I'm trying it out. Seems useful so far, and it seems to work well. Thanks for putting it together.

 

Thanks I just grabbed it.

So far so good. 

 

Thank you!

 

When you can put all the categories rankings up there, then it will be something useful for me.

At the moment, you save some scrolling, but that's it. What we need is this tool, but it getting information which is extremely tiresome to find out. Such as the book's ranking in each of its sub categories, not just the 3 Amazon show.

 

Thanks!

 

Amazing tool. I tested on US Amazon and it works perfectly. What about UK Amazon? I am not sure if it is worth but it could be interested for some writers. I guess it should not be so difficult as the site is also in English, right? Of course, amazon.de, amazon.fr are something completely different.

 

Amazing tool. I tested on US Amazon and it works perfectly. What about UK Amazon? I am not sure if it is worth but it could be interested for some writers. I guess it should not be so difficult as the site is also in English, right? Of course, amazon.de, amazon.fr are something completely different.

Ah.....if doing it for the UK store, then also Au and Ca stores as well please. That would be useful, being able to see all 4 at once.

 

Awesome - thank you! Will share this widely.

 

Much better than scrolling. Thank you for taking the time to make it and for sharing.

 

Yea! Saves my poor hand, which has been suffering under the tyranny of a slow scrolling mouse.
All the info I have been searching for in a nice little blue banner at the very top. Thank you 

 

Awesome! I'm glad you're all finding it so useful!

I can definitely add UK/CA/DE/etc Amazon. I might miss stuff when translating though.

Getting all of the categories sounds challenging but I'll give it a try.

 

I just uploaded a new version that works on Amazon CA, AUS and UK as well.

getting information which is extremely tiresome to find out. Such as the book's ranking in each of its sub categories, not just the 3 Amazon show.

Timothy, could you or someone point me to how to find this information?

 

Timothy, could you or someone point me to how to find this information?

Down the bottom of each product page, is a list of links to the sub-categories its listed in. You'd need to crawl each of those and retrieve the rank information for the book. (search the html page for the book name, and pick off the rank number next to it.) But each one would need a follow the links thing again, since all you get is the groupings by each 20 in the top 100.

While you're there, it could crawl through the new release list and report on its rank for each sub-cat.

I'm not saying this is easy. The code requires some inventiveness. Its the kind of thing once upon a time I'd have considered a challenge. Alas, those days are long gone for me. However, if you need some pseudo code for the logic, I'd be happy to think it out.

 

Awesome app! I've been using it all morning. I noticed you are estimating page count at 225 words per page instead of 250. This is resulting in a lower word count than books actually have. Is there a way to adjust it to 250?

 

WestOfCassy - Oh, of course the standard is 250. I've changed it to that. Thanks!

TimothyEllis - I added an "Expand" button by the categories that does what I think you want it to. However, I think Amazon only shows per-category ranks for books ranked 100 and under. Let me know what you think!

 

TimothyEllis - I added an "Expand" button by the categories that does what I think you want it to. However, I think Amazon only shows per-category ranks for books ranked 100 and under. Let me know what you think!

That is quite brilliant.
Although not particularly informative, except in a negative fashion, given only 3 are less than 100.

Any chance it can chase the actual rank for each sub-cat, however far into the nether world they are?

The number of words value is high. Its showing 99k for a book with 92k.

 

I remember reading somewhere that there's no way of knowing a book's rank past 100 in a given category, but I can't find a link to the post that explains that. I've googled around and can't find one myself. So if someone can find a way, I might be able to make it work. :/

I tried editing the URL of the top sellers in a specific category page, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books/zgbs/books/10387340011/?_encoding=UTF8&pg=5&ajax=1 -- If you set the pg parameter any higher than 5 you get a 404 Not Found page.

 

Can you add in the New Release rank for each subcat, if the book is on there?

Also, different idea using the same basic code set - Could you rig this to work on authorcentral, and produce a downloadable report for all your own books? Just a thought.

 

Does the extension automatically update or do I need to do something?

 

The number of words value is high. Its showing 99k for a book with 92k.

He's estimating the word count at 250 per page and multiplying it per page, it isn't exact, but it's close. There is no way for him to put the actual word count in there unless it is shown somewhere on a page.

 

He's estimating the word count at 250 per page and multiplying it per page, it isn't exact, but it's close. There is no way for him to put the actual word count in there unless it is shown somewhere on a page.

Exactly. I can only use information Amazon shows on (or hides within) a web page. AFAIK there's no Amazon book API I can use to get additional info. (Maybe I'm wrong!)

Does the extension automatically update or do I need to do something?

It should update automatically. If you go to Window menu -> Extensions, you can click the "Developer mode" button and an "Update all extensions" will appear.

 

It should update automatically. If you go to Window menu -> Extensions, you can click the "Developer mode" button and an "Update all extensions" will appear.

Thanks. Based on the version number I had on that extensions page you mentioned versus what was on the Chrome web store, it looks like it had already auto-updated.

 

What an awesome tool. Thank you for creating it and for sharing it for free! I'm always impressed with how programmers think in terms of "oh, there's got to be an easier way to do that." 

 

Thanks for this!

 

This is awesome. Thank you!