Link Bookmarklets

These bookmarklets let you quickly search, open, or list links on whatever page you're viewing.

(To keep bookmarklets in order to use them on other web pages, drag them to your Bookmarks Toolbar. Or, install them all at once.)

Bookmarklet	Description	Works in
search links	Lists all links on the page containing the specified text. Details
linked images	Opens a window showing all images linked to from the current page. Details
linked pages	Opens a window showing all pages linked to from the current page. Details
hide visited	Hides visited links. Details
int/ext links	Colors internal links red, external links blue, and in-page links orange. Details
open all links	Opens each link on the page in a new window. Details
open selected links	Opens each link within the selection in a new window. Details
target this window	Makes links open in the same window (when you click them). Details
target new windows	Makes links open in new windows. Details
target new bg windows	Makes links open in new windows behind the current window. Details
target one new window	Makes links open in one new window. Details
remove redirects	Changes redirecting links to go directly to the "real" target. Details
hrefs as link text	Changes the text of links to match their hrefs. Details
full urls as link text	Changes the text of links to match their absolute urls. Details

Browsers: is Internet Explorer for Windows, is Netscape 7 or Mozilla, is Netscape 4, and is Opera.

Details

search links (, , , )

Lists all links on the page containing the specified text.

Prompts for a string (word or phrase), and then lists links on the page that contain that string in a new window. The string may appear in the link's target url or in its anchor text. If you leave the prompt blank, all links on the page will be listed.

Opera/NS4: the text of the link won't be shown or searched (only the URL will be).

linked images (, , , )

Opens a window showing all images linked to from the current page.

Use this on a page or directory listing where many of the links are links to images, such as http://dmoz.org/images/moz/.

Opera 6 bug: to load the images after running the bookmarklet, press G three times. (Bug 46513)

linked pages (, , )

Opens a window showing all pages linked to from the current page.

An example of where this is useful is the Tiny Sepuku page.

hide visited (, )

Hides visited links.

Especially useful on pages with lots of image links, because it's often hard to tell whether an image link is visited.

Note that some people, including me, consider it a privacy hole that sites are able to determine whether a link is visited. This bookmarklet will probably stop working when that bug is fixed, and will have to be converted into a browser extension.

int/ext links (, , )

Colors internal links red, external links blue, and in-page links orange.

Based on a simpler bookmarklet by Steve Kangas.

open all links (, , , )

Opens each link on the page in a new window.

(Inspired by Matthew Tuck's suggestion on Mozilla bug 9274.)

open selected links ()

Opens each link within the selection in a new window.

If you don't select anything or if you're not using Mozilla, all links on the page will be opened instead of just the selected links.

(Inspired by Matthew Tuck's suggestion on Mozilla bug 9274.)

target this window (, , , )

Makes links open in the same window (when you click them).

target new windows (, , , )

Makes links open in new windows.

target new bg windows (, , , )

Makes links open in new windows behind the current window.

Thanks to George Brunetti for the idea for this bookmarklet.

target one new window (, , , )

Makes links open in one new window.

remove redirects (, , , )

Changes redirecting links to go directly to the "real" target.

This bookmarklet uses two methods to determine the "real" target of a link.

• If the link URL contains another URL, as in http://example.com/redir.cgi?to=http://example.net/, the link becomes a link to http://example.net/.
• If the link has a mouseover effect, and the mouseover effect puts something in the status bar that looks like a full URL, the link gets that URL.

Based on a submission by Michael Roller and a suggestion from Guido Tonini.

hrefs as link text ()

Changes the text of links to match their hrefs.

full urls as link text (, , )

Changes the text of links to match their absolute urls.

© 2000-2007 Jesse Ruderman (jruderman@gmail.com). Feedback is welcome.
Last modified October 9, 2004.