We talk about movies, a lot. Because of that we mention and reference a lot of movie titles. Some of them are quite known to the general public, some of them not so much. I often find myself doing lot of copy/paste and looking things up on IMDB. So in order to make the process faster and easier I hacked this little tool together to fetch relevant movie data instantly.

1. Select the movie title you want to look up
2. Click 'Get Info'
3. Read

To get rid of the info box deselect everything and click 'Get Info' again (a bit counter-intuitive, I know, I'll add a proper close button later).

In he pic above you could select Brazil from Phi's post and use the info button from the post above.  The buttons are attached to post footers so they're easily accessible and don't get in the way of regular browsing. You can select any text on the page and fetch the data using any info button from any post.

In case you need more details there's also a IMDB link under the title.

To get this working install this:

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … asemonkey/
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … fkfo?hl=en

and click here: http://lamer.divisionapps.com/dif/fiyh. … er.user.js

It's also important to note that my script merely sends requests and retrieves data from www.omdbapi.com so its creator deserves 99% of the credit for this.