Blockbuster, Tivo, and Greasemonkey
Someone asked for a Blockbuster version of the Netflix Greasemonkey script I wrote. I signed up for the free two week trial and got it working, I think. It's not very different from the original Netflix version, just some stripping of extra characters like "|WS|" or "|Unrated|" that Blockbuster adds to the title. Feel free to download it from here.
Update: BlockBuster made some minor changes that broke that version of the script. I've made some minor changes to fix things. I updated the link in the post to point to the new one. If you can't be bothered to find that link, you can get it here.
Update: I updated URLs to which the script applies and added quotes around the search title to get more exact matches. As always, you can get it here.
Update: Blockbuster started including the year of the disc in parentheses which would throw off the search so I stripped that information out before hitting the TiVo search site. I also changed the link to the TiVo site so that it would open in a new window/tab. I found myself always shift clicking the link so I just put it in the script.
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
[...] Here's a Blockbuster version. [...]
March 6th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I'm the Robert that made the Blockbuster "modification" request. I just gave it a try and it worked perfectly on my queue of 50+ movies. I scheduled 10-15 for my TiVo and deleted them off the list! Thanks alot for a great greasemonkey script.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Excellent. I'm glad to see someone is finding it useful.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Seems to be broken now (I guess blockbuster changed some internal structure). Too bad, I really liked this script.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:39 am
That's a shame. They're just creating work for me. I'll take a look at it this weekend. Unless they did something crazy it should be a quick fix.
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
All fixed.