💬 Browser Bookmarklets for Giving Credit
Create two bookmarks in your browser’s bookmark bar. Give them convenient names like “via” and “hat tip” and add the snippets of code respectively into the URL fields. On a site you want to give credit to, highlight the name of the author of the post and click the bookmarklet. You’ll see a pop up for some text which you can then cut and paste into your post to give the credit. You can obviously edit the text if necessary.
I am all in on this Chris, but I just can’t seem to get it to work. I created the bookmarklet, highlighted the name and clicked the bookmarklet, but there was no pop-up. I must admit, I do not use many bookmarklets, only Alan Levine’s really. I may therefore have to dig into this a bit further as it is probably me.
Hi Aaron,
I am glad you posted this. I like bookmarklets. I run one a bit like this via AppleScript on my mac. This has an advantage of letting me add a keyboard to send straight to the clipboard.
I am going to add the indieweb mark up to that using Chris’s script for reference. Like you I couldn’t get it working at first I had to mess around with he single and double quotes. This works for me:
https://gist.github.com/troutcolor/4235360dff2769d3efa7e10bffe7fb22#file-via-indie-web-bookmarklet
I’ve not got much of a handle on JavaScript so YMMV.
Thank you John. It worked a treat 🙂
Hi Aaron,
I’ve updated the gist to go straight to the clipboard without interaction. Saves a few keystrokes. Only briefly tested;-)
Aaron, sorry to hear that it isn’t working for you. I recall having some quirks with single versus double quotes and with regards to JavaScript I’m a only at a cut&paste level of proficiency and even then it takes some trial and error. I would hope that John’s version might work better as his JS skills are assuredly better than mine: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/re-re-browser-bookmarklets-for-giving-credit/.