🧩 Chrome Web Store Scraper

🚀 Pull Chrome extensions with rating, install count, version, and permissions. Search by query or scrape specific extension IDs. No login.

The Chrome Web Store Scraper extracts extension data from the public Chrome Web Store search and category pages and returns name, extension ID, rating, review count, install count, version, manifest version, permissions, category, developer email, and a URL pointing back at the listing.

The Chrome Web Store hosts 200,000+ extensions used by 3 billion Chrome users worldwide. Extension permissions are a critical security signal, install count tracks adoption, and rating distribution reveals quality issues. This Actor fans across categories and search queries to reach 100+ extensions per run via the SSR-rendered AF_initDataCallback blocks every page exposes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Security researchers, browser tool builders, ecosystem analysts, extension developers	Security audits, market sizing, competitive research, permission analysis

📋 What the Chrome Web Store Scraper does

Three filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Search mode. Submit a search query and the Actor walks the search results plus 13 popular categories.
• 🆔 IDs mode. Submit specific 32-character extension IDs and the Actor pulls each detail page directly.
• 🗂️ Category fanout. Search mode automatically fans across productivity, communication, developer, tools, workflow, lifestyle, entertainment, news, shopping, social, well-being, accessibility, and "make Chrome yours."

Each row reports the extension ID, icon URL, name, rating, rating count, install count, version, manifest version, permissions array, category, short description, website URL, developer email from the manifest, the canonical detail page URL, and a scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: Chrome extensions can read every webpage you visit, which makes the permissions list the highest-value security signal in the Web Store. Researchers audit popular extensions for over-permissioned categories. Tool builders study install velocity to size markets. Developers benchmark against competitors. The Web Store has no bulk export, so this Actor is the cleanest path.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, category, extensionId, iconUrl, manifestVersion, name, permissions, rating, ratingCount, scrapedAt, shortDescription, url, users, version, websiteUrl. All 15 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆓 Create a free Apify account. Sign up here and get $5 in free credit.
2. 🔍 Open the Actor. Search for "Chrome Web Store" in the Apify Store.
3. ⚙️ Pick a mode. Search query or specific extension IDs.
4. ▶️ Click Start. A 100-extension run typically completes in 10 to 15 seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to first dataset: under five minutes.

🔗 Recommended Actors

• 🛍️ Shopify App Store Scraper - the same workflow for Shopify apps.
• 🐙 GitHub Trending Repos Scraper - track open-source projects behind extensions.
• 💬 Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper - cross-reference extension topics with developer Q&A.
• 🅱️ Bing Search Scraper - check current rank for extension landing pages.
• 🦆 DuckDuckGo Search Scraper - alternative SERP signal alongside Web Store data.

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more pre-built scrapers and data tools.

Chrome and Chrome Web Store are registered trademarks of Google LLC. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. It reads only the public SSR-rendered metadata every Chrome Web Store page exposes for search engines.

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