# Regex Extractor

> Extracts text from webpages using custom regex patterns and copies them to the clipboard. Features a toggleable hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+Space), context menus, and regex management.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/regex-extractor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/regex-extractor)

## Overview

- **ID:** `regex-extractor`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** coolm
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 6
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-18
- **First published:** 2025-04-15
- **Size:** 69 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/regex-extractor/)

## Description

Features:
+ Regex management
+ Hotkey
+ Message bubble

Requires:  Knowledge of HTML coding and JavaScript Regular Expression (Regex).

## Rankings

- #42,348 — Overall
- #96 — email extractor
- #167 — extract

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/regex-extractor)