Chrome Web Store Scraper

Chrome Web Store Scraper turns public Chrome Web Store data into clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Give it extension URLs or IDs, keywords, categories or a list of extensions whose reviews you want. For every extension you get users, rating, number of ratings, version, last update date, size, languages, declared permissions, publisher, trader status, Featured and Established publisher badges, website, support and privacy policy links. Reviews come with stars, text, date, helpful votes and the developer's reply. It is built for extension developers, SaaS founders, market researchers, security teams and agencies that track the Chrome extension ecosystem.

US$ 2.00 per 1,000 rows. No monthly fee, no start fee. Failed items are free.

What you can do with it

• Research a market before you build an extension. Search "ai writing", "screenshot" or "pdf" and export every result with users, rating, rating count and last update date. See how big the leaders are, who stopped updating and where a niche has users but weak ratings.
• Monitor competitors. Schedule a daily run on your competitors' extension IDs and track users, rating, version and update date over time. A new version or a jump in ratings shows up the next morning.
• Build a list of publisher companies. Pull a whole category and keep the extensions whose publisher declared itself a trader (a business) in the store. You get the legal name, the D-U-N-S number, the business contact email the store publishes for traders, the website and the support page.
• Audit permissions for security and compliance. Export the declared permissions, optionalPermissions and hostPermissions of the extensions your company allows, or of a whole category, and flag everything that asks for <all_urls>, cookies, webRequest or nativeMessaging.
• Read what users say. Pull the latest 1 and 2 star reviews of your extension or a competitor's, with helpful votes and the developer's reply, and feed them to a spreadsheet, a support queue or an LLM for sentiment and bug clustering.

Why this Chrome Web Store Scraper

• Four modes in one Actor. Extensions by URL or ID, keyword search, category listings and reviews. One input schema, one output format with a type column (extension or review).
• Deep lists. Search and category modes follow the store's own pagination, 100 extensions per request. In our tests the keyword "ad blocker" returned all 334 extensions the store lists for it in under 4 seconds, and one category went past 3,000 extensions in 30 seconds.
• Full details on every result. Search and category rows get the same fields as a direct extension lookup (version, update date, size, languages, permissions, publisher), not just the name and rating shown on the card. Turn it off for faster rank snapshots.
• Permissions straight from the manifest. The store ships each extension's manifest; the Actor reads permissions, optional_permissions, host_permissions and manifest_version from it, so you see exactly what the extension declares.
• Badges and trader status. isFeatured, isEstablishedPublisher, publisherIsTrader and offersInAppPurchases are real booleans, ready to filter.
• Failed items never fail your run and are never charged. An extension ID that does not exist, a line that is not a store URL or a keyword with no results comes back as one row with a stable errorCode, free of charge. The run only fails when nothing at all could be delivered because the store blocked every retry.
• Drop-in field names. The input also accepts the names used by other Chrome Web Store Actors: searchQueries, extensionIds, maxResultsPerQuery, fetchDetails, extensionUrls, searchKeywords, startUrls, maxReviewsPerExtension, minRating, maxRating, reviewsSince, categoryUrls, queries and limit.
• No login, no cookies, no browser. Plain HTTP through the Apify datacenter proxy, so runs are fast and cheap.

Input

Every field is optional. With an empty input the Actor returns the Google Translate extension, which is what Apify's daily health check runs.

Field	Type	What it does
mode	select	auto (default: runs whatever you fill in), extensions, search, category or reviews
extensionUrls	list of strings	Extension links or bare 32-letter IDs. In reviews mode, the extensions whose reviews you want. Links ending in /reviews switch to reviews automatically in auto mode.
searchQueries	list of strings	Keywords. Each returns up to maxItems extensions in store order, with searchRank.
categories	list of strings	Category slugs such as productivity/developer or category URLs
maxItems	integer, default 30	Maximum extensions per keyword or category, and reviews per extension if maxReviews is empty
includeDetails	boolean, default true	Adds the full extension details to search and category rows
maxReviews	integer	Reviews per extension (reviews mode)
reviewsSort	select, default recent	recent, helpful, highest or lowest
reviewsLanguage	string	Two-letter code (en, pt, es, de, ja). Empty follows language; all returns every language.
minRating / maxRating	integer 1 to 5	Keep only reviews inside this star range. Skipped reviews are not charged.
reviewsSince	date	Keep only reviews on or after this date
language	string, default en	Store language: en, pt-BR, es, de, fr, ja...
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify datacenter proxy by default

