amazon-alternatives / extension

Find stuff in Amazon and buy it elsewhere !

Amazon Alternatives

This is a browser extension to help you buy stuff you found in Amazon, but in other stores (like a real-life bookstore or an online Amazon alternative).

Features

• Shows a list of alternative stores
• Multi-language
• Multi-country
• Typescript-based, no external library
• Universal compatibility for all major browsers (except Safari) in a single codebase : Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Brave and Vivaldi

List of the alternatives

You can find a full list of the alternatives and their categories in the source code

• amazon.ca
• amazon.com
• amazon.de
• amazon.es
• amazon.fr
• amazon.it
• amazon.co.uk

Where to install it

• Chrome : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amazon-alternatives/hcjifkchlbbpcpmdbimipoidnljabnai
• Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/amazon-alternatives/

How to contribute

• Install the packages with yarn install
• Modify the files in the src folder
• You can build the extension with yarn build to test your modifications in the browser
• When everything's done, you can send a PR \o/

How to build the extension

Requirements

• Operating system: OSX, Linux, Windows
• Environment requirements: Node 10+

Steps

• Clone or download the repository from Github
• Install the packages with yarn install or npm install
• Run yarn build or npm build to compile the files
• The files inside the src folder will be builded to the addon folder with Weback (you can find the configuration used in the webpack.config.js and tsconfig.json files)
• The addon folder represents the files that are published to the store through the Continuous Deployment tool

extension's Issues

Remove isBook from translations

Let's simplify and use the same CTA text for all the categories

The book identifier ISBN-13 is no longer accessible

It looks like Amazon has updated the DOM for the details page.
The .content li selector no longer wraps the textual content of ISBN-13 (but the #detailBullets_feature_div list does)

Link in Firefox addon directory is wrong

The link to “Homepage” still links to the old GitHub repository, not this one.

Allow disabling the "Are you sure?" prompt

The "Are you sure?" prompt that shows up when you decide to buy on Amazon has led me to uninstall this add-on. From my perspective the trouble is that the add-on just doesn't work well enough and consistently enough to justify that popup - most of the time I use this add-on, I can't find the product I'm looking at on Amazon on any of the linked sites. If it worked more consistently, the popup could be justified, and if there was no popup, the inconsistency wouldn't be a problem - but taken together, they make the add-on a net negative on my browsing experience.

smile.amazon.com doesn't work

The add-on doesn't work if I'm on an Amazon Smile page, which is ironically the only halfway-ethical way to shop on Amazon.

Add-on doesn't work for pre-orders.

If I click on "pre-order this item" for an item that isn't out yet, it just takes me to the usual Amazon checkout page.

Migrate manifest_version to v3

I was waiting for Firefox to migrate to v3, and it looks like it will be possible in the near future.

we welcome MV3 extensions in the release to general availability in Firefox 109 (January 17, 2023)

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signing-available-november-21-on-firefox-nightly/
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/
https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/manifest-v3-migration-guide/

Support www.conrad.de for amazon.de

conrad.de sells all kinds of electronics.

List of supported stores

Would be nice if you could list stores which are supported by this plugin.

Add a simple tutorial popup

Some users find that it's not explicit enough how the extension works and try to use it by clicking on the extension icon in the toolbar.

We should display a small tutorial in a popup when we click on the icon to explain how to use the extension.

Extension does not work for German Amazon

Even though it seems to be supported by the extension and the article is available in one of the integrated stores, the integration of “buy elsewhere“ does not happen when seeing the article on amazon.de (for all articles I tested). For example a quite popular book “Becoming” is clearly available at buchhandel.de but nothing different is displayed when visiting the German Amazon listing. In contrast the US Amazon listing displays a “buy elsewhere” button with different buying options.

Tested with Firefox & Chrome extension on macOS Catalina.

Missing category

• Product url: https://www.amazon.fr/freigarten-Rechange-tonnelle-%C3%A9tanche-Mat%C3%A9riau/dp/B07XZC94SN/
• Host: www.amazon.fr
• Category detected: lawn-garden
• Search values: freigarten.de toit de rechange pour

Handle website favorites

The user should be able to mark some websites as favorite so that they can arrive first in the dropdown list

Display something in amazon page to stop us buying from it

Hi

Because we are a lot to have bad habits
it would be nice if, when visiting a book page, the extension modifies the page to add a button to buy from Place des libraires or displays a big "stop" dismissable in the middle of the page !

Thanks for your work ! Great extension ! :)

Geizhals integration

There's an European price comparison site called https://geizhals.eu/.

I think it has an API, would be cool if the addon could query that site.

Missing category

• Product url: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07TDW86SQ/
• Host: http://www.amazon.ca/
• Category detected: pc
• Search values: adata su760 512gb 3d nand