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February 4, 2009

The new Posterous bookmarklet lets you grab photos, video, and text right out of the page you're already on!

The Posterous bookmarklet is a special bookmark that lets you quickly grab content out of the page you're on. You can click and drag to select text and click "Share on Posterous" in your bookmark bar, and you'll get the Posterous bookmarklet window that will let you edit text, add a comment, and choose which site to post to. Just click the bookmark on its own and it will auto-detect all large photos, video and media on the page, even from your friends blogs or posterii.

If you use it in conjunction with Autopost, suddenly the bookmarklet becomes a universal bookmarklet that you can use to post to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and any other blog that Posterous supports.

Click here to install it and start posting right away.

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Posted by Garry Tan 

Comments (62)

Feb 04, 2009
Greg Tracy said...
fantastic! truly "getting better every day".
Feb 04, 2009
Pam Chun said...
FanTAStic!
Feb 04, 2009
rjp said...
Cool stuff. How do you delete an excerpt if it's found two and you only want one of them?
Feb 04, 2009
Kate said...
You guys are great. Keep up the good additions. REQUEST: In the bookmarklet "Advanced Options", can we have the tagging tool please?
Feb 04, 2009
Garry Tan said...
rjp -- You don't have to delete excerpts. It only chooses the one that you have shown at the moment.

Kate -- coming soon. =)

Feb 04, 2009
Michael Fidler said...
Nice move. This is what I needed to start using Posterous more often. It's what I'm already doing on other services, and it's easier than Email for mel. Congratulations!
Feb 04, 2009
Ted Ladue said...
I love you guys.
Feb 04, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Hey Ted, we love you too!
Feb 04, 2009
Phong Co said...
This is what I've been waiting for to tip the balance between Posterous and Tumblr. Now let's go for Markdown :)
Feb 04, 2009
Indie Lover said...
so awesome!
Feb 04, 2009
Ken Sheppardson said...
You know how folks have these little pet features they want, and no matter how cool the new stuff is, they still ask, "That's great, but where's _____?" Mine are customization/themes and the ability to use Disqus for comments :-)
Feb 04, 2009
Adriana said...
I tried to add the posterous bookmarklet but it says I need to upgrade to IE7 because I have IE6. Thing is I don't have IE6. I have had IE7 for a while now. How can I do this?
Feb 04, 2009
i48998 said...
How can I install this on Chrome?
Feb 04, 2009
Svartling said...
Now Posterous is a serious competitor to Tumblr!
Feb 04, 2009
Rebekah said...
Brilliant! I had no trouble installing it in Chrome.
Feb 04, 2009
i48998 said...
OK, my bookmark bar was hidden. Got it working on Chrome.
Feb 04, 2009
Jordi Soler said...
Amazing. Posterous is becoming my blogging platform of choice. By the way, would it be possible to add a "Reblog" option?
Feb 04, 2009
Patrick Au-Yeung said...
me long you long time.
Feb 04, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Reblog / repost is coming soon too-- it's the natural complement to the bookmarklet.
Feb 04, 2009
Cristiano Casagrande said...
Wonderful \o/
Feb 04, 2009
Willem Van Bogaert said...
That's impressive! And just what I needed. :)
I've never seen such an advanced bookmarklet before!
Feb 04, 2009
anthony marco said...
DUUUUUUUUDE!!!!
Feb 04, 2009
Airam F. said...
Awesome news! Thank you! :D
Feb 04, 2009
Marco F. said...
Holy Kaw! (to quote Guy Kawasaki) this is extremely cool!
Tumblr? never used it, never will :-)

@Willem Van Bogaert: the Evernote bookmarklet is slightly more advanced in some aspects (includes tagging)

Feb 04, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Right now as a temporary solution, you can tag in the bookmarklet by adding tags in the title of the post, just as you would in an email.

Just use ((tags:tag1, tag2))

Feb 05, 2009
mvg said...
A "universal bookmarklet"--now that's something I have been waiting for for a long time. Can't wait to try this when it works in Opera!
Feb 05, 2009
Alex Schleber said...
You guys totally rock. I sent in a request for this about 1.5 months back, and you said it would be there soon. Props for moving so fast.

You just took a big step forward, now on to skins/themes... once you have those solved, you'll officially be ahead of Tumblr due to Posterous' great forwarding capabilities.

