# AlterLab Connect

> Developer tools for web scraping — page analysis, cookie capture, and authenticated scraping with AlterLab

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/alterlab-connect](https://chrome-stats.com/d/alterlab-connect)

## Overview

- **ID:** `alterlab-connect`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** RapierCraft
- **Category:** web-development,privacy-security,search-tools
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-16
- **First published:** 2026-03-29
- **Size:** 146 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/alterlab-connect/)
- **Website:** [https://alterlab.io/docs/integrations/extension](https://alterlab.io/docs/integrations/extension)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/alterlab-connect/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/alterlab-connect/privacy/)

## Description

AlterLab Connect — a developer toolkit for web scraping. Analyze any page's anti-bot defenses, capture authenticated cookies for BYOS (Bring Your Own Session) scraping, extract content in Markdown/HTML/JSON with one click, and build CSS/XPath selectors visually.

Features:
  • Page analysis — scrape difficulty score (0-100), anti-bot detection (Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX)
  • Cookie capture — save logged-in sessions for authenticated scraping via AlterLab API
  • One-click scraping — extract page content in multiple formats
  • Selector builder — point-and-click CSS/XPath extraction with reliability scoring
  • Meta analyzer — OG tags, Twitter cards, JSON-LD, robots.txt inspection
  • Network monitor — track API requests and security headers
  • Dark/light theme with system preference detection

## Rankings

- #133,269 — Overall
- #176 — scraping
- #242 — connect

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `cookies`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `alarms`
- `contextMenus`
- `scripting`
- `webRequest`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/alterlab-connect)