[Greasemonkey] Adding Bookmarks from GM

[Dave Land]

On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:34 PM, Bill Donnelly wrote:

> I started looking into this and never finished.
> I wanted to have a bookmarklet that started up the bookmark dialog.
> And/or would do an "auto-bookmark", kind of the way IE does.
> Mostly I just wanted a clickable Bm icon that is on my browser
> bm's toolbar that I could easily click without having to do a
> drop-down menu item or 'stop' and press Ctrl-D.
> I'm pretty sure it can be done, maybe without creating an actual
> extension. If you come up with something, please let us know.

I started to reply to this thread yesterday, but decided that my sad
little one-line script wasn't what people were looking for, due to the
requirement to check the existing bookmarks and only create a new one if
it hadn't been marked before.

BUT: the bottom line, as stated before, is that there's no way for
JS to get at existing bookmarks, and no way for JS to quietly stuff
a Bookmark into your list (which is a good thing, because otherwise,
the whole concept of bookmarks would have long ago been ruined by
bookmark spam).

Good news: bringing up the bookmark dialog is a one-liner:

     window.sidebar.addPanel( document.title, location.href, '')

A script based on that one-liner is attached.

It pops up the Add Bookmark dialog every time a targeted page (the
greasemonkey mailing list archive, which I used for testing, since I no
longer -- much to my grieving heart -- use PERL) is visited. It doesn't
have *anything* like the smarts in the outstanding (and already
referenced) MonkeyDo script -- it is a butt-simple one-liner that pops
up the bookmark dialog with the title and URL of the page filled in for
*every* targeted page. That means that it is stupid, stupid, stupid.

But at least it does something related to your need.

Peace,

Dave

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