Ask HN: What are the most useful bookmarklets you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39745425

by nbbaier • 2 years ago

10 17 2 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

cranberryturkey• 2 years ago

https://othr.us

vmoore• 2 years ago

I've milked this to death:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html

perilunar2• 2 years ago

I have a couple I use constantly to kill fixed and sticky page elements. Makes the web much more usable. Also use the pinboard bookmarklet quite often.

kcrwfrd_• 2 years ago

A “show passwords” bookmarklet, turns any password input into normal text.

madacol3• 2 years ago

On firefox you can right click -> "Reveal password"

treetalker3• 2 years ago

Kagi Universal Summarizer bookmarklet:

https://gist.github.com/Julioevm/68275ea1324046caedfdfb2ba0e...

Leftium2• 2 years ago

I have 3 bookmarklets:

1. I made a custom "Toggle" bookmarklet that toggles between various sites. For example between:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/39745425 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39745425

- Kagi.com and Google.com

- Google form/sheet and my beautifier: https://g.leftium.com/pretty

2. Allow Paste: https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/6e3869d8e468e016f22a4b4de...

3. Special toggle between Kagi Summarize, Kagi Key Moments, and original URL

I also run several "permanent bookmarklets" via ViolentMonkey/TamperMonkey: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/39621056

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Related HN post/discussion: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/38014069

treetalker3• 2 years ago

Please link the code for your toggle bookmarklet! I’m particularly interested in the one to cycle between the original URL and Kagi Summarizer etc. :-D

Leftium2• 2 years ago

Here you go: https://gist.github.com/Leftium/5e1e31dcab4d747d4d9be721bcf5...

wruza• 2 years ago

Images: presents an overlay with all images found in <img> tags.

Unshorts:

  javascript:(function(){location.href=location.href.replace('/shorts/','/watch?v=')})();

perilunar2• 2 years ago

Nice!

Took Unshorts a step further: remove all shorts from a page:

  javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll("a").forEach((a)=>{if(a.href.includes('/shorts/')){a.remove();}});})();

madacol3• 2 years ago

- Open npm package on socket.dev

    javascript:location.href=document.location.href.replace("www.npmjs.com/", 'socket.dev/npm/');

- Edit any text on any page

    javascript: (function() {   document.body.contentEditable = true;   document.body.spellcheck = false;  })();

- Highlight selected text (wraps selection in <mark> tags)

this one is complex, see it here: https://getbookmarklets.com/scripts/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.github...

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BTW, I am building https://getbookmarklets.com precisely because I want a place to share bookmarklets

I am trying to make the site as simple as possible on the server-side by only storing the URL of the bookmarklet, everything else is derived on the client side from the URL, similar to how bookmarkl.ink does it

I am still figuring out how to make it resistant to spam, I don't want it to become like the userscript sites where you can't find a simple useful script, they all seem to be ultra specific and very complex scripts that are hard to verify.

Any feedback is appreciated

madacol3• 2 years ago

I also think we need some kind of bookmarklet manager to show only the relevant bokkmarklets depending on the webpage in display

nbbaier2• 2 years ago

I've seen this extension but haven't done much about trying it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/powerlet/ofecodkcad...

nbbaier2• 2 years ago

Excited about https://getbookmarklets.com/, I'll check it out!

adiabatty• 2 years ago

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

Also, to nicely format the Jira issue I'm looking at, to paste into task trackers:

    javascript: (() => {
      const tagEl = document.querySelector(
        '[data-testid="issue.views.issue-base.foundation.breadcrumbs.current-issue.item"]'
      );
      if (!(tagEl instanceof HTMLElement)) return;
      const tag = tagEl.innerText;
    
      const nameEl = document.querySelector(
        '[data-testid="issue.views.issue-base.foundation.summary.heading"]'
      );
      if (!(nameEl instanceof HTMLElement)) return;
      const name = nameEl.innerText;
    
      const text = `[${tag}] ${name}`;
      navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
    })();

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