# 🧩 Chrome Extension Scraper - Users, Ratings & Versions (`that_red_bird/chrome-extension-scraper`) Actor

⚡ Profile any Chrome Web Store extension. ✅ User counts, ratings, review counts, version, developer and last-updated. ✅ Filter a competitor list by minimum users or rating. No browser, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/that\_red\_bird/chrome-extension-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [mohamed alaya](https://apify.com/that_red_bird) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 extension checkeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Chrome Extension Scraper

Profile any Chrome Web Store extension — user counts, ratings, versions and developer — from the
store's own pages.

The Chrome Web Store has roughly **6 competing Actors and almost no usage** on Apify, while every
extension developer needs this data and there is no official API for it. That gap is the reason
this exists.

### What you get

`name` · `description` · **`users`** (parsed from "10,000,000+ users" into a real number) ·
**`rating`** and `ratingCount` · `version` · `updated` · `size` · `languages` · `developer` ·
`icon` · `url`

### Input

```json
{
  "extensions": [
    "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm",
    "cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm"
  ],
  "minUsers": 10000,
  "minRating": 4
}
```

Full URLs and bare 32-character ids both work.

### Filtering

`minUsers` and `minRating` cut a long competitor list down to the extensions that actually matter.

### Why it is reliable

Verified 2026-08-04: the detail page ships the name, user count and rating in **server-rendered
HTML**, so no headless browser is required.

One trap worth knowing about, which this handles: **an unknown extension id does not return a 404.**
The store serves a generic 200 page titled "Chrome Web Store". A naive scraper reports that as a
successful result with garbage data. This Actor requires both a real name and at least one real
metric before accepting a row, and reports "extension not found" otherwise.

### Typical uses

Extension developers benchmarking competitors · tracking a rival's user growth and release cadence ·
market research before building an extension · agencies auditing a client's store presence ·
investors sizing an extension business.

# Actor input Schema

## `extensions` (type: `array`):

Chrome Web Store URLs or bare 32-character extension ids, e.g. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

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

Drop extensions with fewer users than this. Useful for filtering a competitor list down to the ones that matter.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Drop extensions rated below this (0-5).

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many extensions to fetch in parallel.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify proxy configuration.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "extensions": [
    "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm"
  ],
  "concurrency": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `downloadCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

## `count` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "extensions": [
        "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("that_red_bird/chrome-extension-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 = { "extensions": ["https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("that_red_bird/chrome-extension-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 '{
  "extensions": [
    "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm"
  ]
}' |
apify call that_red_bird/chrome-extension-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,that_red_bird/chrome-extension-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/T2hkVCRUilFza1fyg/builds/BfpLzBmdfSg1w9M93/openapi.json