wtf is shop-iq?

ShopIQ is a browser extension built for Chrome that adds a shopping assistant to Amazon India product pages. It is aimed at people who want a quick second opinion before buying something on Amazon, without having to dig through pages of reviews themselves. When you open a product page, ShopIQ reads what is already on the page, including price, star ratings, the "customers say" summary, and reviews, then adds an overlay with more context. It shows up to a year of price history plus a list of pros and cons pulled from Amazon's own AI assistant, called Rufus. It also adds a seller trust scorecard, so you can see how trustworthy the seller behind a listing is, and it lets you browse through review photos and videos other buyers have posted. On top of that, it pulls in price comparisons from other retailers and surfaces related discussion from Reddit and YouTube, all inside the same overlay instead of making you open new tabs. One thing the project is clear about: it never redirects your browser tab away from the page you are on. When it needs data from another Amazon page, such as the seller's profile page or additional review pages, it fetches that page quietly in the background and reads the content there instead of navigating you away. Everything runs inside the extension itself, there is no separate server and no API key needed. The code is organized into a content script that reads the Amazon page, a background service worker that handles data fetching and scraping of other sites, a popup for settings, and the React based overlay UI. The project is written in TypeScript and built with Vite. To try it, you install dependencies with npm, build the extension, and load the resulting folder as an unpacked extension in Chrome's developer mode. It also includes a test suite and a linting setup for anyone who wants to contribute. This is a small hobby scale project, currently at 22 stars, rather than an established commercial tool, built specifically for the Amazon India shopping experience.