How to auto replace text in a webpage automatically with Chrome Extension

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xkcd

It says that XKCD used an extension to accomplish this on a webpage by using a extension that seems to deal with "regex".

What extension can replace words on a webpage with a word you specify?

the Perl (as people believe it is) script that is related to this is specified as "s/keyboard/leopard/"

Help?

I'd love to see one that's just a web portal and the substitutions can be passed in as URL params — think Google Translate. Know of anything like that? — fatuhoku, Sep 27, 2014 at 19:41

phwd · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21 22:46:21Z

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This one works fairly well: s/keyboard/leopard. It just needs to be adjusted for Google results.

Wikipedia page for Computer keyboard

answered Mar 21, 2012 at 22:46

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i found this one for firefox. but still haven't found viable solution for chrome. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace
– Andrew Davis
Mar 23, 2012 at 21:54
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This other extension based of XKCD #1288 shows how easily it can be done: github.com/Posnet/xkcd-substitutions
– Guillaume Rochat
Sep 9, 2014 at 1:06

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