Load external JS from bookmarklet?

Justin picture Justin · Sep 20, 2008 · Viewed 19.8k times · Source

How can I load an external JavaScript file using a bookmarklet? This would overcome the URL length limitations of IE and generally keep things cleaner.

Answer

Miguel Ventura picture Miguel Ventura · Sep 20, 2008

2015 Update

Content security policy will prevent this from working in many sites now. For example, the code below won't work on Facebook.

2008 answer

Use a bookmarklet that creates a script tag which includes your external JS.

As a sample:

javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='** your external file URL here **';})();