Reviews & Comments of Regex Search chrome extension
From July 23rd, 2013 to January 26th, 2019, 30% user give 5-star rating, 14% user give 4-star rating, 5% user give 3-star rating, 12% user give 2-star rating, 39% user give 1-star rating. for Regex Search chrome extension.
Reviews of regex search:
Used this for about 5 minutes and got frustrated with it. The search functionality was not working for quite some time. It is case sensitive by default (unless you hunt for the setting) and the words are only highlighted on the page with the same color you use when selecting text. The screen does not jump to the next results so you have to scroll down the page yourself. Very annoying, download one of the other regex extensions.
I believe this extension is no longer being supported, which is evident in its usability. I've noticed several issues, including word boundary issues, an awful UI, and the extension's markup injected into the web page remaining after the extension closes. If you're trying to match a pattern against an inline piece of text spread over multiple elements, forget about it. This extension should either be updated or removed from the store altogether.
Can we have multiline support added?
Works great, use it every day!!
Great works but Unfortunately, not replace.
This review is from 2017-03-20, so that the author doesn't mislead you about how old the reviews are. This extension doesn't scroll found items into view, it just highlights them. Then it's up to you to scroll around and find them. Not worth installing, hardly worth reviewing, except to save others the time to remove it.
It doesn't work.
Simple but works well. It would be great if it could also find in all tabs at once. It would be better if it had the option to disable case sensitiviness easily. And be able to still use chrome shortcuts with the box opened (such as ctrl+tab). And I have an idea for this extension or a new one: While searching remove all lines except the lines that contain the desired words.
Doesn't work at all. Can't search anything forget about RegEx.
Worked after restart chrome Took one star off because it didn't work before I restarted chrome. Almost deleted the extension. It should give some sort of warning.
So great! Love it! FYI, as stated, you need to restart chrome before it will work!!! open tab chrome://restart and profit! Only request would be to have the scrollbar also highlight/represent matches.
Works great
That is pretty, asynchronous and fast search which makes it useful for the large texts. However, aside from not marking the outline on the scroll bar, it marks the matches in the text by corrupting your HTML. This makes the items that I am looking for non-clickable. What is worse, the markup fails to be revoked when the search bar is closed. The only way you have to clean up the garbage is to type some text into the regex window. I however expanded the extension with Close button https://github.com/gsingh93/regex-search/issues/34#issuecomment-231579966 which both revokes the markup and closes the popup.
Doesn't work
Doesn't work. Doesn't search anything, not even regular text.
Need to have an instruction to restart the browser since many people seems to think that it's not working.
NOTE: NEED TO RESTART CHROME BEFORE IT WORKS. It works good so far.
No clear indication that no results were found, or that it's currently searching/is done searching - makes it very annoying on long pages.
Doesn't work.
Awesome addon. Only thing missing is the yellow markings on the scroll bar.
An essential tool.
Would like to use, not working.
not sure why others reported as not working, but it works great for me. I'm on Mac . Chrome version 0 49.0.2623.110 (64-bit)
Works perfectly, never rated before and felt bad that this awesome extension got only 3 stars
UPDATE: You need to restart the browser. All working now. PREVIOUSLY: Seems to have stopped working - disappointed. I originally wrote: "Works as expected. Note that when you install the extension you'll need to refresh any pages you had open prior to installing to get the search to work. After that, good as gold."
You have to restart the browser for it to be loaded and start regex searches! I've tried it on one page and it worked.
Awesome plugin! Feature Request: I second Jan Jurzitza's idea of marking regex matches on the scroll bar.
It works, but only if you enter search string after all ajax elements has been loaded. If you start searching, then, for example, scroll down to load more dynamic content, matches from this content will be omitted in search results. Also there is another bug on ajax-based sites. If you change page on such site, results bar on top left corner (1/100 matches) will still be displayed. Both bugs appears, for example, at vk.com Also there is no hotkey to display next item that matches the regex.
Not working on Chrome 47.0.2526.111 (Official Build) m (64-bit)
Didn't work for me in Chrome 47.
Didn't worked for me.
The plugin worked right away for me. However, it ignores parentheses. Searching for [(The)(the)] matches any instance of T, t, h, or e. It also doesn't search document types like PDFs when viewed in Chrome; only html.
Um... Installed it and it doesn't seem to find anything. There appear to be no instructions. The github repo is also devoid of useful info. I'm not going to read the source to figure out how to use it.
doesn't seem to work
missing marking the selected lines on the scrollbar --- this would be very nice. and shortcut for the search too. but it works well now.
Positive and negative lookbehind doesn't work. :(
Not working. But I would love to use regular expression search!
Doesn't work at all. Can't find simple strings or regexes.
Doesnt work for some reason
Did not work for [0-9]a pattern at all. would be nice if it worked, better if it also reports number of matches.
Simply does not work.
Doesn't work in my Chrome
You need to reload the page after adding the extension to make it work.
