A Utility to Bookmark All Links?

March 10, 2005 1:31 PM

Is there any javascript, Firefox plugin/extension or utility out there which would enable me to bookmark every link on a webpage automatically?

Having just manually clicked on 1400+ links while checking sites for Globe of Blogs, it occurred to me that the process would've been much simpler and much, much faster if I could've sucked every link into a bookmarks folder automatically, then used the "Open in Tabs" feature in either Safari or Firefox. Does any such beast exist?

posted by Dreama to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Response by poster: I should have noted (though by mentioning Safari I suppose it is implied) that this should be an OSX compatible solution, should it exist.
posted by Dreama at 1:32 PM on March 10, 2005

Best answer: You want Linky, I think. It has a "Open All links in tabs" feature.
posted by smackfu at 1:46 PM on March 10, 2005

Smackfu's answer works, but it occurred to me that you can also do this, which should work in any browser than supports javascript (and I tested in both Firefox and IE).

Create a bookmark (just bookmark this page, for example), right-click on the bookmark and select "Properties", then replace the bookmark's "location" property (Firefox) or "URL" property (Internet Explorer) with the entire following line from the word "javascript" up to the empty parentheses "()" at the end of the line, copied as a single line with no linefeeds -- you should be able to just select it and copy it from your browser):


javascript:(function(){var d = document ; var k = d.links ; if( confirm( "Are you sure you want to open " + k.length + " different pages at once?" ) ) for( var i = 0 ; i < k.length ; ++i ) open( k[ i ] ) ; } )()


Note that IE may complain:
Problem with Shortcut: The protocol "javascript" does not have a registered program. Do you want to keep this target anyway?

Just answer yes, and will nevertheless work.

Then when you want to open all links on a particular page, go that page, and click on the bookmark.
posted by orthogonality at 11:54 PM on March 10, 2005