Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.

Latest Version

Version
4.0.5
Update
June 25, 2023
Size
89.5KiB
Developer
Category
Users
100,000+
Rating
3.69504 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
ContextMenus
Scripting
Storage
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Highlighter Extension

Easiest way to highlight text on any webpage! Simply select text, then right click it to select the \"Highlight\" option. Alternatively, use the default keyboard shortcut 'Alt+H' (^H on Mac).

All highlighted texts are saved so that your highlights are not lost when exiting a page! Simply re-opening that page will bring back all the highlights. NOTE: This does not work on very dynamic webpages like Facebook and most email clients. Support for these might be added in the future.

➪ View and copy all highlights on a page
➪ Copy all your highlights to your clipboard easily.
➪ Select existing highlights with a simple click to either delete them or to copy their content.
➪ Customize your highlight colors (and text color).
➪ Change the keyboard shortcut through Chrome settings at 'chrome://extensions/shortcuts'.


The code for this project is fully open-source and is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter
Help this project by reporting issues and contributing there!


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Disclaimer: This extension uses Google Analytics to gather non-personal user information and usage information. We DO NOT collect browsing information such as the contents of highlights or accessed URLs. For more information, consult our privacy policy at the link below.

The privacy policy for this extension can be found here: https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter/blob/master/privacy_policy.md
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Highlighter", "description": "Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.", "version": "4.0.5", "icons": { "16": "images/16.png", "48": "images/48.png", "128": "images/128.png" }, "action": { "default_icon": { "16": "images/16.png", "48": "images/48.png", "128": "images/128.png" }, "default_popup": "src/popup/index.html" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "" ], "js": [ "lib/jquery-2.1.3.min.js", "contentScript.js" ], "css": [ "src/contentScripts/hoverTools/index.css" ], "all_frames": true } ], "background": { "service_worker": "background.js", "type": "module" }, "commands": { "execute-highlight": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+H", "mac": "MacCtrl+H" }, "description": "Highlight selected text" }, "toggle-highlighter-cursor": { "description": "Toggle the highlighter cursor" }, "change-color-to-yellow": { "description": "Change highlighter color to yellow" }, "change-color-to-cyan": { "description": "Change highlighter color to blue" }, "change-color-to-lime": { "description": "Change highlighter color to green" }, "change-color-to-magenta": { "description": "Change highlighter color to pink" }, "change-color-to-dark": { "description": "Change highlighter color to dark" } }, "permissions": [ "contextMenus", "scripting", "storage" ], "host_permissions": [ "" ], "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": [ "images/*.png", "images/*.svg", "src/contentScripts/*" ], "matches": [ "" ] } ], "content_security_policy": { "extension_pages": "script-src 'self'; object-src 'self'" }}
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User reviews

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Parth (ID: 0000002e3e149f14) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 10/19/2023 It works on every site except for pdfs tried refreshing and using but still didn't work, I had installed it mainly for pdfs so it became redundant.

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Md Arif Hossain Akash (ID: 000000f71bd1ff0a) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 10/07/2023 Why its randomize the selection order in Bangla language!!! It's make me more confuse when I revision it!!!

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Sh (ID: 000000f7ed2ab860) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/06/2023 Sometimes it works, most times it does not. Buggy from the day it was updated recently, fix this. Edit: Thank you for fixing it. Feature request: can we configure the color ourselves with hsl or rgb thanks Edit 2: just saw your reply, thanks a lot!

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Megha Goyal (ID: 0000001278817d1b) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 08/27/2023 will the highlighted portion be visible to other indiviudals ? if i copy paste the web link ???

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Adérito (ID: 000000ff4f133e3c) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/22/2023 Perfectly simple. No need to create account or login. Just local data!