Create a bookmarklet for Google Reader Lite

Question

I'd like to create a bookmarklet that prepends http://www.google.com/reader/lite/feed/ to any RSS url.

Bonus points if it will instead pull the RSS feed of the page you are looking at. I want to do this because sometimes it is easier to read web content in the RSS view, plus, Google Reader Lite does auto pagination aka infinite scroll, which is amazing.

Google Reader Lite is basically an account-free Google Reader engine provided by Google. Further reading:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-reader-lite.html#c2153339799334700152

I was able to sorta get this working by modifying the instapaper 'text view' bookmarklet from here: http://www.instapaper.com/extras

However it doesn't quite work right (and you need to already be looking at the RSS URL)

Answer 1

Bookmarklet that will prepend Reader URL: javascript:location.href="http://www.google.com/reader/lite/feed/"+location.href

And improved one: javascript:var%20dl=document.getElementsByTagName('link');for(var%20i=0;i<dl.length;i++){if(dl[i].type=='application/rss+xml'||dl[i].type=='application/atom+xml')location.href="http://www.google.com/reader/lite/feed/"+dl[i].href;}.

Also this javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://savanttools.com/feedhelp-bookmarklet.js';})(); can help you too, but it depends on some 3rd-party script.