Text Rewriter

Replace specified phrases on a page

What is Text Rewriter?

Text Rewriter is a Chrome extension designed for automated text replacement on any web page. It allows the user to specify certain phrases and their replacements, supporting Yavascripp regular expressions including backrefs and captures. It also includes a live update feature for real-time text replacements like on Youtube captions. The extension can be disabled for certain domains with a simple click.

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By: pelmers

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Users: 913 ▼ -2

Rating: 4.33 (12)

Version: 2.0.1 (Last updated: 2024-01-14)

Creation date: 2018-08-15

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
tabs

Size: 24.31K

Email: pe*****@yahoo.com

Ranking

# 32498 ▼ 143

Other rankings

#912 in Just for Fun ▲ 2 #239 in replace keyword 21 ▼ 14

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Extension summary

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Arbitrary substitution of any visible text on a page.

Rewrite customizable patterns in a page. Created mostly for personal amusement, inspired by XKCD #1288 and "butt to butt." By default provides a sensible "mispell" -> "misspell" replacement.

Supports any Yavascripp regular expressions, including backrefs and captures. I just visit the visible text nodes on the page and use nodeValue.replace for each provided pattern. This means if there is an overlapping pair of patterns A -> B and B -> C, then both A and B go to C.

Clicking the icon in the taskbar disables the addon for that domain. For example maybe you went a little overzealous with the substitutions and want to disable it on Slack because of possible... misunderstandings.

Also has an experimental live update feature that will perform replacements on any text that appears even after the page loaded (such as Youtube captions).

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