Kobo store price comparisons

[chrisridd]

Originally Posted by fotonmoton

Any suggestions are welcome, please test it and say what you think. Also, what to highlight that this "lifehack" will not survive for long. I think it was possible to do the same steps with Amazon, to get lowest price from different stores. But after sometime they make it nearly impossible to change your billing address to bypass their price inequality.

FWIW I’ve always got the feeling from their DRM scheme to their store that Kobo puts as little effort as possible to keep their publishers happy. So fingers crossed their use of Cloudflare only accidentally makes scraping more complicated.

We will see. In the meantime I’m happy to use this tool to keep buying from Kobo instead of well, “finding” the books.

[Quoth]

Cloudfare is the problem, not Kobo.

[fotonmoton]

Originally Posted by chrisridd

FWIW I’ve always got the feeling from their DRM scheme to their store that Kobo puts as little effort as possible to keep their publishers happy. So fingers crossed their use of Cloudflare only accidentally makes scraping more complicated.

We will see. In the meantime I’m happy to use this tool to keep buying from Kobo instead of well, “finding” the books.

Maybe you are right, we will see. Do you know another book stores where you can easily change billing country to buy book cheaper? It would be cool to compare prices between different stores.

[fotonmoton]

Forget to put sources in the post. Here's repository if you're interested how it works or want to submit changes:

https://github.com/fotonmoton/koboprice

[fotonmoton]

Didn't know but Kobo has Price Match Guarantee. In theory, at first, you can find lowest price on Kobo and then at different store. Submit form and save even more

[fotonmoton]

Good news Firefox users - addon has been approved and you can install it. So the easiest way right now to run the script is to add Firefox/Chrome extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/and...on/kobo-price/

[fotonmoton]

changed path for userscript, you can find it here:
https://github.com/fotonmoton/kobopr...oprice.user.js

[fotonmoton]

Screencast from 2024-07-17 18-18-08 (trimmed).avi


Some script updates:
- don't check book in your library
- show progress
- update prices in realtime

I think it's completed and done. As always, you can:
- use userscript (already updated)
- install Firefox add-on (attaching new version kobo_price-1.2.0.xpi, public listing is still in the review. In the couple of days will available here)
- install Chrome extension. Also will be updated in the couple of days.

[fotonmoton]

Version 1.2.1:
- userscript
- Firefox add-on kobo_price-1.2.1.xpi or check 1.2.1 version in store
- Google Chrome - check for 1.2.1 version in the future

- fixed conversion for TRY and MXN currencies

[PeterT]

I tried the chrome version on a Chromebook yesterday in Canada. No go at all. When I was on the Kobo site looking at a book I saw a box above the regular Kobo book info that just said Loading and never progressed beyond that.

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[fotonmoton]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I tried the chrome version on a Chromebook yesterday in Canada. No go at all. When I was on the Kobo site looking at a book I saw a box above the regular Kobo book info that just said Loading and never progressed beyond that.

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Hi, Peter. Could you please open developer tools, go to console tab and put "KOBOPRICE" in the filter? Then reload page and make screenshot of what you get. In the meantime you can try to use the script with violentmonkey + userscript from github. Try to follow instructions above.