The Greasemonkey script Abef (A Better eBay Filter) has been updated with code revisions by Greasy Fork user kolalok for latest Greasemonkey compatibility and is available at the Grease Fork script repository.
Below is a write-up of the original Abef Greasemonkey script. Note that I am, preliminarily, working on a Chrome extension which provide similar features to the script, although no release date is available and it may not work out as planned.
A Better eBay Filter is a script designed for users of eBay. It filters eBay searches to hide item entries from sellers who have a feedback score or positive percentage below values you specify, or above for feedback score, or filter out Top-rated sellers. The input values can be dynamically changed to filter items into or out of view. Last values are saved between browsing sessions. Use A Better eBay Filter to winnow the display of auctions to sellers that match your preferences. The script has been tested on USA's ebay.com, Canada's ebay.ca, and UK's ebay.co.uk sites. It may work with other country sites, depending on whether they match the internals of the tested eBay sites.
NOTE: For this script to work properly, choose List View (not Gallery View), and turn on the Seller details option in Customize View, so that the seller information is displayed in the listings.
A Better eBay Filter requires seller feedback information to be displayed on each item entry so it can filter the results. After installing A Better eBay Filter, go to a listing or search screen. Click the View link at the top of the listings and choose Customize. This will navigate you to the Customize your search page. On that page, you should see a selection titled Seller Information. Check the box so that seller information is displayed in listing views. Note the exact wording may change depending on the site's native language.
After installation and setup, A Better eBay filter will display two status lines immediately below the basic Search line. The first status line shows the minimum feedback score and positive feedback percentage necessary to display an item entry. The initial values of 50 and 98.5 are forgiving, but easy to change. In addition, you may specify a maximum feedback score, or leave it blank if you do not wish a maximum: zero is not the same as blank. The default is blank (no maximum). In addition, there is a checkbox to filter out Top-rated Sellers. The second line displays an Update Filter button and the current number of items hidden from view by the filter.
You can change the score and percentage values to whatever you want. For example, if you do not want to hide new user auctions, you can change the feedback score to 1 (or 0) and see those auctions. Should you change a value, the filtered items message changes to a Values changed. message. This is an indication to press the Update Filter button to update the display with the new filter constraints. Each time you press Update Filter, the current values are stored for a future browser session or search/listing page display. You are not prohibited from choosing values which will hide all items, e.g. a Minimum positive feedback input of greater than 100 will filter out all entries, as will a minimum score higher than the maximum.
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
Version 8.1 update for A Better eBay Filter script
The A Better eBay Filter script has been updated to version 8.1 to properly support searches when the Include description box has been checked. The revised script has been uploaded to the Greasyfork site, replacing version 8.0. Further details on using A Better eBay Filter are in this post from the end of July.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Update for A Better eBay Filter script
The A Better eBay Filter Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script has been updated to version 8.0, and uploaded to the Greasyfork site. This version fixes a problem that could cause the script filter lines to not display on certain page, such as when searching within search results.
A Better eBay Filter is a script designed for users of eBay. It filters eBay searches to hide item entries from sellers who have a feedback score or positive percentage below values you specify, or above for feedback score. You can also filter out Top-rated sellers. The input values can be dynamically changed to filter items into or out of view. Settings are saved between browsing sessions.
Starting with this version, the script has been successfully tested with Tampermonkey for Chrome, in addition to the original Greasemonkey for Firefox support.
Post if you have questions about using the script.
A Better eBay Filter is a script designed for users of eBay. It filters eBay searches to hide item entries from sellers who have a feedback score or positive percentage below values you specify, or above for feedback score. You can also filter out Top-rated sellers. The input values can be dynamically changed to filter items into or out of view. Settings are saved between browsing sessions.
Starting with this version, the script has been successfully tested with Tampermonkey for Chrome, in addition to the original Greasemonkey for Firefox support.
Post if you have questions about using the script.
Friday, October 24, 2014
A Better eBay Filter Greasemonkey script update
By user request, the A Better eBay Filter Greasemonkey script has been updated and uploaded to the Greasyfork site.
