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Do you Java-script?

london302 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:06:08 -0800

Calling all Javascript Experts: I am trying to tweak a small javascript bookmarklet to improve its functionality. The fact I dont know HOW is turning out to be a bit of a challenge. Help me please! javascript:void(location.href='http://html-pdf-converter.com/en/convert?u='+escape(location.href))

This bookmarklet opens the webpage of html-pdf-converter but I want it to to open a new page and load the url where I am when I click on the bookmarklet. (I know it can be done because my other favourite bookmarklet does it for a different purpose) see code here:

javascript:popw='';Q='';x=document;y=window;if(x.selection)%20{Q=x.selection.createRange().text;}%20else%20if%20(y.getSelection)%20{Q=y.getSelection();}%20else%20if%20(x.getSelection)%20{Q=x.getSelection();}popw%20=%20y.open('https://mail.google.com/a/xxxx.comk/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=&su='%20+%20escape(document.title)%20+%20'&body='%20+%20escape(Q)%20+%20escape('\n')%20+%20escape(location.href)%20+%20'&bcc='%20+%20escape("xxxx@xxxx.com")%20+%20'&zx=RANDOMCRAP&shva=1&disablechatbrowsercheck=1&ui=1','gmailForm','scrollbars=yes,width=680,height=510,top=175,left=75,status=no,resizable=yes');if%20(!document.all)%20T%20=%20setTimeout('popw.focus()',50);void(0);

Now if only I can get someone to help me pick the best bits from both and make it work.

EXTRA points, if someone can also get it to press the 'convert' button so all I get is a save/open dialogue.

In case you are wondering, I have tried using software on my computer to convert like cutepdf but the output is not nearly as good as this.

Many thanks

Pull-Down Menu (Preferably Nonmodal) in Javascript Bookmarklet?

WCityMike — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:10:59 -0800

Is the presentation of a choose-item-from-multiple-choices-presented menu possible to implement into a Javascript bookmarklet? Ideally, I would be looking for the menu to act in the same nonmodal fashion like "prompt" does in a Javascript bookmarklet. (If you don't know what I mean by that, click on the text "Find in this page" on this webpage.)

I currently have a bookmarklet that takes the webpage that I'm currently on, and funnels it into a task on Remember the Milk. The bookmarklet right now is:

popw=window.open('http://m.rememberthemilk.com/add?name=' + escape("Web: Check out \"") + escape(document.title) + escape("\".") + '&list=[list ID]&priority=&repeat=&estimate&tags=' + escape("@web rtmurl") + '&priority=2&url=' + escape(location.href) + '&add=' + escape('\"Add Form\"'), 'taskForm','scrollbars=yes,width=680,height=510,top=175,left=75,status=no,resizable=yes');if (!document.all) T = setTimeout('popw.focus()',50);void(0);

Essentially, I would like to trigger the bookmarklet, and be presented with a multiple-choice menu appears where I'm presented with choices. The text of the choice will go into the "tags" section of the URL; it'll let me do further sorting.

This seems to be simple enough, but there's enough stuff out there with similar wording that I can't seem to pin myself right down to this.

Quicksilver for Bookmarklets

jpcody — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:55:32 -0800

Is it possible to access Firefox bookmarklets via Quicksilver? I'm looking to be able to "Shorten URL" or "Gmail This" or "Add to del.icio.us" and there's workarounds for most things, but just accessing the bookmarklet via QS would be best.

How to Make One Menu Choice Assign Three Variables in an HTML Page?

WCityMike — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:47:23 -0800

I have what is to me an extremely complex thing that I would like JavaScript on a webpage to do. It's related to this question I asked previously, but I've added a new complication. I understand that this may sound fairly customized. I have a feeling, though, that for someone who programs Javascript, these issues are probably both extremely common and extremely simple, which is why I'm asking here ... since perfecting this quirk could really help my efficiency. I manage my to-do list on a web application called Remember the Milk. Using their Quick Add bookmarklet as a guide, I built a larger-scale version for my personal use that would let me select various tags I wanted to use consistently from menus, rather than have to remember these tags wholesale.

The question mentioned above managed to help me with one requested improvement: the ability to not need a "concatenate" button to concatenate all the tags into the "tags" field, but instead for the page to do it automatically.

However, the other aspect of what I'd like it to do is slightly more complex.

I have a number of goals -- these could also be considered projects. Ideally, what I would like to do is make one selection: that of a goal (currently the "g" variable in the document). I would like the page to then do three things (preferably updating automatically, as it currently does, if I make a change) based on that selection.

I would like it to:

(1) Add " {SelectedGoalName}" (currently the "t" variable) to the end of the task's name.
(2) Add a tag to the task's tag list (currently the "tx" variable) that corresponds to the goal.
(3) Select the appropriate destination list ID (currently the "l" variable) that corresponds to that goal.

