Run the sections in order — everything after Trybe depends on brands already being captured from it. This is the order that actually works: Trybe, then Meta, then Amazon, then TikTok, then TikTok Shop.
0. Installing the extension
one-time setup- Go to the Creator Radar listing on the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome.
- Confirm Add extension in the popup that appears.
- The extension icon appears in your toolbar. Click the puzzle-piece icon next to your address bar and pin it so it's always visible.
- Click the toolbar icon and enter the email you used at checkout to activate it.
Your data stays yours
Everything scrapes pages you're already logged into — Trybe, Meta Ad Library, Amazon, TikTok, TikTok Shop — under your own accounts. Nothing is shared with anyone else's install.
The toolbar icon is just an on/off switch
Clicking it shows one master toggle for the whole extension — turning it off makes every content script no-op on its next page load. It doesn't show your brand table; that's what the dashboard is for (see Review, below).
Updating to a new version
happens automatically- Chrome checks the Web Store for a new version in the background and installs it on its own — there's nothing to do.
- To force a check right now instead of waiting: go to
chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode (top-right toggle), then click Update at the top of the page.
A dashboard tab can look broken after an update
An already-open dashboard or Top Performers tab can keep running stale code even after a plain page refresh. If something looks broken right after an update, close that tab completely and open it fresh, rather than just reloading it.
1. Trybe
capture your brands · do this first- Go to
jointrybe.com/creator— a dark bar appears across the very top of the page showing your captured brand count and an Open Dashboard button. - Click Discover Brands.
- Click the Scan new brands button that appears inside that dialog. It scrolls and clicks through every brand card on its own.
- It's always incremental — brands you already have are skipped automatically, so if it stalls partway (no progress for 15–20 seconds) just click Scan new brands again. It never redoes work.
- Repeat until the top bar says "Auto-scan done" with 0 new brands.
Scanning one category only
The Discover Brands dialog has filter pills under the search box (All / New Brands / Fashion & Apparel / Beauty, etc.). Click a pill first, then Scan new brands — it only scans whatever's currently filtered. Handy for topping up one category without re-running everything.
Already-joined brands — fastest way
From the home page, click "View All" next to My Brands. Just opening that list captures every already-joined brand's rate automatically wherever it's shown directly on the card (e.g. "13% of GMV") — no clicking into each one. That same dialog has two more buttons worth knowing:
- Auto-scan commission data — for brands whose card only shows a payout schedule ("Paid every 7 days") instead of a rate, this opens each one's own Commission Program page in turn to capture the real number.
- Scan top videos — crawls each already-joined brand's own Top Formats tab, pulling its top 2 videos' script and performance analytics into the Top Performers page (see below). This is the slower of the two — expect it to take a while across a lot of brands — and each full run replaces the previous results, so a brand you've since left drops off on its own.
Both scans can be stopped
Once either is running, its button turns into a Stop button in the same spot — no need to wait for it to finish or reach a stuck brand on its own.
Data looks wrong or incomplete on an older brand
Just revisit that brand's Commission Program page once — it re-scrapes fresh with the current (and more accurate) parsing logic. Syncing to the sheet never re-scrapes anything on its own; it only pushes whatever's already saved.
Why some pay types barely show up
Trybe's Discover Brands feed only shows brands you can still request. The best-paying deals — flat fees, retainers, guaranteed minimums — mostly exist as private "agency" arrangements a broker assigns you to outside Trybe entirely; they were never exposed on the page, so no tool reading it can see them. A short Pay Per Submission tab in your sheet isn't a bug — it's genuinely rare on the open, requestable list.
2. Meta Ad Library
link ad activity- Go to
facebook.com/ads/library— a sidebar lists every captured brand, whether or not you've searched anything yet. - Click Auto-scan remaining (N) to start. It jumps straight to a pre-filled search for the first brand that needs checking. That same button turns into Stop auto-scan once it's running.
- Pick the correct advertiser from the dropdown — the one manual step. Brand names are often ambiguous (searching "Haus" brings up a cosmetics brand, a furniture brand, and more); pick the one that actually matches what the brand sells.
- Once you land on that advertiser's page, it records the active ad count and automatically moves to the next unresolved brand. Keep confirming until it says "Auto-scan done."
- If a brand genuinely isn't on Meta, click Skip — not on Meta instead of guessing.
Picked the wrong advertiser?
Every already-linked (or skipped) brand shows a Relink on Meta button in the sidebar — click it to redo the search and pick again, any time.
3. Amazon
check marketplace presence- Go to
amazon.com— the sidebar appears on any page, including the homepage, so there's no need to search first. - Click Auto-scan remaining (N) to start. It jumps to a pre-filled search for the first brand that needs checking. That same button turns into Stop auto-scan once it's running.
- Click into whichever result is actually the brand — either an individual product page or the brand's own Store page both work.
- Confirm "Yes, link it" in the bar at the top. It records marketplace presence (and "bought in past month" when Amazon shows it) and auto-advances to the next brand.
- If nothing matches, click Not this one to try another result, or use Not on Amazon from the sidebar to mark it absent and move on.
