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Great bookmarklet quest!

By Serola. Friday, 27. June 2008, 08:10:07

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You may already know bookmarklets can be used on Opera Mini. At least I have tried to do my best to advertise WapReview article 'Bookmarklets for Opera Mini' by Dennis. Using bookmarklets is possible because Opera Mini support javascript very well. Therefore you can use javascript also in bookmarks like listed at http://o.yeswap.com

To give a nice and quick example, try the 'Google info' bookmarklet:
http://my.opera.com/opera.mini/blog/2008/06/27/great-bookmarklet-quest?javascript:location.href='http://www.google.com/search?q=info%3A'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)
Just open the link, save it into your Opera Mini bookmarks or speeddials and edit it by removing everything before 'javascript...'. Then go to any web site indexed by Google and use this bookmarklet by calling it from Opera Mini keypad shortcuts:

  • For speeddials press * and number of bookmark where you saved the bookmarklet.
  • For bookmarks page press #2 to open bookmarks page and open the bookmarklet

:D And now comes the task for you. I was surprised to find out these bookmarklets are more or less the same as used for desktop browsers. Only difference is the way how you save and use them. It means there are number of bookmarklets waiting for you to discover, test and report them in here.

:knight: I here declare a quest to develop or find more bookmarklets and share them with other Opera Mini fans. There are already many bookmarks listed on web, but since I have no time to test them all, I need your help. You may start the quest on these sites (to get them on Opera Mini, just add http://anyurlthatdoesnotexist.net? in the beginning of bookmarklets):


Notice! You probably can't add scripts into comments. For example in some cases MyOpera server just strip down some characters not allowed to be used on blog articles or comments. Therefore consider adding the full bookmarklet somewhere else where you have more permission and then cite to that page in here. If you can't publish bookmarklet anywhere, then just give me a hint, which bookmarklet you tested and where can I find it.

Selected bookmarklets edited for Opera Mini can be seen at serola.info/bm. Please test and give feedback.

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Comments

JB 27. June 2008, 12:18

There is one bookmarklet that lets you view the google's cached page of the current webpage. Though it isnt worth getting in to the speed dials, it sure is of help whenever you get server timeouts.
This bookmarklet works neatly on OM, and i got it to OM via Opera Sync.
Now how do i make it available here? Opera link? How could others access my link page without signing in? :confused:
Anyurlthatdoesntexist method wont work coz the JS code exceeds the phone's text size limit.
Anyway here is it,
Google cache bookmarklet

Serola 27. June 2008, 12:29

Damn it :frown: I tried to add it here but some scripts are just not allowed to be used even on blogs. I need to put them on my own site. I do it ASAP.

Serola 27. June 2008, 12:37

@ Jbpseudo - Is it the one I added as the first bookmarklet at serola.info/bm?

JB 27. June 2008, 12:42

This text size limit on phones is the villian here. You cant handle these bookmarklets without Opera 9.5 :irked:

Serola 27. June 2008, 12:45

I also had some problems with apostrophes but now it should work at http://serola.info/bm

But yes, the text size limit can be problem on phones.

JB 27. June 2008, 12:53

Originally posted by serola:

@ Jbpseudo - Is it the one I added as the first bookmarklet at my website?


Yeah buddy you got it long time back :smile:.
But the cache link isnt working at your website, you may need to check it out.

JB 27. June 2008, 12:58

Offtopic/ This server timeout is driving me nuts :mad:. Looks like it has got you too :D

Serola 27. June 2008, 13:28

Now it should work, or it at least work for me on MicroEmulator. I just had to replace all " with ' to avoid a href="" to close.

JB 27. June 2008, 13:36

Originally posted by serola:

Now it should work, or it at least work for me on MicroEmulator. I just had to replace all " with ' to avoid a href="" to close.


I am getting the same page on ME that i got on Opera 9.5 and its this,
http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:serola.info/2008/06/27/more-bookmarklets-for-opera-mini/

How come its not working ony for me? awww :confused:

Serola 27. June 2008, 13:47

I am getting the same page on ME that i got on Opera 9.5 and its this,
http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:serola.info/2008/06/27/more-bookmarklets-for-opera-mini/


That's because this blog page of mine is not indexed by Google yet. Try the bookmarklet on some other web page you have retrieved using Google. In other words, search Google for something, open one of the results, and then call the bookmarklet.

Hint: I store bookmarklets that I don't need so often into OM bookmarks page (not speeddials). Then I call them with #2 and select the bookamrklet I want to run.

JB 27. June 2008, 13:59

Originally posted by serola:

That's because this blog page of mine is not indexed by Google yet.


I cant get more silly :clown:.
Yeah it works great only my brain doesnt Homer: Doh!

Serola 28. June 2008, 14:52

Update: For now on selected bookmarklets will be published at http://serola.info/bm in order to get shorter URL and a more appropriate favicon for saved bookmarklets.

JB 28. June 2008, 15:22

The page looks simple and good :cool:.
Today i was trying like hell to get the "gmailthis" working on OM. None of the modifications of the BML worked :cry:.
*Goes out looking for something else that will work* :sherlock:

calvinohuang 11. September 2008, 10:35

Too may bookmarklets, but Opera Mini provides only 9 speed dials.

So I create a web site for Opera Mini bookmarklets, which provides tens of bookmarklets with just one speed dial. Please try it at http://m.lrfz.com, with your Opera Mini. :smile:

JB 11. September 2008, 13:45

None of the services work for me awww. All of them report that a page/url was not been added.

kal stevens 19. June 2009, 06:22

Hello guys,

I was wondering if someone can help me. opera mini, jbed 2.1, mortscript 4.1 but cant get it to work as a default browser or even to open up. I uninstalled and reinstalled and nothing.

please help,

my email blaken_002@yahoo.com

sorry for the incon,

kal

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