The SelectedGoalName would be the same as the text on the menu corresponding to the item chosen. The tag would be similar but not reliably identical to "SelectedGoalName" -- for example, it might be "Mowing" versus "g-mowing". The list ID is a seven-digit number used by Remember the Milk to identify lists.

An anonymized version of the page is at this URL. It's structurally identical; I just anonymized the locales and goals.

I know this is a complex one -- in fact, I'm unsure if this falls outside the bounds of what Ask Mefi does. But I also know that Mefites encompass many talents, so I'm hoping someone has this talent and can help me out? (I'm too poor at the moment to pay RentACoder.com.)

How to create a CrossBrowser Bookmarklet?

mickbw — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:08:15 -0800

I have written a bookmarklet that works in Firefox but not in IE6. How can I change it to be supported cross browser or even as a separate bookmarklet to get the same results. javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(Qr)location.href='http://jobsearchlog.com/ba.cfm?ad='+escape(Qr)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&tags=%s'+'&ad4user=mickbw&url2job='+window.location.href;

Much of the JS was taken from the send to Delicious bookmarklet but I've never seen it work in IE anyway.

The purpose of the 'let is to send whatever text in a page has been selected, the URL and page title and submit the values into a database for use in my web application. In Firefox they would also be able to specify tags to be included in the insert.

Any suggestions on making this work in IE?

Bookmarklets and PHP parsing of websites

sourbrew — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:24:41 -0800

I've been trying to find good resources on creating a bookmarklet for a web site i'm working on, and then parsing the passed url with PHP. Basically i want to write a bookmarklet that allows a user to "post this page," the page being a youtube or google video page, to a website im working on. I haven't really been able to find good resources on integrating that with a PHP script that would then load the page and parse it, and in the process extract the embed this object tag. Any info on where i could find help on parsing web pages with PHP, and how one goes about setting up a web page to take urls passed by bookmarklets would be greatly appreciated.

I have root access to the server, and we're running apache 1.3.

Need some help with fixing a del.icio.us bookmarklet ...

WCityMike — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:05:14 -0800

Help me untangle a few weirdities in my fine, freshly hand-rolled Cuban cigar ... er ... Javascript bookmarklet. I need some assistance doing some slight tweaks to a JavaScript bookmarklet that I hand-rolled from a bookmarklet, a Greasemonkey script, and some dumb luck.

The Javascript bookmarklet code, when given some whitespace for readability, is:

javascript:h=location.href;

t=document.title;

e = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text);

e = e.replace(/\"/g, "'");

e = e.replace(/\xa0/g, " ");

e = e.replace(/\xa9/g, "\(c\)");

e = e.replace(/\xae/g, "\(r\)");

e = e.replace(/\xb7/g, "*");

e = e.replace(/\u2018/g, "'");

e = e.replace(/\u2019/g, "'");

e = e.replace(/\u201c/g, "'");

e = e.replace(/\u201d/g, "'");

e = e.replace(/\u8220/g, "'");

e = e.replace(/\u8221/g, "'");

e = e.replace(/\u2026/g, "...");

e = e.replace(/\u2002/g, " ");

e = e.replace(/\u2003/g, " ");

e = e.replace(/\u2009/g, " ");

e = e.replace(/\u2012/g, "--");

e = e.replace(/\u2013/g, "--");

e = e.replace(/\u2014/g, "--");

e = e.replace(/\u2015/g, "--");

e = e.replace(/\u2122/g, "\(tm\)");

if (e!=null) location="http://del.icio.us/WCityMike?jump=close&url=" + encodeURIComponent(h) + "&title=" + encodeURIComponent(t) + "&extended=\"" + encodeURIComponent(e).replace(/ /g, "+") + "\"";

void 0

(Of course, when it becomes a bookmarklet, I replace spaces with percentage-sign-20 and quotes with percentage-sign-22.)

If that doesn't come across properly, forgive the self-link, but the script can also be found here.

The purpose of this bookmarklet is to take the selected text, do some swapouts of fancy stuff for plain stuff, and toss it into del.icio.us. It also is supposed to swap out double quotation marks in the selected text for single quotation marks, because it then surrounds the selected text with quotation marks for the excerpt. So, for example, if I selected the text:

"Crash" won last night's Oscar ceremony in a surprise upset.

The bookmarklet should take the text into del.icio.us as:

"'Crash' won last night's Oscar ceremony in a surprise upset."

I basically mashed together this bookmarklet because I use del.icio.us more as a linklog publishing system than as an online bookmark manager, and I wanted to automate the process of filling out the description field.

I'm looking for two tweaks in particular.

First, I'd like it to automatically remove any line feeds or carriage returns in the selected text. I use a variant of this bookmarklet with the Mac OS X application Cocoalicious, and line feeds or carriage returns (I'm not sure which is which) get preserved and carried into the description field. (I do not think this is Cocoalicious' fault, as the JavaScript search-and-replace stuff that goes on happens before the data's passed off to the cocoalicious: URL, which when triggered prompts Cocoalicious to open with the appropriate data.) I'd prefer no carriage returns get carried over. How do I do that?

