Bookmarklet is a nodejs module for compiling bookmarklets in server-side code and directly from the shell. You can run it on any JavaScript file—it will minify it using uglify-js, wrap it in a self executing function, and return an escaped bookmarklet.

More so, it supports a metadata block—modeled after the greasemonkey userscript metadata block—to specify metadata, external stylesheets and script includes, which can look like this:

// ==Bookmarklet==
// @name LoveGames
// @author Old Gregg
// @style http://www.cornify.com/css/cornify.css
// @script https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
// ==/Bookmarklet==

Most notably, you can specify any external scripts that you’d like your bookmarklet to include via the @script rule, which can be repeated as many times as you’d like.

NOTE: currently with script includes you have to handle noConflict scenarios yourself, e.g., you might want to start off a script with var $ = jQuery.noConflict(true).

In addition, any css files included with @style will be injected.

This project is open to suggestions & pull requests.

Also, if you’re just looking for a quick way to throw together a bookmarklet, try my browser-based bookmarklet creator.

The dependency can be found on NPM as “bookmarklet”. You can install it with:

npm install -g bookmarklet

You can easily see usage by running bookmarklet -h:

> bookmarklet -h
Bookmarklet v0.0.1 usage: bookmarklet source [destination]

source      - path to file to read from or `-` for stdin
destination - path to file to write to