Kent Brewster, https://xoxo.zone/@kentbrew
Tootski is a bookmarklet that will share the page you're on to your Mastodon instance, including the title, address, and any text you may have selected.
You need to know the name of your Mastodon instance if it's not mastodon.social. To find it, visit your home page on Mastodon and copy out the part between the second and third slash. My home URL looks like this:
https://xoxo.zone/@kentbrew
... so I'm going to use xoxo.zone. I'm going to be careful here to only copy over the https:// part or any slashes, just the name!
Right-click your bookmarks bar and choose New Bookmarklet (Firefox) or Add Page (Chrome, Edge, Opera)
In Name, put this:
Tootski
In URL, put this:
javascript:void((function(w,d,e,i){s=w.getSelection().toString();t=e(s?s+"\n\n":"");w.open(`https://${i}/share?text=${t}${e(d.title)}${e("\n\n")}${e(d.URL)}`,'_blank')}(window,document,encodeURIComponent,'mastodon.social')));
Before you save, be sure to change where it says mastodon.social at the end of the JavaScript to the name of your instance. You may need to scroll right to see it; it's at the very end.
- if you don't see your bookmarks bar, choose Show Favorites Bar under View, main menu
- open
about:blankin a new window (otherwise your new bookmarklet will have the favicon of whatever page you're on right now) - hit command-D to start a new bookmarklet
- choose Favorites under Add this page to:
- enter
Tootskiin the Name box and click Add; a new bookmarklet should appear - right-click your new bookmarklet and choose Edit Address
- paste in the JavaScript from above, with the instance name fixed up.
This may very well work as an IOS shortcut; I have not tried it yet.
- Christian Crumlish, https://indieweb.social/@xian, for continued inspiration over many, many, maaaany years. <3
Happy tooting! If you need help with this, please catch me at https://xoxo.zone/@kentbrew.