How to get chrome extension's meta information (e.g. version, name) from Chrome Web Store?

Question

I want to get chrome extension's version, name from chrome web store.

For example, I can see the app name "Do Not Merge WIP for GitHub" and the app version "1.0.6" in application's detail html page.

How to get these meta data?

I can find only publish API.

Using the Chrome Web Store Publish API - Google Chrome

Html page uses ajax/detail API, but I feel this API is too internal.

E.g. ajax/detail API

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Answer 1

I'm afraid you can't do that with public APIs.

The Publish API doesn't work with this metadata, this is what it can extract.

So usually people just scrape the Web Store page.