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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Stats

By: Simek

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Users: 11,275 ▲ 108

Rating: 4.13 (40)

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

Creation date: 2015-07-20

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
contextMenus
storage
<all_urls>

Size: 72.11K

URLs: Website

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 9292 ▼ 116

Other rankings

#2366 in Developer Tools ▲ 4 #44 in autocomplete keyword 28 ▼ 2 #137 in sidebar keyword 51 #226 in toggle keyword 27 ▼ 5 #295 in forget keyword 13 ▼ 1

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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

User reviews summary

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
very useful
able to access hard-to-find elements
highly recommended

Cons

hard to find on Google search
issue with faulty XPath recognition
problems with empty tags
shortcut does nothing

Most mentioned

XPath capability
usability
usefulness

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Safety

Risk impact

XPather is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install XPather if you trust the publisher.