abhagsain/bayut-maps-ratings

Bayut Google Maps Ratings is a Chrome browser extension that shows a building's Google Maps rating and its most recent reviews directly on its listing on Bayut, the property site used for renting and buying homes in the UAE. The developer built it after getting tired of manually copying every building's name into Google Maps while apartment hunting in Dubai, just to check whether the building itself had problems like broken elevators or noisy neighbours that would never show up in the listing photos. Once installed, every listing on Bayut gets a small star rating badge, and hovering over it opens a popover showing the rating breakdown and the newest reviews, sortable by newest, highest, or lowest. It works on both the regular list view and the map view. The first time it encounters a building it takes a few seconds to look it up, but after that the result is cached and appears instantly, since the extension remembers every building it has already checked. You can also hide every listing from a specific building with one click, which is useful for filtering out a low-rated tower that has many units listed at once. Behind the scenes, the extension reads listing data straight from Bayut's own page, then opens a hidden background browser tab to look up and scrape the matching Google Maps page directly, deliberately avoiding Google's official Places API because that API limits how many reviews it returns and cannot sort by newest. All of this cached information stays in the browser's local storage for two weeks before it needs to be refreshed, and nothing is sent to any outside server. Installing it requires enabling developer mode in Chrome and manually loading the project folder as an unpacked extension, since it is a personal tool not published on the Chrome Web Store. There is no build step or external dependency, just plain JavaScript. The project is explicit that it is not affiliated with Bayut or Google, and it is meant for individual, local use rather than wide distribution. It is released under the MIT license.