12.14.07

Greasemonkey script for OpenHulu.com

Posted in greasemonkey, javascript at 2:19 pm by Robert Horvick

OpenHulu.com provides a way for the common man to access Hulu.com video content. That’s awesome. However the page sucks. It’s not just the ads either. It’s the layout and the contract between stark white and black. Blegh.

So I decided to pretty it up a little using Greasemonkey (more info at Dive Into Greasemonkey). I’ll let the graphics tell the story:

Before:

And after Greasemonkey:

If this looks better to you install the script from here:

http://www.ghostonthird.com/downloads/openhulu.user.js

This is my first Greasemonkey script. If there is anything obviously stupid - let me know.

For the next version I want to leave the page as-is and instead add a button that will, when pressed, walk the page looking for the active video, make the video nearly almost full screen (leaving the button to toggle the page visible).

This should be more resilient to changes in the page structure.

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