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Is there an API for uploading a chrome extension from a program, without having to open a browser?
I'd like an easier way of uploading an updated version - at present the process is clunky:
I'd like to be able to write a little script to do this for me, but I have no idea what URLs I should be requesting.
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The quickest way is to copy chrome://extensions/ and paste it in the url bar. In the extensions page you will not be able to check the current version, nor manually update them before you enable the Developer mode. In the top right corner you will find that option.
By contrast, normal(automatic) review times are usually a few hours at most. To generalize, Chrome webstore takes between 2-3 minutes to upto a week to review extensions. If you're using the v2 manifest and you're just updating your extensions's code, it will take from 15 minutes to 2-3 hours to push the update.
It appears that in March Google published an api to do this.
I can't take credit for discovering this; that belongs here. I also have not yet used the api.
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There is no public API to pragmatically update items in the Chrome Web Store.
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