Show HN: IMDB and RT ratings on Netflix

Show HN: IMDB and RT ratings on Netflix(netflix.burtonthird.com)

59 points by josh_blum 13 years ago | 21 comments

mdxn 13 years ago |

There are dozens of Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org dating back to 2005 that do exactly this and more (On Chrome, you can use the Tampermonkey extension; On Firefox, it's just called Greasemonkey). No to belittle your work or anything, but why is this interesting or newsworthy?

Also, I suspect that some of the comments here are either fake or staged. However, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. If my skepticism and critique here are based on misunderstandings, I apologize.

zaidf 13 years ago | |

There are dozens of Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org dating back to 2005 that do exactly this and more

You answered your own question: this is kind of different because it is not a greasemonkey script and thus targeted at a different audience.

dannyr 13 years ago | |

Never heard of TamperMonkey before. It looks like you can replicate it there but it's not straightforward. I'd rather use his extension.

joenathan 13 years ago |

Any reason the add-on for Firefox is 4.2 MB? It would by and far be the largest extension I've encountered.

edit: looks like there is a v0.1.2 coming which is much smaller 404.3 KB https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/netflix-rate/...

josh_blum 13 years ago | |

I had some screenshots within the repo for convenience but removed them in v0.1.2 I'm still waiting for the Add-On store to review this version which is why it's not the one displayed currently.

kuldeep_kap 13 years ago |

Perfect timing! I was thinking of spending a weekend myself for an extension like this. You saved me a much pain, Thanks!

It would be great if you can add the IMDb rating at bottom right corner of the title image, instead of me having to hover on title to see. It kind of gets annoying to check each and every title for ratings.

josh_blum 13 years ago | |

Good idea, I can put that in the next update. I usually hover to see more info first that's why I put in the ratings there. Thanks!

kuldeep_kap 13 years ago | | |

Thanks! Looking forward to the update!

k-mcgrady 13 years ago |

Great idea but the reviews in the chrome store indicate that it sometimes shows the incorrect ratings. If it works well I'd use it but I'd rather have no extra ratings if I can't trust them.

josh_blum 13 years ago | |

A lot of the reviews are with older versions of the extension, I have tried to iron out any of these bugs. If you find anything you can send feedback to netflix-rate-feedback@mit.edu

fision-e 13 years ago | | |

Wow, I guess I'm somewhat surprised that MIT is willing to let users create e-mail addresses for non-academic purposes.

k-mcgrady 13 years ago | | |

Great, thanks for clearing that up! Installing now :)

sw93 13 years ago |

Great that you included firefox too. I can't watch netflix on linux, so it helps to have the firefox option for wine.

rickyc091 13 years ago |

Awesome extension. Anyone know if there's an extension that links you to the Netflix page for DVD only shows/movies?

mansigandhi 13 years ago |

That's a cool plug in - I generally don't trust the Netflix ratings as much as the other two.

baddox 13 years ago |

I'm curious how sophisticated the cross-site movie-matching is and how well it works.

josh_blum 13 years ago | |

Its far from perfect. For the hover overlays I search first by title and then once the hover appears I search again with the year and title (Netflix doesn't give the year until the hover appears). This increases the accuracy but there are still problems, for example Netflix uses "The Office (U.S.)" which does not match IMDB's title.

lubujackson 13 years ago |

Awesome idea, insta-installed.

Goranek 13 years ago |

Nice idea

edwardunknown 13 years ago |

Hells yeah, Metacritic would be nice too