a blog from a guy in an office

Amazing! Fast & Easy! Thank you Adam! :)

Not sure what you mean "safe." It will do exactly what you tell it to, so be careful using it. But other than that, yes it's safe. I don't record your password or anything when you use it.

is this safe?

Once again you have save me literally HOURS of fiddling around. Just awesome to use. Thank you so much again.

Awesome...Works great

This is amazing and saved me a ton of time. Thanks so much for creating and sharing this tool!

Brilliant tool. Only works on published posts--so just do mass publish & then run the tool.

Adam, fantastic utility. Thanks. Does the search work on draft posts (unpublished?) Or just published items?

Adam, you're THE MAN! :-D
I changed domain name, and this page saved me one hour at least!
Thank you very much! This is the true Internet spirit of sharing and helping.

extremely useful tool

good

Glad you liked this tool Meggy!

BEST Blogger Find AND Replace TOOL! BIG LIKE

Fantastic tool - save me HOURS of work - thanks very much indeed

Thanks - worked perfectly!

Larry,

I'm glad the tool worked well for you! Many times in my life I found a need for it and would always just end up either leaving the posts incorrect or doing it by hand. Finally one day I thought, "This is ridiculous! Just make a tool for this goofy thing."

I'm glad lots of people are finding it helpful.

Adam, thanks so much for such a great tool. This is truly the greatest thing since sliced bread. (At least for me today.)

I'm moving my website and had to change the domain in over 150 posts across two blogs.

I was not looking forward to doing it manually. In 10 minutes you had it done.

Thanks

Hey TJ, glad the tool is working well for you. As for the Kindle Fire Giveaway, that did end last week and we've been dragging our feet launching our next Giveaway :(

By the end of today though we're going to launch the Halloween Nexus 7 Giveaway, so if you come back this evening be sure to register for it!

Hey Adam, I used the tool again with success, thank you so much for this awesome free tool. Also FYI I tried to go sign up for the Kindle giveaway found under "My Comapny Giveaways" hoping this might somehow benefit you. However the page says this sweepstakes has now ended.

Thanks again,

TJ.

Wonderful! I'm glad you were able to get it to work! Let me know if you need any more help

Hi Adam,

Just wanted to let you know I got things to work using regular expressions. I just wanted to say THANK YOU! You are the man!

TJ.

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your reply. I had not considered the idea of making a test blog to run the tool against until it works, that is what I will try to do.

Thanks again,

TJ.

TJ,

Yes, you can use regular expressions and that might be the way to handle this problem. Unfortunately I didn't have any time today to test this out for you. However, another commenter on my blog made a test blog and used it to find the regular expression that worked best for his needs, then ran it on his real blog. If you have time, that's what I'd do. Just make a new blog and copy 3 or 4 posts to it from your real blog then try different things.

As far as your regular expression goes, to match any character you simply need to type a period (.). And to match any character zero or more times you need a asterisk (*). So you could do something like:

<a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/.*<\/a>

Notice the closing a tag I've escaped the forward slash.

Hope that helps, if you can't get it working write me and I'll help you on Monday.

Wonderful! I'm glad you were able to make it work for you!

OK, i created a test blog and my code works. Only the \1 must be changed to $1.

Thank you for this wonderful tool!

Hello Adam!

Thanks for your answer. It is very risky to work with regular expressions... I have prepared the code: http://pastebin.com/wSFBf61F

That will do work? My embed code is always the same structure.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards!

Hey Adam,

I noticed that you can use regular expressions with your tool. I was wondering if that might be the answer for my issue. Say I tried to match this string instead:
<a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/*.*></a></p>

Would that work? Is there a better way than *.* to match any character between the start and end of the string? This might actually be the best solution for me as the same ad servers are used over and over but the rest of the string can vary.

TJ.

Hi Adam,

If you can make this work you will be like a GOD to me! I have around 400 posts on blogger with these text links in them and now they change the affiliate program, making them all invalid!

Thanks again,

TJ.

I will do some testing tomorrow morning and get back to you.

I don't mind providing some support, just glad people find the tool useful.

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your reply! Here is one string I was trying to find and replace:<p>Brain Games: Improve memory with scientifically designed games. <a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/3566tenkem179423341327438B4" target="_blank">Free Trial.</a><img border="0" src="http://www.ftjcfx.com/e381elpdjh28A534452438549C5" width="1" height="1"><a href="http://www.dpbolvw.net/7h104xdmjdl06831223021634A96" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; float: right" border="0" alt="Brain Games - Lumosity" align="right" src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/dr65o26v0zKQSNLMMNKMLQNOUTQ"></a></p>

I know people should not expect your support for a free tool, so any advice you can provide is great!

TJ.

TJ,

Email me the string you're searching for and I'll do some tests for you.

In regards to future access, no I will not still have access. I do not store the authentication token from Google so therefore I cannot still access your blog, however, if I were to keep that authentication token I could still gain access. If you want to make sure that I cannot access it I believe Google has a way to revoke permissions though I'm not sure where.

I have a blogspot blog and included some affiliate text links at the bottom of my posts. Now the affiliate program changed it't terms and I need to change many of these ads. I tried to use your tool to find and replace the ads, but it did not seem to work. I am wondering if the strings were too long, or if there is another reason you can think of. Also, one more question. After I am done will you still have access to my blog? Is there a way to change this once I'm done?

NoName:

Yes, you can use a regular expression. Do NOT encapsulate it in slashes though, as the program will do this automatically. Just type the string literal of the regularly expression

Hello!
Can i use regular expression? I must repleace the old youtube embed code with the new iframe code.

You are a star. Thanks so much for this ace tool. I just needed to change my phone number on 50 odd posts, and it did it in less than a couple of minutes, including authorizing it via Google. Thanks!

James,

Thanks for using the tool. I have fixed it so that it will not replace all instances of a match and you won't have to do multiple searches.

Thanks for finding that bug!

Very cool, thanks! But only seems to replace one instance per blog post? I have to run the tool multiple times to make all changes in blog posts with multiple instances of search string.

Thank you for sharing this tool for free. I found this tool is very useful for my blogger blog.

Wow! That was amazing! This would have taken me hours to do by hand! Thanks!