# Keyboard Text Copier

> Copy web page text using only the keyboard. Activate with Ctrl+Shift+Period (Ctrl+Shift+.)

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/keyboard-text-copier](https://chrome-stats.com/d/keyboard-text-copier)

## Overview

- **ID:** `keyboard-text-copier`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** bpedrazaa
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-26
- **First published:** 2026-04-24
- **Size:** 44 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keyboard-text-copier/)
- **Website:** [https://codeberg.org/bpedrazaa/keyboard\_text\_copier](https://codeberg.org/bpedrazaa/keyboard_text_copier)

## Description

Copy text from any webpage using only your keyboard. No mouse nor drag-selecting.

Press Ctrl+Shift+. to open the panel.
Type the beginning of the text you want to copy, Tab to the End field, type where the excerpt ends, then press Enter. The full range between both markers is copied to your clipboard instantly.

Features:
- Real-time match highlighting as you type
- Cycle through multiple matches with ↓/↑ arrows
- Live match counter for both start and end fields
- Searches paragraphs, headings, lists, code blocks, tables, and more
- Excludes navigation, sidebars, and footers (clean article text only)
- Dark high-contrast overlay, non-intrusive
- No data collected, no network requests, works fully offline

## Rankings

- #89,315 — Overall
- #114 — keyboard

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `scripting`
- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- 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/keyboard-text-copier)