# Overleaf Comment Exporter

> Export Overleaf review comments to CSV or XLSX with one click. All processing happens locally in your browser — nothing is sent to external servers.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/overleaf-comment-exporter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/overleaf-comment-exporter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `overleaf-comment-exporter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** nmady
- **Category:** download-management
- **Daily users:** 107
- **Weekly downloads:** 24
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-01
- **First published:** 2026-05-29
- **Size:** 954 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/overleaf-comment-exporter/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/nmady/OverleafCommentExporter](https://github.com/nmady/OverleafCommentExporter)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/overleaf-comment-exporter/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/overleaf-comment-exporter/privacy/)

## Description

Overleaf Comment Exporter lets you save all review comments from an Overleaf project as a spreadsheet file, without leaving Firefox.

<strong>What it does</strong>
<ul><li>Reads the review comments visible in your open Overleaf project tab.</li><li>Exports them as a <strong>CSV</strong> file (opens in any spreadsheet app) or <strong>XLSX</strong> file (Excel-compatible, with formatting).</li><li>Each row contains the thread ID, reply number, author, date, comment text, highlighted text, surrounding context, and character position in the document.</li></ul>
<strong>How to use it</strong>
<ol><li>Open an Overleaf project that has review comments.</li><li>Click the extension icon in the Firefox toolbar.</li><li>Choose <em>Export CSV</em> or <em>Export XLSX</em>.</li><li>The file downloads immediately.</li></ol>
<strong>Privacy</strong>

All processing happens locally in your browser tab. No comment data is sent to external servers, and no data is stored by the extension after you close the tab.

## Rankings

- #11,458 — Overall
- #149 — spreadsheet
- #160 — comment

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.overleaf.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.overleaf.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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