Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions

Re:Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analys... by throwaway13000 on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:14PM (#20596205)

How do they collect this data? Do they have chrome store crawlers?

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Re:Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analys... by dwolchon on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:45PM (#20596496)

Yeah they must. I wrote one once too to power this: https://extstats.appspot.com

I wrote it to track our competitors (I used to work at HubSpot) but you can add any other extension in the drop down on the left.

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Re:Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analys... by flysonic10 on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:10PM (#20597050)

What happened to it?

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Re:Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analys... by flysonic10 on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:11PM (#20597059)

Also, how do you deal with duplicately named extensions?

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Re:Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analys... by flysonic10 on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:10PM (#20597048)

Yes

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