User Scripts Search Sorting

By Brad Stewart — Last update Mar 14, 2007 — Installed 3,521 times.

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// User Scripts Search Sorting, v 0.3.1, 2007-March-14
// Copyright (c) Brad Stewart, 2007
// Released under the GNU GPL, v2
// ==UserScript==
// @name           User Scripts Search Sorting
// @namespace      http://bradmont.net
// @description    Sorts search results on userscripts.org
// @include        http://userscripts.org/scripts/search*
// @include        http://*.userscripts.org/scripts/search*
// @include        http://userscripts.org/tag/*
// @include        http://*.userscripts.org/tag/*
// @include        http://userscripts.org/users/*scripts
// @include        http://*.userscripts.org/users/*scripts
// ==/UserScript==

function add_headers(){
   var headerRow = document.getElementsByTagName("table")[0].getElementsByTagName("tr")[0];
   var info = headerRow.getElementsByTagName("th")[0];
   info.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
   var link = document.createElement("a");
   link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Name"));
   link.setAttribute("href", "#");
   link.addEventListener('click', sort_by_name, true);
   info.appendChild(link);

   var info = headerRow.getElementsByTagName("th")[1];
   info.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
   var link = document.createElement("a");
   link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Installs"));
   link.setAttribute("href", "#");
   link.addEventListener('click', sort_by_installs, true);
   info.appendChild(link);
   info.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
   var link = document.createElement("a");
   link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Comments"));
   link.setAttribute("href", "#");
   link.addEventListener('click', sort_by_comments, true);
   info.appendChild(link);
   info.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
   var link = document.createElement("a");
   link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Date"));
   link.setAttribute("href", "#");
   link.addEventListener('click', sort_by_date, true);
   info.appendChild(link);

}

function sort_by_date(){
   sort_scripts(3);
}

function sort_by_comments(){
   sort_scripts(1);
}

function sort_by_installs(){
   sort_scripts(2);
}

function sort_by_name(){
   sort_scripts(0);
}

function sort_scripts(sort_field){
   // there's only one table on the page, so...
   var scriptsTable = document.getElementsByTagName("table")[0];
   var rows = scriptsTable.getElementsByTagName("tr");
   var headerRow = rows[0]; // we don't want to sort the headers.
   var scripts = new Array();
   var parent=headerRow.parentNode; // for removing & adding child nodes

   while (rows.length > 1){
      script = rows[1];
      script=script.parentNode.removeChild(script);
      // the 3rd paragraph in the <tr> is the one that contains the install count
      if (sort_field == 1 || sort_field == 2){
         metric = script.getElementsByTagName("p")[sort_field].wrappedJSObject.firstChild.data;
         metric = parseInt(metric.split(" ")[0].replace(",", ""));
      } else if (sort_field == 3){
         metric = script.getElementsByTagName("abbr")[0].getAttribute("title");
         metric=metric.replace(/[T:Z]/g, "-");
         parts = metric.split("-");
         metric = new Date(parts[0], parts[1], parts[2], parts[3], parts[4], parts[5], 0).getTime();
      } else if (sort_field == 0){
         // name
         metric = script.getElementsByTagName("a")[1].wrappedJSObject.firstChild.data.toLowerCase();
      }
      scripts.push([metric, script.wrappedJSObject]);
   }

   if (sort_field != 0){
      scripts.sort(
         function(a, b) { return b[0]-a[0];} // descending sort
      );
   } else {
      scripts.sort();
   }

   for (var i = 0; i < scripts.length; i++){
      script = scripts[i];
      parent.appendChild(script[1]);
   }

}
add_headers();
sort_scripts(2);