Netflix Queue Sorter
— Last update Nov 29, 2008 — Installed 227 times.| Script Summary: v1.5: Sort your Netflix queue by movie title, genre, average rating, star/suggested/user rating, availability, or playability. Includes options to shuffle/randomize or reverse your queue. |
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Please make sure you've uninstalled any and all old version(s) of this script via Tools->Greasemonkey->Manage User Scripts...Netflix Queue Sorter, v1.5 (29 Nov 2008) [source]
Select Netflix Queue Sorter and press the Uninstall button.
Then, if you haven't already, install the latest version of this script.
This script allows you to shuffle (that is: randomize), reverse, or sort your DVD or Instant Queue by movie title, genre, star rating (that is: suggested rating or user rating), average rating, availability, or playability.
Screen shot:
Available options:
| Shuffle | Shuffles your queue into a random order. |
| Reverse | Reverses the current list order. (Turns 1 through 100 into 100 through 1.) |
| Sort by Title | Alphabetically sorts your queue by movie title. |
| Sort by Playability | Moves all playable movies to the top of your queue. (DVD queue only.) |
| Sort by Star Rating | Sorts all movies by star rating (the colored stars you see in your queue) from high to low. Use the Reverse button to sort from low to high rating. |
| Sort by Average Rating | Sorts all movies by average rating (hover over a movie title to see it) from high to low. Use the Reverse button to sort from low to high rating. |
| Sort by Genre | Alphabetically sorts your queue by genre. |
| Sort by Availability | Moves the most desirable movies to the top of your queue. (Makes sure you're one of the first to receive new or hard to get movies.) The sort order for the DVD queue is: future releases, very long wait, long wait, short wait, now. The sort order for the instant queue is: limited availability on top, the rest below. |
Tip for instant queue users: this script becomes more valuable if you install the IE Tab Firefox plugin, so that you no longer have to use IE to watch instant movies. Once installed, you can both sort and watch in Firefox! Detailed installation and setup instructions are available here.
History:
- 2008-11-29: v1.5: fix sorting dates in availability sort on Instant queue
- 2008-11-08: v1.4: series discs are now in correct order when sorting by rating
- 2008-11-06: v1.3: small fix to availability sort: just move items up and don't change rest of the list order
- 2008-11-06: v1.2: add sort by availability, add sort by playability, add reverse queue option, rename randomize -> shuffle
- 2008-11-01: v1.1: fix netflix changed page markup, add randomize, sort by title and sort by genre, don't use rated movies in avg rating sort, fix bug in series disc processing, improve ui, improve performance by not marking changed rows
- 2008-10-17: v1.0: rename user rating to suggested rating, make sorting DVD queue work (deal with series discs), let user know what to do when sort is done.
- 2008-10-11: v0.2: allow sort by user rating and average rating, improve performance, enable Update Queue button, mark changed rows, scroll back to top when sort is done.
- 2008-10-08: v0.1: sorting algorithm works for Instant queue only.
Known Issues (also see my to-do list):
- Sort by rating and sort by title keep series discs together and in the right order (e.g. disc 1 before disc 2). All other options do not. This will be fixed in a future release.
- Sorting by average rating is slow if you have lots of already rated movies in your queue.
Installation instructions:
- Install Greasemonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
- Restart Firefox.
- Load page and click the Install this script button at the top.
- Greasemonkey will ask you to install the script. Choose Install.
Usage instructions:
- Go to Netflix and log in.
- Go to your queue.
- Click on shuffle, reverse, or one of the sort buttons.
- If you like, inspect the new ordering in the text fields.
- Click the Update Queue button to save it, or refresh the page to undo.
Note: once you apply the new ordering via the Update Queue button, there's no undo.
