BuddyTV.com Quiz and GreaseMonkey

This last weekend I discovered a site, BuddyTV. I stumbled into the quiz quite by accident , and got a little curious about how they were determining which answers were correct, so I looked at the page source. It was a case of the correct answer being marked with an attribute/value pair, "correct='true'." OK, that makes it possible to see the right answer every time. Problem was that there's a timer that by the time you look, the point value drops to like a tenth of the maximum points.

Well, GreaseMonkey to the rescue! GreaseMonkey is a plug-in for FireFox that allows you to script your browser to do a lot of things that you might want to do for selected (or all) pages. A couple of hours of dinking with it and I had a script that gets the answer and runs the code on the correct answer's onclick event. Voila! My browser runs the code, the code reloads a new question, which kicks the script again, and I can walk away while the points climb. I'm already in the top 100 (59 at the moment)and climbing amongst the 8 thousand plus. I have along way to go , #1 has over 6 million points, I only have some 240 thousand.

If you want in on it, the script is available on at my scripting site, and GreaseMonkey can be downloaded from the link above.