I’ve sipped the Kool Aid and I’m really liking Friend Feed as a lifestreaming aggregator. One feature that is a bit hard to find is filtering by individual services. I’ve created a Greasemonkey script that sticks a huge bar of icons at the top of the page to make this accessible.
- It remembers the context you’re in.
- If you’re browsing within friends, then clicking on the icons will filter by that service on your friends.
- If you’re browsing within a specific user, then clicking on the icons will filter by that service on that person.
- If you’re browsing the public timeline, then clicking on the icons will filter by that service for the public timeline.
- It returns 100 results per page instead of 30.
- It will automatically update itself if I update the script.
Let me know if you have any problems in the comments.
Figure 1: It adds a bar of icons at the top of the page.
Figure 2: Clicking on the icons at the top filters by service.
Figure 3: If you’re on a user page, it will filter by service for that user. Same for if you’re on the “everyone” page.
How to Install
- You need the Firefox web browser - Download and install
- You need to install Greasemonkey - How-To
- Install this script - How-To
- Click here to install the script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/24161.user.js
My Other Friend Feed Greasemonkey Scripts
The scripts are packaged separately instead of being one massive script so that you can choose want you want to use.
- Click here to install Pagerization
- Click here to install Friend Feed Pagerization Fixer (needs Pagerization, description)
- Pick one of these two scripts:
- Click here to install Friend Feed Reshare Links (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed Even More Expander (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed Remove Visited Links (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed Twitter Client (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed By Service (description)
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12 Comments
Slick, works great.
I was so impressed by this that I created a brief screencast for it… http://snurl.com/229ue
Excellent. Great idea. One of those “should already be a feature of the product” plugins. Or “Hey, developers? Duh.”
I like FriendFeed as well, but it’s still definitely in its early stages. It has the Twitter problem of getting too loud too fast, but it’s a good service. Definitely worth watching at least.
Yup, I drank the Kool Aid too, and absolutely love FriendFeed.
This script is seriously fantastic! Many thanks!
@ areseven:
It is a feature of the product already, it’s just hard to find.
This script makes it obvious. :)
Will you be updating this to include the new services that FriendFeed has recently added.
@ Corvida:
Yes, I pushed v0.2 out on monday or tuesday.
In the future I’m going to have it automatically detect new services on Friend Feed.
This script actually prompted me to install the Greasemonkey extension, which I previously had no use for. Totally awesome script.
Is there any way to modify this script so the user can toggle a selection of services on or off for display, and make that selection persist across sessions?
This extra level of filtering is, in my opinion, the only thing that friendfeed is lacking, and would certainly streamline my browsing experience.
@ Slippy Lane:
Paul added a feature to Friend Feed today to completely hide specific services.
http://friendfeed.com/e/04625d7a-6bff-46f2-b9a6-475ab680148e
Er, did he? I see the “new improved hide function” (I’d already commented on it), but that only hides a service for a specific user, and it doesn’t exist on the “everyone” tab, which is where I really want to use it. Am I missing something?
The point being, I want to filter out specific services for everyone except than the people I’m subscribed to. That way, I can see all the interesting stuff on the everyone tab, not just chatter between random strangers in varying languages.
@ Slippy Lane:
oops. I stand corrected. :)
I misread Paul’s message and thought he’d implemented the “hide all tweets” feature. I wonder what’s taking them so long?
Yeah, it’s a bummer. He says they’re working on it…”Baby Steps”….I can think of half a dozen ways to do it, and I’m only just learning web programming, lol! :-)
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