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title: Where Are The Interesting API Bookmarklet Examples?
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atomdate: 2017-02-10T23:00:00.000Z
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  - Examples
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[I have been kvetching about the quality of embeddable tooling out there](http://apievangelist.com/2017/02/01/amazon-dash-ok-idea-dumb-implementations/), so I'm working on discovering anything interesting. I started with bookmarklets, which I think is one of the most underutilized, and simplest examples of working with APIs on the web. Here are a couple of interesting bookmarklets for APIs out there:

*   **[Twitter](https://dev.twitter.com/web/bookmarklet)** - Probably the most iconic API and bookmarklet out there -- share to Twitter.
*   **[Pinboard](https://pinboard.in/howto/)** - An API-driven bookmarklet for saving bookmarks that I use every day.
*   **[Hypothesis](http://jonudell.net/h/)** - A whole suite of API-driven bookmarklets for annotating the web.
*   **[Socrata](https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/bookmarklet.html)** - A pretty cool bookmarklet for quickly viewing documentation on datasets.
*   **[Tin Can API](http://tincanapi.com/bookmarklet/)** - A bookmarklet for recording self-directed learning experiences.

When you search for API bookmarklets you don't get much. Nothing stands out as being innovative. I will keep looking when I have time, and I'll keep curating and understanding any new approaches, and examples, and tooling when possible.

Ultimately it just confounds me, because a simple JS bookmarklet triggering one or more API interactions is a no brainer. We have examples of this in action, making an impact on login, sharing, annotation, and more, so why don't we have more examples? IDK. It is something I'll explore as I push forward my embeddable API research.

Maybe I'm just missing something...