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Comment by josscrowcroft | Hacker News Reader

Every search I try it gives me the colours for Hacker News :(

I can see why this would be very useful (instead of trawling through the CSS with dev tools or using a colourpicker)

- On closer inspection, it looks like it's always returning the colours for the first search I made, whichever that is..

(Chrome latest on Mac)

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For me it works on most URLs not containing a path components but sometimes it chokes. Seems to return the latest successful query then?

I think it's a very useful idea. Maybe a bookmarklet is second best to a browser plugin (but this one can surely be improved):

   javascript:(function(){var%20s=encodeURIComponent(window.location.href.match(/:\/\/(.[^/]+)/)[1]);open('http://colrgrabr.swissamigos.com/?url='+s+'#'+s);})();

(stripping the path for now, to make it work)

Hey thanks for the effort of creating a bookmarklet for ColrGrabr. I will provide it directly on the page.

Btw. you don't need the ?url= query param.

  javascript:(function(){var%20s=encodeURIComponent(window.location.href.match(/:\/\/(.[^/]+)/)[1]);open('http://colrgrabr.swissamigos.com/#+s);})();

Thanks for your comment.

I've tested it on Chrome latest for Mac & Canary Build and it works fine for me.

Do you have more details on this issue?

thx

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