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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts) Thu Aug 1, 2013, 07:45 PM Aug 2013

Bookmarklet - Search before post

Hi all,

I wrote a simple bookmarklet, it searches google for the title of the article you are currently reading and sees if it's been posted to DU.

To install this bookmarklet create a bookmark on your toolbar and use the javascript for the address.

To use this bookmarklet, when reading a news page click it in the browser toolbar.

the code is

java script:void(location.href='https://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&q=+'+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'')

Remove the space from the word javascript in the code

Peace

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Bookmarklet - Search before post (Original Post) Jesus Malverde Aug 2013 OP

Nice... ChromeFoundry Aug 2013 #1

JS bookmarks can be very cool Recursion Aug 2013 #2

ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)

1. Nice...

Reply to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Fri Aug 2, 2013, 08:57 AM

Aug 2013

This little change will bring up the search results in a new tab so you don't lose your current article...

java script:void(window.open('https://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&q=+'+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'','_blank'))

I had no idea that bookmarks supported JavaScript. Thanks for the tip!

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. JS bookmarks can be very cool

Reply to ChromeFoundry (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 4, 2013, 06:54 PM

Aug 2013

Though the document model is slightly different from normal.

Cool hack, OP!

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