Ask YC: How do you build a bookmarklet?

#1

Post by qwestion » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 8:51 AM UTC

I a non-programming founder trying to contribute towards the development of our web app and tonight I was trying to create a javascript bookmarklet to easily submit content to our Social News from my Firefox toolbar. My search skills are not too bad, but I couldn't find something that worked for me. I still have a lot of questions unanswered. Hence I decided to ask you, the all knowing YC crowd.

Any help?

Re: Ask YC: How do you build a bookmarklet?

#2

Post by seregine » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 9:04 AM UTC

Have you seen this wikipedia page? It has some good references:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

The basic idea is that you create a link on your page that points to a "javascript:" URL. This link can become a bookmark just like any other link. The javascript in the link's URL implements your bookmarklet functionality.

Re: Ask YC: How do you build a bookmarklet?

#3

Post by bazookaaa » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 9:42 AM UTC

Looking at del.icio.us's bookmarklet may be a good start:

  javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/post?v=4;url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+';title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title.replace(/%5E%5Cs*%7C%5Cs*$/g,''))

Basically, it redirects the browser to http://del.icio.us/post?v=4 and passes two parameters to the URL: "url" and "title" which just contains the url and the website title of the previous website you were on.

Re: Ask YC: How do you build a bookmarklet?

#4

Post by prakash » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 9:56 AM UTC

This one address your question: http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-make-a-bookmarkle...

Re: Ask YC: How do you build a bookmarklet?

#5

Post by ScottWhigham » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 10:24 AM UTC

The obvious choice: http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+build+a+bookmarklet