This is just a simple script to automate the download of Google Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
Usage:
crx-dl.py [-h] [-q] [-o OUTPUT_FILE] url
Chrome extension downloader
positional arguments:
url URL of the extension in the Chrome Web Store
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-q, --quiet suppress all messages
-o OUTPUT_FILE, --output-file OUTPUT_FILE
where to save the .CRX file
For example:
python crx-dl.py \
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb \
translate.crx
The above command will download the Google Translate extension to a file named translate.crx in the current working directory.
To extract the contents of the CRX file, you can use unzip on Unix-like systems:
unzip translate.crx -d translate
or just open it as a ZIP file in your favorite archive manager program.