# Bookmarklet or chrome extension for posting links to a Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 6, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919 "2015-02-06T18:46:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@andrewchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/andrewchen)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/1 "2015-02-06T18:46:52Z")
Making it easier to post a link (with a required comment) would be a nice way to stimulate conversation especially in small/early Discourse forums.
Has anyone looked into making a chrome extension or bookmarklet to make it easy to post a link into Discourse?
If not, would anyone else want this?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/2 "2015-02-06T19:05:42Z")
Why is it difficult to post a link in Discourse?
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### Author:  [@andrewchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/andrewchen)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/3 "2015-02-06T20:15:08Z")
Here’s the workflow for a bookmarklet:
1. see an article you like
2. click a button
3. takes you to the forum with the link prepopulated
4. type in a message, click post
versus:
1. see an article you like
2. make a new tab
3. go to the forum
4. click new post
5. switch back to the old tab
6. copy the url
7. switch back to the forum tab
8. paste into the forum
9. click post
It’s more than 2x the number of steps, and for a casual user, it’s too much work. I think it would be a meaningful way to add new content into a forum, especially for a small/new community.
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### Author:  [@keith\_td](https://meta.discourse.org/u/keith_td)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/4 "2015-02-06T20:45:06Z")
You can become 22% more efficient by copying the URL before leaving the original page, if that helps.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/5 "2015-02-06T22:07:45Z")
We found at Stack Exchange that users _definitely_ know how to copy and paste links in their browser, and often prefer that to manual “share” buttons.
The data 100% supported this hypothesis, every time we looked.
(Possible it might be a bit different in mobile, where “tap and hold” is required to copy links.)
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### Author:  [@andrewchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/andrewchen)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/6 "2015-02-07T16:35:40Z")
Jeff,
not arguing that people don’t know how to do it, just saying it’s a lot more convenient to do it. This is why tweet buttons exist, Buffer, plus extensions for pinning to Pinterest, etc. All about making it easy.
I’m guessing this is possible but again, requires a plugin?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/7 "2015-02-07T20:56:42Z")
This should not require a plugin, I would be happy to have a feature that allows you to do something like
```plaintext
http://sitename.com/new-topic?title=some+title&body=some+body&category=come+category
```
At the moment though it is not yet supported.
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### Author:  [@andrewchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/andrewchen)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/8 "2015-02-07T21:17:57Z")
Yes, that would be great. That would make it simple to build “Post to discourse” or bookmarklets and the link.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/9 "2015-02-07T21:31:04Z")
Yes there are a few other topics here requesting that already.
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### Author:  [@thump](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thump)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/10 "2015-02-08T04:48:51Z")
Yep - part of my post for being able to click a link and have the body and title filled out. That would be perfect.
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### Author:  [@andrewchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/andrewchen)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/11 "2015-03-31T18:19:26Z")
Hi Sam,
any update on getting this URL? It sounds like it’s getting requested by a few folks, and it would be great to have.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/12 "2015-03-31T23:50:56Z")
Sure, I like this idea @techapj can you add it to your list?
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### Author:  [@andrewchen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/andrewchen)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/13 "2015-04-26T18:08:23Z")
Any update from @techapj?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/14 "2015-04-27T03:38:42Z")
I tried to get this feature in last week, but it’s more work than expected. Will get it done this week.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/15 "2015-04-28T18:55:14Z")
Just sent a PR for this feature 🐢
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3406](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3406)
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See:
> [@Creating a link to start a new topic with pre-filled information](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-a-new-pre-filled-topic-via-url/28074):
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> bookmark This documentation explains how to create a link that starts a new topic in Discourse with pre-filled information. person_raising_hand Required user level: All users Sometimes you may want to provide users with a link that opens a new topic composer with certain information pre-filled. This can be useful for various use cases including bug report templates, feature requests, or standardized posts. Constructing the URL Base URL To compose a new pre-filled topic with no extra i…
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarklet-or-chrome-extension-for-posting-links-to-a-discourse/24919/16 "2015-04-29T08:16:02Z")