Netflix Keyboard Shortcuts

By DustinLuck — Last update Apr 18, 2012 — Installed 2,461 times.

Arrow Keys and Enter Navigation?

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Feb 9, 2012 3:26pm
malik malunk User
ChromeWindows

I was working on a script similar to this.

Did you give a go at trying to get movies.netflix.com replicate the same Arrows-and-Enter-button-traversable UI that Netflix uses for every other platform?

I'm sitting here with my Apple Remote and Windows Remote, neither of which can hit that goddamn "Play Next Episode" button on the silverlight control used for playing videos on netflix. Haven't found a way to call the next episode or do anything with the silverlight control via javascript so far.

Part of the solution:
jQuery('.agMovie:eq(1) .popLink').trigger('mouseover')
videourl = jQuery('.agMovie:eq(1) .popLink').attr('href')
Just switch 1 to be any of the other indices of the movies on the netflix home page and it'll pop up the info for that movie.
 
Feb 9, 2012 6:02pm
DustinLuck Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

I'm currently in the middle of developing navigation on the search pages using the n/p keys. Once I've got that done, I plan on rolling it out to other pages as well. I'm hesitant to remap the arrow keys for navigation though, since they already have a default function in the browser.

I'm not sure if you can control Silverlight elements via javascript, but if you're trying to use a remote, check out one of these AutoHotkey scripts:

 
Apr 18, 2012 9:48am
Lukasz Horzela User
FirefoxWindows

Hi,
It great idea but is this project still live?
At the moment I can't make it to work (tested on FF and chrome)
It will do some of the things - load user web page, kids etc
However, I'm unable to navigate between rows/columns with n,p,o buttons.

Any idea?

Regards,
Lukasz Horzela
 
Apr 18, 2012 4:06pm
DustinLuck Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Yes, this project is still live, but I haven't had any time to devote to it lately.

The n/p/o buttons should work on the following pages with no problems:

  • Search results*
  • Rental Activity
  • Actor pages (DVD only)

*I just uploaded a new version of the script that makes 'O' work on Watch Instantly search pages.

Due to the way some of the pages are structured (mainly the ones where rows can be scrolled left-right) implementing these shortcuts has proven to be tricky. Hopefully I'll be able to find a way to do it in the future.