Automatically finds and highlights words and phrases on the web page according to your list

Latest Version

Version
6.3.11
Update
September 2, 2024
Size
4.25MiB
Developer
highlightthis.net
Category
Users
100,000+
Rating
3.80964 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
Français
Nederlands
Español
русский
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Permissions
Tabs
ContextMenus
Notifications
Alarms
Storage
Offscreen
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Highlight This: finds and marks words Extension

- No registration required
- Organize your search words in groups and lists
- Use Regular Expressions (Regex tokens)
- All data stored locally
- Auto-refreshes highlights on page reload and content changes
- Unlimited words and lists
- Synchronise lists between your browsers

Highlight This! comes:
- as a Free version, limited to 200 words and limited highlighting styles
- an Unlimited version with affiliate partner link highlighting https://highlightthis.net/PartnerLinks.html
- 2 paid versions.

Easy to use Chrome Extension that automatically searches for defined words in the current browser tab and marks them in a text. Many more advanced features available through settings:
- Create color-coded keyword lists
- Disable highlighting on certain sites
- Export or import your settings and keyword lists
- Define click action
- Use lists from Pastebin, Google Sheets

Privacy Statement: https://highlightthis.net/Privacy.html
EULA: https://highlightthis.net/EULA.pdf

** New in 6.3.10
- Fix: Issue with lookbehind regex

** New in 6.3.8
- Fix: Issue when extending license information

** New in 6.3.8
- Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after, or before, a forward-slash

** New in 6.3.7
- Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after lower quotation marks
- Fix: Incorrect highlighting with Regular Expressions that contain \\b

** New in 6.3.6
- Fix: lists are not sorted anymore
- Fix: breaking highlights due to specific control for \"flex\" containers

** New in 6.3.4
- Fix: an issue with sequence of Regex words
- Fix: an issue with invalid characters in a wordlist
- New: You can now order lists of words to give priority in highlighting if there are duplicate words

** New in 6.3.3
- Fix: Complete words are not always correctly highlighted

** New in 6.3.2
- Improved: Word breaking symbols list has been extended

** New in 6.3.1
- Fix: zip file issue when installing extension

** New in 6.3
- New: Better support for languages which have no spaces or punctuation between words
- New: Better support for languages with diacritics
- Fixed: Sync with Google Sheets has been fixed

** New in 6.2.3
- New: You can now put a border around input fields if there is a matching word inside

** New in 6.2.2
- Fixed: a performance issue

** New in 6.2.1
- Fixed: an issue with highlighting in shadow-root elements

** New in 6.2
- New : Improved performance on large webpages
- Fixed: an issue whereby words could disappear while filtering the list of words

** New in 6.1
- New: Make backups automatically
- New: Open clicks on highights in new window or current tab

** New in 6.0.10
- Fixed: an issue with highlighting of web components
- Fixed: an issue with look behind regular expressions

** New in 6.0.9
- New: Now also highlighting in Shadow DOM

** New in 6.0.8
- Fixed: an issue whereby lists cannot be opened to edit
- Fixed: an issue on LinkedIn jobs

** New in 6.0.6
- Fixed: highlighting on Single Page Apps
- New: Form to send a bug to the developer

** New in 6.0.5
- Fixed: issue with corrupted synchronized lists which breaks the rendering of the lists

** New in 6.0.4
- Fixed: issue with restoring backups
- New: ability to reset all data and settings

** New in 6.0.1
- Fixed: issue with transforming Synchronized lists

** New in 6.0.0
- Extra styles for highlighting : Bold, Italic, Underline
- Ability to change highligting by selecting rounded corners, padding, shadow
- Ability to define a zone on a page for highlighting
- Switch to Manifest v3, which better protects user security
- Subscriptions
- Fixed: speed of editor
- Fixed: various small issues with remote lists

** New in 5.3.6
- Fixed: an issue with scrolling to highlight tags

** New in 5.3.5
- Fixed: Performance issues

** New in 5.2
- Define click actions for highlighted words
- Support for loading words from Google Sheets
- Define download frequency for remote lists
- Fixed: Negative reverse lookup regex
- Fixed: Issue with Highlight overview
- Fixed: Issue with download button

