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API call for user count in Chrome Web Store?

I have an extension in the Chrome Web Store and I like knowing roughly how many people are using it via the "N users" and ratings on its page.

However, I don't really like loading the whole "product" page just to see a couple of numbers and thought I'd try to make a little widget that would display it instead. However, I can't find any API documentation for the Chrome Web Store.

I would a call like /webstore/api/v1/appid.json to exist, but the closest things I've found in searching only concern the Licensing API.

Is there an official Chrome Web Store API for user metrics?

Solution

  • This is no such API.

    You can use Google Analytics inside an extension to track users manually.

    If you don't need anything fancy, just a number of installs and users, there is My Extensions extension, it will track those numbers for you.