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		throwaway13000 on Aug 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory... How do they collect this data? Do they have chrome store crawlers?

dwolchon on Aug 2, 2019 | [–]

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.

flysonic10 on Aug 2, 2019 | | [–]

What happened to it?

flysonic10 on Aug 2, 2019 | | | [–]

Also, how do you deal with duplicately named extensions?

flysonic10 on Aug 2, 2019 | [–]

Yes

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