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Tight TV Grid
Operates on multiple TV listings services. Removes content surrounding the listing grid and adds an imdb.com/tv.com links in front of each program title.
Adds features to several popular TV listing sites:
http://www.excite.com/tv/grid.jsp
http://www.tvguide.com/listings/
http://tvlistings5.zap2it.com/tvlistings/
http://tvlistings.aol.com/listings/
http://www.imdb.com/tvgrid/
Isolates the listings grid on the page, provides imdb.com & tv.com links for each program title, and can highlight favorite and first-run shows. Also provides a current time indicator over most grids.
Current version: 2.6.1 (Latest features: Preferences dialog. See [Prefs] button in the lower right.)
Screenshots: http://refactoror.net/greasemonkey/TightTVGrid/...
Docs: http://refactoror.net/greasemonkey/TightTVGrid/...
aAlexo
User
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imdb links are not showing for me on
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Kerry1960
User
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Does not work at all with TvGuide or Zap2it. Excite is well known for tracking cookies. Isolates the grid for www.imdb.com/tvgrid/, but no current time. Haven't tried the others... |
Chris Noé
Script's author
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The latest version includes enhancements to the Preferences dialog, a new Omit Channels feature (channel ranges), and a minor performance improvement. See Docs link. |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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Steve, there is a preference called omitChannels. I have documented it now. Follow the Docs link above. Also, watch for the next release coming soon that sports a new Preferences dialog... |
s_t_e_v_e
User
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Hi Chris. This looks really slick on excite. Is there any way to add a preferences feature to be able to hide channels that I'm not interested in? |
jbh
User
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Would it be possible to update the script so that Zap2It listings fill the whole screen instead of just the left half? |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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The meevee adapter has never worked very well because they load most of their information dynamically *after* page has loaded. Consequently, greasemonkey invokes TTG before their page is finished, and I have not been able to get my wait-until-everything-is-loaded guessing logic to work reliably. I am removing meevee from the supported list. Sorry folks... |
neko
User
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this seems to be completely broken. nothing at all happens to meevee and there's nothing in the about:config that has anything to do with this script. |
alley
User
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I'm lost ...what the hell is this, and what exactly does this do? |
Dink
Scriptwright
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if using MeeVee enter this code to block out "missed shows" section Where yiu see similar code... mvDoc.removeNodes("//div[@class='missedShows']");// |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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zap2it.com has undergone a redesign. I am re-working that adapter and will announce an update soon. Thanks to Quincy Edwards for the heads-up. |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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Because Tight TV Grid is a multi-site script, it's difficult for me to monitor how well it is working on *all* of the sites *all* of the time. Therefore I would like to recruit individuals who use a given site on a daily basis, and who would be willing to keep me informed about issues as they arise. You would also be in a good position to influence future development. The sites that I currently need help with are: tvgiude.com, zap2it, aol.com. If you are interested in helping, please contact me directly at chris at refactoror net. I am willing to take on more than one advisor per site; when an issue arises I would include all participants into the email thread, so that anyone may weigh-in on the problem/solution. thanks! |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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Glad you like the script. I'm not sure what problem your screenshot is meant to show me? Maybe you are referring to the vertical line? That's the current time marker (it moves in real-time). If you don't like it, you can set "showTimeMarker" to false. (See http://refactoror.net/greasemonkey/TightTVGrid/...) The reason that TVguide.com loads so slowly is that they actually send an incomplete page to the browser at first, and then load more stuff in the background. Therefore TTG has to "camp out" until the page is fully constructed before it can safely modify things. |
MagnoliaSouth
User
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Excellent script and does the job. Although I did notice it was a bit slow to load. One problem I noticed was this:
I tried reloading and restarting the browser, but I'm still getting it. Do you think the slow down is related to it? I've no idea myself, I'm not even close to a script writer or programmer. Still though, I like what you've done and your careful attention to details with all your scripts. |
Randy Harmelink
User
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Reinstalled the script and it appears to work now. Strange. I was disabling mine when using yours on Excite, so not sure what was happening. An additional grid similar to Excite: Also: |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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Hmm. Wonder what the problem can be. Are there any clues in the Error Console? Could you own excite script be interfering? |
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Randy Harmelink
User
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Hmmm. Not seeing the first run feature on the Excite grid with the new script... Just as an FYI, this is what my processing on the Excite grid looks like: http://fast.filespace.org/rharmelink/excite-tv-... I also use a feature that allows me to order the channels in a custom order, and I use the time stamp row as a divider between them. But I do like having the ability to change the grid time on the screen. I did my processing on Excite, because I liked its starting presentation best. By the way, have you seen "The Movie Dude" script for movie web sites? I have to take a closer look at it, because it has a great configuration screen option on it, so that you can customize how the script processes the web page. |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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As of 2.5.3 the new highlighting scheme is: first-run programs highlighted in yellow, favorite titles bold. Enjoy! |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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Thanks for the feedback Randy. I have been thinking about exactly such a feature. But instead of just highlighting the word "New", it may be better to highlight the title itself. But that would require multiple highlighting "modes", since the favoriteTitles feature already does title highlighting, (bold in the case of excite). I would welcome suggestions on the best combination of highlighting styles for the various sites that TTG supports. |
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Randy Harmelink
User
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I did something similar to my usage of Excite TV last year. One feature I added to mine was to change all occurrences of "(New)" to be a spanned item with a yellow background color. It really makes the "new" shows stand out from the repeats... |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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tvguide.com is fixed |
MartinElk
User
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Tight TV grid WAS working on TV Guide, but stopped working within the last day or two. |
Hunter Thomas
User
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Tight TV grid doesn't seem to work on TV Guide. Can somebody help? I just loaded the evil vista. |
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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Folks, the new tv.yahoo.com design jumps the shark,
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Chris Noé
Script's author
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Tight users, On Nov 29 Yahoo completely remodeled tv.yahoo.com. This of course blew the Tight TV Grid script out of the water. In the coming weeks I will be evaluating how I might be able to adapt to the new HTML... I have long hoped secretly that Yahoo might notice Tight TV Grid and implement some of the ideas natively. Well, this new look is a little less top-heavy, but they still make the silly assumption that all users have the same screen real estate. I will be most intent on re-implementing: IMDb links, the time marker, floating header, and of course auto-refresh. I will preserve configs as much as feasible for backward compatibility. Post here if you feel strongly about a favorite feature. |
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