# Chrome Web Store Scraper — Extensions & Developer Contacts (`jeffev/chrome-web-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Chrome Web Store extensions by search, category or URL: users, rating, version, permissions and the developer's email, legal name, address and phone. Optional reviews. Filters for users, rating and email.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jeffev/chrome-web-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jefferson Valandro](https://apify.com/jeffev) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 extension with developer contacts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Chrome Web Store Scraper — extensions & developer contacts

Scrape **Chrome Web Store extensions** by keyword, category or URL and get, for each one, users, rating, version, permissions and the **developer's contact details**: email, name, and for registered businesses the **legal name, address and phone number**. Optionally add the latest user reviews.

Use it for **B2B lead generation** (SaaS tools, agencies and developers selling to extension makers), **competitor and market research**, acquisition targeting (small extensions with many users), or review and sentiment analysis.

### Why this one

- **Developer contacts included**: `developerEmail`, `developerName`, `developerLegalName`, `developerAddress`, `developerPhone`, `isTrader`.
- **Search, category or URL**: `seo`, `chromewebstore.google.com/category/extensions/productivity/workflow`, an extension page or just its 32-letter ID.
- **Goes deep**: paginates searches and categories, hundreds of extensions per source.
- **Lead filters**: only with email, only registered businesses, min/max users and min rating. Filtered-out extensions are free.
- **Technical data**: version, last update, size, manifest version, permissions and host permissions, languages.
- **Reviews (optional)**: author, rating, text, date, helpful count and the extension version reviewed.
- **Pay per result**, platform usage included.

### Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["seo", "email finder"],
  "startUrls": ["https://chromewebstore.google.com/category/extensions/productivity/workflow"],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 200,
  "onlyWithEmail": true,
  "maxUsers": 50000
}
```

### Output

Extensions (`type: "extension"`):

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `id`, `name`, `url`, `shortDescription`, `description` | the extension |
| `users`, `rating`, `ratingCount`, `category` | popularity |
| `developerName`, `developerLegalName`, `developerEmail`, `developerPhone`, `developerAddress`, `isTrader` | developer contacts |
| `website`, `supportUrl`, `privacyPolicyUrl` | developer links |
| `version`, `lastUpdated`, `size`, `manifestVersion`, `permissions`, `languages` | technical data |
| `iconUrl`, `screenshots` | images |
| `source` | the search or category that found it |

Reviews (`type: "review"`): `extensionId`, `extensionName`, `author`, `rating`, `text`, `date`, `helpfulCount`, `extensionVersion`, `language`.

### Example output

One real item from a test run (long texts and lists shortened):

```json
{
  "type": "extension",
  "source": "search: seo",
  "id": "giihipjfimkajhlcilipnjeohabimjhi",
  "name": "SEO Minion",
  "url": "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/giihipjfimkajhlcilipnjeohabimjhi",
  "shortDescription": "SEO Minion helps you in your daily SEO tasks such as On-Page SEO analysis, Broken Link Checking, SERP Preview and more",
  "rating": 1.6,
  "ratingCount": 796,
  "users": 200000,
  "category": "productivity/tools",
  "website": "https://seominion.com/",
  "iconUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VbaaufylDUi4QOiUNZC3x1SDcWgSjPo123d5EzXTnCtPVE0B1kFLjSnD69HpgdtGy5MvnzRpQHSBFdvqq_3oHievmQ",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-02-22T10:08:14Z",
  "description": "SEO Minion is available only to customers of Keywords Everywhere's Silver or higher plan.\n\nThe tool helps you with the following tasks - \n\n(1) Analyze On-Pag...",
  "developerName": "Akash",
  "developerLegalName": "Akash Mansukhani",
  "developerEmail": "akash@seominion.com",
  "developerPhone": "+919819025274",
  "developerAddress": "B/502 Anisha Apartments, Yari Road, Versova, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400061, IN",
  "isTrader": true,
  "supportUrl": "https://seominion.com/faq",
  "privacyPolicyUrl": "https://seominion.com/privacy",
  "version": "3.20",
  "size": "1.15MiB",
  "languages": [
    "Deutsch",
    "English",
    "Indonesia"
  ]
}
```

### Limits

Contact details are what developers publish on the store: every developer shows an email, while address and phone appear only for developers registered as businesses ("traders"). Searches and categories return what the store itself lists for them (usually up to a few hundred extensions per term); use several specific terms to cover a niche.

### Feedback

Found a bug, a site change, or need an extra field? Open an issue in the **Issues** tab: every issue is read and answered. If this actor saved you time, a **review** helps other people find it.

### How much does it cost?

You pay only for results delivered, at a fixed price per item. **Apify platform usage is included** in that price, so there are no compute costs on top. Errors and items that couldn't be found are free.

| What you get | Price | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Extension with developer contacts | $0.002 each | 1,000 extensions with developer contacts = $2.00 |
| Review | $0.0005 each | 1,000 reviews = $0.50 |

The Apify **Free plan includes $5 of monthly credit**, enough for about **2,500 extensions with developer contacts** per month at no cost. You can also set a maximum spend per run.

On paid Apify plans it gets cheaper automatically: **10% off on Starter, 20% on Scale and 30% on Business**.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search in the Chrome Web Store, one per line (e.g. 'password manager', 'seo').

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Extension pages, search pages or category pages (chromewebstore.google.com/category/extensions/productivity/workflow), or 32-letter extension IDs.

## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Limit of extensions saved from each search term or category.

## `onlyWithEmail` (type: `boolean`):

Skip extensions whose developer has no public contact email (you are not charged for skipped ones).

## `onlyTraders` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only developers that declared themselves as a business, which usually comes with legal name, address and phone.

## `minUsers` (type: `integer`):

Skip extensions with fewer users.

## `maxUsers` (type: `integer`):

Skip extensions with more users (useful to find small developers).

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Skip extensions rated below this (0–5).

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Also save the most recent user reviews of each extension (one item per review).

## `maxReviewsPerExtension` (type: `integer`):

Most recent reviews first.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Store language code for texts (en, pt-BR, de, es...).

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Used automatically only if the store refuses the server IP.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "seo"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 20,
  "onlyWithEmail": false,
  "onlyTraders": false,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerExtension": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `extensions` (type: `string`):

One item per extension (type=extension) with developer contacts, plus reviews (type=review) when enabled.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "seo"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerSource": 20,
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jeffev/chrome-web-store-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["seo"],
    "maxItemsPerSource": 20,
    "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jeffev/chrome-web-store-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "seo"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 20,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call jeffev/chrome-web-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jeffev/chrome-web-store-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/2c7DGYaqZJ52gf99p/builds/Fo6kobeXmJmDDBMiA/openapi.json