Reviews & Comments of Chrome Regex Search chrome extension

fails at basic searches even without regex

I give it a 5 simply because it works! An invaluable tool I am surprised is not built into the browser itself.

Almost there, but not quite...! I think it works reasonably well, except when contents are loaded in dynamically. In scenarios where a lot of potential hits are loaded in via XHR (XMLHttpRequest), this extension failed to find the new matches. This basically breaks the extension for content loaded in on modern sites. Could you please update it so any actual search takes the actual state of the DOM into account? Thank you for everything so far

It works, but I found it useless for my cases. Because it finds something only when the whole text is placed inside a one tag as is. If some of the words within the text are wrapped by an another inline tag - this extension ignores them. It means any highlights break the search.

No matter what page i am in, it says: Content script was not loaded. Are you currently in the Chrome Web Store or in a chrome:// page? If you are, content scripts won't work here. If not, please wait for the page to finish loading or refresh the page.

Better than standard search, sees the difference between v and w Regex functionality is great to have

doesnt work specifically on youtube's views inside a channel in 'Videos' tab

Awesome!!

Works fine on very simple pages, but seems to fail on hyperlinks and pdf documents.

Thanks for this extension! Just using it as a case-sensitive Ctrl-F is worth the install. Additional simple regex (e.g. ^) is icing on the cake.

I use this almost daily. It's the best regex search extension I've found! Make sure to check out the options if you need more than the default 500 results.

it doesn't support utf-8 characters. for example \w+ does not find any non-english characters. Ex: سلام is a Persian/Arabic word. if possible please add more feathers at least \p{xx} option, so we can use \p{L} instead of \w . also \p{L} will find all utf-8 characters. also for Chinese and other non-English languages it it an essential feature. you can see more details about \p feature in this link: http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt

It worked, until I needed to add ":" to the search and it wouldn't work: Searching this character alone works: : But needing it as part of a search does not work: add_foreign_key\(:[a-z_]+, I can't escape it or find a way to search what I need. I switched to the "Find+" extension, which worked.

Highlight of text doesn't work.. waiting for fix!

Two recommendations 1. Please add a match whole word button. We don't want to write \bword\b every time. 2. Please make case insensitive as default. Rather than case sensitive.

Really useful, and nice interface. (Also supports ^ and $ which surprised me)

Superb! How did I not know about it till now?! and why doesn't chrome have a built-in regex search?

requires a content script... potentially breaking websites. Find+ has no such requirements and does the same thing.

Thanks for this extension. Please add autocomplete with last search regexp so I don't have to pick it from history every single time. (This is the default settings for Chrome CTRL+F)

Exactly what I was looking for, a tool or extension that lets me copy all matches to clipboard. Perfect!

Works on "static" page elements. Does not work on values in inputs and textareas.

Nonfunctional, as far as I can tell. Tested ctrl+f on multiple different pages, and not a single regex worked. Either there are unlisted steps needed to active regex searches, or it is just broken.

Does not search patterns containing `=` example `def=0.0\)=[^0]`

I've just started using this, but already, wow, it works so well. You have to have knowledge of regular expressions to use it, but if you do, it's so helpful. Nice and easy to use.

How do I search for unique matches? Negative lookahead doesn't seem to work /(\w+\b)(?!.*\1\b)/

So far used it just once, but the fact that I was able to do exactly what I wanted to do on the first try made me laugh out with joy and amazement.

Very useful extension for developers! I regret because chrome don't have regex search already embedded.

Has some rough edges, but does the job. Has buttons to jump from occurence to occurence (both directions) and to enable/disable case insensitivity. That's useful.

Very Satisfied with this plugin. There is just 1 thing I'd like to see improved: I use shortcuts a lot and I'd love to replace my CTRL+F for normal search with CTRL+F for this Regex Search. Is there any chance that will become available?

Does what it says, it would be even better if you can map ctrl+f to it.

This works, but there are many important areas for improvement. The interface doesn't look great. Keybaord shortcuts aren't available to cycle through the search history. Positions of search results aren't highlighted in the scrollbar (as in the native search; I've found this an indispensable feature at times). Chrome keyboard shortcuts can't be used while the search bar is open, and it closes when you switch tabs, rather than remaining open for when you return to the tab, like the native search. These are all criticisms of usability, since I've had no issue with functionality; it performs regex searching well, and quickly. But the native search is much more ergonomic, with features this extension is lacking. I'll keep this extension, but maybe not use it regularly. It will be useful when I need the advanced searching that regex provides, but otherwise the native search is superior. Update: I've found another extension 'Regular Expression Search Bar', which shows real promise in dealing with the issues I have with this extension that I mention above, but suffers from serious performance issues. Maybe the developers of these two extensions could get together, adopting the interface and the useful features of 'Regular Expression Search Bar', but with the superiour searching performance of this one. The potential for a great extension is there.

Doesn't skip tags, like it should. Only appears to search contiguous text. That's not useful.

Haven't try other extension. This one is just enough and simple to use. Thanks!

Failed on the expression "FAILED$" (FAILED at the end of a line). This is a simple regex which should have located any place where FAILED is the last word on a line.

downloaded specifically to find all instances of `\w===\w`, didn't work. played around a bit, realized that <anything>* would match with empty strings, rather than the expected greedy search most regex matchers would give.

Very good at what it does, it IS a regex search plugin for web pages. HOWEVER, on a personal note I specifically study large books at times (1000+ pages) and am always in the need for reviews and such and would really love if this regex were able to search within a pdf like the default chrome plugin does. Aside from that, there is no other regex choice on the market =). Good job rshen

Keep getting: Content script was not loaded. Are you currently in the Chrome Web Store or in a chrome:// page? If you are, content scripts won't work here. If not, please wait for the page to finish loading or refresh the page. Have restarted Chrome and run while not in any chrome:// page or web store. I am unable to use this extension. removing.

