Majestic Monitor Bookmarklet

Thursday 16th July 2020: At Monitor we love a good time saver, so we’ve put together a small bookmarklet to open a Twitter profile straight into our Profile Lookup tool.

A bookmarlet works the same as a bookmark – you click it and something happens, such as a web page opening.

But bookmarklets often contain a small snippet of Javascript code to perform a simple task, either on the page or taking you to a new one, which is the case with ours.

And the nice thing about bookmarklets is that only work when you click them.

First you need to make sure your bookmark bar is displayed in your browser.

In Chrome you can either use the “Ctrl + Shift + B” shortcut (⌘ + Shift + b on Mac), or go to “three dot menu” at the top of the browser, and go to “Bookmarks > Show bookmarks bar”.
In Firefox, right-click on your mouse almost anywhere across the top bar and select “Bookmarks Toolbar”.

Adding bookmarklets are the same in Chrome and Firefox:

• Right-click on the bookmark bar
• Click Add Page / New Bookmark
• Add a relevant name – we use ‘Open in Monitor’
• Add the bookmarklet snippet below as the URL / Location
• Click Save

javascript:function openHandleInMajesticMonitor() {if(!window.location.href.includes('twitter.com/')){alert('Sorry, the Majestic Monitor bookmark can only process pages on twitter.com');}else{window.open(%27https://majesticmonitor.com/profile?profileName=%27+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href.split("twitter.com/")[1].split("/")[0].split("?")[0]),%27_blank%27); }}; openHandleInMajesticMonitor();

If in doubt, you should see something like this in Chrome:

Or you should see something like this in Firefox:

If you followed the above steps, the next time you are browsing a Twitter profile, give the bookmarklet a click and you will see a new tab open up with that profile inside!