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Yahoo! Hacks
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Yahoo! Hacks

by Paul Bausch
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Add a Yahoo! Bookmark with One Click

Speed up the process of adding sites to your Yahoo! Bookmarks with a browser bookmark and a bit of JavaScript.

Yahoo! Bookmarks are an easy way to share a list of web sites across several computers. If you have a set of sites you like to visit from home, the office, a friend’s house, or any other place you might find yourself in front of a computer, they’ll always be just a few clicks away at your Yahoo! account, instead of trapped inside your browser at home.

Unfortunately, setting up this list of sites for the first time can be time-consuming. After logging into My Yahoo!, you must find your bookmarks (usually in the upper-right corner); click Add; copy and paste the site URL, name, and any comments into the form; and click the Save button. This might not sound too labor intensive, but it amounts to quite a few steps if you’re adding more than a few sites.

If you’ve installed the Yahoo! Toolbar, you might have already experienced the joy of one-click Yahoo! Bookmarks. On any web page, you can click the Add Bookmark button to add a site. From then on, the site will be available at your Yahoo! Bookmarks. If you don’t want to install the Yahoo! Toolbar (to save browser real estate) but still want the convenience of adding bookmarks, you can build your own JavaScript bookmarklet and add it to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar to get the same one-click effect.

The Magic of Bookmarklets

A bookmarklet is a bit of JavaScript code stored in a web browser ...

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