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New Flickr API Response Formats

Pat Cavit — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:25:02 +0000

Flickr just launched two new formats for responses to API queries. Both JSON and Serialized PHP Objects are now supported. I don’t think I need to mention how awesome this is but let me say: it’s really really awesome. JSON support means that querying via JavaScript in stuff like GreaseMonkey plugins will now be easier than ever. REST is great and all but parsing XML in JavaScript is not something I ever want to do again. I tried it for a while and it made me pretty unhappy. Serialized PHP is pretty cool because there’s nothing like making a call to unserialize() and suddenly having a fully-populated PHP object ready for grabbing data from.

I’ve been harassing my friend at Y! about this ever since I first played with the Flickr API and I’m glad it’s finally happened. Granted, it’s all for Yahoo! HackDay but I can still pretend it happened because I asked for it.

GM Script: SA Forums Spoiler Rewriter

Pat Cavit — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:50:08 +0000

This is a pretty specific extension that not many people will have a use for, but it was good practice and taught me a fair bit about how the DOM works. Basically it searches through all SomethingAwful Forums pages for spoiler tags. If it finds them it rewrites the spoiler so that it is visible without a mouseover. The text still has the inverted color scheme for easy identification, it just no longer requires hovering with the mouse to be readable.

This was requested by a friend and I’m glad I was able to oblige.

Download here.

GM Script: Google Image Re-Linker

Pat Cavit — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:52:56 +0000

In my attempt to make GreaseMonkey do everything ever related to page rewriting in Firefox, I converted roachfiend’s Google Images Re-linker to a GreaseMonkey script.

I just got his permission to post this, so you can snag it here. It’s purpose is to make links in Google Image Search point directly to the image, instead of loading up a thumbnail in a frame. It works for me but my roommate complained about it not, so feel free to comment if it’s being odd. I can’t promise that I’ll be able to fix it since I’m still just getting my feet wet, but I can certainly try.

PS: Roachfiend writes some really awesome firefox extensions, you should check them out.

GM Script: Page Recolorator

Pat Cavit — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:15:58 +0000

So after being linked to GreaseMonkey and getting all excited about it before going to bed, I decided I had to give it a shot. Now granted, my knowledge of using advanced JavaScript is somewhat limited. However, after seeing a request for a GreaseMonkey Script that would simply the colorization of a page I knew I had to give it a shot. I was able to almost copy the code from here verbatim, with a few simple changes to allow it to not throw 20 million errors.

If for some reason you want this, you can download it here.

More cool scripts can be found here.

GreaseMonkey Is Cool

Pat Cavit — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:07:49 +0000

I was linked from mozdev.org – greasemonkey this evening by a good friend’s blog and I have to say, this is really cool. It’s an extension for FireFox that allows you to inject custom JavaScript into any pages that match a certain URL regex. It appears to be extremely flexible, and thus far I’m really impressed. Once it’s no longer 3am I plan to look into writing some of my own GreaseMonkey scripts to see about fixing some stuff that bugs me on certain sites.

I’ll report back once some progress has been made.