Hey everyone, I have some free time these days and I feel like writing some bookmarklets.

These are pretty easy to do so if you need one, please post here ! I'll gladly help you as fast as i can .

Here are a couple of things bookmarklets can do for you :

• Translate selected text from any language to any language.
• Search selected text on a website.
• Change how a page looks (background, font color,etc..)
• Use your imagination and suggest something !

Here are some bookmarklets.. pretty simple ones but someone might find them useful !

Translate selection (any language) to english :
(Simply change "|en|" to "|fr|" or "|es|" to translate to french or spanish, etc..

Code:

javascript:void((function(){window.open("http://translate.google.com/translate_t#auto|en|"+document.getSelection().toString());})())

Translate current page to english :
(Simply change =en to =fr or =es for another language)

Code:

javascript:void((function(){window.open("http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&u="+location.href+"&sl=auto&tl=en");})())

Image search selection:

Code:

javascript:void((function(){window.open("http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q="+document.getSelection().toString());})())

Google define selection:

Code:

javascript:void((function(){window.open("http://www.google.com/search?q=define:%20"+document.getSelection().toString());})())

Any bugs / comments / suggestions are welcome !

Don't need a bookmarklet for searching for text it already exists in Chrome ...

Ctrl + F gets you there ...

I think some one has already written one for translation ...

@ stevePaul:

Why are you sort of negative to someone offering to actually program something for others?

Plus: I do not get your "ctrl-F" comment... none of the bookmarklets proposed by Kyrax are a "ctrl+F" substitution

Plus: "someone has already... blabla" serves really no purpose...

I normally don't rant but your comment got me there!

Furious Luc VN

LVN ...

Firstly, I was responding to Kyrax original post 'Need a Bookmarklet' so in between me posting and it landing here they'd subsequently added to the post (ie the Bookmarklets)....

Hence also your confusion about the Ctrl+F for 'search selected text on a web page'.

Those that have seen my posts on this forum previously know that I am a great advocate of innovation having been responsible for finding solutions to several problems\issues myself ...

Finally (again people know this about me) the one thing that infuriates me more than anything else (not only on this forum !!) is people not bothering to search for an answer to their problem or issue (or solution) before posting a question or solution here ...

In the meantime enjoy the forum :-D

PS Hope you've calmed down now ...

Thanks StevePaul: cooled off now
I suspect I had a bad day...
Not really like me to post with "Furious Luc VN" as a signature.
Rgds,
Luc VN

Not a problem ...

Regards
S P :-D

Can you please write these bookmarklets for me:
A bookmarklet that can search the highlighted terms on Google, live, ebay, and download.com. And since they're easy to make can you please teach me how?

Originally Posted by Clouds

And since they're easy to make can you please teach me how?

Actually Kyrax, it would be a nice post to see on Chrome Plugins' blog (How to make a search bookmarklet)

Originally Posted by Stamga

Actually Kyrax, it would be a nice post to see on Chrome Plugins' blog (How to make a search bookmarklet)

Well.. i won't go into a tutorial on javascript. Not only I don't feel like writing one, but also i do not think I'm the most qualified on the subject.

Also, there are tons of tutorials on Javascript.. just use google !

I'm going to post the bookmarklet for Cloud's request shortly.

EDIT:

Here it is..

Code:

javascript:void((function(){var a=document.getSelection().toString();window.open("http://www.google.com/search?q="+a);window.open("http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q="+a);window.open("http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw="+a);window.open("http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query="+a+"&searchtype=downloads");})())

Searches Google, Live, Ebay.com and Download.com ..

If you don't want all of them, here's the individual versions :

Live :

Code:

javascript:void((function(){var a=document.getSelection().toString();window.open("http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q="+a);})())

Ebay.com

Code:

javascript:void((function(){var a=document.getSelection().toString();window.open("http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw="+a);})())

Download.com

Code:

javascript:void((function(){var a=document.getSelection().toString();window.open("http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query="+a+"&searchtype=downloads");})())

Also, i suggest that if you want to learn how to make simple bookmarklets, you should look at the code. It's easy to see a pattern here

Feel free to ask for more !

Kyrax