Bookmarklet to help create Kobo sale posts

[salty-horse]

I created a bookmarklet to help me make sale posts faster.
When activated on a Kobo page, it pops up a textbox with formatted text that I can paste into these forums.

This is based on my opinion on how to create an informative post. It has the book title in bold, the author name, a rounded price (no ".99" cents), the description, and series information, if available. It detects the US and UK stores. I also kept a placeholder for Amazon links.

Feel free to tweak it as you wish, or I can customize it for you.

To create this bookmarklet, copy this text and paste it as the URL of a new bookmark. Place it in a bookmark toolbar, and click it when you're on a Kobo page for an unpurchased book (otherwise, the price isn't visible.) You can open a private tab if you want to see the price.

PHP Code:

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[Cactus Chef]

I put your function into a Javascript Beautifier to try to better understand it, and I still have no idea what it's doing.

Nice idea in theory, though. I've thought about doing something similar so that when I see a publisher sale ebook price on Kobo I could have it automatically retrieve the same book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Apple Books, for the purpose of more easily populating the deal post.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I put your function into a Javascript Beautifier to try to better understand it, and I still have no idea what it's doing.

Sorry, it needs to be "unquoted" beforehand.

Here's the original script, which I then pasted into a bookmarklet maker

I didn't try fetching other retailers. I can try adding Amazon by searching for the ISBN on the Kobo page.

[salty-horse]

I can't fetch data from Amazon, since the script runs on Kobo's "website", and some browser security features block outgoing requests. But I can include a search page result page instead of a direct link, like:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781668060063&i=digital-text

EDIT: Update bookmarklet code above.

[salty-horse]

Fixed amazon UK link.

[salty-horse]

Fixed trimmed description with "..." at the end (I copied the text from an expandable element instead of its source)