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Firefox Extension: Movie Ratings from Rotten Tomatoes

To see the most recent updates or post comments please go to this post.

I’m a heavy user of Netflix and I wasn’t too happy with the user generated ratings for movies. I would always have Rotten Tomatoes open in another window to see their ratings. Needless to say I became annoyed at having to go search Rotten Tomatoes each time so I hacked together a Firefox extension that would do it for me. I hope it makes your lives a bit easier. Let me know what you think!

You can download here.

Bug Post

Change Log

Version 1.5.4

  • Fixed yet another parsing issue.

Version 1.5.3

  • Fixed another parsing issue.

Version 1.5.2

  • Fixed yet another HTML appearing issue. I need to find a better approach…

Version 1.5.1

  • Fixed an issue where HTML appeared for movies without ratings.

Version 1.5

  • Removed the HTML that was displayed in the title and the hover movie stats.
  • The rating image was not being displayed.

Version 1.4.9

  • Now compatible with Firefox 3.6.

Version 1.4.8

  • Non-word characters are now replaced with a space.

Version 1.4.7

  • Fixed issue with HTML being displayed instead of the rating.

Version 1.4.6

  • Now compatible with Firefox 3.5 beta 4.

Version 1.4.5

  • Fixed a bug where text appeared white in certain Personas themes.

Version 1.4.4

  • Some more under the hood changes. Nothing major.

Version 1.4.3

  • Some under the hood changes. Nothing major.

Version 1.4.2

  • If an exact match is found it will go straight to the movie rating skipping the search results. You can always go back to the search results if it’s not the movie you’re looking for. This feature can be turned off in the options under Tools->Add-ons.
  • Bug fixes.

Version 1.4.1

  • Fixed issue with not recognizing selected text in Gmail.

Version 1.4

  • You can now change the context menu text from the Options button in Tools->Add-ons.
  • Small UI changes.
  • Numerous bug fixes.

Version 1.3

  • Complete rewrite. More stable.
  • UI changes.
  • Now able to get the rating for text in a text box.
  • Added a time out message if search takes longer than 8 seconds.
  • Extra rating information is now shown in a tool tip when mouse is over the rating box.
  • User settings for hiding the tray icon and changing how the rating box closes are now available through the “Options” link for Movie Rating in the Add-On Manager located under Tools->Add-Ons. Bug fixes.

Version 1.2

  • Bug fixes.
  • You can now right click on a link instead of highlighting it.
  • Regular text must still be highlighted.
  • New rating information on movies.
  • Back button to go back to search results.
  • The movie title in the rating page now links to its Rotten Tomatoes page.
  • “Tomato” tray icon. Configurable in “Tools->Movie Ratings”.
  • You can now close the window by clicking anywhere outside the box. It is turned off by default. Configurable in “Tools->Movie Ratings”.

Version 1.1

  • Some under the hood changes.
  • The box no longer overlaps the browser scroll bar.

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17 Responses to “Firefox Extension: Movie Ratings from Rotten Tomatoes”

  1. Adam Bossy Says:
    October 16th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    I’m glad to hear you’re working on side projects! I’ll be sure to criticize you in person this November after I try it. :)

  2. Nirav Says:
    October 17th, 2008 at 12:11 am

    Sorry, I don’t use Firefox :(

  3. Adam Bossy Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    No criticism here. Very cool! One suggestion, though: have it link to movies on Rotten Tomatoes.

    Is it possible to make it a bookmarklet for non-Firefox users? I don’t know what goes on under the hood with Firefox extensions, but if it’s javascript-based you could roll it up into a remote javascript call.

  4. ronak Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Glad you liked it! Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll be adding the linking to rotten tomatoes soon and I’ll look into bookmarklets.

  5. Briefe Schreiben Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

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  6. Baran Says:
    December 14th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Hey guys,

    I have programmed a small app which gets IMDB info automatically for folders. Freeware, opensource. Feedback appreciated!

    http://baranflex.blogspot.com/2008/12/imdb-movie-catalog-with-adobe-air.html

  7. RonakPatel.Net » Blog Archive » Projects Says:
    February 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    [...] Movie Ratings from Rotten Tomatoes [...]

  8. Eric Says:
    November 7th, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    Hi, I like this plugin. I have a suggestion: searching would be better if you replace non-word characters with spaces. For example, searching for “Face/Off” doesn’t give the right result (this is actually rottentomatoes’ fault). With a replace like this added it does work:

    this._selection = this.getSelection();

    if (this._selection != null) {

    + this._selection = this._selection.replace(/\W/g, ” “);

    this._rottenTomatoes.doSearch(this._selection);

  9. Ronak Says:
    November 11th, 2009 at 8:49 am

    Thanks Eric for the suggestion. I will release an update with it.

  10. Giovanni Says:
    February 20th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    Hi,

    thanks for this! I am a heavy user of netflix myself and this add on really makes my life easier.

    A couple of nice features that maybe you can implement:

    .Show if the movie is certified fresh
    .Have an option to show the rating from “top critics” only.

    Thanks!

  11. kace Says:
    June 23rd, 2010 at 8:18 am

    I love this extension! Ever thought about implementing it for Chrome?

  12. Ronak Says:
    June 23rd, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    Actually yeah. It’s on my to do list. I’ll bump it up.

  13. RonakPatel.Net » Blog Archive » Chrome Extension: Movie Ratings Says:
    August 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 pm

    [...] created a stripped down version of the Firefox Movie Ratings extension for Chrome. It displays both the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings for a highlighted movie [...]

  14. Ronak Says:
    August 22nd, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    I created a stripped down version of the extension for Chrome. It displays both Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings and it’s faster. Check it out. I will be creating a Firefox version of it.

    http://www.ronakpatel.net/2010/08/22/chrome-extension-movie-ratings/

  15. giovanni Says:
    September 25th, 2010 at 12:08 am

    Ronak, RT changed again! Now it shows also the flixster rating on the page and of course… it messed up my favorite extension…
    Will you have time to fix this (and maybe show also the flixster rating in the box, now that it is readily available)?

  16. Ronak Says:
    September 26th, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    I’m working on a fix. I’ll try to get the flixster rating in too.

  17. giovanni Says:
    September 29th, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    Thanks! You’re great!