Ask HN: Is there a browser extension for opening all links on HN in new tabs?
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I hacked together a quick bookmarklet, here's how to get it working in firefox:
1. Create a new bookmark to any page, name it whatever.
2. Right click the bookmark -> Properties
3. Replace the "Location" field with:
1. Create a new bookmark to any page, name it whatever.
2. Right click the bookmark -> Properties
3. Replace the "Location" field with:
javascript:stories=document.getElementsByClassName("storylink");for(idx=0;idx<stories.length;idx++){ window.open(stories[idx].href)}
That's great! Thanks for sharing.
I once wrote a greasemonkey script to do exactly that. The tricky bit was the rate limit of HN requests required adding an empirically determined delay inside the loop iterating through the links (there are thirty on the main page not 25).
Even with the delay one or two of the thirty requests would usually hit the rate limit, but this was faster than slowing the loop down with a larger delay in terms of how I used the script. It was kludge coded but good enough for my needs.
Note that “all the links” is not all the links. There are flag and vote and user account and site history and two discussion links for the typical front page story. Plus the header and footer links and the login or logged in links.
Even with the delay one or two of the thirty requests would usually hit the rate limit, but this was faster than slowing the loop down with a larger delay in terms of how I used the script. It was kludge coded but good enough for my needs.
Note that “all the links” is not all the links. There are flag and vote and user account and site history and two discussion links for the typical front page story. Plus the header and footer links and the login or logged in links.
I took @neckardt's bookmarklet and wrote a slightly shorter/different version:
Is anyone worried about opening 30 random-ish links? I wouldn't do it...
javascript:document.querySelectorAll('.storylink').forEach(s=>open(s.href)) //Open All HN
Is anyone worried about opening 30 random-ish links? I wouldn't do it...
https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el This should do what you are asking
There are also some alternative HN web clients and I believe some have Previous/Next thread buttons, but I can't remember now.
Not an extension, but this is a common thing that could be done with a bookmarklet - open all links on the current page in a new tab.
Perhaps this is a good starting point:
https://gist.github.com/toastal/01c2387456ad2e6385f4
Perhaps this is a good starting point:
https://gist.github.com/toastal/01c2387456ad2e6385f4
It would be easier to write greasemonkey script. I use it to read manga, just loop through title links and open with _blank target with time delay of 1s as setTimeOut delay
ISTR there was a gesture to do this in Galeon, but tabbed browsing has gone downhill since then.
Sweet, thanks for the replies. I hadn't considered simply using a bookmarklet, even.
And as a result of that, 25 tabs get opened, that being all the links on the page.
That's my use case: I want to open up all the links, at the same time, each in their own tab, and I can just CTRL+TAB through them as I please.
I'm just asking here on the off-chance that it exists but I somehow could not find it. If it doesn't exist yet, I may well have to write it myself, which I frankly hope doesn't take too much effort. Let's hope there's some decent boilerplate for this, that can be easily found.
Thanks in advance for any help.