YouTube Video Ratings Bar with Power Meter (Chrome)

Places a bar below YouTube thumbnail images which shows not only the like / dislike ratings, but also the enthusiasm people have for each video.

As of 2014-06-09. See the latest version.

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Author

lednerg

Ratings

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Version

2014.06.09

Created

2014-06-09

Updated

2014-06-09

Size

5.78 KB

License

N/A

Applies to

youtube.com

This script not only shows you a Green/Red Ratings Bar underneath video thumbnails for Likes/Dislikes, it also tries to show you how Enthusiastic people are about certain videos with an additional Blue bar, or "Power Meter".

If you see a yellow dotted line, then the video is simultaneously too new and too popular to calculate the blue Power Meter. This has to do with YouTube pausing their view counter; it's not anything this script can help.

In addition to the bars, you can rest the cursor over thumbnail images to get a tooltip with ratings and power details.

The Power Meter algorithm adjusts itself based on how many Views a video has had. It won't let a video with three Views and three Likes receive a 100% Power Meter, for instance.

This is a complete overhaul of an old script of mine called "YouTube Ratings Bar with Like Strength". At some point I'll make the colors and size editable, probably via UserStyles.

I'm still learning JavaScript and it's likely that there's something stupidly wrong about this script. All I know is - I'm going to be using this script myself quite often, so if it breaks, I'll probably fix it. I run this on Chrome with TamperMonkey and Firefox Nightly with GM - but mostly Chrome. That basically means that Firefox support's going to be come and go. It's currently not working in Firefox, but I've only been at this for about a day.