Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Download CRX Code


For one of my extensions I had to download other CRXs automatically knowing only extension ID. I solved this by opening the following URL:
http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&x=id%3D<EXTENSION_ID_HERE>%26uc%26lang%3Den-US&prod=chrome
this page will forward you to that https://clients2.googleusercontent.com/crx/download/address.
I don't remember already how I came up with that URL (it was either in page source somewhere or I used network sniffer), but it has been working great for me since last December, so it looks reliable.

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