Categories you can use: productivity/communication, productivity/workflow, productivity/tools, productivity/education, productivity/developer, lifestyle/shopping, lifestyle/news, lifestyle/entertainment, lifestyle/games, lifestyle/social, lifestyle/art, lifestyle/well_being, lifestyle/travel, lifestyle/household, lifestyle/fun, make_chrome_yours/accessibility, make_chrome_yours/functionality and make_chrome_yours/privacy. The category name also works (Developer Tools, Shopping).

What each kind of line in extensionUrls returns:

You paste	You get
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb	That extension with full details
aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb	The same, from the bare ID
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/.../aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb	Old store links work too
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb/reviews	The reviews of that extension
https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/ad%20blocker	Search results for "ad blocker"
https://chromewebstore.google.com/category/extensions/productivity/developer	The Developer Tools category

Example: details of a list of extensions

{
  "extensionUrls": [
    "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh",
    "gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom"
  ]
}

Example: keyword research with rank

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["screenshot", "ai writing"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: the whole Developer Tools category, fast snapshot

{
  "mode": "category",
  "categories": ["productivity/developer"],
  "maxItems": 500,
  "includeDetails": false
}

Example: negative reviews of the last month

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "extensionUrls": ["gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom"],
  "maxReviews": 500,
  "maxRating": 2,
  "reviewsSince": "2026-08-15"
}

Output

One row per extension or per review. The type column tells them apart. This is a real extension row from 15 September 2026 (long lists shortened with "..."):

{
  "type": "extension",
  "id": "aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb",
  "name": "Google Translate",
  "url": "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb",
  "shortDescription": "View translations easily as you browse the web. By the Google Translate team.",
  "description": "Highlight or right-click on a section of text and click on Translate icon next to it to translate it to your language...",
  "category": "productivity/education",
  "categoryName": "Education",
  "users": 36000000,
  "rating": 4.23,
  "ratingCount": 44850,
  "version": "2.0.17",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-01T22:02:22Z",
  "firstPublishedAt": "2009-12-03T20:09:12Z",
  "size": "1.09MiB",
  "languages": ["Deutsch", "English", "English (United Kingdom)", "Filipino", "..."],
  "languageCodes": ["am", "ar", "bg", "bn", "..."],
  "manifestVersion": 3,
  "permissions": ["activeTab", "contextMenus", "storage", "offscreen", "scripting"],
  "optionalPermissions": [],
  "hostPermissions": [],
  "minChromeVersion": "115",
  "isFeatured": true,
  "isEstablishedPublisher": true,
  "offersInAppPurchases": false,
  "price": "Free",
  "publisherName": "Google Ireland, Ltd.",
  "publisherLegalName": "Google Ireland, Ltd.",
  "publisherIsTrader": true,
  "publisherEmail": "google-translate-chrome-extension-owners@google.com",
  "publisherDuns": "985840714",
  "websiteUrl": "http://translate.google.com/",
  "supportUrl": null,
  "privacyPolicyUrl": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
  "iconUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3ZU5aHnsnQUl9ySPrGBqe5LXz_z9DK05DEfk10tpKHv5cvG19elbOr0BdW_k8GjLMFDexT2QHlDwAmW62iLVdek--Q",
  "searchQuery": null,
  "searchRank": null,
  "source": "extension",
  "error": null,
  "errorCode": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-15T20:28:14.927281+00:00"
}

Search and category rows have the same fields plus searchQuery and searchRank (for example Lightshot, rank 2 for "screenshot", 2,000,000 users, hostPermissions ["*://*/*"]).

