Chrome Web Store Scraper: extension ratings, users, permissions

What you get: one row per extension with its name, rating, review count, user count (detail pages), category, version, manifest version and permission hints — from public Chrome Web Store pages, no login.

Sample output from a real run (2026-10-18, Console defaults: 1 extension URL + search term translate, 10 rows; first 4 shown):

name	source	rating	reviewCount	users	category
Google Translate	detail page	3.00	44,852	38,000,000	productivity/education
Google Translate	search translate	3.00	44,852	–	productivity/education
DeepL: translate and write with AI	search translate	4.52	12,661	–	productivity/communication
Immersive Translate: AI Web, PDF & Video Translator	search translate	4.41	3,148	–	productivity/tools

Search-result rows do not carry a reliable user count (the users field is 1 there); use detail URLs when you need users, version and permissions. That run was Actor start $0.001 + 10 rows × $0.003 = $0.031; the 1-extension JSON below is $0.004.

Scrape public Chrome Web Store extension pages and search results. No API key and no login.

Each row includes: extension name and ID, extension URL, rating, review count, user count, category, version, manifest version, permission hints, host permission hints, developer email, website URL, privacy policy URL, short description, and icon/image URLs.

Inputs: extension detail URLs and/or search terms (up to 60 results per term). CTA: Open Input (link below) → paste the JSON below (1 extension, no search) → Start. First paid proof ≈ USD 0.004. Leaving the Console defaults also runs the prefilled translate search: 10 rows ≈ USD 0.031 in our test. Open Input (paste the JSON below → Start) Paid first run ≈ USD 0.004 total (1 extension). Keep reports, exports, and movement options off for the first run. Open Console Input (deep link above) and run this JSON.

{
  "extensionUrls": [
    "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "maxSearchResults": 1,
  "delivery": "dataset",
  "webhookUrl": "",
  "dryRun": false
}

Paste extension URL and Start.

Extract public Chrome Web Store extension metadata from listing and search pages. The actor normalizes extension title, ID, publisher website, rating, review count, user count, category, version, manifest permissions, and last-update hints from HTML that is publicly available without authentication.

Store Quickstart

Run the single-input JSON above first; keep optional reports and exports disabled.

Use with Apify MCP

Exact actor: taroyamada/chrome-web-store-extension-intelligence

Sample input JSON:

{
  "extensionUrls": [
    "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "maxSearchResults": 10,
  "delivery": "dataset",
  "webhookUrl": ""
}

What it returns

• Extension rows with extensionId, name, description, category, rating, reviewCount, users, version, permissionsHints, hostPermissionsHints, websiteUrl, privacyPolicyUrl, lastUpdatedAt, and searchTerm.
• Meta diagnostics for search coverage and public-surface limitations.

Input

• extensionUrls
• searchTerms
• maxSearchResults
• delivery, webhookUrl, dryRun

Notes

• Works from the public chromewebstore.google.com HTML only.
• Search terms scrape the first search page and normalize visible result cards.
• Some fields, especially permissions and version, are only available on detail pages.