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ANSWERED: Javascript Bookmarklets to autocheck boxes, etc.

posted 8 years ago by ellencontributor
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Have you ever contributed to an IMDB page only to find yourself having to click a crap ton of yellow Warning checkboxes? This happened to me so I wrote a little javascript bookmarklet to help with that. Obviously reading the warnings is still required, but this will help you do fewer mouse clicks. Just create a new bookmark and paste this into the location attribute.

javascript:(function(){var%20a=window.document.querySelectorAll('input[type=checkbox]');for(var%20i=0;i

[–] Jeorj Euler 8 years ago

I've written IMDb-contribution-related bookmarklets as well but for Mozilla Firefox. I haven't shared them, because I don't want something to go wrong for somebody who might use them without a full understanding how they're supposed to work, and problems could definitely if a change is made the IMDb backend in such a way as to render a bookmarket incompatible.

[–] swiftw 8 years ago

Thanks ellenj for sharing your tips for other contributors.

Regards,
Will