gif anything from any tab

Drag this button to your bookmarks bar. That is the whole install.

Click it on any page and a small 8gifs panel appears right there - bottom-right corner, your source already detected, a steer box and a grid picker. Generate without leaving the tab, preview the sheet in the panel, then open the full editor when you are happy. Click the bookmarklet again to hide the panel.

• tweeton a post page - the exact tweet URL, with your selection as the steer
• profileon an x.com profile - the handle, avatar and posts get read
• youtubethe video URL with its timestamp - the scene lands where you are watching
• selectionanywhere - selected text becomes the idea, on any site
• other pagethe page URL - websites get screenshotted, image links are read directly

example: click the bookmarklet on a tweet - the panel opens with the tweet detected - add a steer line like "pixel-art style, running loop" and press generate gif. the preview lands in the panel; open in editor finishes the job.

• pick element.In the panel, press "pick element", then click anything on the page - a tweet card, an avatar, a product tile. The element is captured as a real screenshot: its HTML is rasterized on our side with html2canvas-pro (handles modern CSS colors), so everything visible inside - images, text layout, icons - ends up in the visual source. The panel status line shows what was picked; the popup shows the exact PNG before you spend anything.
• presets. After generate opens the 8gifs window, pick a preset there (dance, moonwalk, coffee sip...) from the searchable dropdown or type your own steer. Presets live in the window because host-page CSP (x.com and friends) blocks the panel from loading anything cross-origin - the window runs on our origin where nothing is blocked.
• grid. 4x4 / 5x5 / 6x6 chips set the sprite sheet layout before generating.

• runs only in your browser. It reads the page URL and your text selection and injects the panel. It never touches your x.com session, cookies or tokens - it cannot read anything you could not already see. The panel talks only to 8gifs.com.
• auditable in 10 seconds. The full source is the one-liner above. No obfuscation - its only network calls go to 8gifs.com, the same public API the site itself uses.
• same limits as the site. It calls the same public API everyone else uses: 5 generations per minute, 50 per hour per IP, with automatic blocking past that. A bookmarklet is a convenience, not a bypass.

• csp note. x.com (and most big sites) whitelist which hosts a page may fetch, so the panel never calls our API itself. It hands your inputs to a small 8gifs.com popup (allow popups), which runs the generation on our origin and shows the finished sheet. The CORS headers on the generation API serve tools outside the browser.
• right-click menu?Not possible for bookmarklets - browsers only allow custom context-menu items to Chrome extensions. If the bookmarklet sticks, a tiny "gif this - 8gifs" extension (right-click on any image or link) is a natural next step.
• generate. The generate button opens a small 8gifs popup that runs the whole flow - read source, draw sheet, preview, open in editor - while your original page stays untouched.
• keyboard? Chrome does not let bookmarklets bind global shortcuts. Click the bar item - then press generate in the panel.
• mobile? Bookmarklets are a desktop thing - mobile browsers hide the bookmarks bar. On your phone, install the PWA from the home page instead.