A brand can add a listing later
Every already-linked brand shows Relink on Amazon, and every "Not on Amazon" brand shows Recheck on Amazon — so either outcome can be redone any time, not just at first check.
4. TikTok
find your existing content- Go to any of your TikTok profiles.
- Click Scan this profile for Trybe brands — it auto-scrolls and reads captions as they load, which can take a minute or two on a large profile. A Stop button appears while it runs.
- Use the search box in the same widget to check if you've already posted about a specific brand — useful before deciding whether to pitch them.
Very long profiles may stop loading partway down
That's TikTok's own pagination limit on how much loads in one sitting, not something this extension controls. Running the scan again is safe — it just re-checks captions it's already seen — and can pick up videos further down the profile.
5. TikTok Shop
check marketplace presence- Go to
shop.tiktok.com— the sidebar appears on any page, including the homepage, so there's no need to search first. No login required to browse or search. - Click Auto-scan remaining (N) to start. It jumps to a pre-filled search for the first brand that needs checking. That same button turns into Stop auto-scan once it's running.
- Click into whichever result is actually the brand — either an individual product page or the seller's own shop page both work.
- Confirm "Yes, link it" in the bar at the top. It records marketplace presence (and a sold count when TikTok Shop shows one) and auto-advances to the next brand.
- If nothing matches, click Not this one to try another result, or use Not on TikTok Shop from the sidebar to mark it absent and move on.
This is separate from your own TikTok content
This section only answers "does this brand sell on TikTok Shop at all" — it's independent of the TikTok section above, which tracks your own posted videos. A brand can show up here even if you've never made content for it yet.
A brand can start selling later
Every already-linked brand shows Relink on TikTok Shop, and every "Not on TikTok Shop" brand shows Recheck on TikTok Shop — so either outcome can be redone any time, not just at first check.
6. Review everything
- Full dashboard — click Open Dashboard from the Trybe top bar for the full ranked table: sortable, searchable, exportable to CSV, with direct links from each row to that brand's Meta Ad Library results, Amazon listing, TikTok Shop page, and Trybe.
- Category / Creators columns — Trybe stops exposing a brand's category and creator-competition count once you've joined it, with no way to scrape that back. Click a blank cell to hand-enter your own estimate; it's marked with a small ✎ and never gets overwritten by a later scan.
Top Performers
its own page- Click Top Performers → in the dashboard header to open a separate page ranking every video pulled by the Scan top videos crawl (see Trybe, above).
- Ranked 1 through however many videos you have, by Link Clicks — the one ranking that's genuinely comparable across different brands.
- Each row links straight to the video, keeps its script collapsed by default (with a one-click Copy for pasting elsewhere), and shows how long ago that brand was last scanned.
Google Sheet
optional · syncs live- From the dashboard, click Connect Google Sheet the first time and approve the Google prompt.
- From then on, any new scan data auto-syncs to your sheet a few seconds after it changes. Click Sync Now next to it to force an immediate push instead of waiting.
- Your sheet has five tabs: All Brands (everything, sorted by computed Score), Pay Per Submission (flat-fee brands by dollar amount), Top by GMV % (percent-of-GMV brands by rate), My Brands (brands you've already joined, by Score), and Top Performers (every scanned video, ranked by Link Clicks, color-coded the same way Score is on the other tabs). New tabs get created automatically on the next sync.
- Already-joined brands stay listed on All Brands too — they just get a light green row highlight, so you can still compare their Score against brands you haven't joined yet.
- Each brand's Meta Ad Library, Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Trybe columns are clickable links straight from the sheet — the Trybe link does the same auto-open-and-fill trick as the dashboard's.
- This sheet lives in your own Google Drive under your own account — nothing here is shared, and each person who installs the extension gets their own separate sheet.
- To force a fresh sheet with a new structure after an update, use Disconnect next to the Connect button, then reconnect.
Backup & Restore
use before reinstalling- Uninstalling the extension deletes everything it's captured — that's normal Chrome behavior, not a bug. There's no undo once it's gone.
- Before you uninstall, reinstall, or do anything that resets the extension, click Backup Data (under the dashboard's ⋯ More menu). It downloads one JSON file with everything: every scanned brand, your Meta/Amazon/TikTok signals, manual overrides, your Google Sheet connection, and your license activation.
- To bring it back, click Restore Data and select that file — it restores everything in one step, including your license, so you won't need to re-activate.
- This is a snapshot, not a live sync. Restoring brings back everything as of the moment you clicked Backup — anything scanned after that point, but before you reinstalled, won't be in the file. Take a fresh backup right before making any change that could reset your data, not just whenever you remember to.
Three things worth remembering
Refresh first
Any tab already open before an extension reload keeps running the old code. For dashboard or Top Performers tabs specifically, close and reopen the tab rather than just refreshing it — a plain refresh doesn't always pick up the change.
Manual is deliberate
The confirm steps on Meta, Amazon, and TikTok Shop aren't a limitation being worked around — brand-name search is genuinely ambiguous on all three platforms, and guessing automatically risks silently attaching the wrong brand's data to your sheet.
Read-only
Nothing here posts, joins, or submits anything on your behalf. It only reads what's already on the page and records your own confirmations.