This is basically a chrome extension that helps users to compare two products on Amazon. Currently this extension works only in amazon.in
Two products are compared on the basis of the following fields:
| price |
| product details |
| customer reviews |
Currently this extension has not been published yet so you can try out the unpackaged version of this extension. Below are the steps to follow to load the unpacked extension:
- You can clone or download this repo via the terminal by running
git clone https://github.com/himanish-star/compre.git
- Then open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.
- The Extension Management page can also be opened by clicking on the Chrome menu, hovering over More Tools then selecting Extensions.
- Enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to Developer mode.
- Click the LOAD UNPACKED button and select the extension directory.
- Then after you load the unpacked extension you can view the extension mentioned in the extension page as shown in the figure below:
- Then visit https://www.amazon.in/ and view a product. When you are in the product page then right click and select
add this item to compareas shown in the figure below:
- Add two items to compare and once you do so click the compre icon located in the top right corner. Clicking this would open a popup showing the items that are being compared currently. You can also add more than two items to compare but only the first two would be compared at a time. To remove products from the popup list you'll have to click the red remove button. See fig. below for explanation:
- Click on the
open comapre pagebutton to visit the compare page. Please see fig. below:
As https://www.amazon.in/ uses a number of different templates for different categories of products it may so happen that some products may not get added to the compare list. If such a thing happens, please let me know. I will fix the issue right away. Each bug fix will enhance the quality of my extension further
- You can file an issue over here on github itself
- Or you can email me directly. My email id is [email protected]
Happy Comparing !!!!