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Amazon Local Currency - Dynamic version

Show prices in you local currency

The script adds the price in your currency to each price tag on Amazon.
It will actually work on any other site too :)

This is a modification of Carl Henrik Lunde's currency converter.

The new version checks daily currency rates through Yahoo. It also supports both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

If you do not wish to have converted rates on one of the Amazon sites, just remove its entries from the "Included Pages" list in the greasemonkey user script manager.

Usage instructions:
Visit Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. The script will be activated.
The default settings convert US dollars to Israeli Shekels.

If you would like different settings, follow these steps:
1) Right click on the Greasemonkey icon (or the Greasemonkey item in the tools menu) and under "user script commands" choose "Change local currency".

2) A pop up box will appear, asking you for a new local currency.
The currency is a 3-letter code.
To find the code of your currency, visit http://finance.yahoo.com/currency and look it up on the list.

3) After changing the currency, there is another setting to change: the local currency symbol that will be displayed after the converted price. Like the currency setting, you can find this setting under the "user script commands".






Jul 20, 2008
Qurao User

Just what I needed... great work. Thanks a lot!
 
Mar 20, 2008
fuxxi User

Great +++

Thank You !!
 
Mar 18, 2008
Ori Avtalion Script's author

The script now has combined support for Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk!
 
Mar 15, 2008
Ori Avtalion Script's author

fuxxi, I'm glad you like it!

The script for Amazon UK is probably not as recent as this one. The .com script is easy to change:

1. Change the @include's to use .co.uk instead of .com
2. Change USD to GBP.
3. Change $ to £ in the following manner (this is IMPORTANT for the new version of the script):

-var currencyFromSymbol = "\$";
-var currencyFromSymbolForRegex = "\\$";
+var currencyFromSymbol = "\£";
+var currencyFromSymbolForRegex = "\£";

Should I maintain a seperate script for Amazon UK?
 
Mar 15, 2008
fuxxi User

nevermind, i found the script for the .uk website :)
 
Mar 15, 2008
fuxxi User

Hi, great script! Is it also available for amazon.co.uk?
 
Mar 14, 2008
Ori Avtalion Script's author

If anyone subscribes to this feed, I just updated the script.
The converted price now appears right next to the original price. Download away!
 
Sep 24, 2007
Johannes User

It would be nice with a choice to place the currency symbol to either the right or the left of the text.
 
Apr 5, 2007
kcoldie User

Hi. I want to love this script too but I don't know how. Is there a beginner's guide to how to run a script? I've installed it. I just need to know how to run it.
 
Nov 9, 2006
n0nick Scriptwright

it seems that there's a problem with the script file...
however, i managed to find a working old version! :)
go here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060216110706/http:...
 
Oct 26, 2006
Simon Pope User

The script is not installing :-( The script contents show a Rails error inside some HTML. This appears to be localized to your script and not to the site in general. Any ideas?
 
Feb 25, 2006
Ori Avtalion Script's author

Alex, fixed!

Claudia: Are you reffering to Amazon pages? Is there a website where you see two foreign currencies at the same time?
 
Feb 19, 2006
Alex G Wei User

It works! Almost on all occasions where prices are displayed.

The only place I complain about is that when displaying a wish list, the prices are not converted. I viewed the source code and the script and found that the prices in the wishlist are not the first node...
 
Jan 21, 2006
Claudia Enk ... User

I love this Script. Is easy to configure (just click in Tools/User Script Commands and change your local currency) and search by Yahoo the tax rate so you don't need to worry about it.
Wish there were a similar script for converting from various diferent currencys (since local currency don't change so much, but i wanted to see prices of various currencys converted to my own, specially Japanese Yen).

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