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For my link archive so I can better automate archiving Tweet threads using bookmarklets written in JavaScript:

• https://twitter.com/ThomasDamsko/status/1499996661535367169
• https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q=https://twitter.com/ThomasDamsko/status/1499996661535367169
  HTTP-302 redirects to:
• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169.html
  pressing refresh does a POST to:
• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169/refreshx

The base will likely be this:

javascript:void(open(`https://archive.is/?run=1&url=${encodeURIComponent(document.location)}`))

which for now I have modified into this:

javascript:void(open(`https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q=${document.location}`))

It works perfectly fine without URL encoding and demonstrates the JavaScript backtick feature for template literals for which you can find documentation at [WayBack/Archive] Template literals – JavaScript | MDN.

This is the POST request:

curl 'https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169/refreshx' \
  -X 'POST' \
  -H 'authority: threadreaderapp.com' \
  -H 'content-length: 0' \
  -H 'cache-control: max-age=0' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua: " Not A;Brand";v="99", "Chromium";v="98", "Google Chrome";v="98"' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \
  -H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows"' \
  -H 'upgrade-insecure-requests: 1' \
  -H 'origin: https://threadreaderapp.com' \
  -H 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36' \
  -H 'accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-site: same-origin' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-mode: navigate' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-user: ?1' \
  -H 'sec-fetch-dest: document' \
  -H 'referer: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169.html' \
  -H 'accept-language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en-NL;q=0.8,en;q=0.7,nl-NL;q=0.6,nl;q=0.5,de-DE;q=0.4,de;q=0.3' \
  -H 'cookie: _rtra_session=4Mr19O3RfkgqJCRycBs51Z1wsA33vXE5k3EncY2xNauAkLBOVld5ntwIjBUW%2Fe6cNgrElF9Zb8eDGf3SsxDugwT4hQiy5drgpHvDGNBlTSGZNXX8D7zcGwhUK4FNzKg4XPh1Dm6ilUhFO6S2%2FZVkGVvIs0%2FiCyBkM5h9Ug2aI6Mtbc%2FW%2BLpMoqGwtQsMXybFKOATvyOfgQNcnB1kX9zamuEBs2g6UK5%2BSwVGTf14%2BkTCfuSK5tpZTMFFXHGOe72BedsXnb2fZNETSo8yDDDkHzW6pWtB--NLxL3K4kq98aFlay--o%2FLfFASb%2Fd%2FpjR2qmKKN7g%3D%3D' \
  -H 'dnt: 1' \
  -H 'sec-gpc: 1' \
  --compressed ;

Related blog posts:

• The JavaScript bookmarklets that saved me a lot of time documenting the Embarcadero docwiki outage
• I wish the Delphi language supported multi-line strings

Later I did a search which came up with almost the same solution; this is how I got there:

1. [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet threadreaderapp – Google Search
2. [Wayback/Archive] Thread reader app browser bookmark (no backticks; encodes the URL):
   

   javascript:q=location.href;void(t=open('https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q='+encodeURIComponent(q)));

3. [Wayback/Archive] Unroll tweetstorm bookmarklet – Technical Notes
   

   javascript:window.location.href = 'https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q='+encodeURI(window.location.href)

4. [Wayback/Archive] Bookmarklet Creator with Script Includer – Peter Coles which besides prepending with javascript:, also performs URL-encoding on the JavaScript code in the Bookmarklet and wraps that code in a self executing anonymous function plus call like mentioned at [Wayback/Archive] Phrappe.com | ice-chilled, instant web tips
   

   (function () {
     //code
   })();

5. [Wayback/Archive] mrcoles/bookmarklet: A server-side bookmarklet compiler with greasemonkey userscript-like metadata options and the power of babel and uglify
6. [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet – npm

The last two were not really relevant when writing this but look promising for a future blog post.

–jeroen