A Better eBay Filter is a script designed for users of eBay. It filters eBay searches to hide item entries from sellers who have a feedback score or positive percentage below values you specify, or above for feedback score, or filter out Top-rated sellers. The input values can be dynamically changed to filter items into or out of view. Last values are saved between browsing sessions. Use A Better eBay Filter to winnow the display of auctions to sellers that match your preferences. The script has been tested on USA's ebay.com, Canada's ebay.ca, and UK's ebay.co.uk sites. It may work with other country sites, depending on whether they match the internals of the tested eBay sites.
NOTE: For this script to work properly, choose List View (not Gallery View), and turn on the Seller details option in Customize View, so that the seller information is displayed in the listings. This is a version 7.0 update from previous userscripts.org versions, to address eBay changes which broke previous versions of the script.
A Better eBay Filter requires seller feedback information to be displayed on each item entry so it can filter the results. After installing A Better eBay Filter, go to a listing or search screen. Click the View link at the top of the listings and choose Customize. This will navigate you to the Customize your search page. On that page, you should see a selection titled Seller Information. Check the box so that seller information is displayed in listing views. Note the exact wording may change depending on the site's native language.
After installation and setup, A Better eBay Filter will display two status lines immediately below the basic Search line. The first status line shows the minimum feedback score and positive feedback percentage necessary to display an item entry. The initial values of 50 and 98.5 are forgiving, but easy to change. In addition, you may specify a maximum feedback score, or leave it blank if you do not wish a maximum: zero is not the same as blank. The default is blank (no maximum). In addition, there is a checkbox to filter out Top-rated Sellers. The second line displays an Update Filter button and the current number of items hidden from view by the filter.
You can change the score and percentage values to whatever you want. For example, if you do not want to hide new user auctions, you can change the feedback score to 1 (or 0) and see those auctions. Should you change a value, the filtered items message changes to a Values changed. message. This is an indication to press the Update Filter button to update the display with the new filter constraints. Each time you press Update Filter, the current values are stored for a future browser session or search/listing page display. You are not prohibited from choosing values which will hide all items, e.g. a Minimum positive feedback input of greater than 100 will filter out all entries, as will a minimum score higher than the maximum.
Pleae post if you have any questions about using the script.
A Better eBay Filter is a script designed for users of eBay. It filters eBay searches to hide item entries from sellers who have a feedback score or positive percentage below values you specify, or above for feedback score, or filter out Top-rated sellers. The input values can be dynamically changed to filter items into or out of view. Last values are saved between browsing sessions. Use A Better eBay Filter to winnow the display of auctions to sellers that match your preferences. The script has been tested on USA's ebay.com, Canada's ebay.ca, and UK's ebay.co.uk sites. It may work with other country sites, depending on whether they match the internals of the tested eBay sites.
A Better eBay Filter requires seller feedback information to be displayed on each item entry so it can filter the results. After installing A Better eBay Filter, go to a listing or search screen. Click the View link at the top of the listings and choose Customize. This will navigate you to the Customize your search page. On that page, you should see a selection titled Seller Information. Check the box so that seller information is displayed in listing views. Note the exact wording may change depending on the site's native language.
After installation and setup, A Better eBay Filter will display two status lines immediately below the basic Search line. The first status line shows the minimum feedback score and positive feedback percentage necessary to display an item entry. The initial values of 50 and 98.5 are forgiving, but easy to change. In addition, you may specify a maximum feedback score, or leave it blank if you do not wish a maximum: zero is not the same as blank. The default is blank (no maximum). In addition, there is a checkbox to filter out Top-rated Sellers. The second line displays an Update Filter button and the current number of items hidden from view by the filter.
You can change the score and percentage values to whatever you want. For example, if you do not want to hide new user auctions, you can change the feedback score to 1 (or 0) and see those auctions. Should you change a value, the filtered items message changes to a Values changed. message. This is an indication to press the Update Filter button to update the display with the new filter constraints. Each time you press Update Filter, the current values are stored for a future browser session or search/listing page display. You are not prohibited from choosing values which will hide all items, e.g. a Minimum positive feedback input of greater than 100 will filter out all entries, as will a minimum score higher than the maximum.
