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Show HN: IMDB ratings, movie browsing for the lazy (Chrome)

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Hi guys. I wanted to take a break from all these TV shows everybody's been watching lately and get the time to catch up with some good movies for a change, but I didn't really know where to start. Naturally, I begun browsing IMDB to see what my favorite actors were up to and what new movies did they play in. The problem was I wanted to find the ones with at least a good rating (I know, I know... but that rating still helps), so I kept going back and forth from an actor I follow to each of his movies, one by one. Then I thought, wouldn't it be cool to just have all the ratings listed? Yes it would. So I started building this basic functionality as a Chrome extension a few hours ago and now it's already working as intended and makes it a lot easier for me to find a movie to watch. Take a look and let me know if you have other ideas to improve this experience.

Hey, looks like a nice extension.

Just one thing - if I load up a page, and then try to click an accordion dropdown thing, it doesn't copy down ratings (or load up now ones). Apart from that, nice work!

See screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/W5GdC.png

The reason I didn't want to load ALL titles from the page was that it would make an awful amount of requests at once, and also because I wanted to calculate that person rating based on the the first (featured) section. But since some people (such as Wes Anderson, in your case) have a similar amount of titles in more than one section, I made this work. Every section has ratings loaded now, except that they load only after they're made visible. Update your extension and all should be OK

Edit: typo

Thanks for the update, works really well!

I was hoping it would show the IMDB rating on the Google movie listings page. I always end up having to search for the title -> click IMDB link -> view rating while picking a movie to watch in cinema.

That's actually a good idea, I'll try it out later today.

You could use the "Show by rating" feature above the movie list. For example: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/filmorate#actor

That's what I use if I want to find the "best" movies by a director or actor. It's also a better source for the movie rating data in your extension rather than sending a get request for every film in a filmography.

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