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`Ever look at a product on a website and wonder if you could find it cheaper elsewhere? Ever read books? If you
`answered yes to both of those questions you are in luck my friend!
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`This script adds links & prices from other sites (Amazon, Buy, BN, Powell, Half) to the current book site you are at!
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`When Book Burro senses you are viewing a book, it will add a small panel to the upper right corner.
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`While that is pretty, it is what happens when you kick (click) the burro that makes it exciting:
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`As you see in the images, you are now one click away from the book at another online shoppe!
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`This process does cause a little harm to come to the donkey, so don’t kick him unless you need to (as this is causing
`web-pages to be downloaded in the background, and if millions of people do it, the feds may come after me for
`mistreating defenseless animals.)
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`How much does it cost you ask?
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`You have to obtain a recent (1.0 or above) copy of FireFox, and the wonderful GreaseMonkey extension (I recommend
`version 0.2.6). When you click Install, it FireFox will block it since it isn’t coming from Mozilla’s main site, but you
`can click “allow this site to install”, then it reclick the install link. You will need to restart your browser after installing
`the GreaseMonkey extension.
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`Now that you have the prerequisites, you need to install the burro. It sounds complicated, but it isn’t. Install the
`userscript (the javascript that does the work) by opening it in your webbrowser, which fills you screen with a bunch of
`gobble-gook (javascript). Then in your menu bar, choosing Tool->Install User Script. Then you are done! Ready to go
`play with your burro. (perhaps after a stop by the contribute button?)
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`Important: For your sanity only handle one Burro at a time, thus before you install a new
`burro, please take the time to properly destroy your old one (uninstall the previous version first
`using Tools->Manage Userscripts then select the old and choose uninstall)
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`Complete Version History & Todo
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`Advanced Version (Powered by AJAX):
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`Uses Ajax to pull prices from other sites.
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`Current Version: Book Burro Advanced v0.11 – improved skin & add link to message if no results
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`LITE Version (non-AJAX):
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`If you need a version is available that does not use XMLHttprequest to go to the versions page and install version 0.02.
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`Who did this?
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`In case the authorities or amazon want to know:
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`Jesse Andrews – Me – hacker extraordinaire ( which means I learned javascript )
`Britt Selvitelle – showed up for Mac&Cheese, I made him hack until 6am! haha!
`Johannes la Poutre – he was unknowingly involved, as we based our interface off snippets of his RSS Reader for
`GreaseMonkey
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`What? It Doesn’t Work?
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`Ideas, problems, improvements, patches??? Use the comment form, and email! (There is a million things we want to
`add, but we want to sleep some first)
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`- the GreaseMonkeyed
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`ps. Licensed under open source, so additional code/sites are welcome!
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`pps. We were careful to minimize the number of AJAX requests performed. It only does a request when you click on
`bar, and it only requests once on this page. We didn’t impliment Powell’s books, since we didn’t know if they would
`want the queries. . .
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`4 responses to 'GreaseMonkey - Book Burro - find cheap books'
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`1. emjanov said about 21 hours later:
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`You guys rock…this is the coolest tool and even a dummy like me can follow the instructions and get it to work!
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`2. hoovernj said about 21 hours later:
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`Nice!
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`3. frogger said about 23 hours later:
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`I hope for your sake this doesn’t make slashdot!
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`4. boing said 1 day later:
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`it’s broken for everyone but buy.com here – anyone else confirm/deny? i’ll bet this gets blocked quick smart.
`keep on, it’s brilliant!!!
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`1. From Broke Kid
`Price comparison for books from Overstimulate.com
`Overstimulate.com has put together a script for Greasemonkey that will allow you to compater prices from other
`bookstores on Amazon...a mashup if you will. Install the current verions of Burro (v.10) here....
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