Question

I use Google Analytics, and the first thing I want to check every day is the current day’s statistics. But there’s no way to bookmark the current day.
The URL for any given day is: https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/dashboard?id=XXXXXXX&pdr=20110921-20110921

You can see a date range at the end of the URL. 20110921 meaning 9-21, 2011.

How can I write a little javascript bookmarklet for Firefox to change the URL to the current date depending on what day I click on it?

Answer 1

Try this – it uses a Date object to get the date:

var date = new Date();
var str = "";
str += date.getFullYear();
str += pad2(date.getMonth() + 1);
str += pad2(date.getDate());
function pad2(n) {
   var str = String(n);
   if(str.length < 2)
    str = "0" + str;
   return str;
}
location.href = "https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/dashboard?id=XXXXXXX&pdr="+str+"-"+str;

Bookmarklet:

javascript:(function(){function d(a){a=String(a);a.length<2&&(a="0"+a);return a}var c=new Date,b="";b+=c.getFullYear();b+=d(c.getMonth()+1);b+=d(c.getDate());location.href="https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/dashboard?id=XXXXXXX&pdr="+b+"-"+b})();