Greasemonkey Newzbin Poster Script
As promised, I’m posting my Greasemonkey Script for NewzBin. This one displays poster images, ratings and movie descriptions.
Feature list:
- Puts reports of the same movie into one group
- Shows poster image for each movie
- Loads movie description, rating and genre and displays them
- Sorts movies according to rating
- Compatible with Newzbin Normal and Lite Mode
Screenshots
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Instructions
If you don’t have GreaseMonkey, get it here. This is an extension for Firefox that allows you to modify foreign pages.
Install the script from here.
Go to Newzbin and open a page containing movie reports. The script should automatically detect the movie links and load the information. After loading is complete, the movies will be reordered according to their rating. Reports marked as new will stay on top. Reports, that have no IMDB link, will be displayed at the bottom of the page.
If you want to see the reports for a movie, click on the poster image on the left side. The original Newzbin Entries will be displayed.
If you’ve been using other Greasemonkey scripts for Newzbin before, please make sure they do not interfere with each other. If you encounter problems, please deactivate the other scripts.
How it was done
After using James Wilsons Ultimate Newzbin Suite for a while, which is actually a very cool script, I thought it would be nice to have the poster images displayed for the movies. But this was pretty hard to establish, because IMDB doesn’t allow to cross-link their images on other sites. After wasting lot of time trying to overcome this restriction, I finally managed it to load the poster images with a workaround described here. But then I found it looked ugly, because often Newzbin has multiple reports of the same movie, which resulted in showing the same poster over and over again. This also lead to unnecessary bandwidth usage, because the same movie information was loaded again with each report. This lead me to the idea to group same movies.But this requiered a completely different data handling than was done in the other scripts, so I had to write the script from scratch.
Feedback
Please discuss the script on the UserScript Site.