A pattern search box for the chrome browser

It's a browser search plugin that helps you search for patterns on a page. This is different from the browser search that’s already provided to you on chrome by default. It shows up when you press `cmd/ctrl + F` on the browser.

Well, it turns out there are users who search for specific patterns on a given page. For example, a person who’s specifically looking for phone numbers ending with 99 on a page containing hundreds of phone numbers. There are some who search for a specific keyword quickly like when searching through a real estate property listing and want to view all listings in areas which end with "nagar".


Wouldn’t it be nice if you were able to search for such specific patterns on any page?

This chrome plugin is the right thing for you.

It looks like an ordinary search box, but there are a few things that this solution focuses on that corrects the available solutions in the market place.

Information: The 0 out of 0 text updates when the user finds a matching pattern text on the page. This would help them know how many results were found and also shows progress of the navigation.

Navigation: when searching is pretty crucial. The arrows allows the user to jump between search results sequentially

Copy: The important question to consider is "what would a user do with a search result?". As the name suggests, this copies all the matching pattern results to clipboard. The user could play with this data however they wish to 

Help: This is the differentiation between the existing chrome extensions and this one. Regular expressions are a little hard for the average human being who uses search. The help feature, helps them understand how regular expressions  work, using a cheat sheet as well as allows them to use some common search patterns.

You can visit the source code of the chrome extension here. This is open source. Feel free to contribute / improve the extension as you wish.