Lets say you want to take a vacation and are lucky enough to be flexible about the exact date of departure and return. Expedia sucks at this sort of search if you not going to a major US destination.
I announce a Greasemonkey script that adds "Expanded Search" to Expedia. You specify all the dates/location that are acceptable, and it does the work for you.
When you click the "Expanded Search" link, a new form appears:
You fill out the form, then click go. Then it sequentially queries expedia for the lowest cost of each possibility.
You need Greasemonkey, an extension for firefox that lets you post-process downloaded webpages. Then install my userscript by clicking on it, then choosing Tool->Install UserScript
expedia_expanded_search.user.js
If it saves you some money, think about donating a little to the overstimulate fund
Comments
Daks
The idea looks very appealing and I am just excited at all the things we as a developers could do with this Monkey. But unfortunately even after installing the xpi and then installing the user script your script doesn't do much after I click the Expand Search link.
Am I missing something?
Daks
Doesn't work
Clicking expanded search does not do anything.
Jesse
What version of Greasemonkey are you using? 0.3.3 just came out and I haven't tested with it yet.
verdant
doesn't to work. after you ckick 'go' the different dates show up, the little butterfly rotates, then nothing more. have 0.3.3
verdant
Branin
I also have 0.3.3 but nothing at all happens for me when I click on Expanded Search. In the Javascript Console, I have the following error:
Error: expandSearchForm is not defined
Source File: javascript:expandSearchForm();
Line: 1
Jesse
Figured it out
0.3.3 make it so using (function() { ... })(); breaks....
So, updated it to not do that, and it works again!
Jesse
No... broken ... dooh ... it has to do with the way scoping changed from 0.2 to 0.3 series.
Another try tomorrow. If you want/need to use it, install greasemonkey 0.2.6 instead of 0.3.3
Branin
I tried the new version. It still doesn't do anything at all when I click on Expanded Search with 0.3.3.
verdant
still broken. thpough i would very like to have it available, maybe it should be taken off the mozilla site since it still doesn't work yet.
confused
yes PLEASE take it off MOZILLA !
Don't waist network, brain and our time !
Branin
Jesse,
Are you planning on updating this to 0.3.3 at some point, or is 0.2.6 the final version that this script will work with?
Thanks.
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