Pleae post if you have any questions about using the script.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Metafilter Greasemonkey script diediedead major update
A new, enhanced, version of the diediedead Greasemonkey script to filter out users on Metafilter is available for download at http://www.devoresoftware.com/gm/dddead/diediedead.user.js. The script was updated to work with the current version of Metafilter, as well as Greasemonkey and Firefox. It works for both registered and unregistered users, with any Firefox platform that supports Greasemonkey scripts, e.g. Windows, OS X, and Linux.
There are two methods to use the script, and both are active only while the browser location is a Metafilter site. First, you can use the browser menu pulldown Tools/Greasemonkey/User Script Commands.../Configure filters, as shown:
to bring up the configuration dialog box, as show in this example from a MetaTalk topic:
You may also use the context menu (right-click), to bring up a menu that will look similar to this:
Choose diediedead! and you will see a submenu:
If you select the last entry, Configure filters, the configuration dialog box will be displayed.
The configuration is, hopefully, reasonably self-explanatory. Place users whose posts you want filtered in the filter users text box, the text of posts you want filtered in the second text box, and posts containing sites you want filtered in the third box. Note that the user must be an exact match. Text filters are are not case sensitive and considered to be a whole word or set of words, e.g. cow will not match cows, but BIG COWS will match big cows. Sites match any part of a link.
The next grouping determines how filters work. If you want to temporarily turn off filters, choose the Show all content radio button. If filters should apply to both posts and comments to posts, choose Filter posts & comments. If you want your filters to apply only to posts, and not in comments to posts, choose posts only. For the reverse, choose comments only.
To streamline this process, the context menu can be used to quickly create filters and to choose filter actions. If you right click on a user in a post or comment, diediedead's context menu will have an entry Filter for user <username>. If you highlight text, and activate diediedead's context menu, the entry will show Filter for text <selected text>. Right clicking on a link will show Filter for site <base URL of site>. All filters will be added to the main configuration dialog box.
Context menus clicks are typically faster and more accurate than manual entry via the configure dialog. However, filters can only be edited or deleted via the configuration dialog box.
Because the entry fields on the configuration dialog box are HTML textareas, you can use the standard editing command Ctrl-Z to undo any changes to any of the three fields before saving. Ctrl-Shift-Z will redo any undo made before saving, as well.
User feedback on diediedead's context menu indicates it does not work properly with TamperMonkey and the Chrome browser, crippling its usability on that platform. This issue will be addressed by a native Chrome extension, available in the next 2-4 weeks.
There are two methods to use the script, and both are active only while the browser location is a Metafilter site. First, you can use the browser menu pulldown Tools/Greasemonkey/User Script Commands.../Configure filters, as shown:
You may also use the context menu (right-click), to bring up a menu that will look similar to this:
Choose diediedead! and you will see a submenu:
If you select the last entry, Configure filters, the configuration dialog box will be displayed.
The configuration is, hopefully, reasonably self-explanatory. Place users whose posts you want filtered in the filter users text box, the text of posts you want filtered in the second text box, and posts containing sites you want filtered in the third box. Note that the user must be an exact match. Text filters are are not case sensitive and considered to be a whole word or set of words, e.g. cow will not match cows, but BIG COWS will match big cows. Sites match any part of a link.
The next grouping determines how filters work. If you want to temporarily turn off filters, choose the Show all content radio button. If filters should apply to both posts and comments to posts, choose Filter posts & comments. If you want your filters to apply only to posts, and not in comments to posts, choose posts only. For the reverse, choose comments only.
To streamline this process, the context menu can be used to quickly create filters and to choose filter actions. If you right click on a user in a post or comment, diediedead's context menu will have an entry Filter for user <username>. If you highlight text, and activate diediedead's context menu, the entry will show Filter for text <selected text>. Right clicking on a link will show Filter for site <base URL of site>. All filters will be added to the main configuration dialog box.
Context menus clicks are typically faster and more accurate than manual entry via the configure dialog. However, filters can only be edited or deleted via the configuration dialog box.
Because the entry fields on the configuration dialog box are HTML textareas, you can use the standard editing command Ctrl-Z to undo any changes to any of the three fields before saving. Ctrl-Shift-Z will redo any undo made before saving, as well.
