a greasemonkey script to find a movie in the internet movie database then check availability at ut...

A GreaseMonkeyScript to find a movie in the InternetMovie Databasethen checkavailability at UT

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Team: Matt Brodie

Kate Bronstad

Ray James

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Presentation overview Where we started Where we went Problems encountered

Learning the programs Perfecting the script

Demonstration Conclusions/observations

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Inspirations Like an agent

Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J. and Lassila, O. "The Semantic Web". Scientific American, May 2001.

Are You Ready for Web 2.0? Ryan Singel:“A new, more collaborative Internet..”

Angela Kille: Greasemonkey ppt

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Where we started Netflix to UT and back greasemonkey.mozdev.org userscripts.org j-san.net/files/imdblinksinnetflix.user.js The ubiquitous Movie Dude Building pieces into a whole Tarnation

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Greasemonkey GM is a Firefox extension Uses Javascript Idea is customize or enhance the

browser to meet user needs Our script includes UT, VV and

almost APL and has options

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The script that isn’t yet utimdb.user.js

//==UserScript==//@name University of Texas links in IMDB//////@description Adds UT holdings information for DVDs of IMDB movies//@include http://*.imdb.com/*//@include http://imdb.com/*//==/UserScript==

(function(){var libLeadingURLPart …

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function makeLibLink(movieName){if (movieName != null && movieName.length > 0){doLookUp: function(movieName){GM_xmlhttpRequest({method:'GET',url: libLeadingURLPart + movieName + libTrailingURLPart,onload: function(results){page = results.responseText;if (notFound.test(page)){var container = document.createElement("span");

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Where we went Getting a script to load Angela the guardian angel Amazon to UT Using Secure Shell Editing: matching )’s Refining: dumping Netflix

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What we found helpful Dive into Greasemonkey JavaScript books & Web pages Hours of manipulation, tweaking Advice of others Similar working scripts

Side by side comparison Counting pieces

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Useful sites

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Demonstration

Open Foxfire browser Make sure Greasemonkey is up URL:http://

www.ischool.utexas.edu/~mbrodie/swproj.html

Install user script Find a movie Check availability at UT or …

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Conclusion/observations If we can do it, anyone can Team up with someone who knows

javascript Start with something similar Work it, rework it, rework it again Edit it, re-edit it, re-edit it again Enjoy the glory of others using it

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Annotated ResourcesThe shell link is from here:http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.htmlShell used this to detect javascript errors within broswer

A movie finding user script:http://adamv.com/dev/grease/moviedude/moviedude15.user.jsScript that we based ours on.

Greasemonkey:http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/toc/Dive into greasemonkey, a most helpful source, the bible of greasemonkey

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More resources1) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~akille2) http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/573From Angela's script learned how to use gm_xmlhttp requests with UT, from other script learned how to place links in IMDB, but it didn't work.

http://www.j-san.net/files/imdblinksinnetflix.user.jsNon-working script for the original UT links in Netflix idea.

Userscripts.org - Universal Repositoryhttp://userscripts.org/full of GM scripts

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Yet more resourcesPascarello, Eric. JavaScript: Your visual blueprint for building dynamic web pages. 2004, 2nd ed, Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN

Pollock, John. JavaScript: a beginner's guide. 2001. McGraw-Hill Co. Berkeley, CA

Musciano, Chuch & Kennedy, Bill HTML & XHTML—The Definitive Guide, 5th ed., O’Reilly, Cambridge, MA, a brief general summary on Javascript

FavIcon from Pics – favicon icons for your websitehttp://www.htmlkit.com/ used this to make favicons

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Last of the resourcesW3, used this as a general javascript resource. http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

The data: URI kitchen http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/dataused this to make URI(s) for favicon(s).

http://karmatics.com/aardvark/Aardvark, used this to see the code on some pages where it was hidden because of frames.

http://www.webreference.com/javascript/reference/core/

A complete, online and downloadable resource.

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The last session.

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