JS Bookmarklet for Switching to lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Zeus@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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i find it annoying to have to manually change urls to subscribe to a community outside lemmy.world, so i wrote a bookmarklet to quickly switch to the lemmy.world instance

to use, just drag the following code to your bookmarks bar (name it whatever you like), then click it when you want to use it

javascript:(function() {const myInst="lemmy.world";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})())

readable version:

javascript:(
	function() {
		// make sure to change this if using on a different instance
		const myInst="lemmy.world";
		let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");
		let currInst=currUrl[2];
		currUrl[2]=myInst;
		let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;
		window.location=newUrl;
	})
()

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[-] Yoru@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

also, you should replace const myInst="lemmy.world"; with const myInst = window.location.hostname;, it automatically fetches what instance you're on.

[-] Zeus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that (unless i'm misunderstanding) isn't the point of it. it's made for quickly taking you from e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa to https://lemmy.world/c/jerboa@lemmy.ml, so it needs a const to know which instance to take you to

edit: i guess i could replace let currInst=currUrl[2]; with let currInst=window.location.hostname; but i can't see a practical difference and so i chose the shorter one