RealOEM Price Helper

Ah, RealOEM, saviour of BMW enthusiasts worldwide.

Unfortunately, their listed prices are often wildly inaccurate, or even missing for some parts. Copy-pasting dozens of part numbers into vendor websites is incredibly tedious, so I'm doing the Thing here where I spend way more time automating a task than I'd spend just continuing to do it by hand.

This is a Chrome extension to automatically insert current prices for all parts, along with direct links to purchase them.

As of right now, Cars245.com is my favourite seller, so it's the only one that's supported.

TODO

• Fetch Cars245 prices and links
• More thorough error handling
• Cache results locally
• Improve UI
• Fetch individual shipping costs
• Support more stores, with price comparison
• Aftermarket part alternatives
• Filter aftermarket part by brand / quality
• Scrape part images on demand

Boilerplate stuff

This is a Plasmo extension project bootstrapped with plasmo init.

Getting Started

First, run the development server:

pnpm dev
# or
npm run dev

Open your browser and load the appropriate development build. For example, if you are developing for the chrome browser, using manifest v3, use: build/chrome-mv3-dev.

You can start editing the popup by modifying popup.tsx. It should auto-update as you make changes. To add an options page, simply add a options.tsx file to the root of the project, with a react component default exported. Likewise to add a content page, add a content.ts file to the root of the project, importing some module and do some logic, then reload the extension on your browser.

For further guidance, visit our Documentation

Making production build

Run the following:

pnpm build
# or
npm run build

This should create a production bundle for your extension, ready to be zipped and published to the stores.

Submit to the webstores

The easiest way to deploy your Plasmo extension is to use the built-in bpp GitHub action. Prior to using this action however, make sure to build your extension and upload the first version to the store to establish the basic credentials. Then, simply follow this setup instruction and you should be on your way for automated submission!