Hello all:
I know this is not the kind of thing I normally post about but I’ve got nowhere else to release it…I’ve been spending (read: wasting) a lot of time lately at www.jellyfish.com (I’m bm4n there). It is a site where items are listed and the price continually drops until the item sells. After the item is gone the users have the ability to participate in a question thing where everybody who chose the least chosen item is given a “guru point.” Guru points are worth nothing at all. But many, like myself, obsessively seek after them and visit the site soley for the points. The problem is that there is such a small window to opt in to the guru guess and vote that people like myself who are not always on the page tend to miss many of the guesses. I have solved that problem.
I have written a small script that runs in greasemonkey in Firefox that displays a pop-up alert when opt in period is starting and anohter when the vote is starting. Its very barebones at this point but in the future I may add things like audio alerts, sexier, more discreet alerts, and hopefully, in a different script, winner tracking. This version is really only a beta that is very limited in what it does so please keep that in mind as you test it out. Please let me know what you think of the script and any ideas for modifications and things of that sort.
Here is the file: OutwitAlert
Here are the setup instructions, as stolen from firewithfire’s jellybot (Thanks firewithfire!):
Step 1: Download and install Firefox. If you’re not using Firefox already, you should be. This is a wise decision no matter what.
Step 2: Download and install Greasemonkey. Great little plug-in that runs your new and upcoming bot! Remember, it requires a restart of Firefox after you install it.
Step 3: Download and install the OutwitAlert script. If you installed Greasemonkey and restarted Firefox, it should ask if you want to install the script automatically. Feel free to modify the script however you would like.
You can feel free to edit this anyway you like but please give me credit when you do. Also, if you do anything cool with the script I’d love to hear about it!
Enjoy!
bm4n
EDIT: I just realized I gave no credit to firewithfire, from JellyFish.com! He wrote a small guru bot for JF and without that my own script would not have been possible…so thank you!