MA-remove-review-info
A browser extension to remove review information from certain pages on
metal-archives.com.
What does it do?
This script functions on the band and album pages, though differently for each.
Taking the easiest first, on the album page, it looks for a description term
with the value "Review:" and sets the corresponding description detail to "None
yet", which is the default value when a release doesn't have any reviews.
On the band page, a function that looks at the tables in the document is called
in a loop. If there is a change, it checks for a discography table and sets, for
each release, the corresponding text showing review information to the empty
string.
What does it not do?
This script doesn't do anything with or on the "Reviews" tabs on the band and
album pages since I assume the user wants to see that information if they
navigate there.
Possible improvements
Due to my poor knowledge of JS, there are certainly several improvements that
can be made. Here are a few I've thought of, though the script works well enough
for me as is.
- Find a way to stop (and start again) the band-page loop.
- The discography tables finish loading after the document has finished loading, and I'm not aware of a way to inspect these without a
setInterval() loop. This causes a tradeoff in having the loop not run too often (though I've tried to have the function return as quickly as possible if there are no changes) vs removing the review information in a timely manner. (In my testing, however, even setting the loop timer down to 10 ms resulted in a noticeable blip on the screen if one is looking for it. The delay caused with 250 ms isn't much worse.)
- On the band page, simply color the anchor text black instead of changing it.
