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Regex Binoculars

At Factual's first ever data hackathon in 2013, Rosalyn built a regex-search application that works similarly to a string search tool for reading online. She calls it the Regex Binoculars.

Sometimes you want to search for multiple things at once (example: matching both "party" and "parties"), or you want to search for a street address or email pattern. The regex binoculars allows this flexibility.

Installation

Clone the project:

$ git clone git@github.com:rosalyn/factual_hackathon.git

Load the extension

  1. Visit chrome://extensions in your browser (or open up the Chrome menu by clicking the icon to the far right of the Omnibox, and select Extensions under the Tools menu to get to the same place).
  2. Click Load unpacked extension... to pop up a file-selection dialog.
  3. Navigate to the directory in which the extension files live, and select it.

Basic Usage

/        Opens up the tool; enter your search request
n        Find the next match
N        Find the previous match
[ENTER]  Search for your regular expression  
Q        Quit/hide the tool

Limitations

  1. You can't use this tool on github.com
  2. You can't use this tool on google.com (workaround: you can use it on bing!)