Batch Text Extractor (URL2Text) von Trevor Lewis

Batch Text Extractor converts lists of webpages into clean, source-labelled plain text. It is designed for researchers, analysts, journalists, content teams, and anyone who needs to collect readable webpage content efficiently.

How it works:

• Enter up to 100 URLs, one per line.
• Choose how long each page should remain open, from 0 to 10 seconds. The recommended default is 5 seconds.
• Start the batch and allow the extension to process each URL sequentially.
• Each URL opens in a temporary background tab, readable content is extracted, and the tab closes before the next URL opens.
• Results are compiled and downloaded as one to ten plain-text files.

Reliable text extraction:

• Waits for meaningful and stable content instead of relying only on a fixed timer.
• Extracts visible text from the main page, accessible frames, and open shadow roots.
• Records the requested URL and the final URL after redirects.
• Detects corrupted, encoded, repeated, or machine-generated content.
• Rejects CAPTCHA screens, login gates, access-denied pages, rate-limit responses, JavaScript shells, and server-error pages.
• Automatically retries a failed URL once using a longer loading period.
• Provides clear failure reasons when content cannot be extracted safely.
• Validates the completed output before downloading it.

Batch management:

• Detects valid, invalid, unsupported, and duplicate URLs before processing.
• Processes duplicate URLs once by default, with an option to retain and process them separately.
• Allows an optional batch name for descriptive filenames.
• Divides large batches evenly across up to ten output files while preserving URL order.
• Prevents multiple batches from running simultaneously.
• Continues processing if the extension popup is closed.
• Restores live progress when the popup is reopened.
• Provides a completion summary with successful, failed, retried, and partial extraction counts.
• Allows failed URLs to be retried without re-entering the complete batch.
• Offers optional Firefox completion notifications.

Public and authenticated pages:

The extension can process public webpages and pages where you are already signed in through your current Firefox session. It does not request, collect, or store website login credentials.

Privacy:

• All extraction happens locally within Firefox.
• No analytics or tracking.
• No advertising services.
• No external APIs or developer servers.
• No user data is collected or transmitted.
• The extension runs only when you manually start a batch.

Batch Text Extractor is intentionally focused on reliable URL-to-text extraction. It does not crawl links, generate AI summaries, perform OCR, or alter the webpages it processes.

Requires Firefox 140 or later on desktop and Firefox 142 or later on Android.