[javascript] bookmarklet - the missing way to search only your own gists, including sorting by stars or forks

[javascript] bookmarklet - the missing way to search only your own gists, including sorting by stars or forks.md

TL;DR

• base URL is: https://gist.github.com/search
• use q=user:your_username+your_search_term
• include s=stars and o=desc to sort by "most stars" (most stars on top, least stars at the end).
• include s=stars and o=asc to sort by "least stars" (least stars on top, most stars at the end).
• same goes for s=forks .
• same goes for s=updated .
• if you do not include s=, it will sort by "best match" .

for example: https://gist.github.com/search?&s=stars&o=desc&q=user%3Aeladkarako+ffmpeg
will search for my gists for ffmpeg, sorting them so the ones with the most stars will be on top.

making a bookmarklet so the search term will be dynamic (using JavaScript's native inputbox - prompt) is very easy,
use this "template", change the username and optionally the default value for the prompt, currently ffmpeg:
javascript:top.location.assign("https://gist.github.com/search?&s=stars&o=desc&q=user%3Aeladkarako+"+encodeURIComponent(prompt("ffmpeg")));

make sure to properly escape the search term using encodeURIComponent,

• the current version will search the exact term, replacing whitespace with %20,
  a better way is to also replace any whitespace with + using something like this encodeURIComponent(prompt("ffmpeg")).replace(/%20/gm,"+") or
  encodeURIComponent(prompt("ffmpeg").replace(/\s+/gm,"+")).replace(/%2B/gmi,"+")

make sure to do not include whitespaces,
(this is still a URL, and it will get encoded to a pretty ugly %20).

note:
a best practice for a bookmarklet is to always explicitly specify the top frame location,
instead of just calling location, or window.location,
although it should probably work anyway.

keep in-mind a bookmarklet is kind of a protocol,
old browsers supported it,
but newer browsers, as well as websites with Content-Security-Policy header with a strict javascript limitation,
might break bookmarklets, luckily it works fine in GitHub...

finally,
add a new bookmark to your bookmarks toolbar,
give it a nice title, I usually add some emoji on bookmarklets.

you can use Win+. on Windows to open the emoji toolbar,
or copy one from https://eladkarako.github.io/umoji/index.html
note: all the ones from there are having an additional \uFE0E which makes them use the black/white variation of the emoji,
you can paste it into a notepad2/++ and place your cursor at the end, and press one time on the BackSpace to remove that character,
it will get the default colorful variation..