possibly another rule you could add to your algorithm. Thanks!

Eddie, If the source code for InstantWatcher were...

2010-03-04T20:21:26.663-05:00

Eddie,

If the source code for InstantWatcher were available, I'd definitely have a look, but that doesn't seem likely.

I followed that link you posted, and the algorithm "danchoi" describes is definitely something I could implement, but I don't think it would be worth the effort.

About to start developing the same thing, but you ...

2010-03-03T20:27:36.750-05:00

About to start developing the same thing, but you saved me the effort! Great work!

Thanks for the effort Matt. Have you looked at how...

2010-02-21T19:20:59.002-05:00

Thanks for the effort Matt. Have you looked at how InstantWatcher matches title to RT ratings ?

http://instantwatcher.com/about#comment-34806063

Yes, RottenFlix is awesome. Good work!

2009-12-01T02:20:45.440-05:00

Yes, RottenFlix is awesome. Good work!

Thanks for the compliment! It's awesome to hea...

2009-08-28T23:37:06.372-04:00

Thanks for the compliment! It's awesome to hear that people (other than myself) are finding RottenFlix useful. :-)

Brilliant script! I love it when I think of an id...

2009-08-28T12:13:31.481-04:00

Brilliant script! I love it when I think of an idea, Google it, and find that somebody was thinking the exact same thing. I get so tired of getting dud movies, but often I don't trust the ratings at Netflix. It has become tedious to tab back and forth between RT and NF.