Del.icio.us Auto-Complete

March 27th, 2005

A Greasemonkey extension that adds tag auto-complete capabilities to the traditional del.icio.us posting areas. This is a powerful extension which can greatly increase your del.icio.us posting speed. I've spent some time playing around with it, thus far, and it's been helping me out significantly.

The premise behind this extension is that it goes through your existing 'Post' page, takes the tag data from within the page and gives you auto-completion capabilites of it. This is how the current interfaces are supported:

• The traditional posting interface (Screenshot) is fully supported. Additionally, the tags are also sorted by popularity.
• The 'experimental' interface (Screenshot) is supported, but tag results are sorted alphabetically.
• The popup posting interface is currently not supported as it does not contain any tag data.

It appears that another auto-complete hack was done a while back, but no longer exists. After doing some more digging around I was able to find an implementation of that specific piece of code. Upon inspection, however, it appears as if all tag data is hard-coded into the javascript (which is highly inefficient).

Features

• Tag Auto-Completion
• Sorting by popularity (Traditional interface only).
• Tags can be completed using the right arrow, tab, enter, or escape keys.
• To view alternate tag suggestions, hit the 'up' or 'down' arrow.

Known Bugs

• Will only complete the last tag being entered (not tags in the middle of the text area).
• Sometimes if you type really fast it will complete the tag automatically.

Updates

• Version 3 (2005-03-27): Any non-space character is valid in a tag.
• Version 2 (2005-03-26): Is now capitalization agnostic. You can type in both upper and lower case and auto-complete words which are both upper and lower case.
• Version 1 (2005-03-25): Initial release.

Downloads

• autodelicious.user.js (Right-click that link and select 'Install User Script...') - This extension needs Firefox and the GreaseMonkey extension to run.

Tags: javascript, greasemonkey, delicious, tags, popular, cool

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name2face

March 20th, 2005

A rough framework for attaching someone's picture to their name, using Greasemonkey. More information concerning why I constructed this script can be found in this blog post: Visual Friend Identification. The data, itself, is currently embedded into the script, which is rather annoying. Eventually it would be nice to have the data stored someplace that is easily reachable by the script and easily updated by the user (maybe through a context menu?). It's really just more of a proof-of-concept at this point.

Download

• name2face.user.js

Tags: greasemonkey, javascript

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DeliciousGator

January 12th, 2005

A GreaseMonkey plug-in that replaces the 'Forward post via e-mail' option in favor of a del.icio.us submission link, on News Gator Online.

Downloads

• Install DeliciousGator - Currently, you have to download the script and edit the variable 'user' to point to your own del.icio.us username, not mine. Hopefully there will be an easier way to do this in the future. You must have the GreaseMonkey extension installed in Firefox

Tags: browsers:firefox, greasemonkey, javascript

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