Booky - a fluid interface for creating bookmarklets

Combine canned functions to easily generate custom JavaScript bookmarklets, without having to write them from scratch.

API Documentation

Link generation using booky.Link()

• baseUrl(string[]) set the base URL for the generated link
• parameters(object[]) adds query parameter key value pairs
• fragemnnt(string[]) adds a fragment identifier for anchors

Example: automatically search for a highlighted term on a page:

booky.Link()
  .baseUrl('http://www.google.com/search')
  .parameters({ 'q': booky.SELECTED_TEXT })
  .inSameWindow();

Email generation using booky.Email():

• .to(string[]) adds a recipient email to the list of recipients
• .cc(string[]) adds a recipient email to the carbon copy list
• .bcc(string[]) adds a recipient to the blind carbon copy list
• .subject(string[]) the collection of values to concatenate into the subject
• .body(string[]) the collection of values to concatenate into the email body
• .inNewWindow() opens the mailto: link in a new browser window

Example: creating a boilerplate e-mail to share an excerpt from article:

booky.Email()
  .to('[email protected]')
  .cc(['[email protected]', '[email protected]'])
  .bcc(['[email protected]'])
  .subject(['Article: ', booky.TITLE])
  .body([
    'Dear Sir/Madam,',
    '\n',

    'Please read this interesting page: \"',
    booky.TITLE,
    ' by ',
    booky.AUTHOR
    '\" online at: ',
    Booky.URL,
    '\n',

    'Here\'s an excerpt: \"',
    booky.SELECTED_TEXT,
    '\"',
    "\n",

    'Yours, truly.'
  ])
  .inNewWindow();

Getting values from an HTML page using booky

• AUTHOR() gets the author of the current page if present
• LAST_MODIFIED() gets the last modified date of the page
• SELECTED_TEXT() gets selected text on the page at the time of execution
• TITLE() gets the title of the HTML page
• URL() gets the URL of the HTML page