Chrome Web Store Scraper 🧩

Scrape public Chrome Web Store extension data at scale — no API key, no login, no browser. Give it a list of extension IDs and get back structured JSON with the extension name, active users, rating, rating count, category, version, developer, icon and more.

There is no official Chrome Web Store API, so this Actor reads the public detail pages directly (datacenter-proxy friendly) and extracts stable, structured fields. Perfect for extension intelligence, market research, competitor tracking and due diligence.

⭐ ~$0.50 per 1,000 extensions — one of the cheapest ways to pull Chrome Web Store data.

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Features

• 🔑 No API key and no Google account required.
• 🖥️ Datacenter-proxy friendly — cheap to run, no residential proxies needed.
• ⚡ Fast — plain HTTP requests with Chrome TLS impersonation (no headless browser).
• 📊 Extracts users, rating, rating count, category, version, developer and more.
• 🌍 Built-in consent-wall bypass so GDPR regions do not break scraping.
• 🧱 Robust parsing from og: meta tags + visible page data.

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	Scraping mode. Currently extensions (scrape by extension ID).
extensionIds	array	32-character Chrome Web Store extension IDs (or full detail-page URLs).
maxItems	integer	Max extensions to scrape (default 100, max 1000).

Where do I find an extension ID?

Open any extension in the Chrome Web Store. The URL looks like:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
                                                        └────────── extension ID ──────────┘

The 32-character string at the end is the ID.

Example input

{
  "mode": "extensions",
  "extensionIds": [
    "gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom",
    "cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output

Each extension yields one dataset item:

{
  "extension_id": "cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm",
  "name": "uBlock Origin",
  "description": "Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.",
  "users": 12000000,
  "users_text": "12,000,000 users",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "rating_count": 35500,
  "category": "Privacy & Security",
  "version": "1.72.2",
  "developer": "Raymond Hill (gorhill)",
  "website": "https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock",
  "icon": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/...=s128",
  "url": "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm",
  "source": "chrome_web_store",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T12:00:00Z"
}

All fields are nullable — if a field is missing on the page it is returned as null rather than failing the run.

Use cases

• Extension intelligence — track user counts and ratings of any extension over time.
• Market research — size categories, compare competitors, spot rising extensions.
• Competitor tracking — monitor a rival's install base, rating trend and version cadence.
• Due diligence — validate an extension's popularity and developer before integrating.

Pricing

Pay per usage on the Apify platform. Typical cost is around $0.50 per 1,000 extensions scraped. Runs on 512 MB, works with cheap datacenter proxies.

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• VSCode Marketplace Scraper
• Firefox Add-ons Scraper
• Google Play Scraper
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FAQ

Do I need a proxy? Not required, but recommended for large runs. Datacenter proxies are enough.

Is this against Google's terms? The Actor only reads publicly available pages. You are responsible for how you use the data. No personal data beyond a public developer name is collected.

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