A real review row, with the developer's reply (the reviewer's name in the greeting is removed):

{
  "type": "review",
  "reviewId": "113f0961-e999-423c-b4d3-792c57ee81ed",
  "extensionId": "nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli",
  "extensionName": "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude",
  "extensionUrl": "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "It's a powerful extension , thank you so much.",
  "language": "en",
  "extensionVersion": "2.4.0",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-13T05:41:45Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-13T05:41:45Z",
  "helpfulCount": 0,
  "notHelpfulCount": 0,
  "developerReply": "Hi,\n\nThank you so much for reviewing and rating. We're glad to hear that!\n\nLet us know if you have any questions or suggestions as we keep improving the product.",
  "developerReplyAt": "2026-09-13T15:54:49Z",
  "extensionReviewCount": 1595,
  "source": "reviews:nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli",
  "error": null,
  "errorCode": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-15T20:33:10.712975+00:00"
}

Extension fields

Field	Description
id	32-letter extension ID
name, url	Name shown in the store (in the chosen language when translated) and store link
shortDescription, description	Summary line and full description
category, categoryName	Category slug and its English name
users	User count shown by the store (the store rounds it, for example 36,000,000)
rating, ratingCount	Average stars and number of ratings
version, updatedAt	Current version and date of the last update
firstPublishedAt	Date the listing was first published
size	Package size as shown by the store
languages, languageCodes	Supported languages, names and codes
manifestVersion	2 or 3
permissions, optionalPermissions, hostPermissions	Declared in the extension manifest
minChromeVersion	Minimum Chrome version
isFeatured	Store "Featured" badge
isEstablishedPublisher	Store "Established publisher" badge (good record, no history of violations)
offersInAppPurchases	The listing says "Offers in-app purchases"
price	"Free": the Chrome Web Store no longer sells paid extensions; paid plans show up as in-app purchases
publisherName	Publisher name shown in the listing
publisherIsTrader	The publisher declared itself a trader (a business) under EU rules
publisherLegalName, publisherEmail, publisherDuns	Only for traders: legal name, business contact email and D-U-N-S number published by the store
websiteUrl, supportUrl, privacyPolicyUrl	Links from the listing
iconUrl, screenshots	Image links
searchQuery, searchRank	Keyword and position (search), position in category order (category)
source, error, errorCode, scrapedAt	Which input produced the row, error info (free rows) and collection time

Review fields

Field	Description
reviewId	Store review ID
extensionId, extensionName, extensionUrl	The reviewed extension
rating	1 to 5 stars
text	Review text
language	Review language code
extensionVersion	Version the user had when reviewing
createdAt, updatedAt	Review dates
helpfulCount, notHelpfulCount	Votes from other users
developerReply, developerReplyAt	The publisher's public reply and its date
extensionReviewCount	Total reviews the store reports for that language

Reviewer names and profile photos are not collected. Reviewers are ordinary people, and the text, stars, date and votes are what analysis needs.

Error codes (never charged)

errorCode	Meaning
EXTENSION_NOT_FOUND	No public extension with that ID (removed, private or mistyped)
NO_RESULTS	The keyword or category returned nothing
NO_REVIEWS	The extension has no reviews in that language or inside your filters
INVALID_INPUT	The line is not a store URL or extension ID
INVALID_CATEGORY	Unknown category; use one of the slugs above
BLOCKED	The store blocked every retry for that request. Run again.

The Console has three tables: Extensions (icon, name, users, rating, category, version, update date, badges, publisher, rank), Permissions and publisher and Reviews.

Pricing

US$ 2.00 per 1,000 rows delivered. One charge is one extension row with all its details or one review row, whatever the mode. Details for search and category rows are included. Error rows are free, and duplicates inside a list are removed before charging.

Rows	Cost
1 extension (the default run)	US$ 0.002
1,000	US$ 2.00
10,000	US$ 20.00
100,000	US$ 200.00

Compared with other Chrome Web Store Actors (measured 15 September 2026): the most used one is free but finished about 77% of its runs in 30 days; another charges US$ 5 per 1,000 and failed or timed out in about half of its runs; the rest range from US$ 2 to US$ 100 per 1,000. Review-only Actors cost less per review but need a second tool for extension data. Here extensions, rankings, categories, permissions and reviews cost a flat US$ 2 per 1,000, with no compute on top.