Feb 05, 2009
Zafarali Ahmed said...
perfect! just what i wanted :D
Feb 05, 2009
Alex Schleber said...
Addendum: Can we please have WYSIWIG editing in the bookmarklet's excerpt field soon? (Check out Wordpress' "Press This" for a solution)
Feb 05, 2009
Akshay said...
this is amazing! with "post to delicious" and "share on posterous", there's not much else you need.
Feb 05, 2009
Adam A said...
Amazing Gary! I will continue to recommend you on my networks.
Feb 05, 2009
Nik said...
This is great. Maybe a beginners question but isn't it considered bad practice to link directly to images on anothers server?
Feb 05, 2009
Aron Grinshtein said...
Guys, keep it up! It is looking great! You will go far, very far!
Feb 05, 2009
Roger Gordon said...
Yessssss!
Feb 06, 2009
Aviraj Saluja said...
OMG! Posterous is turning into God.
OMP!
Feb 06, 2009
rjp said...
What Nik said. I'm not that keen on someone taking umbrage at a direct image link on my posterous and replacing it with goatse.
Feb 06, 2009
Garry Tan said...
rjp, nik -- don't worry, we've got a fix for this coming.
Feb 09, 2009
rjp said...
Also, also, sometimes I want to capture a snapshot of a flash widget (to highlight something amusing) rather than embed the actual widget (with changing content that I have no control over.) Don't know if this is something the bookmarklet can do or if it's still a job for screenshotting?
Feb 09, 2009
Sally said...
Awesome new tool, exactly what I need for my blog! Save me all the trouble of saving an image to my computer than email it again. Thanks! :)
Feb 10, 2009
rjp said...
http://pastebin.ca/1333197

If I use the bookmarklet, I get "this video is no longer available". If I use YouTube's embed code, it works fine. Difference between the two in the pasty.

Feb 10, 2009
Nagtenpa said...
good
Feb 11, 2009
Phani Raj Kuchibhotla said...
I have a problem with the autopost via bookmarklet. My twitter status is not getting updated when ever i do a post via this
Feb 13, 2009
Philippe Fenderson said...
A problem that I've been having is the ability to choose where my posts go to. Right now, it just posts everywhere and will not allow me to select services.
Feb 13, 2009
Garry Tan said...
We'll add that as an option soon. Until then, you can deselect it from the advanced options and then manually post it from the post page itself, by clicking "Post elsewhere" in the right column.
Feb 16, 2009
tlalpanoptico said...
I just can't get it to work with a collage of text and the picture that's published with it. The bookmarklet grabs the text, but misses the picture. When I go to my posterous, what I see is the text and the bare name of the picture file.

Does anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong? Does anyone have the same problem?

Feb 16, 2009
Garry Tan said...
tlapanoptico -- follow up with me direct at garry@posterous.com with the page you're trying to grab. We'll get it running.
Feb 16, 2009
Imperfect said...
This is fan - tastic! Thanks guys
Feb 17, 2009
Carolyn Chan said...
nice new feature. i like.
Feb 18, 2009
Andrew Meyer said...
Rock yeah! I've wanted this for a while and I am super pumped you created it. Love you!

xoxo.

Feb 19, 2009
Josh Tam Easycap said...
This can really simplify a lot of things. Very cool indeed.
Feb 21, 2009
Sean Duffy said...
This is really cool!

I'm new to Posterous, but have managed to add the bookmarklet to my free toolbar. If anyone is struggling to add the bookmarklet to their favourites, why not consider my toolbar?

Read more here:
http://streaminginternetradiotoolbar.posterous.com/

Apr 17, 2009
Nate Williams said...
this is my favorite feature .. it would be cool if you could modify tags here as well
May 25, 2009
Westhost said...
Bookmarklet works for me. Life is somewhat easier now. Thanx
Jun 16, 2009
Henre Rossouw said...
Guessing we shouldn't hold our breaths for this magnificent tool to come to Opera Browser?
Jun 16, 2009
Garry Tan said...
I'm running into undebuggable javascript errors on my machine with Opera, but other Opera users have reported it working if they masquerade as Firefox.
Jun 17, 2009
Henre Rossouw said...
How do you masquerade Opera as Firefox to install it?
Jun 19, 2009
rjp said...
I'm running into problems using it with FF3.0.11. I get a request for a popup from the site I'm browsing, a new tab with the posterous snippet, and an overlaid unstyled box on the original tab with some "" HTML.

Do I need to update the bookmarklet, downgrade my FF, or something entirely different to both?

Jun 19, 2009
Garry Tan said...
a) make sure third party cookies are enabled, or make an exception for posterous.com
b) disable or make an exception for our bookmarklet if you use any sort of js / noscript / blocker plugin.
 
further questions? please email us at help@posterous.com
Jun 19, 2009
rjp said...
Now it works without me touching anything. I suspect that the difference might be that I logged into posterous. Ta for the tips anyway.
Jun 26, 2009
Daniel Honigman said...
I'm looking for that Posterous help video. Want to post it on my blog. Do you still have it up anywhere?
Jul 14, 2009
Mark Dy-Ragos said...
What is the syntax that I need to use to add this to the noscript exception list?
Sep 22, 2009
Jeffery Milan said...
This is awesome.

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