First thing you do is head on over to userscripts.org and do a search on rotten tomatos to see if anyone has already made your script for you...
A quick search on 'rotten tomatos' gets you a few IMDB and rotten tomato related scripts. This one [ http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12897 ] seems like the best, it adds information from the Rotten Tomatos site into the IMDB page. Doing multiple searches on rotten tomatos, wiki, and imdb should get you a few more scripts that might be closer to what you want. If you are still intent on rolling your own, you can start off by installing the script that is closest to what you want, I saw a few that add links to the rotten tomatos site to other sites, like pirate bay. You can install one of those (a simple one is better) and can start poking around and seeing what parts of the script correspond to adding in links. From there out google is your friend in terms of looking up info on specific Javascript functions you encounter, and for things like XPath and regular expressions, both of which you would probably need for this script. Once you have the general idea down, you can always come back here to ask more specific questions. Have fun! On Jul 14, 7:38 am, daws0n <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've often wondered why Newzbin has direct links to IMDB, but none to > rottentomatoes... Looking at the RT website they have a "deep linking" > facility that should make linking easier than I first thought... > > http://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/webmast... > > e.g (taken from link above) > > ----------------------------------- > > Mad Max:http://www.imdb.com/Title?0079501 > > Using the IMDB ID number, "0079501", you may access the Rotten > Tomatoes Mad Max page using the following URL: > Mad Max:http://www.rottentomatoes.com/alias?type=imdbid... > > Essentially, you simply need to replace the IMDb-assigned ID value at > the end of the URL. > > ----------------------------------- > > It seems like a simple text/string modification and you're away :) > Would this be easy to create into a greasemonkey script? Adding an > extra button left of the movie title (next to the IMDB globe link, for > example), or failing that just replacing the IMDB link already > supplied with an Rotten Tomatoes one. > > I am completely new to programming/scripting in general so if anyone > could help with advice/first steps etc... I'd be very grateful... In > principal it seems it would be very easy to make but I have no idea > where to start! > > Thanks, > Dawson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
