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Show HN: IMDB and RT ratings on Netflix

59 points by josh_blum 14y ago

mansigandhi 14y ago
That's a cool plug in - I generally don't trust the Netflix ratings as much as the other two.
sw93 14y ago
Great that you included firefox too. I can't watch netflix on linux, so it helps to have the firefox option for wine.
lubujackson 14y ago
Awesome idea, insta-installed.
k-mcgrady 14y 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 14y 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
  - k-mcgrady 14y ago
    Great, thanks for clearing that up! Installing now :)
  - fision-e 14y ago
    Wow, I guess I'm somewhat surprised that MIT is willing to let users create e-mail addresses for non-academic purposes.
    - selter01 14y ago
      MIT allows us to create email lists.
edwardunknown 14y ago
Hells yeah, Metacritic would be nice too
rickyc091 14y ago
Awesome extension. Anyone know if there's an extension that links you to the Netflix page for DVD only shows/movies?
baddox 14y ago
I'm curious how sophisticated the cross-site movie-matching is and how well it works.
- josh_blum 14y 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.
kuldeep_kap 14y 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 14y 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 14y ago
    Thanks! Looking forward to the update!
mdxn 14y 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.
- dannyr 14y 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.
- zaidf 14y 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.
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joenathan 14y 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/versions/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/netflix-rate/...
- josh_blum 14y 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.
Goranek 14y ago
Nice idea

59 points by josh_blum 14y ago

mansigandhi 14y ago

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

sw93 14y ago

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

lubujackson 14y ago

Awesome idea, insta-installed.

k-mcgrady 14y 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 14y 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
- k-mcgrady 14y ago
  Great, thanks for clearing that up! Installing now :)
- fision-e 14y ago
  Wow, I guess I'm somewhat surprised that MIT is willing to let users create e-mail addresses for non-academic purposes.
  - selter01 14y ago
    MIT allows us to create email lists.

edwardunknown 14y ago

Hells yeah, Metacritic would be nice too

rickyc091 14y ago

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

baddox 14y ago

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

josh_blum 14y 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.

kuldeep_kap 14y 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 14y 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 14y ago
  Thanks! Looking forward to the update!

mdxn 14y 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.

dannyr 14y 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.
zaidf 14y 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.
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joenathan 14y 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/versions/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/netflix-rate/...

josh_blum 14y 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.

Goranek 14y ago

Nice idea