eddystone-bookmarklet

Share links in the office with this Physical Web Eddystone URL beacon bookmarklet.

Note: A recent change to discover Physical Web URL:s via Google Chrome and Android Nearby requires them to be using https. This bookmarklet will fail on https URL:s unless slide-beacon is modified to use secure websockets. Since this modification requires certificate files and because slide-beacon was originally meant to broadcast presentational slide URL:s I will not update it myself.

Use

To be able to use this bookmarklet and broadcast the URL from your computer you need to use the node.js server part from the slide-beacon project, or this desktop app for Mac OSX electron-slide-beacon.

Add this link to a bookmark:

javascript:(function(){function%20e(){var%20e=new%20XMLHttpRequest;e.open(%22POST%22,%22https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url%3Fkey=AIzaSyDdsRcdenBZR8nWqo_Ak58w8vCoASSty1k%22,!0),e.setRequestHeader(%22Content-Type%22,%22application/json%22),e.onreadystatechange=function(){if(4==e.readyState%26%26200==e.status){var%20t=JSON.parse(e.responseText);n.innerHTML+=%22%3Cp%3EShortened%20%22+t.longUrl+%22%20to%20%22+t.id+%22%3C/p%3E%22,ws.send(t.id)}};var%20t=window.location.href;e.send('{%22longUrl%22:%20%22'+t+'%22}')}var%20n=document.getElementById(%22eddystone-bm%22)||document.createElement(%22div%22);n.id||(n.id=%22eddystone-bm%22,n.setAttribute(%22style%22,%22z-index:1999;position:fixed;bottom:0;left:0;right:0;width:100%25;background-color:%23000;color:%23fff;font-size:12px;padding:1em;text-align:center;%22),n.setAttribute(%22onclick%22,%22this.parentNode.removeChild(this)%22),document.body.appendChild(n)),%22undefined%22==typeof%20WebSocket%26%26%22undefined%22!=typeof%20MozWebSocket%26%26(WebSocket=MozWebSocket),ws=new%20WebSocket(%22ws://localhost:1234/%22),ws.onopen=function(t){n.innerHTML+=%22%3Cp%3EConnected%3C/p%3E%22,e()},ws.onmessage=function(e){n.innerHTML+=%22%3Cp%3E%22+e.data+%22%3C/p%3E%22},ws.onclose=function(e){ws=null,n.innerHTML+=%22%3Cp%3EDisconnected%3C/p%3E%22},ws.onerror=function(e){n.innerHTML+=%22%3Cp%3EError%3C/p%3E%22}})();

Navigate to the page you want to share and press the bookmarklet. This will auto-shorten the link (using Google's API) and send it to the localhost beacon-server over websockets.