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🧩 Chrome/Firefox extension that shows the most important information about a book right at the top of the Amazon listing
https://github.com/statico/amazon-research-helper

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🧩 Chrome/Firefox extension that shows the most important information about a book right at the top of the Amazon listing

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# Amazon Book Research Helper



Adds at-a-glance information to the top of Amazon book listings to reduce scrolling.



- [Install for Google Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cnhlmanemmekoedeblbknpodncnncbof)

- [Install for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazon-book-research-helper/)



![screenshot](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/137158/91470233-4e2c3c80-e849-11ea-83ba-b7683e2f8cac.png)



- Shows "Self Published" if the book was self published

- Shows rank, rating, reviews, age in weeks, and reviews-per-week ratio

- Shows page count and estimated word count

- Shows file size for Kindle books

- Shows rank using Chris Fox's "tiers"

- Quick links to sales calculators for additional sales data and price and rank history

- Can expand to show author's rank in all categories



### Development



To work on this extension,



1. Clone this repo

1. In `amazon.js` change the `debug` method to use `true`

1. In `chrome://extensions`, turn on "Developer mode", click "Load unpacked", and select this directory

1. Go to an Amazon page for a book and open the dev console

1. Install the [Extensions Reloader](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fimgfedafeadlieiabdeeaodndnlbhid) extension for one-click reloading. (You have to remove the extension and re-add it if you change `manifest.json`, however.)



#### History



This extension used to use CoffeScript, jQuery and moment.js, but the Firefox store didn't like that because they don't want their extensions relying on third-party libraries or something. In 2020 I rewrote this extension to have no dependencies with help from [decaffeinate](https://github.com/decaffeinate/decaffeinate), [You Might Not Need jQuery](http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/), [You Don't Need Moment.js](https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Momentjs#parse), and [caniuse.com](https://caniuse.com/).



### Releasing



1. Make sure the book works on various localized Amazon pages. Examples:

   - [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/Total-Money-Makeover-Classic-Financial/dp/1595555277)

   - [amazon.co.uk](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Later-Hard-Case-Crime-Stephen/dp/1789096499)

   - [amazon.com.au](https://www.amazon.com.au/Malibu-Rising-Taylor-Jenkins-Reid/dp/1786331535/)

   - [amazon.ca](https://www.amazon.ca/Dude-Perfect-Tricks-Tips-Stuff/dp/1400217075/)

1. Update the version in `manifest.json`

1. Install [web-ext](https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext) (`npm i -g web-ext`)

1. Release for Firefox:

   1. `web-ext build`

   1. Upload `web-ext-artifacts/*.zip` to the [Firefox Add-on Developer Hub](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addons)

1. Release for Chrome:

   1. `rm -f web-ext-artifacts/*.zip`

   1. Temporarily remove the `browser_specific_settings` section from `manifest.json`

   1. `web-ext build`

   1. Upload `web-ext-artifacts/*.zip` to the [Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/devconsole/)