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Webpage Selection to Snippets App

I really like the Snippets application and wanted an easy way to select some code on a webpage and insert that into Snippets. I also wanted to add the author, link, title, highlight style, license, notes and have the ability to edit the text before sending to Snippets.

Snippets has a URI-scheme of "snippet:add?code=" with several more options. This looked like what I needed so I started here. I created the JavaScript code below to use as a bookmark and then wrote a php page to handle the information gathered from the current page. 
javascript:window.open("http://allancraig.net/Snippets/snippet.php?title="+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+"&code="+encodeURIComponent(window.getSelection())+"&link="+window.location, "createsnippet", "height=775,width=585,status=0,toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0");

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