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12 IMDB Userscripts

imdbUserscripts come in handy in many different situations. They really shine when it comes to adding, changing or removing features on websites. Probably the most popular way to use userscripts is by installing the Firefox add-on Greasemonkey.

IMDB, the Internet Movie Database, is one of the most popular movie review and information websites. A search on the userscript website reveals more than 300 different scripts for the IMDB website. The following article contains a selection of the most interesting IMDB userscripts that are currently available.

  • IMDB Pirated Version (link)

imdb pirated version

Probably the most popular IMDB userscript. It displays additional links to subtitles, torrent websites and file hosts.

  • The Movie Dude (link)

imdb movie dude

Movie Dude puts up links to other movie review sites in the header of each individual movie on IDMB. This is great for cross-referencing movies. Supported are more than 30 different movie sites with the possibility to customize the display so that only the desired sites show up on IMDB.

imdb age

Adds the age of the actor next to the movies they appeared in. Useful features for visitors who often look at artist’s filmography on IMDB.

  • IMDb Image Deblocker (link)

Some images on IMDB are blocked by a transparent gif which makes it impossible to save them using the usual right-click save-as dialog. This userscript removes those transparent images.

  • IMDB enlarge actor pictures on hover (link)

imdb images

Displays a bigger image of an actor on IMDB when hovering the mouse over the thumbnail.

imdb weaver

Adds two options to the movie pages on IMDB. The first is to display the actual age of the actors of the movie, the second to perform some research on those actors.

  • Google Images in IMDb (link)

imdb google images

Adds links to Google Images which open in a new tab in the web browser.

imdb large images

Will display the large image of images on IMDB when hovering over an image thumbnail.

Removes some of the advertisement on IMDB.

  • Netflix Links in IMDB (link)

Adds links to Netflix on IMDB movie pages.

imdb ratings

Adds movie ratings to search result pages on IMDB.

  • IMDb Movie Collection Manager (link)

my imdb

Very helpful userscript for registered users who manage their movie collection on IMDB. Offers options to quickly add movies to the movie collection, highlight those movies and multiple other interesting features.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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Responses so far:

  1. p5chin says:

    EXCELLENT , martin!

    Thanks very much! This is very useful! Fantastic :-) ;-)

  2. amdou says:

    nice post, love to see more userscripts post. makes life easier

  3. Sugeeth says:

    Excellent scripts, thanks very much, I was looking forward to this from long time.
    keep up the good work

  4. cybersuoam says:

    I;m a frequent user of IMDB, n I needed something like these…thanks a million times for providing these scripts.

  5. gosseyn says:

    Now, if only someone can find a way to take back the Forums,i.e. blocking “…looks like…” posts, posters under a certain age, posts that have those animated smiley GIFs, trolls, teenagers using them for personal off-topic chats, post “bumpers,” ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

  6. Windows says:

    good! Very useful.

  7. Ed D says:

    These look like awesome add-ons! Do these exist for Chrome also?

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