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        paulirish revised this gist Feb 5, 2019 . 1 changed file with 5 additions and 1 deletion.There are no files selected for viewingThis file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip" Thx to crxviewer for the [magic download URL](https://github.com/Rob--W/crxviewer/blob/6113c25e3569e1ec59365ad9a177aa97e2bcda61/src/cws_pattern.js#L27-L74). ## Option 2: Use the CRX Viewer website https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/ ## Option 3: Use the CRX Viewer extension The [Chrome extension source viewer](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-source-v/jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin?hl=en) is open source ([github repo](https://github.com/Rob--W/crxviewer)) and makes this super easy. 
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        paulirish revised this gist Oct 10, 2015 . 1 changed file with 1 addition and 1 deletion.There are no files selected for viewingThis file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ```sh extension_id=jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin # change this ID curl -L -o "$extension_id.zip" "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&os=mac&arch=x86-64&nacl_arch=x86-64&prod=chromecrx&prodchannel=stable&prodversion=44.0.2403.130&x=id%3D$extension_id%26uc" unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip" ``` 
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        paulirish created this gist Aug 26, 2015 .There are no files selected for viewingThis file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ ## Option 1: Command-line download extension as zip and extract ```sh extension_id=jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin # change this ID curl -L -o "$extension_id.zip" "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&os=mac&arch=x86-64&nacl_arch=x86-64&prod=chromecrx&prodchannel=unknown&prodversion=44.0.2403.130&x=id%3D$extension_id%26uc" unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip" ``` Thx to crxviewer for the [magic download URL](https://github.com/Rob--W/crxviewer/blob/6113c25e3569e1ec59365ad9a177aa97e2bcda61/src/cws_pattern.js#L27-L74). ## Option 2: Use the CRX Viewer extension The [Chrome extension source viewer](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-source-v/jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin?hl=en) is open source ([github repo](https://github.com/Rob--W/crxviewer)) and makes this super easy.   ## Option 3: View source of locally installed extension 1. Find your Chrome local profile directory. Open `chrome://version/` and find the "Profile Path:` field. Open that folder up. 2. Open the `Extensions/` subfolder 3. All your extensions are here, with typically readable source. ### Mapping between locally installed extension IDs and names * On `about:extensions`, turn on Developer Mode and you'll see IDs under each entry * Inside the `Extensions/` folders, the manifest.json has a readable `name` field 