braveulysses / yelp-without-pity

Safari extension that blocks unwanted reviewers on Yelp.

Yelp Without Pity

The problem with Vietnamese food is fish sauce.

I lived in Chicago for four weeks when I was a college student, so I think I'm entitled to some strong opinions about pizza.

All I wanted was a frozen marg, but the waitress didn't even speak English.

The lack of Diet Coke ruined this meal.

Obnoxious Yelp reviewers getting you down? Sick of that guy who wants to be the Hunter S. Thompson of food reviews? Had an epiphany about the incommensurability of taste? If you're running Safari 5, there's Yelp Without Pity. Use YWP to hide anybody you don't want to see -- forever!

Or... if you're really old and nerdy, think of it as a killfile for Yelp.

How to install and use

1. Enable Safari 5 extensions.
2. Download yelp-without-pity.safariextz.
3. Safari will probably prompt you to install. If it doesn't, double-click the file to install it.
4. Go to Yelp.
5. Log in.
6. Look up a business. Notice how every reviewer now has a Block This Reviewer link? Click on that when you want to hide somebody forever.

Frequently Asked Questions

I've changed my mind about blocking somebody. How do I unblock that person? There's currently no way to do that.

Really? Well, no. But it's a pain. You'd need to open the Web Inspector from Safari's Develop menu, then open the YWP settings database, and delete the user using a SQL query.

For crying out loud. Yeah.

License

All code is BSD-licensed.

Copyright (c) 2010, SNF Labs, Jacob Childress
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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• Neither the name of SNF Labs nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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yelp-without-pity's Issues

Web Inspector shows duplicate settings databases

The Safari Web Inspector lists two identical settings databases for YWP. Is this a Safari bug or a problem with the extension?

Expected:
Only one copy of yelpWithoutPityDB should be shown by Web Inspector.

Actual:
Two are listed.

Notes:
Preferences -> Security -> Show Databases only lists one db, making it likely that this is a Web Inspector bug. If so, a bug needs to be filed at webkit.org.

Steps:

1. Go to yelp.com.
2. Open Web Inspector.
3. Look in Storage -> Databases. Two copies of yelpWithoutPityDB will be present.

Support non-logged in Yelp users

Currently, YWP only works if the user is logged in to Yelp. Non-logged in user should be supported.

Depending on how this is implemented, it might be desirable to track settings on a per-login account basis, with non-logged in users counting as a single account. One way to do this would be to add a login column to the settings table, checking if the user is logged in when the script starts, then saving the account name (or null) every time a row is added.