Bookmarklet to copy urls as markdown

README.md

Readme

Originally based on this bookmarklet. Updated to only link the issue/PR id for Github urls

Usage

• Right click bookmarks bar and click "add page"
• Change name to "Copy URL as markdown"
• Change url to javascript:, followed by the bookmarklet script.

markdown-copy-bookmarklet.js

(function() {
  function copyToClipboard(text) {
    if (document.queryCommandSupported && document.queryCommandSupported("copy")) {
      var textarea = document.createElement("textarea");
      textarea.textContent = text;
      textarea.style.position = "fixed";  /* Prevent scrolling to bottom of page in MS Edge.*/
      document.body.appendChild(textarea);
      textarea.select();
      try {
        return document.execCommand("copy");  /* Security exception may be thrown by some browsers.*/
      } catch (ex) {
        console.warn("Copy to clipboard failed.", ex);
        return false;
      } finally {
        document.body.removeChild(textarea);
      }
    }
  }

  var markdown = null;
  var urlObject = new URL(window.location.href);
  urlObject.searchParams.delete('utm_source');

  var url = urlObject.toString();

  if (window.location.origin === "https://github.com") {
    var titleBlock = document.querySelector(".gh-header-title");
    if (titleBlock) {
      var title = titleBlock.querySelector(".markdown-title").innerText;
      var issue = titleBlock.querySelector(".color-fg-muted").innerText;

      markdown = `[${title} - ${issue}](${url})`;
    }
  }

  if (!markdown) {
    markdown = `[${document.title}](${url})`;
  }

  copyToClipboard(markdown);
})();