Rotten Tomatoes on VCDQuality

By Dohsane Last update Apr 14, 2010 — Installed 455 times.


Script Summary: Adds the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score to VCDQuality movie listings.

Version: 1.2

Please Note: Not all the titles listed on VCDQuality will display the Rotten Tomatoes data. There are three main reasons why the Tomatometer Score is unable to be displayed:

1.) The ratings are retrieved based on the IMDB movie ID, if the IMDB badge is not present on the VCDQuality page for a particular title, then the IMDB ID cannot be parsed and the rating will not be displayed.
2.) The movie is not listed on Rotten Tomatoes, or (more likely) does not have enough reviews compiled to have a Tomatometer Score associated with it.
3.) The IMDB ID is associated with the wrong title on the Rotten Tomatoes site.

Unfortunately all three of these external factors are things I can't mitigate in the code. It is what it is... I hope you like it. :-)

-------- ChangeLog --------

*** Version 1.2 - Apr 14, 2010 ***
- Fixed the script!! Recent changes to the code on the Rotten Tomatoes website broke it.
- Added a Gray Tomato icon to represent the ratings that are unavailable.
- Now the only movie listings that will not get a RottenTomatoes icon are ones without an IMDB badge.

*** Version 1.1 - Jan 17, 2009 ***
- Minor performance tweaks to the code

----- Acknowledgments -----

Many thanks to Userscripts contributors 'Curtis Gibby' (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12897) & 'hosts' (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8620) for their prior work which helped make this script easier to develop.