{find+} is a powerful Find-in-Page extension for Google Chrome allowing you to search a web page or document by regular expression. It has been designed to look and behave much like the native CTRL-F tool, but extended with various useful features.
With {find+}, you can match any legal JavaScript regular expression against text in the page, use find-and-replace to replace text in the page, copy occurrences of a regex to your clipboard, store frequently used expressions, and configure the extension the way you like.
As a software developer, looking through lengthy stack traces, continuous integration build history, or large text files is something we do very regularly. The Chrome Find-in-Page tool works well in most cases, but offers very little when looking for very specific (or very general) keywords.
A few notes:
– This tool was designed and built for developers. If you’re not familiar with using regular expressions, this tool is not for you.
– This tool does not support dynamic pages. The purpose of this tool is to search for patterns in structured text, not in pages like Google Sheets or similar sites.
– This tool will struggle with significantly large pages. In these cases, using another tool might be more appropriate.
Exactly what I needed. Was looking for a way to find ‘3-digit’ numbers on websites.
I tried Number Search initially, but it wouldn’t do anything when I clicked on it. The guy who made the program seems very sincere in his response to user feedback, so think one of Chrome’s update may have caused issues.
Regardless, that made me discover “Find+” extension for Chrome. It took me a bit to figure out how to use the program to find digits, for instance I wanted to find all $ mentions between 100 and 999. The method was as follow:
The program can be easily opened by pressing Ctrl + Shift + F, as opposed to the normal Ctrl + F, still available.
Make sure “Find my Regular Expression” and “Match Case” is enabled in the Find+ settings. Then search for $\d\d\d which will return any 3 digit (100-999) with $ in front. The reason for stipulating the dollar is cause there is often lots of other 3 digit strings such as time and dates and just stuff you don’t want. So this worked for me.
Also, let’s say I want to find any mention of ‘2 days’, ‘3 days’, etc. the search string was for instance: .2 d or .3 d This returned any string that followed the period.
The general rules for how to use these strings can be found here: Syntax for Regular Expressions https://support.google.com/a/answer/1371415?hl=en
Happy Brandon took the initiative to create this software! Thanks buddy 😉
absolutely terrible, if I write “find” in the address bar in chrome, because I wanted to google something with the word find in it, then it activates the extension and won’t let me do the search.
This extension works perfectly and is just great. The customization is great. The documentation is great. The key bindings are great. Everything just works. I’m using this on Microsoft Edge and it works just as well as on Google Chrome. No other extension that I’ve tried can compare.
I use this extension for searching scientific papers for keywords. One bug I’ve encountered is that the saved searches do not function at all when you first open it on a new webpage. It needs to be closed and reopened again to function in this way. Otherwise very useful.
Don’t know why I waited so long to start looking for a replacement for Chrome find in page that is definitely lacking functionalities… I find it awesome so far.
it doesn’t support utf-8 characters. for example \w+ does not find any non-english characters.
Ex: سلام is a Persian/Arabic word.
if possible please add more feathers at least \p{xx} option, so we can use \p{L} instead of \w .
also \p{L} will find all utf-8 characters. also for Chinese and other non-English languages it it an essential feature.
you can see more details about \p feature in this link: http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt
This regex extension works quite nicely, and I would recommend this one over any others that have tried.
Works great; better than other regex tools in 2019/2020. It’s more accurate or closer to PCRE, sublime text.
The only issue I have is having to retype the regex 2-3x for it to work if you click on the page, or the tool closes. Very annoying. What I normally do is hit the hotkey (ctrl shift F) twice, and my regex is still there; now I hit backspace and remove the last character, and re-insert it. Then it works.
TDLR: the program is buggy and only works the first try.
Works as expected, I can REGEX search which is exactly what I needed. Thank you!
Seems to have performance issues in larger pages. But TBH, I want to most use it in pages with a lot of content, such as log files etc., so is really of limited use to me.
Seems to work decently when the page content is smaller.
Not that happy with this on Chrome (84.0.4147.125, 64-bit) on Windows 10 (OS 1803, Build 17134.1246).
I find it only allows me to search the first frame of text. I can’t search the text within an edit box when I edit a Wiki page, for example. I can search all the edit page’s top-layer text, but the contents of the edit box are not searchable. Also in chrome when you click view source, even that text is not searchable, I suppose because it’s not a regular webpage?
I truly love the search and replace feature though! I’ve just had a lot of fun “editing” a wiki page to funny spelling errors using regex swaps. It would be Amazing(!) if you could add (capt)uring groups so that we could \1ure the structure of our “find” match and then replace it with something dependent on that captured group (e.g. replace all “(\w+)uring” matches with “(\1)ure”).
Thanks for the hard work. It’s a wonderful extension regardless of some of the limitations (which some I see you explain are due to iframes and single-source policy).
It’s a great tool,
but it’s very annoying that it does not automatically remember the last used regular expressions.
有小瑕疵, 但很不错了!
Why does it have to make to chrome run in the background?
Not working!
Has some issues:
1. Can’t auto-show options, especially when choosing to hide the options button.
2. Doesn’t have “exact word”
3. Wish it had a floating window that auto-positions itself (and prefer being in the center-top/bottom) so that it won’t cover the results.
4. Why does it run in the background?
查找时不能显示结果的个数，望改进
Nice UI, but too slow
Awesome tool! Very useful and powerful.
pretty good however it’s not available in source code view.SAD!
Barely works, highlights randomly, need to reload page constantly to get it to highlight anything. Really not worth anyone’s attention.
Nice integration with the address bar (“Omnibar”), but doesn’t work with dynamic HTML pages.
searches ok but on page refresh the expression is lost, i cannot believe a developer wold do such a mistake.
I like this extension a lot, but my eyes have trouble reading the very small font
I would like to see a setting where I could adjust the font size of the text being typed into the search box, maybe in a future build, eh?
Great extension, does what’s written on the tin, thanks a lot! 🙂