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Created December 13, 2019 18:20
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Use mrcoles.com/bookmarklet tool to convert this to a bookmarklet! It will generate a LMGTFY link ("Let me Google that for you") from your current Google search query.
/* credit: https://stackoverflow.com/a/901144/32393 */
function getParameterByName(name, url) {
if (!url) url = window.location.href;
name = name.replace(/[\[\]]/g, '\\$&');
var regex = new RegExp('[?&]' + name + '(=([^&#]*)|&|#|$)'),
results = regex.exec(url);
if (!results) return null;
if (!results[2]) return '';
return decodeURIComponent(results[2].replace(/\+/g, ' '));
}
var searchTerm = getParameterByName("q") || '';
prompt("Here it is!", "https://lmgtfy.com/?q=" + searchTerm);
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