Comments on: Growl and Dock Badges for Google Voice on Fluid

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:32:52 +0000

Thanks, morouxshi!

@McCahan: Thanks, I confirmed your script is still working as of April 21st, 2011!

By: Crappalappa

Crappalappa — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:13:55 +0000

Thanks McCahan! I was too lazy to find out why it was broken. Your script confirmed still working as of mid-August 2010. Cheers!

By: McCahan

McCahan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:46:43 +0000

I had to make some slight modifications to get this to work now, mostly just changing out the div names due to changes – your mileage may vary, but it worked for me…

http://pastebin.com/DM8k6PHK

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:13:08 +0000

I’m a little new to the Google Voice game. Started using it about a month ago and I found this little script to make it even better. It worked great and then all of a sudden it stopped working altogether.

I tried several things. I tried installing a script that auto refreshes. I tried uninstalling the script and reinstalling. I tried restarting Growl. Finally I tried uninstalling the whole Fluid app and starting from scratch and it still isn’t working.

Is there anything that anyone can tell me? Or has anyone else had any problems with the script/Google Voice? I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything recent. I was thinking maybe Google Voice had gotten an update recently and accidentally broke the script.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:18:46 +0000

Thanks for the update after the recent outage. Your work is greatly appreciated.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:09:03 +0000

Is there a way for this script to show the contents of the SMS in a growl notification?

By: John

John — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:44:51 +0000

any update on the auto refresh? i’d really like to use this along with prowl to ditch my text messaging plan

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:43:57 +0000

Thanks, morouxshi. I agree that this becomes significantly more useful when the notifications are instantaneous. If google’s site isn’t updated in real time, then I guess the script will have to refresh the page if the fluid app is to push messages quickly.

By: golm

golm — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:39:59 +0000

@morouxshi, cool thanks for the reply. I must have done something else to lock my account. Great script… I love that I found it after I had already created a fluid app for GV.

By: morouxshi

morouxshi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:23:46 +0000

@golm : The doBadgeUpdates only rechecks the dom to see if there are any changes they do not make a call to Google’s servers and they do not have a timeout because they keep happening indefinitely every time the script ends. If you have the version that does the auto-refresh, then yes, that would be problematic if you refresh the page every half a second, but that is not the case on that script either because as you could see it does the refresh on a different loop. I’m sorry that your account got locked but I have been using the script since two weeks before I even wrote this post and I have had no problems whatsoever. Look at the code there is no Google call.

@everyone : I’ve been very busy and have therefore not been able to really fix the refresh issue. There is a version that has refresh on the userscripts website, but it does not have the hooks to see if you are writing a message so that it does not try and refresh from under you. Additionally (and to me this is a big one) it is not able to save message counts across refreshes, therefore the growl notification reads “x items” not “x voicemails” or “x sms messages” which is annoying to me. Hopefully I’ll get to it sometime this week in the meantime my updates have been happening every 5-10 minutes automatically by Google which is why I never thought it was a problem.