Doesn't work for almost every regex I try. For instance, here are 2 examples of failed regexes I tried on this page: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-mock 1. patch\(.*\) 2. API provided Parentheses don't work at all. That second one is just literal text. When that failed, I uninstalled.

outdated! no longer working :(

Works well, but it would be useful if the UI element was more persistent and had memory of previous searches. Otherwise the best of what I could find.

Does the work. Would be happier if there were shortcuts, like arrow up/down for iteration through previous searches, Alt + I to ignore case etc.

it's good for engineers to work on webpage with regex support. nice and succinct. Thanks

Compared to the other extensions that advertise regex find-in-page functionality, this extension has one of the most pleasing user interfaces. It also appears as though the extension is still being supported and updated (by looking at the GitHub repo). However, trying to match a pattern against an inline piece of text spread over multiple elements does not work. It looks like this issue was brought up in GitHub, someone proposed a fix and it was merged, and then rolled back. Not sure what's going on there, but this issue should definitely be addressed if you want to keep people using your extension.

This extension is fantastic. It works perfectly fine if you know what you are doing. Most of the reviews rating it badly come from people who don't understand regex, the flavor of regex implemented by Chrome's JavaScript engine, or technical limitations associated with extensions in general.

Works exactly as I wished it would!

My only request for improvement is to have highlighting use different colors for capturing groups. A regex of foo(bar) should highlight foo in yellow and bar in blue as an example. Further capturing groups would use different colors, I have seen regex testers online do this. With that last improvement I would give a solid 5 stars. It might also be worthy to note on the project page (or even within the module's options maybe) that if people want more extended regex capabilities they need to enable "Experimental Javascript" under chrome://flags. This enables lookbehinds.

Lifesaver, literally. Cut down tons of irrelevant info during my job search.

For my simple needs it works great and will save me loads of time!

Works like a charm! Easy to use within seconds after refreshing the page.

Edit - is there a hot key to bring this up? Used to using ctrl-f to bring up search. Would like this as well for this extension. Review - Does what it needs to so far for me for basic searches. Thanks!

Does the job! • Correctly scrolls page to bring results into view when stepping through with [^] and [v] buttons. • Works immediately upon installation, without forcing you to restart the browser (as does the /other/ regular expression extension). • History feature is nice.

Plugin seems to close and reset itself every time it loses focus. Also, the matching is "okay" if you are looking to regex match something that is within the same html elements. But this extension really starts to fall flat on its face when it comes to matching content that is wrapped around multiple html elements. For example on one site I try to match for 4\.[5-9]\s*\(1\d+\s*reviews?\) this is meant to highlight the products on a page that have a 4.5+ star rating and 10 or more reviews. But the rating number and the (# review) bit are wrapped in different html elements on separate lines, e.g. <span class="rating-number">4.9</span> <span class="ratings-count">(11 Reviews)</span> So no matter what i try, it fails to match (e.g. using [^(]+ instead of \s*). I know from a coding PoV this is probably not an easy thing to solve for but from a UX PoV I want an extension that will match for this sort of thing, regardless of what's going on under the hood!

Doesn't rebind CMD-f (not sure if this can be done, but it's annoying nonetheless) If you select text on web page, the extension is not restricted to your selected text. Scrolls you all the way to the first match, even if you are near the end of a long document.

The only problem so far (and the only need by me) was the content created by me in text boxes. it just search within loaded content.

It doesn't work.

Most regex does not work.

work but no highlight on scroll bar！！ 工作但滚动栏没有高亮！烦

I didn't know I needed this until I suddenly did, and now I'm wondering why this is not the default search. Very well done!

Does not perform lookbehind assertions. Example: Regex - (?<=foo)bar and (?<!foo)bar not working for text 'foobarbarfoo'

I wanted to use this for just one reason -- to find five-star Chrome extensions in web store search results, which had at least three digits worth of reviews within parentheses. The extension will not work on precisely one web site: the Chrome Store. :-\

Limited to 500 results.

Doesn't search in textboxes

Very good extension. It works as I need.

Nice. Clean. Works. Just what I needed. Thanks!

no control over regex flags

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.

EDIT: The new version 1.06 of this app adds a search history function which is the greatest thing since sliced bread. If I could give it ten stars, I would!!! ~ Works exactly as expected with no glitches. If I were king of the world, I would decree that RegEx take over Ctrl+F and become the default search tool, but that is a very minor quibble.

It would be great to have "Case Sensitive" check-box right next to the search_input_field. BTW It is possible to override 'Ctrl+F' shortcut. Before this was Chrome limitation. 1. Open 'chrome://extensions/' page in your browser 2. Go to 'Keyboard shortcuts' menu at the bottom-right of the page. 3. Find desirable extension and set shortcut to 'Ctrl+F'

Its nice, although would like to see options to set flags, or rather just have multiline, (^ and $ marking beginning and end of each line). As well it would be nice to have it hook the CTRL-F command. Still the best regex search plugin for chrome.

Very good. But would be nice if it'd could snatch the CMD+F shortcut from Chrome's incompetent monolingual american-language-only search.

Pro: Works as advertised; best regex search extension I've tried. Cons: UI is broken (at least on Mac OS). Doesn't support ^ and $ line anchors. Only finds first 500 results. No way to hook a keyboard shortcut to it. Doesn't search within frames.

This worked on more sites than Regex Search for me. I needed to do a lot of searches on Google Groups and this worked perfectly. The configuration of colors is a very nice feature. I love the compact design with input box + results count + next/previous buttons all in 1 place. It's functional and consistent with Chrome's built in search. Also, the input box even shows red when my regex is incomplete. To the developer, you've got to promote these features more (and with screenshots).