May 31, 2026

description

Copy Please! is a simple, privacy-friendly extension that copies 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.

Everything happens on your computer. No accounts, no tracking.

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, smart quotes → straight quotes, pull all emails or links out of a block of text, mask credit card numbers, strip Markdown, redact emails before sharing logs, and more. Click an example to try it.
- An Advanced mode for users who want to write multiple rules at once.

Middle-click paste
Paste with your middle mouse button - works in regular text fields and in rich editors like Gmail, Google Docs comments, Notion, Slack, and most others.

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 simple toggles per site: Auto-copy, Unlock text selection, Unlock right-click and Regex.
- 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
## [0.14.0] - 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!

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!

May 24, 2026

description

Copy Please! is a lightweight, privacy-respecting extension that instantly copies selected text - no keyboard shortcuts needed.

Features:
Auto Copy: Instantly copy selected text in plain or rich text format.

Remove AI Characters: Hidden Unicode, Em-Dash and Emoji Characters

Clipboard Management: Clear the clipboard after a set time or after pasting.

Text Formatting: Change case (UPPERCASE, camelCase, leet), remove whitespace, or apply custom regex rules.

Add Metadata: Prepend/append source URL, timestamp, or a custom comment.

Bypass Copy Restrictions: Re-enable right-click, text selection, and context menus on restricted sites.

Middle Click Paste: Paste with the middle mouse button.

Custom Site Rules: Allow or block the extension on specific websites.

Copy Notifications: Get optional alerts or visual indicators when text is copied.

Why Use It?
No more Ctrl+C. Save time, boost productivity, and always have the right format in your clipboard.

NOTES

Works with most websites - even those with copy restrictions.

Whitespace from the beginning and end of selection will be removed by default on plain text copy.

Privacy-friendly: No tracking. All processing is local.

Notes
The extension works with any URL type, but to support file:/// URLs you must enable this on the extension management page by checking the setting 'Allow access to file URLs'.

When an option is changed, web pages must be reloaded before the changes will take effect.

CHANGELOG
## [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