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chrome-web-store-api
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Chrome Web Store API client for Node.js
npm install chrome-web-store-api
Refer to this page to get the response of credentials and access token.
Set that value in an environment variable.
CHROME_WEB_STORE_API_CREDENTIALCHROME_WEB_STORE_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_RESPONSEFor example:
export CHROME_WEB_STORE_API_CREDENTIAL=$( cat <<EOF | tr -d ' \r\n'
{
"installed": {
"client_id": "999999999999-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com",
"project_id": "foo-bar-baz",
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
"client_secret": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx",
"redirect_uris": [
"urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob",
"http://localhost"
]
}
}
EOF
)
export CHROME_WEB_STORE_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_RESPONSE=$(cat <<EOF | tr -d ' \r\n'
{
"access_token": "vpvEyHWpX^{CQC`fREmnwCHb`ejN`ox^XxEbYDKXmghM`]lrL{ddTrxdgtgLEvAeX\oP]NkRgjFcvNE_enJZI`BNcvZScQOA\BAA|NSzB_Xg_ie_yXLrQ[sII_]r|jW{nzZULNP",
"expires_in": 3599,
"refresh_token": "riM{R[Lir|hyHT|DNeWZhQzVpOjvTbTMayHZdfNFlR{TB]KFSh^DyjNZySyj|aWYajb]dNCIRTZXmKKuB`bbUyoLRGkPWao|pibdNSk",
"scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore",
"token_type": "Bearer"
}
EOF
)
For example:
const ChromeWebStore = require('chrome-web-store-api');
const fs = require('fs');
const chromeWebStore = new ChromeWebStore(
JSON.parse(process.env.CHROME_WEB_STORE_API_CREDENTIAL || ''),
JSON.parse(process.env.CHROME_WEB_STORE_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_RESPONSE || ''),
);
const itemId = 'ID of your Chrome extension';
const packageFile = 'your-chrome-extension.zip';
(async () => {
try {
const item = await (new chromeWebStore.Item(itemId)).fetch();
{
const readStream = fs.createReadStream(packageFile);
const result = await item.upload(readStream);
if (result.uploadState === 'FAILURE') {
const message = (result.itemError || []).map(error => error.error_detail).join('\n');
throw new Error(message);
}
console.log('Upload succeeded.');
}
{
const result = await item.publish();
(result.statusDetail || []).forEach(detail => console.log(detail));
}
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
}
})();
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/naokikimura/chrome-web-store-api
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
FAQs
Chrome Web Store API client for Node.js
We found that chrome-web-store-api demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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