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Search and Replace Extension for Chromium based browsers

Allows you to search for text anywhere on the page and replace it with different text. For example:

  • quickly correct forms in which the wrong information has been entered multiple times
  • edit the text in Content Manage Systems editors such as the WordPress post editor
  • edit the HTML of the page
  • use regular expressions as a search term
  • capture matches from the regular expressions search term and apply as part of the replacement
  • save the instance of the search and replace and apply to all subsequent page visits
  • match pages by regular expressions to apply rules to many different web pages

Please Note:

  1. You must refresh the page or restart chrome before using.
  2. Please select "Input Fields Only" if you are editing text in a text editor or form.
  3. The popup will not stay open if you click elsewhere. This is a feature of Chrome.

View a video of it in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf0D8RUdwkI

Issues

Please report issues here and include the following information:

Contributing

You can create PRs to further develop this extension. To get started, you can follow the instructions below to run the extension locally.

  1. Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/forgetso/search-replace.git
  2. Uninstall Search and Replace
  3. Enable developer mode in Extensions menu of chrome so that you can load unpacked Chrome extensions
  4. Go to the directory where you cloned this repo
  5. Install the dependencies npm i
  6. Build the extension in development mode npm run watch (this will create a directory called dist)
  7. Go to the Extensions page and select Load Unpacked
  8. Navigate to the root folder of the repository and select the dist folder and press ok

You will now have a local copy of the extension running in your browser. You can edit the TypeScript files and the extension will automatically rebuild thanks to the npm run watch command. To see the changes in your browser you will need to hit the reload button underneath Search and Replace on the Extensions page and then also reload the web page on which you are doing the replacements.

Feel free to submit a PR if you make any improvements!