Wilk4 Bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are small bits of Javascript that can be put into links and on your browser's links bar to perform useful actions for surfing, webdesign, etc. There are many incredibly useful bookmarklets at the sites listed below:

I have started working on a few of my own. They aren't completely debugged yet, but I'm working on them. If they're useful to you, go ahead and grab a copy by dragging the link to your browser's links bar.

Some search bookmarklets

Search bookmarkets can be made pretty easily for sites with search forms by either customizing something like the Google Browser Buttons or by using the Bookmarklets: Make Search Bookmarklet. (more info here)

• AddALL book search and price comparison
  AddALL is a great site that lets you search many online bookstores at once and compare and pick the best total price from those that carry the book you want. These bookmarklets attempt to make nice little selection searches so that you can select a title, author or ISBN on a web page and do a quick search.
  • Mozilla / Netscape 6.x/7.x versions   (based on google button)
    • AddALL Title
    • AddALL ISBN
    • AddALL Author
    • AddALL Keyword
    • AddALL Title Search (based on "Make Search Bookmarklet")
  • MSIE versions   (based on google button)
    • AddALL Title
    • AddALL ISBN
    • AddALL Author
    • AddALL Keyword
  • Notes:
    1. The versions based on the google button code are nice since they'll popup a dialog if you don't have anything selected. Enter text in the dialog.
    2. Note: If you look at the form code at AddALL or AddALL: Link to Us, you can learn the query parameters to add to specify default shipping destination, state and currency to display in. Just add those arguments to the url string after type=.
       For example: &location=10000&state=MD&dispCurr=USD
    3. It's also easy to make versions that query the AddALL Used and Out of Print book search.
    4. The version based on "Make Search Bookmarklet" has some problems for me. Don't rely on it quite yet.

• See also John Udell's library lookup bookmarklets.

• Idea: Scripture lookup bookmarket using The Bible Gateway
  Do passage and keyword lookups. See webmaster tools and advanced search.

Feel free to use or modify these. Since I merely modified other code for new searches, they certainly aren't copyrighted to me or anything. FWIW, AddAll support knows about these and they like them.

Other Bookmarklet Sites

• BookMarklets.com
• Jesse Ruderman's Bookmarklets, zoom, web development, links-to-more, etc
• FaveLets, validation, browser sizing and other webdev bookmarklets
• Validation Bookmarklets
• Web UI dev tools for MacIE5
• Sam-I-Am: Web Page Debugging & Development Bookmarklets
• Google Browser Buttons
• Go Wayback bookmarklet to access the WayBack Machine to the internet archive
• Accessify: Accessibility-checking favelets