How to use

In the Apify Console

1. Paste extension links or IDs, keywords or categories.
2. Pick a mode for reviews and set Max items.
3. Click Start and download JSON, CSV or Excel.

Through the API

Start a run and get the rows in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapewise~chrome-web-store/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries": ["screenshot"], "maxItems": 50}'

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("scrapewise/chrome-web-store").call(run_input={
    "mode": "category",
    "categories": ["productivity/developer"],
    "maxItems": 200,
})
for ext in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(ext["name"], ext["users"], ext["rating"], ext["publisherIsTrader"])

Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('scrapewise/chrome-web-store').call({
    mode: 'reviews',
    extensionUrls: ['gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom'],
    maxReviews: 200,
    maxRating: 2,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, 'reviews');

With AI agents (MCP)

The Actor works as a tool in Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). Add scrapewise/chrome-web-store as a tool and ask things like "list the top 50 Chrome extensions for 'meeting notes' with users and last update" or "summarize the 1 and 2 star reviews of this extension from the last 30 days". The agent reads the input schema, runs the Actor and gets the rows back.

Schedules and integrations

• Schedules: run the same input daily or weekly and compare users, rating, version and searchRank between runs.
• Integrations: send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, a webhook, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Limitations

• User counts are rounded by the store. The store shows "36,000,000 users", not the exact number, and so does the Actor.
• Search ranking depends on language. The same keyword can rank differently with language set to en or pt-BR. Use the language your customers use.
• Categories are big and ordered by the store. A category keeps paging for thousands of extensions; set maxItems to what you need.
• Themes are not covered. The Actor handles extensions. Theme listings use a different page.
• Reviews follow the store's language filter. By default you get the reviews in the run language, as the store page shows. Set reviewsLanguage to all for every language.
• Publisher contact data is limited on purpose. Email, legal name and D-U-N-S appear only for publishers that declared themselves traders (businesses). Individual developers' emails, addresses and phone numbers are never collected.
• Numbers are what the store shows publicly at the moment of the run.
• Something broke? Open an issue on the Actor page. Issues are answered within 12 hours.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account, cookies or an API key? No. The Actor reads only public store data, with no login and no cookies. You only need an Apify account.

Is there an official Chrome Web Store API for this? Not for public listings. Google's Chrome Web Store API only manages your own items. This Actor reads the same public data the store website shows to any visitor.

How many extensions can I get for a keyword? Everything the store lists for it. "ad blocker" returned 334 extensions, which is all of them, in under 4 seconds. Set maxItems above the number you expect.

Can I get the permissions an extension asks for? Yes. permissions, optionalPermissions and hostPermissions come from the extension manifest published with the listing, for direct lookups, search and category rows alike.

Can I get the developer's email? Only when the publisher declared itself a trader in the store, in which case the store publishes a business contact email, the legal name and a D-U-N-S number. For individual developers the Actor returns the public publisher name and website only.

Am I charged for errors, duplicates or filtered reviews? No. Error rows are free, duplicates within a list are removed, and reviews outside your star range or date are skipped without charge.

Can I monitor new reviews every day? Yes. Use reviews mode with reviewsSort: recent and reviewsSince set to yesterday. Paging stops at the first older review, so a daily run costs only the new reviews.

Which languages and countries does it work for? The store is global. Set language to any store language (en, pt-BR, es, de, fr, ja and more) to get translated names and descriptions, the ranking for that language and reviews in that language.

Can I use it from n8n, Make or Zapier? Yes. Use the Apify app in those tools, pick scrapewise/chrome-web-store and map the dataset items to your next step.

Is scraping the Chrome Web Store legal? The Actor collects only data the store shows publicly to any visitor without logging in, and it does not collect personal data of reviewers or contact data of individual developers. How you use the data is your responsibility; follow the store's terms and the privacy laws that apply to you, such as GDPR in Europe and LGPD in Brazil.

Changelog

• 2026-09-15, 0.1: first release. Extensions by URL or ID, keyword search with rank, category listings, reviews with sort, language, star and date filters; permissions from the manifest; badges and trader status; error rows free; field names compatible with other Chrome Web Store Actors.

This Actor collects only public data and respects the site's terms.

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