1. A GreaseMonkey Script to find a movie in the Internet Movie Database then check availability at UT Searching for Searching for Team: Matt Brodie Kate Bronstad Ray James

2. May 1, 2006 2 Presentation overview  Where we started  Where we went  Problems encountered  Learning the programs  Perfecting the script  Demonstration  Conclusions/observations

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4. 4 Inspirations  Like an agent  Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J. and Lassila, O. "The Semantic Web". Scientific American, May 2001.The Semantic Web  Are You Ready for Web 2.0?  Ryan Singel: “A new, more collaborative Internet..”  Angela Kille: Greasemonkey ppt ppt

5. May 1, 2006 5 Where we started  Netflix to UT and back  greasemonkey.mozdev.org greasemonkey.mozdev.org  userscripts.org userscripts.org  j-san.net/files/imdblinksinnetflix.user.js  The ubiquitous Movie Dude  Building pieces into a whole  Tarnation

6. May 1, 2006 6 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

7. May 1, 2006 7 The script that isn’t yet  utimdb.user.js utimdb.user.js //==UserScript== //@name University of Texas links in IMDB//// //@descriptionAdds UT holdings information for DVDs of IMDB movies //@includehttp://*.imdb.com/* //@includehttp://imdb.com/* //==/UserScript== (function() { var libLeadingURLPart …

8. May 1, 2006 8 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");

9. May 1, 2006 9 Where we went  Getting a script to load  Angela the guardian angel  Amazon to UT  Using Secure Shell  Editing: matching )’s  Refining: dumping Netflix

10. May 1, 2006 10 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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13. May 1, 2006 13 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 …

14. May 1, 2006 14 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

15. May 1, 2006 15 Annotated Resources The shell link is from here: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html Shell used this to detect javascript errors within broswer A movie finding user script: http://adamv.com/dev/grease/moviedude/moviedude15.user.js Script that we based ours on. Greasemonkey: http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/toc/ Dive into greasemonkey, a most helpful source, the bible of greasemonkey

16. May 1, 2006 16 More resources 1) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~akille 2) http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/573 From 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.js Non-working script for the original UT links in Netflix idea. Userscripts.org - Universal Repository http://userscripts.org/ full of GM scripts

17. May 1, 2006 17 Yet more resources Pascarello, 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 website http://www.htmlkit.com/http://www.htmlkit.com/ used this to make favicons

18. May 1, 2006 18 Last of the resources W3, used this as a general javascript resource. http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp The data: URI kitchen http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data used 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.

19. May 1, 2006 19 The last session.

20. May 1, 2006 20 Questions or Comments?