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Re:Wait, What's a Bookmarklet? by LeonB on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:20PM (#38019612)
Perhaps if the bookmarklet opened a new url containing the text as a query parameter, and the url had a weird protocol instead of https:// — say it was snippy:// … and then you created a protocol handler on your machine for the “snippy” protocol …. And it saved the relevant query param to a file.

I can’t remember if I’ve done this before. It seems like something I’ve done.

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Re:Wait, What's a Bookmarklet? by jabbequbs on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:18PM (#38020068)
I've done that too. I ended up just using a local webserver with some Python cgi scripts instead though. I found it more flexible and easier to remember how things worked that way.
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Re:Wait, What's a Bookmarklet? by davchana on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:41AM (#38021667)
Yes, the other easy way I have used multiple times is, bookmarklet simply sends the text via a POST request to Google Apps Script, which simply appends it to a sheet or doc.
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