# TextRec

> Saves text of pages you navigate to.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `textrec`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** hack-tramp
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Last updated:** 2019-11-26
- **First published:** 2019-11-23
- **Size:** 13 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/textrec/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/hack-tramp/textrec](https://github.com/hack-tramp/textrec)

## Description

TextRec is a Firefox add-on that records all the text of any site you visit while enabled. It lets you save the text in .txt or .csv formats and provides the option to filter the saved text using a CSS selector.

## Rankings

- #91,686 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `webNavigation`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- 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/textrec)