Amazon review downloader - browser extension
About
Amazon are constantly changing the functionality with our Amazon profile page and one of the consequences of this is that, as of late 2024, the ability to see how many hearts a review has received was no longer available.
That's a pain for some of us, partly because we like to see whether what we write is appreciated, but also so that we have feedback on what makes a good review and what makes a "meh..." one.
So this extension was created to allow you to download the reviews from your profile page, their star ratings and the number of hearts they have received.
How it works
When you visit your profile page at https://www.amazon.co.uk/profile (or similar), and select the "Reviews" tab, you will see your most recent reviews. Scrolling down causes the page to fetch more reviews until it has them all.
When you click on the extension, it mimics this behaviour, by scrolling the browser page to the last review, waiting to see whether more are loaded, scrolls to the last, etc. until Amazon stops loading reviews. Once it has loaded all the reviews into the browser, it reads them all, converts them to a CSV file and saves them to your downloads folder.
No information is returned to me or any other central server or service - everything happens 100% inside your browser.
Limitations and known issues
- Supports .com, .co.uk, .ca and .de only: If you want to have support extended to your country please contact the developer.
- Review count limit: There is a hard timeout of 180 seconds for the entire process - my 1,000 reviews get downloaded in just under 30 seconds so it's probably good for around 6,000 reviews. This number can be increased by contacting the developer if it's an issue.
- Reliability: It is entirely dependent on Amazon returning reviews correctly on the profile page - even when just scrolling manually, it's relatively common (maybe 1 in five times) for the page to just stop and not load any more reviews. The extension implements a number of strategies to attempt to work round this but if it doesn't return the number of reviews you expect, you can refresh the page and try again.
Installation and help
This is a Chrome extension and a Firefox extension. The Chrome extension can also be installed on Microsoft Edge, and this handy guide explains how to do that: medium.com (opens in a new page)
To get the extension, click on one of the links on the right to fetch it from the Chrome or Mozilla web store. If you have any issues, click on the support link below or via the web stores.
Release history
| Version | Date | Changes |
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| 1.3.0 | 9 June 2025 |
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| 1.2.0 | 20 May 2025 |
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| 1.1.4 | 6 Jan 2025 |
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| 1.1.1 | 1 Jan 2025 |
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