Copy Please! - Clean, Format & Auto Copy Text Anywhere

Automatically copy selected text to clipboard and allow copying by removing copy protection.

Copy Please! makes it easy to autocopy text the moment you select it - no more Ctrl+C. It also unlocks sites that block copying, right-click, or text selection, and helps you clean up text on the way to the clipboard. What it does Auto-copy when you select text Drag, double-click, or triple-click - the text is already on your clipboard. Choose plain text or rich (formatted) text, and switch between them with a key when you need to. Unlock blocked sites Bring back copy, right-click, and text selection on sites that disable them. Works on tricky sites where other extensions give up. Clean up text automatically - Strip hidden AI characters, em-dashes, fancy quotes, and emoji. - Change the case - UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, leet, and more. - Trim whitespace from the start and end of what you copy. - Add the source URL, page title, date or time to every copy, using a template you control. Find & replace with regex If you want more control, there's a dedicated Regex tab with: - A live tester so you can see what your rule does before saving. - Quick Insert buttons and a cheat sheet if you're new to regex. - Many ready-made examples for common tasks: collapse extra blank lines, pull all emails or links out of a block of text, mask credit card numbers, strip Markdown, redact emails before sharing logs, and more. Middle-click paste Paste with your middle mouse button Clipboard management - Automatically clear your clipboard after a set time, or after you paste. - Replace whatever's already in a field when you paste, instead of adding to it. Per-site control - Four toggles per site and regex rule: Auto-copy, Unlock text selection, Unlock right-click and Regex with rule id. - Turn any of them on everywhere with one switch. - One-click toggle from the toolbar to enable/disable on the current site. - Alt+Shift+click copies text from buttons and links without actually clicking them (great for grabbing the text of buttons, links or other clickable elements). Notifications Get a small on-screen indicator or a system notification when something is copied. Position it wherever you like. Why use it - Stop pressing Ctrl+C. Selecting is copying. - Get text out of stubborn sites. Most copy-blocked pages just work. - Cleaner clipboard. Strip the junk on the way out, not after. - Stays private. No accounts, no tracking, no data leaves your computer. Good to know - Works on almost every website. - To use it on local files (file:/// URLs), check Allow access to file URLs on the extension's details page. - Most settings apply right away - no need to reload tabs. - Auto-copy doesn't work in Google Docs or Word Online (those use a special canvas-based editor). Use Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V in those. CHANGELOG ## [0.16.0] - 2026-05-28 - New option for notifications to appear near cursor - Toggle for remove whitespace - Bugfixes ## [0.15.0] - 2026-05-24 - New Logo - Unlock text defeats "stretched-link" card overlays - Fixed duplicate domain_list rows when popup paths preserved URL case. ## [0.14.0] - 2026-05-23 - Custom Regex is now a library of named rules. The Regex tab's old "single rule" + "Advanced (multi-line)" duo is replaced by a Saved rules list. - Per-site rule picker in the popup. A new Rule dropdown appears under the Custom Regex toggle - Per-pattern rule picker in the Activation list. Each URL-patterns row gains a compact `#N` select between the regex switch and the edit button. ## [0.13.0] - 2026-05-20 - Custom regex is now per-site. - !-prefix negation is gone. Per-page negation rows aren't needed anymore - a row at the exact pattern is the override. - Added a Custom regex find/replace options page with built-in helpers (live tester, Quick Insert palette, cheat sheet, examples grouped by category) ## [0.12.0] - 2026-05-17 - Negation patterns by typing '!example.com', to block a whole site via negation, type '!example.com/*' explicitly - Added an Advanced mode to the Custom Regex case-conversion option on the Format tab. The new multi-line textarea takes one '/pattern/flags::replacement' rule per line and applies them top-to-bottom on the copied text. ## [0.11.0] - 2026-05-13 - Unified the autocopy allow/deny list and the per-domain unlocks into a single domain list with three switches per row - The popup now shows three toggles for the current domain (autocopy / text-select / right-click) and changes now hot-apply with no tab reload ## [0.10.0] - 2026-05-12 - Unlock text selection now works in significantly more places. - Removed the "Block drag-and-drop on draggable elements" toggle. - Improved the drag-then-click suppression ## [0.9.0] - 2026-05-11 - Added "Block drag-and-drop on draggable elements" sub-toggle under Unlock text selection — lets you mouse-select text inside `draggable="true"` elements (e.g. Gmail inbox rows) - Added "Unlock text selection" and "Unlock right click" toggles to the popup under a new "Global unlocks" section so the two global settings can be flipped without opening Options - Middle-click paste now places the caret at the click point - Fixed Alt+Shift click-to-copy on buttons and links not running text transforms — case conversion, AI-character removal, and the comment template now apply the same way as auto-copy - Bugfixes ## [0.8.0] - 2026-05-09 - Added a modifier key option to skip "Replace existing text on paste" for one paste - Added a modifier key option to swap between Plain and Rich copy format for a single copy - Added autoscroll suppression on middle-click into text fields when "Paste on Middle Click" - Added Popup with settings to enable/disable extension on site/domain -Fixed bugs ## [0.0.7] - 2026-05-03 - Added Alt/Opt+Shift Click to copy text from buttons, links, and form buttons without triggering them - Added Rich Text (HTML) copy format option that preserves formatting when pasting into apps like Word or Google Docs - Added "Replace existing text instead of appending" option that clears the target field on any paste - Added keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+P by default, rebindable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts) to toggle the extension on the current site ## [0.0.6] - 2026-04-06 - Fixed bugs ## [0.0.5] - 2026-01-06 - Added option to remove "AI Characters" when copying ## [0.0.4] - 2025-12-02 - Fixed minor bugs - Replaced code so notification element are not depented on the screen resolution used when setup ## [0.0.3] - 2025-04-29 - Fixed small bug for TitleCase format - Fixed extension not loaded when refreshing on certain pages - Added Levels to Cursed Case ## [0.0.2] - 2025-04-27 - Small fix for native notifications ## [0.0.1] - 2025-04-24 - Intital Release!