User feedback on diediedead's context menu indicates it does not work properly with TamperMonkey and the Chrome browser, crippling its usability on that platform. This issue will be addressed by a native Chrome extension, available in the next 2-4 weeks.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Howls of Outrage Greasemonkey script updated
By user request, the Howls Of Outrage Greasemonkey script for Metafilter, which shows a popup window of all users who have favorited a post or comment on mouse hover, is updated to version 4.2. The download link is sited on my original devoresoftware.com domain, because the userscripts.org Greasemonkey scripts repository has been down or very unreliable for many months.
Previous version of the script, using the latest versions of Greasemonkey and the Firefox browser, were unable to get past the "loading…" part of the popup box. This was due to permission problems with the GM_xmlhttpRequest function, at least while running Firefox under Windows 7. Curiously, a Mac using the latest Firefox with script version 4.1 still worked OK. Regardless, the Howls Of Outrage script should work for all supported Firefox platforms now.
If you use the Chrome browser and read the Metafilter site, I recommend installing the Howls Of Outrage extension from the Chrome Web Store.
Previous version of the script, using the latest versions of Greasemonkey and the Firefox browser, were unable to get past the "loading…" part of the popup box. This was due to permission problems with the GM_xmlhttpRequest function, at least while running Firefox under Windows 7. Curiously, a Mac using the latest Firefox with script version 4.1 still worked OK. Regardless, the Howls Of Outrage script should work for all supported Firefox platforms now.
If you use the Chrome browser and read the Metafilter site, I recommend installing the Howls Of Outrage extension from the Chrome Web Store.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Wikipedia sorting Greasemonkey script updated
The Greasemonkey script wiksort, aka "Wikipedia Sorting", was updated and uploaded to the userscripts site. Version 2.0 adds support for https links and automatically set focus to the article word list, so that you don't have to click in the box to highlight any misspelled words. It has been tested with the English Wikipedia Cologne Blue skin, as well as the default Vector skin.
For those unfamiliar with wiksort, following is a description of what it does and how it is used.
wiksort is a script that sorts unique words in an English Wikipedia article to a separate browser page. All words over six characters are alphabetically listed in a text box of the new page as a single entry, followed by the usage count.
wiksort works quite well with the Firefox browser because Firefox's built-in spell checker can help one quickly locate misspelled words and inconsistent spelling within the word list. I find the alphabetically sorted word list very useful in rooting out typographical errors and inconsistent spelling, although one should always double-check that a possible misspelling is really incorrect in the article's context.
Once installed, the script will add a link titled "Sort words" to either the ''toolbox'' section (default Vector skin) or the ''Edit'' section (Cologne Blue skin). Click on the "Sort words" link to generate a page with the sorted word list. After a short delay while the page is processed, the page will either display in a new tab or a separate browser window, depending on the user-selected browser options.
You must enable popups for the Wikipedia site, because the newly generated page is considered a popup. Since Wikipedia does not use advertising popups, this permission should not be too onerous.
Please post here if you have any questions about using wiksort.
For those unfamiliar with wiksort, following is a description of what it does and how it is used.
wiksort is a script that sorts unique words in an English Wikipedia article to a separate browser page. All words over six characters are alphabetically listed in a text box of the new page as a single entry, followed by the usage count.
wiksort works quite well with the Firefox browser because Firefox's built-in spell checker can help one quickly locate misspelled words and inconsistent spelling within the word list. I find the alphabetically sorted word list very useful in rooting out typographical errors and inconsistent spelling, although one should always double-check that a possible misspelling is really incorrect in the article's context.
Once installed, the script will add a link titled "Sort words" to either the ''toolbox'' section (default Vector skin) or the ''Edit'' section (Cologne Blue skin). Click on the "Sort words" link to generate a page with the sorted word list. After a short delay while the page is processed, the page will either display in a new tab or a separate browser window, depending on the user-selected browser options.
You must enable popups for the Wikipedia site, because the newly generated page is considered a popup. Since Wikipedia does not use advertising popups, this permission should not be too onerous.
Please post here if you have any questions about using wiksort.
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