How to Use the Sports Reference Linker

Picture this - with just a single click, you can hyperlinkplayer names to Basketball Reference pages in your blogs,articles, bulletin board posts, and more. All you have to do iswrite up your post in the blog text box and click the bookmarkletin your browser. The tool grabs the text you wrote, runs itthrough our player linker, and returns the text with linksenclosed.

Let's get started. If you have any questions along the way,contact us here.

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Add the Bookmarklet

There are two ways you can quickly add the Basketball Reference Player Linker bookmarklet to your browser.

Option 1: Click on, hold and dragthislink to your bookmarks or bookmarks bar. This option worksfor Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

Option 2: Right clickthis link and add it to your favoritesor bookmarks. This option does not work for Chrome. Please notethat if your browser asks you to confirm this action, this isstandard to prevent security issues from untrustworthy sites.

Whichever option you choose, make sure to test to ensure thePlayer Linker is installed properly.Click here to test yourPlayer Linker tool.

Running into trouble? Try editing the bookmark URL to matchwhat is shown below. Note that there are encoded symbols (in theform of0 or0X) listed below that may notappear when clicking edit. These are necessary for thebookmarklet in some browsers.