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

[Jeffrey Haemer]

John,

This is exactly the thing.  I just tried it, and it works.

(a) I'm about to be promoted to "Even Better Brother."
(b) Show up some Thursday night for Hacking Society and I'll buy you a beer.

For the other folks who've sent me mail saying they want it, too, here's the
right 'BLABLA'.

javascript:void(location.href=location.href+'&emi=ATVPDKIKX0DER')

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:26 PM, John Hernandez <jph at jph.net> wrote:

> 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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Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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