** New in 5.1
- Support for case sensitive matching
- Manage words from context menu

** New in 5.0
- New editor to manage your words (filter, select, delete, move)
- Support for Regex tokens

** Define words **
Easily specify words and phrases you want to be highlighted.

** Highlighting **
Highlights the words and phrases on the page
Shows how many words have been highlighted

** Works on Ajax pages **
The extension detects changes to the page and re-highlights the words.
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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Hany Aloum (ID: 0000000adaac808f) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 11/03/2024 Good alternative for Multi-highlight plugin since it had no support for over 2 years. Edit: 5/5 but please update firefox version so we can import/export our backups

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DL17 (ID: 000000b329435bf7) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 06/11/2024 Original review (Aug 2022): I would give this a higher rating, but there's been a recurring issue of words disappearing from a list. All lists are set to sync so it's not due to changing computers. This issue is making me consider using another extension. I really like this extension and its functionality but the disappearing words is making this too unreliable. Dec 2023 Update: I still enjoy using this extension and find it very helpful, but the disappearing words is still an ongoing issue. The workaround is to backup frequently so you can revert but ideally this bug could be fixed. June 2024 Update: I contacted the developer regarding disappearing words and he was able to find the root cause of the issue and it was fixed in a later update. One outstanding issue is using this on LinkedIn Jobs. When viewing jobs, the title of the job postings you look at seem to merge with the title of the previous postings you viewed. For example, if you view a job with the title "Senior Analyst" and then view one called "Marketing Associate", this marketing posting will display as something like "Marketing Associate Senior Analyst". The titles get clumped together for some reason.

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Aleks (ID: 0000001862c830bb) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 11/15/2023 Not working

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Taylor Goddard (ID: 000000cae5eda35a) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 11/07/2023 This is an amazing extension, one of the best I've ever used. I believe adding an "Exclusion of Word Combinations" feature would take this extension to the next level. Let me give an example to clarify. Example: Lets say I want to highlight the words "Address", "City" and "State". On the same page however, those same words are included in "Mailing Address", "Mailing City" and "Mailing State" but I do not wish for those to be highlighted. It would be amazing to have and exclusion list where I could add those word combinations to not be highlighted. I would most certainly return to this review and change it to 5 stars if this feature was added.

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Ricky (ID: 0000002dcd8957f6) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 10/18/2023 The backup feature is just broken and doesn't work. Using this on the latest Vivaldi browser (which is Chromium based) and it just doesn't backup the settings to my Downloads folder, or to any folder (I monitored the process using Process Monitor from Microsoft sysinternals). I also tried doing a backup from here (chrome-extension://fgmbnmjmbjenlhbefngfibmjkpbcljaj/v3migration.html) and it didn't do anything. My downloads folder is not in the typical C:\Users\.... path. It's redirected to D:\ drive and the redirection is simply using the properties of the Downloads folder and adjusting the Location to D:\Downloads. I don't know whether this extension has a problem recognizing redirected folders, but none of the other browser extensions, nor the other Windows apps that I use, have any problems. UPDATE: Fixed the bug using ChatGPT. Update this function "downloadObjectAsJson" to this: function downloadObjectAsJson(exportObj, exportName, callback) { var jsonData = JSON.stringify(exportObj); var blob = new Blob(jsonData, { type: 'application/json' }); var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob); chrome.downloads.download({ url: url, filename: exportName + '.json' }, function(downloadId) { if(chrome.runtime.lastError) { console.error(chrome.runtime.lastError); } else { notify.backupCompleted(); callback(); } }); } and make sure the manifest has the downloads permission, like this: "permissions": "tabs","contextMenus","notifications","alarms","storage","offscreen","downloads", OR, just download my modified extension below and sideload this into any Chromium based browsers. Make sure to delete the original extension before you sideload this one. I've included the fix for the issue above, as well as increased the subscription trial to 99999 days: https://imgur.com/NIoTmpY https://fastupload.io/DZfhQDiBcJvSNZv/file