XPather

Chrome extension for XPath operations on current document, reliable and easy to use with fully featured XPath 2.0 support.

What is XPather?

XPather is a chrome extension dedicated to facilitating XPath operations on the current document. Built with complete support for XPath 2.0, it offers features like searching by evaluating XPath, instant result highlighting, overview of matched nodes content in a sidebar, localized search of nodes on the webpage by clicking on the sidebar and predefined shortcuts for functions and attributes. Keyboard shortcuts can be personalized and convenient autocomplete shortcuts are available. The accessible code and log can be found at XPather's GitHub page.

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Extension stats

By: Simek

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.07 (42)

Version: 0.7.6 (Last updated: 2015-07-20)

Creation date: 2015-07-20

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
contextMenus
storage
<all_urls>

Size: 72.11K

Ranking

# 8054 ▲ 4

Other rankings

#2927 in Developer Tools ▲ 5 #49 in autocomplete keyword 12 ▼ 1 #155 in toggle keyword 24

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Features

search by evaluating XPath (so forget about not working expressions!)
instant result highlighting
matched nodes content available in sidebar
find matched node on page by clicking it in sidebar
functions and attributes shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts

Alt+X: toggle XPather Alt+Shift+X: toggle XPather Sidebar (when XPather is active) Alt+Z: autocomplete XPather input

All shortcuts are customizable using "Keyboard Shortcuts" option located on the bottom of Chrome extensions page (chrome://extensions).

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Easy to use
Fast and helpful
Very good for accessing elements within tables
Best XPath plugin with good positioning and highlighting features
Superb tool that is quick and useful

Cons

Doesn't work properly on some Chrome versions
Invalid XPath error for correct queries
Difficulty in finding the extension through search

Most mentioned

Great tool
Really poor tool
Need for export feature

Recent reviews

Hassan elhllos, 2024-03-27

Simply doesn't work (Chrome 122.0.6261.69) Looking at the dev console: Keyboard shortcut yields "Uncaught ReferenceError: toggleSidebar is not defined" clicking the icon yields "Uncaught ReferenceError: init is not defined"