Secondly, I've found that on some webpages - perhaps 35-45% of them -- it does not catch double quotation marks, and I'm not sure what I'm missing. An example of text it doesn't match is the phrase:

You'll never miss a song even in the bathroom with Atech's "iLounge hybrid toilet paper dispenser/iPod dock".

on this webpage. (Keep in mind the quotes in the above phrase may have been fancy-fied by MetaFilter itself; if you're helping, you may want to go to the original webpage to see the exact characters I'm speaking of.)

I used a program called UnicodeChecker, which, amongst its features, will supposedly tell you the Unicode value of characters in pasted text. I used that to look at the apostrophes on this page, and if I'm reading my code right, the bookmarklet should catch these quotation marks. It's not.

Finally, I'm obviously not a coder. If you have any tweaks that will optimize the code yet preserve its understandability for a newbie like me, or if you know of any other good resources or examples to include in the "dumbification" process (i.e., turn this code into this plain text), please feel free to mention them.

If there's a particularly recalcitrant code that is not going through Metafilter's posting box well, feel free to e-mail it to me. My address is in my profile.

Much obliged in advance!

Thank you!

Amazon cover art bookmarklet?

WCityMike — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:48:20 -0800

Bookmarklet to display Amazon cover art? My Google-fu has failed. But is anyone aware of a bookmarklet that, starting from an Amazon product page, would take you to the URL for the unadulterated cover art (as oposed to a, say, "Copy Link Location", which would include the Search Inside and other stuff appended to the graphic). (I'm trying to populate a gratu.itio.us wish list, but can also think of a few hundred other times such a bookmarklet would prove handy.)

Editorial note: Keep in mind that you can't post a Javascript bookmarklet as a link in the comments (I know this from prior experience) ...

This site looks to be of some help in terms of URL construction but isn't taking me all the way there. (BTW, I have absolutely no programming knowledge, so unfortunately am asking if such a bookmarklet already exists.)

How do I assign a hotkey to a Firefox bookmark?

arathorn — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:20:15 -0800

I have a bookmarklet that I'd like to run by a pressing a hotkey in Firefox -- any suggestions? I've set up a mouse gesture to do this, but I'd like a keyboard shortcut as well.

Bookmarklet that goes to a url and makes the referring url available as a variable for a script.

31d1 — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:13:07 -0800

I need a bookmarklet that goes to a specified (static) url and makes the url of the page I came from available as a variable for a perl or php script. I just want to be able to go to a page I've set up and have it record the page I'm got there from, but the apparently-useful-for-just-this-sort-of-thing http_referrer variable only works if i clicked on a link to get there, while I, in my hubris, would like to be able to type the address in manually from anywhere. But apparently I can't. So it looks like a bookmarklet is the next best thing. The thing is, I've spent alot of time learning php and perl to get to the point that I even know enough to need this, but bookmarklets are javascript, and javascript is a nut that is resisting my efforts to crack. I'm working on learning this crazy new language cause I'd like to be able to function in it, but maybe someone here can throw me a line on this one in the mean time? Because really I'd rather be learning more perl right now and it seems like this would be mad simple if you know the stuff. For me its agony.

Wikipedia bookmarklet

juniorbonner — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:08:36 -0800

Hopefully fairly simple question - I seem to remember coming across a bookmarklet once which would turn a webpage into links to wikipedia entries. So basically any subject/object on the page that had a wiki entry would be hyperlinked to that entry. Now I can't find the thing. Anyone know where it might be? Thanks

How can I make the del.icio.us bookmarklet open on TOP of my main Firefox window instead of popping under?

rio — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:59:22 -0800

How can I make the del.icio.us bookmarklet open on TOP of my main Firefox window instead of popping under?

Does anyone know of a Firefox extension or Linux app that allows you to check or uncheck all checkboxes on a web page?

littlegreenlights — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:56:25 -0800

Firefox (un)check all extension: Does anyone know if there exists a firefox extension or linux app that allows you to check or uncheck all checkboxes on a given web page? {mi} I use a ticket tracker system with lots of legitimate tickets and lots of spam (I have no control over filtering for this system). Sometimes I pull up a page that has, say, 50 legitimate tickets and 25 pieces of spam, necessitating 50 mouse clicks to clean out the spam and retain the tickets, and it would be nice to be able to come out ahead of the ratio every now and then. : >

In the event that such a thing does not exist, I have intermediate-level Perl experience . . . would this translate well to trying to do this in Python (something I probably need to learn, anyway) as a learner project?

Is there a bookmarklet for inserting printable link footnotes in Firefox?

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:42:22 -0800

I love kokogiak's bookmarklet for inserting printable link footnotes at the bottom of pages. However, it's IE only. Does anyone know of a way to do this with Firefox?