NeoCities "Site to User-Profile" Tool

NeoCities User Profile Button← Drag and Drop this button into your Bookmarks

What is this page?

NeoCities site URLs are formatted as...

• https://USERNAME.neocities.org/

but User Profile pages are formatted as...

• https://neocities.org/site/USERNAME

When you are on a NeoCties site, there isn't a simple way to get to that person's User Profile page (so you can follow them, comment, etc). You have to manually change the URL, or hope the person has a link to their Profile Page on their site.

This Bookmarklet is a simple little tool which creates a dynamic link directly to any person's NeoCities "User Profile" page -- essentially giving you a "magic button" to quickly navigate there, on-the-fly. To use this tool, simply drag-n-drop the yellow button above into your browser's Bookmarks toolbar (if you're on a mobile device, you might have to long-press it and "copy link location" to manually enter it in your bookmarks).

Once the button is in your Bookmarks panel, simply click on it when you are on a "USERNAME.neocities.org" site, and you will be instantly transported to their User Profile page. Simple! If you are not currently on a NeoCities site when you click it, the tool will instead display a message "This is not a NeoCities site!".

What is a "Bookmarklet" and how does this Button even work?

A "Bookmarklet" is a little snippet of JavaScript that can do all sorts of neat things in your browser. It's saved like any normal "bookmark" link, except instead of linking to a webpage, it executes a little script. This bookmarklet here is a Script I wrote, which will check the URL of the site you are on to see if it is at "neocities.org" -- and if it finds that, it'll extract the USERNAME, and re-arrange the URL automatically to take you to that person's User Page. Cool!

If you found this script useful, please consider dropping me a tip on Ko-Fi. I don't make much, and every little bit helps.

This page and script designed by JamesO2 (2020), for use with the NeoCities hosting platform. Click the Logo below to go back to my site!

Last updated: 2021.01.01