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frankenbike
Okay, I posted above about a bookmarklet for reposting Instagram stuff onto the forum. It turns out I don't know anything about javascript and I can't be arsed to learn it.

Here's how far I've got based on copy/pasting shit from Stack Overflow:
```
javascript:function(){
    // to do... 
    var imgURL = document.querySelector('img.something').src;
    
    // Create new element
    var el = document.createElement('textarea');
    // Set value (string to be copied)
    el.value = "![]("+imgURL+")";
    // Set non-editable to avoid focus and move outside of view
    el.setAttribute('readonly', '');
    el.style = {position: 'absolute', left: '-9999px'};
    document.body.appendChild(el);
    // Select text inside element
    el.select();
    // Copy text to clipboard
    document.execCommand('copy');
    // Remove temporary element
    document.body.removeChild(el);
}
```
I am stuck now. I don't know how/where to find the Instagram image URL.

There is an extension that does something similar here:

https://github.com/odditive/instagram-image-url/blob/master/src/extension/content.js

However that just takes whatever you right click and uses that as the image URL through this:
```
    clickedEl = event.target.parentElement.childNodes[0].childNodes[0];
    ....
    url = clickedEl.src;
```
I could just add another context menu element thing to that extension, but then I have to learn how to write/add a Chrome extension and that's a pain in the arse.

Surely it's like a 5 minute job to get this working for someone who knows Javascript?

All my work is Fortran/Python, I'm got no idea with this sort of stuff

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Tijs in reply to @frankenbike

I don't know how/where to find the Instagram image URL.

Add /media/?size=l to the end, and hit return.

Remove the 'taken by' part of the url, when it's there.

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frankenbike in reply to @Tijs

Well, I'm already using the extension I mentioned above, which makes the whole thing quite easy:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/getthatpic/fkdmnfbeaepmildaolaoicjbfkghpcco?hl=en

however it'd still be nice to have as a bookmarklet that works on mobile etc., and it'd save the 1-2 seconds it takes to type ![]() every time, works for people who don't like installing random extensions, etc.

And you could have it format the image into a link as well through the horrible [![](img)](link) format.

Edit: ooooh hang on, are you saying that that would work to get the image URL in the bookmarklet? Nice. Does it work with albums though?

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