It doesn't seem able to find stuff that might be separated by HTML logic. For example, if the underlying HTML is: "<strong>Wow</strong>!" and you search for .Wow it doesn't match. It would also be good to know what regex library it uses so we could know how to best frame our regex (it's obviously not using PCRE)
Works for me. Thanks
it seems that this tool does not work on local file whose URL starts with file:/// it works well on web pages
Doesn't work at all, don't waste your time.
It's a great concept and I can see from the reviews it has at least worked for some people, but I couldn't get it to work for me at all on Chrome 43.0.2357.134 (64-bit) on Linux Mint 17.1.
Not working.
Really nice and useful but its missing marking the selected lines on the scrollbar. I think this is one of the most important parts of the standard search because its a way to quickly find where the results are grouped
Installed, tried a simple search pattern on the follow up screen after install, no results. Tried a regular search with no pattern and still no results. Chrome version 43.0.2357.81 (Official Build) m (32-bit).
Does the job, nice! :)
Everything has been Fixed! I just got the update and it works perfectly now. I love you man!
Looks like it would've been super helpful; Currently non-functional. My error: jquery.min.js:4 Uncaught TypeError: Failed to execute 'getComputedStyle' on 'Window': parameter 1 is not of type 'Element'.
doesn't work
Not working
Thought that it didn't worked, but refreshed the page (duh, facepalm) and it works perfectly fine. E.g. finding percentages from 65 to 89 on a stats page, awesome! (6[5-9]|[7-8][0-9])%
Does not work at all, even after reloading tabs, and even restarting Chrome as some have suggested. Fails to even find a basic string like "hello".
Does not work 03/11/2015
Doesn't work
It's great! I'd been waiting for this feature for a long time. The regex are Javascript, so it's easy to find documentation. When trying for the first time, make sure you reload pages loaded before the extension was installed prior to searching. Also watch the case-insensitive setting. These are the 2 goofs I made when first testing it. Also, the author points out the trick of customizing keyboard shortcuts at the bottom of the chrome://extensions page. Very useful!
doesn't work
not working 21-2-14
not working
doesn't seem to work - as of 02/14/2015
doesnt work at all
Works only after manually refresh web page each time before doing regex search.
Works well. Haven't run into any issues with my simple expressions.
Doesn't work for me.
Didn't work until I refreshed the pages after installing. Now it works fine.
Doesn't work for me at all :(
The extension I dreamed of, here come true.
Simple and effective. Does exactly what it says
Works great for me on both chrome and chromium. To all the people giving low reviews, remember a lot of extensions won't work on a tab that has not been reloaded since installation. And I hope that everyone at least restarted chrome before writing this off as a broken extension. One serious flaw I have found is that valid matches are ignored if matching text is broken up into separate html elements.
It kind of works. If you thrown in more than 3 token groups it seems to break it.
A gift from heaven for anyone who has to browse through hundreds of lines of text to find relevant data!
Perfect
Does not work (8/20/2014)
Not working with regular expresions0 for example I typed (validate \:) to find the text"validate :method" but it does not work, just tell us what regular expresions you used, is it Javascript RegExp.
I installed some minutes ago... simple, powerful and... works fine ;)
Love the idea of this, but this extension doesn't work -- is currently broken (as of 6/22/14)
Doesn't seem to be working at the moment. Regexp search can't even find simple strings on a page that i can find with regular search.
Love the idea, but it appears to be broken at the moment. A bug is open already on the issue.
Works great. After install, be sure to refresh any web page you have already open before this extension will work on that page.
This extension works great! I had to manually capture hundreds of payments in Paypal, and I was able to search for transaction numbers on the page using REGEX, which saved me a ton of time.
Can't seem to scan forward through results nor do RE groupings seem to work...
Comments mention a "Search" button, there is no such button. Refreshed the page, this just does not work.
raw but very nice.
Seems to work. TO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T GET IT TO WORK: You have to refresh a page once it is installed before it will start working.
This is exactly what I was expected. Thanks for the great extension.
Finally someone added this feature. Can you support listing all the matches (and of a specific capturing group)
A progress/status indication would be nice to see if it's working or not. Large searches can take a while and can seem like it's not working.
Great extension. Thanks a lot gsingh93!
Works great! ★★★★★ TO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T GET IT TO WORK: Did you remember to hit [Search] or did you just hit [Next] without first searching? Note: regex type is JavaScript RegExp object (I found it in git→regex-search→content.js), and appears at a glance to be similar to extended regex or pcre. Humble Suggestions: - Until the user presses "Search", please hide or at least "grey-out" the [Next] and [Prev] buttons. - Swapping the locations of [Search] and [Clear] so that [Search] is on the right makes more sense to me. - Please add the regex type to the documentation so we know what to escape (even though in retrospect it's kind of obvious that you would've used js RegExp, it didn't occur to me until I peeked at your code). Thanks for the great extension!! Old suggestions: - A hotkey to open the search dialog would be nice, and even more-so if it could be customized. EDIT: My apologies for not noticing that you could already do this by going to "Keyboard shortcuts" at the bottom of the extension page!
Doesn't work on a simple static page that contains dates in tables. Doesn't support output of results and no copy to clipboard
Very useful to have regex search on a web page.
Works quickly on every query I throw at it.
Doesnt work