[lug] How do you do this? Appending stuff to URLs

[John Hernandez]

Try creating a bookmark with the location:

javascript:void(location.href=location.href+'BLABLA')

Where BLABLA is the string you want to append to the URL.

On 3/7/08, Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do Amazon Prime.  My typical process is
>
> (a) Search Amazon for what I want.
> (b) Find what I want, and wish that I could now look at just the stuff
> eligible for Amazon Prime.
>
> I looked a little and found two kinds of solutions.
>  (1) several mashups that search only in Amazon Prime
> (2) one guy, who said, "Just add '&AURIFAFG80JKRQUI' to your search, once
> you have a search that works."  That's not the actual string -- I have it
> stashed away on a different box that's not handy.
>
> The first solution seems great, but doesn't work.  They don't find stuff,
> display things funny, and generally lack functionality I want.  Amazon turns
> out to be the right tool for searching Amazon -- at least, for me.
>
> The second one, amazingly, does, except it requires I stash the string in a
> text file, and then remember to cut-and-paste it.
>
> Is there an easy, nice, point-and-click solution to this?  No, I'm not
> willing to spend the time on this to write XUL or do a bunch of other
> hacking.  Cut-and-paste is easier.
>  Plus, my artist sisters, with whom I share a membership, need to be able to
> do this stuff, too.
>
> If, however, you had something like a bookmarklet that I could easily hack
> into "append 'Restrict to Amazon Prime' to my current URL," I'd snap it up.
>
> Or can you suggest something else that's easy and sister-friendly?
>
> --
> Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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