When comparing NameChanger vs Pagehop, the Slant community recommends Pagehop for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for macOS?” Pagehop is ranked 47th while NameChanger is ranked 76th. The most important reason people chose Pagehop is:
The API is very minimalistic (very easy to learn), and there is complete reference for it.
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Pros
Pro Free
Available free of charge.
Pro Allows easily batch renaming files
For anyone who's ever needed to re-sequence or rename a list of items in a folder, it can take a long time to hit "Enter", type your new file name, "Enter","Arrow Down", "Enter", Type, "Enter", "Arrow Down", "Enter", Type, smash you head against the keyboard.
Name changer allows you to batch rename those files in one step. Options include replacing the first, last or every occurrence of user defined text, removing text, append or prepend text, searching with wildcards, sequencing and even has support for inserting dates. It shows you a preview of the new file names before committing any changes.
Pro All recipes and tools are open source and you can write your own (JavaScript)
The API is very minimalistic (very easy to learn), and there is complete reference for it.
Pro Web search (horizontal and vertical) and using tools like Regular Expressions on results
Pagehop is bundled-up with recipes for Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo (horizontal) search, and with recipes for Wikipedia, StackOverflow, YouTube, jQuery API documentation, Mozilla Developer Network and others for vertical search.
After making a search you can further filter your results with tools - Regular Expressions, Fuzzy Matching or Search in the urls (instead of titles).
Pro Browsing of online documentation (any static web source)
Navigating through known set of hyperlinks without an actual rendered page, just by writing.
Pro Quickly navigate to web pages and their links
Pro Unlimited, free, fully-functional evaluation
Like the SublimeText editor, Pagehop doesn't lock any features before you purchase a license and only displays (a tiny bit annoying) registration message.
Pro Keyboard shortcut access to Hacker News
To be able to bring up todays news on a key shortcut, is absolutely awesome. Holding shift while pressing enter (choosing) on results, will keep the window open - this way you can open several pages you want to read through with your morning coffee.