Little script

[firstfrost]

Hah! I have written my first Greasemonkey script. Happily, I could do this without actually having to learn javascript and DML some other thing I'm confused about now, with enough stealing of other people's code.

Anyway, it appends a link to Amazon to each book on the paperbackswap.com site, not so that you can go buy the book instead, but because Amazon really does have better book info.

http://web.mit.edu/boojum/www/bookswapamazonlinks.user.js

(Hmm. Attempting to add the links to more than just the one page seems to have resulted in multiple amazon links being liberally festooned around. Still a few bugs in the system.)

Comments

[twe.livejournal.com]

Cool! Though I am also finding myself wondering why reading the little fox reading the newspaper is "victorious."

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The foxes don't seem to have a lot of variety; in this case I picked "accomplished" and it was the guy with the paper. I decided it made a little more sense than the general happy-fox, because newspapers, computer programs, paperback books, sort of the same. :)