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Show HN: IMDB and RT ratings on Netflix

by josh_blum on 3/13/13, 9:58 PM with 21 comments

  • by mdxn on 3/13/13, 11:15 PM

    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.

  • by joenathan on 3/14/13, 12:52 AM

    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/...

  • by kuldeep_kap on 3/13/13, 11:03 PM

    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.

  • by k-mcgrady on 3/13/13, 10:15 PM

    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.

  • by sw93 on 3/13/13, 10:12 PM

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

  • by rickyc091 on 3/13/13, 10:25 PM

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

  • by mansigandhi on 3/13/13, 10:06 PM

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

  • by baddox on 3/13/13, 10:35 PM

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

  • by lubujackson on 3/13/13, 10:14 PM

    Awesome idea, insta-installed.

  • by Goranek on 3/14/13, 1:26 PM

    Nice idea

  • by edwardunknown on 3/13/13, 10:18 PM

    Hells yeah, Metacritic would be nice too