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Bookmarklet templates for #rusichackday
/**
* Basic bookmarklet template.
*
* Change the `iframeSrc` variable to point to your space's new idea
* page. You can adjust the iframe styles and position using the
* `iframeStyle` variable.
*
* For turning this script into a bookmarklet, you should probably take
* a look at https://gist.github.com/1856012.
*/
(function() {
// This is the page that will display inside the iframe.
var iframeSrc = 'http://hectic.rusic.com/ideas/new';
// Styles for the iframe.
var iframeStyle = 'position: fixed; z-index: 999999; width: 500px; height: 300px; right: 0; top: 0; border: none; overflow: hidden; background-color: white;';
// Create an iframe element and set some attributes.
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
// Pass the current url across to the space.
iframe.setAttribute('src', iframeSrc + '?custom1=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href));
iframe.setAttribute('id', 'rusic-modal');
iframe.setAttribute('style', iframeStyle);
// Inject the iframe into the host page.
var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
body.appendChild(iframe);
}).call(this);
/**
* Scraper bookmarklet template.
*
* This is an example of scraping the page for the first image, then posting that
* across to the space. As with the AJAX example, you could scrape anything from
* the page, or multiple things, and post them all to the space.
*/
(function() {
var iframeSrc = 'http://hectic.rusic.com/ideas/new';
var iframeStyle = 'position: fixed; z-index: 999999; width: 500px; height: 300px; right: 0; top: 0; border: none; overflow: hidden; background-color: white;';
// Scrape the first image from the page and grab it's `src` attribute.
var firstImage = document.querySelectorAll('img')[0].src;
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
// Send the firstImage to the iframe in the src attribute.
iframe.setAttribute('src', iframeSrc + '?custom1=' + encodeURIComponent(firstImage));
iframe.setAttribute('id', 'rusic-modal');
iframe.setAttribute('style', iframeStyle);
// Inject the iframe into the host page.
var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
body.appendChild(iframe);
}).call(this);
/**
* AJAX Vimeo OEmbed bookmarklet template.
*
* Vimeo provides an OEmbed API, this looks up the video metadata based on
* the url, then posts the video_id across to rusic as a custom field. This
* can be read in your theme in order to embed the video.
*
* This could be changed to lookup pretty much anything that is exposed over
* a JSONP or CORS compatible API.
*
* Bear in mind that you can post more than one piece of custom data.
*/
(function() {
var iframeSrc = 'http://hectic.rusic.com/ideas/new';
var iframeStyle = 'position: fixed; z-index: 999999; width: 500px; height: 300px; right: 0; top: 0; border: none; overflow: hidden; background-color: white;';
// Grab the video id from the vimeo oembed api, then post it across to the space.
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
// Get the video_id from the JSON response.
var videoId = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText).video_id
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
// Send the videoId to the space in the src attribute of the iframe.
iframe.setAttribute('src', iframeSrc + '?custom1=' + encodeURIComponent(videoId));
iframe.setAttribute('id', 'rusic-modal');
iframe.setAttribute('style', iframeStyle);
var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
body.appendChild(iframe);
}
};
xhr.open('GET', 'http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href), true);
xhr.send(null);
}).call(this);
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For a script to compile bookmarklets, check out the comments on this gist.

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