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Bookmarklets

A bookmarklet is a tool you can keep on your bookmarks bar that will perform an action when you click on it. You can use one of the bookmarklets on this page to link sentences that are not already indirectly linked. For more details about bookmarklets, see "About Bookmarklets" below.

Drag-and-drop Alan's "Link 2 Sentences" Bookmarklet to Your Bookmarks Toolbar

Tatoeba bookmarklets

The following bookmarklet (author: AlanF_US), which will operate on any Tatoeba page (i.e., a page beginning with the string "http://tatoeba.org"), will let you link two sentences by copying their IDs or URLs into fields. It is based on a bookmark by Zifre, but it has the following advantages:

  • It does not require you to be on a page that shows one of the sentences.

  • It will accept either a sentence number (e.g., "1000000") or a sentence URL (e.g., "http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/1000000"). Since right-clicking on a link to a sentence and choosing "Copy Link Location" (or its equivalent in your browser) will give you a full URL, the ability to copy in a URL saves you work because you don't need to trim the leading part of the URL before submitting it.

The text of the bookmarklet follows:

javascript:var%20u=0;var%20e="Enter%20number%20or%20URL%20of%20";var%20s="%20sentence";var%20a=window.prompt(e+"first"+s,"");if(a!=null){var%20t=/(http:\/\/tatoeba.org\/[a-z]{3}\/sentences\/show\/)?([1-9][0-9]*)/;var%20r=a.match(t);if(r!=null){var%20an=r[2];var%20b=window.prompt(e+"second"+s,"");if(b!=null){r=b.match(t);if(r!=null){var%20bn=r[2];u%20=1;c="http://tatoeba.org/eng/links/add"+"/"+an+"/"+bn;location.href=c;}}}}if(u==0){window.alert("Invalid%20input");}

About Bookmarklets

A bookmarklet is a short piece of JavaScript code that the browser runs on the current page. It begins with "javascript:" instead of "http://". Otherwise, you can treat it just like any standard bookmark. For instance, you can keep it on the bookmark bar. Bookmarklets can be built from scratch by creating a bookmark from any web page, then changing the "Location" or "URL" field to the bookmarklet string and changing the name to whatever you want. See the Wikipedia page on bookmarklets or this short introduction for more details.

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