Bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are URLs containing a Javascript function. Drag them to your bookmarks toolbar, and click them to execute the function.

To switch between the GBIF portal and likely API call.

🙒 🌍↔💻 ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar, then click to switch between gbif{-uat,-dev}.org and api.gbif{-uat,-dev}.org while on a suitable GBIF page.

To switch between the GBIF production and UAT portal/APIs.

🙒 P↔U ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar, then click to switch between gbif.org and gbif-uat.org while on a suitable GBIF page.

To switch between the GBIF portal and GBIF registry.

🙒 🌍↔🎛️ ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar, then click to switch between gbif{-uat,-dev}.org and registry.gbif{-uat,-dev}.org while on a suitable GBIF page.

To reverse geocode an occurrence.

🙒 O✓🗺 ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar. Click it when on a GBIF occurrence page, verbatim occurrence page, or the API call for either. A species match request is made, using the occurrence's verbatim data (as done in GBIF intepretation).

To name match a verbatim occurrence.

🙒 O✓N ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar. Click it when on a GBIF occurrence page, verbatim occurrence page, or the API call for either. A species match request is made, using the occurrence's verbatim data (as done in GBIF intepretation).

To purge Varnish cache and refresh page.

💩⟳ ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar, then click to purge the Varnish cache and reload the current page.

Only the current page is refreshed (the Access-Control-Allow-Origin restriction forbids PURGE) so you may need to refresh the API pages if you need a new HTML page.

General

Make a wide page narrow

→🖺← ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar, then click to squash the page into a column.

Show anchors

🔗⚓ ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar, then click to show link anchors where they are defined.

Enable right click and text selection

🖱️ ← Drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar, then click to enable right click and text selection where this has been disabled. Source.