Build a Chrome Extension that Scrapes Amazon Search Results while Learning To Keep Your Codebase Clean & Extendable
What you'll learn
- How to Build a Chrome Extension
- How To Scrape Web Data with Your Chrome Extension
- How to Select Elements in the DOM via Your ContentJS Script
- How To Handle AJAX Requests from Your Background to Your Server
- The Chrome Extension Messaging API - How To Pass Data Between Different Elements of Your Chrome Extension (Popup->Content->Background->Server...)
- How to Setup The NodeJS Server, Routes, and Backend API For Your Extension
- How to Manage Amazon Product Data with MongoDB
- How To Accept User Input From A Chrome Extension
- How to Persist User Login Data and Other User-Related Data Within the Background Page's Local Storage
- Best Practices To Keeping Your Chrome Extension Code Clean, Bug Free, and Highly Extendable
- Organizing your Popup, Content and Background Pages
Requirements
- Beginner level of JavaScript or any other coding language
- NodeJS Experience is a plus (but not a must)
- Knowledge of MongoDB or MySQL Database is a plus (but not a must)
- Beginner level of any server-side technology
- jQuery is a plus (but not a must)
- AngularJS is a plus (but not a must)
- HTML and CSS is a plus (but not a must)
Description
In this course, we'll be developing a new Full-Stack Chrome Extension that Scrapes Amazon, and automatically saves Product Data within a MongoDB Database.
Our finished product (which you'll be able to publish to the Chrome Store) will be a Chrome Extension that enables any user to Scrape their own Amazon Purchase History, the results of any Amazon Search URL, or the results of multiple Amazon Search Keywords - one after the next.
*Code Samples Included All Along Your Path To Mastering Chrome Extension Development*
The Technology Stack you'll be dealing with in this course:
- Chrome Extension
- AngularJS (for the Chrome Extension Popup)
- jQuery *(for interacting with the Amazon DOM)
- NodeJS Server
- Mongo Database
The Functionality For the Chrome Extension:
- Signup and Login via the Popup View
- Select Elements From The DOM with the Content.js Page
- Scrape Your Own Amazon Purchase History
- Scrape Amazon Search Results of a Given Page
- Scrape Amazon Search Results of Multiple Keywords (one after the next automatically)
- Save The Amazon Product Title
- Save The Amazon Product Description
- Save The Amazon Product Image
- Save The Amazon Product Reviews
- Save The Product Rating
- Save The Amount of Ratings of a Given Product
- Make The Chrome Extension Automatically Navigate Through All Pages of Search Results
While developing this awesome sample project, you'll learn:
a) How To Scrape Any Data From The Web Programatically via the Power of Chrome Extensions
b) The Manifest.json File
c) The Popup.js File
c) The Background.js File
d) The Content.js File
e) How To Debug Your Chrome Extension
Getting the architecture of your Chrome Extension right is super crucial to keeping your code clean and structured! We'll be covering lots of considerations when building a Full-Stack Chrome Extension.
I built this course because all of the other Chrome Extension courses on Udemy don't go quite as deep (compare the Amount of Hours this course provides relative to the competitors), and because Chrome Extensions are like the surf-suit for websurfers - users can take them with them anywhere they go on the web.
If you're excited about the Awesome Power of Chrome Extensions and Web Scraping, then I hope you get a lot out of this course.
The Architecture is meant to be re-usable no matter what type of Chrome Extension / Web Scraper you'd like to build, so feel to reach out if you need help taking the codebase in your own direction, or if you have any questions along the way.
Sincerely,
Elisha
Who this course is for:
- JavaScript Developers looking to build a Chrome Extension
- Coders interested in scraping web data with Chrome Extensions
- Internet Entrepreneurs looking to build a Social Shopping App
- E-commerce Professionals seeking to glean insights from Amazon Product listings
