Chrome Web Store API Client

cwa is a simple Deno library for uploading & publishing your extensions and themes to the Chrome Web Store.

If you’re looking for an easy-to-use command-line version of this, check out cwc.

This draws inspiration heavily from Andrew’s fantastic chrome-webstore-upload library (originally written for Node.js) and improves on it by offering a few more API methods.

Usage

You’ll need Google API client ID, client secret and a refresh token. Learn how to get them.

Once you have them, can you start using the client in your Deno project like this —

import { APIClient } from "https://deno.land/x/cwa@v1.0.0/mod.ts";

const apiClient = new APIClient({
  // Note: These values are representative and don't actually work.
  id: "akjpoenbamadeeboawhkeljfvhngklfi",
  clientId:
    "618272284469-5hba9n4sc2hgommup53osq7s7f0k6bp6.apps.googleusercontent.com",
  clientSecret: "VwE91L-3_NWEcSlZfPJk6721",
  refreshToken:
    "1//0dbz-Pw36crhMCgYIPORTGB1SNwF-M2IrETpgP8ebvFCmFUuUXQRxxxIOuKiXE_ZvCLM7EbrHWah3dPOGOUfiBBuzwxjhplWISMB",
});

API

`uploadNew(stream, token?)`

Upload a new item to the Web Store. Use this only when you’re uploading your extension or theme for the very first time.

import { readableStreamFromReader } from "https://deno.land/std@0.100.0/io/mod.ts";

const filePath = "/path/to/your/new/extension.zip";
const fileReader = await Deno.open(filePath, { read: true });
const fileStream = readableStreamFromReader(fileReader);
const uploadResult = await apiClient.uploadNew(fileStream);
console.log(uploadResult);

// {
//   "kind": "chromewebstore#item",
//   "id": "...",
//   "uploadState": "SUCCESS"
// }

`uploadExisting(stream, token?)`

Upload a new version of an existing item to the Web Store. Use this when you’re uploading a newer version of an existing extension or theme.

import { readableStreamFromReader } from "https://deno.land/std@0.104.0/io/mod.ts";

const filePath = "/path/to/your/existing/extension.zip";
const fileReader = await Deno.open(filePath, { read: true });
const fileStream = readableStreamFromReader(fileReader);
const uploadResult = await apiClient.uploadExisting(fileStream);
console.log(uploadResult);

// {
//   "kind": "chromewebstore#item",
//   "id": "...",
//   "uploadState": "SUCCESS"
// }

`publish(target, token?)`

Publish the latest uploaded version of an existing item to the Web Store. By default, this publishes to everyone.

const publishResult = await apiClient.publish();
console.log(publishResult);

// {
//   "kind": "chromewebstore#item",
//   "item_id": "...",
//   "status": ["OK"],
//   "statusDetail": ["..."]
// }

If you’d like to publish only to your trusted testers, you can set the first argument to the publish() call.

const publishResult = await apiClient.publish("trustedTesters");
console.log(publishResult);

// {
//   "kind": "chromewebstore#item",
//   "item_id": "...",
//   "status": ["OK"],
//   "statusDetail": ["..."]
// }

`checkUploadStatus(token?)`

Find out the upload status of your item on the Chrome Store.

const uploadStatus = await apiClient.checkUploadStatus();
console.log(uploadStatus);

// {
//   "kind": "chromewebstore#item",
//   "id": "...",
//   "uploadState": "FAILURE",
//   "itemError": [{
//     "error_code": "...",
//     "error_detail": "..."
//   }]
// }

`fetchToken()`

Fetches an access token; you won’t need it most of the time, but it is available if you need it.

const accessToken = await apiClient.fetchToken();
console.log(accessToken);

// "..."

Developer Notes

1.Useful deno shorthand scripts and Git hooks are set up with velociraptor. You can view a list of the commands using –

vr

To debug this module or to get detailed logs, set the environment variable DEBUG to cwa:*. For example, if you’re a *Nix user, use the command —

DEBUG=cwa:* vr run test

Make a release

Create a tag.

git tag v0.0.0 -s -a -m "Release v0.0.0"

Push the tag to Github.

git push --tags

Find the newly created tag on the Tags page and Edit the release to include the changelog.
Publish the release. This triggers the webhook that auto-published the package to https://deno.land/x/cwa 🥳

License

The code in this project is released under the MIT License.