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User Scripts Search Sorting

Sorts userscripts.org search results by the number of times they have been installed, by updated date, alphabetically or by number of comments.

After finding userscripts.org, I was somewhat displeased at the difficulty of finding popular and high quality scripts. This script should help solve that problem, by sorting search results by the number of times a script has been installed.

Update: Mar. 14: v 0.3.1 - Added sorting of a user's scripts listing.

Update: Mar. 13: v 0.3 Added alphabetical sort by script name.

Update: Mar. 12: I've added links in the table header that you can click to sort by number of installs, number of comments, or by updated date.

Update: Mar. 12: Edited to sort tag listings as well.

This script could be slow for searches that return a large number of results, although it handles a search for "google", which returns hundreds of results, without too much trouble.






Sep 21, 2007
Motty Katan Scriptwright

I would add event.cancelBubble = 1 to avoid running the href on that links and cause a scroll up event by the #. This will also solve a bug when clicking refresh the url will be included in the script includes.

I would like to see an improvement of this script using getValue/setValue or cookies
http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/api/gm_getvalue...
So if I last chosen date the next time I make a search it will sort by date.

Well, the best thing is to provide options to all greasemonkey scripts by the engine api...
 
Aug 30, 2007
Deemonie User

Love this script.
I've added
http://userscripts.org/users/*;favorites
to the included pages to sort favorited scripts.
 
Jul 4, 2007
az1d User

I've been happy with this script for over a year now. Thank you.
 
Apr 2, 2007
MagnoliaSouth User

I'm brandspanking new to this whole script thing. When I came here to look for some, like you, I was sorely disappointed. One of the very first searches I did was look for one for userscripts.org. Wow! You read my mind before I even thought about it. ;) Thank you! It works perfectly.
 
Mar 29, 2007
Brad Stewart Script's author

Hey znerp,

Sorry for not being around -- school has been busy the last few weeks. I still want to merge your patch in, and I have a few other changes to make, but it's going to have to wait until next weekend when classes are over.

Jon: It can't really be added to the front page, because it only sorts results within a certain page; it won't sort all the scripts on the site, it would just sort the 25 most recently updated, which really isn't all that useful.
 
Mar 28, 2007
Jon Hayes User

Why can't this be added to the main page?
I would like to see everything people have been downloading not just search for something and look from there.
 
Mar 28, 2007
Filthy Jesus Scriptwright

This is perfect and awesome.
 
Mar 21, 2007
znerp Scriptwright

You never got back to me, so I've added my modified version of this script. This can be found at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8036. If you take offense, I will by all means remove this.
 
Mar 17, 2007
znerp Scriptwright

well if you want to see what I did, give me an email address and I can send it. Alternatively you can email me at znerp(at)hotmail.com and I'll reply.
 
Mar 17, 2007
Brad Stewart Script's author

That sounds useful... I'll add it on my next update.
 
Mar 16, 2007
znerp Scriptwright

I've modified your script for my own use to display the number of installs per day, and enabled sorting by that. I find this slightly more informative than sorting by installs, as it brings newly popular scripts higher up compared to older scripts with more installs. If you're interested, I can send it to you to show my changes. Alternatively if you'd like, I can upload it and credit you. I'm not too bothered either way, I just fancied playing with it for my own use.
 
Mar 15, 2007
Brad Stewart Script's author

I'm not sure that would be the most useful addition. What do others think?
 
Mar 14, 2007
Jordon Kalilich Scriptwright

Very handy. Any chance you could include the option to number the search results? It would be nice to see how scripts rank in the way of downloads, etc.
 
Mar 13, 2007
punzak User

Wow! This is a must. I thought the same thing when I first started using userscripts.org. This should be hard coded into the site.
 
Mar 13, 2007
Michael Fern... User

Very useful script! It saves time, especially when searching items that have many returns.

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