This reference describes the methods and resource representation available for the Chrome Web Store Publish API. Each resource type has one or more data representations and one or more methods.
See Using the Chrome Web Store Publish API for a guide on how to authenticate with and make requests to the API.
Authorization
All endpoints are authenticated using OAuth 2.0.
Valid scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore.readonly
API endpoints
For Item Resource details, see the resource representation.
All URIs are relative to https://www.googleapis.com.
Operation | HTTP request | Description |
---|---|---|
get |
GET/chromewebstore/v1.1/items/itemId
|
Gets a Chrome Web Store item. Provide projection="DRAFT" in URL (case
sensitive). |
insert |
POST/upload/chromewebstore/v1.1/items
|
Inserts a new item. |
publish |
POST/chromewebstore/v1.1/
|
Publishes an item. The optional publishTarget query parameter specifies how the item will be
published. Valid values are "trustedTesters" and "default" .
|
update |
PUT/upload/chromewebstore/v1.1/ and PUT /items/itemId
|
Updates an existing item. |
Get
Gets a Chrome Web Store item. Provide projection="DRAFT"
(case sensitive) as a URL Parameter.
HTTP request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/chromewebstore/v1.1/items/EXTENSION_ID?projection=DRAFT
Parameters
Parameter name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
Path parameters | ||
itemId | string | Unique identifier representing the Chrome App, Chrome Extension, or the Chrome Theme. |
Required query parameters | ||
projection | string | Determines which subset of the item information to return. Acceptable values are:
|
Authorization
This request requires authorization with the following scope.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore.readonly
The above URL is used as the scope parameter when generating an access token. For more details on API authorization and authentication, consult the OAuth 2.0 documentation.
Request body
Don't supply a request body with this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns an Items resource in the response body.
Insert
Inserts a new item.
This method supports an upload URI and accepts uploaded media.
HTTP request
POST https://www.googleapis.com/upload/chromewebstore/v1.1/items
Parameters
Parameter name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
Required query parameters | ||
uploadType | string | The type of upload request to the /upload URI. The only accepted value is media : a simple upload of the media data. |
Optional query parameters | ||
publisherEmail | string | The email of the publisher who owns the items. Defaults to the caller's email address. |
Authorization
This request requires authorization with the following scope.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore
The above URL is used as the scope parameter when generating an access token. For more details on API authorization and authentication, consult the OAuth 2.0 documentation.
Request body
Don't supply a request body with this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns an Items resource in the response body.
Publish
Publishes an item. The item will first be sent for review. If the item is already under review, calling publish will fail.
You can optionally provide a publishTarget
in the URL (case sensitive), for
example:
?publishTarget="trustedTesters"
to publish to trusted testers.?publishTarget="default"
HTTP request
POST https://www.googleapis.com/chromewebstore/v1.1/items/EXTENSION_ID/publish
Parameters
Parameter name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
Path parameters | ||
itemId |
string | The ID of the item to publish. |
Optional query parameters | ||
publishTarget |
string | Provide defined publishTarget in URL (case sensitive): publishTarget="trustedTesters" or publishTarget="default" . Defaults to publishTarget="default" . |
deployPercentage |
string | Provide deployPercentage for percentage of users who will receive an update to this version. Valid values are non negative integers between 0 and 100. Regardless of value provided, 100% of new user installs receive the latest version. Once provided, this value can only be increased for any given release. Note that using this API endpoint always triggers review, even if only the deploy percentage has been changed.
|
reviewExemption |
boolean | If set to true, attempts to use the expedited review process. If the draft does not qualify and this is set to true, the API call will fail. |
Request body
In the request body, you can optionally supply data with the following structure:
JSON
{
"target": string,
"deployPercentage": string,
"reviewExemption": boolean
}
Property name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
target | string | The publish target of this publish operation. This is the same as using publishTarget as a URL query parameter. The string value can either be target="trustedTesters" or target="default". The default value, if none is supplied, is target="default". Recommended usage is to use the URL query parameter to specify the value. |
deployPercentage | string | Provide deployPercentage for percentage of users who will receive an update to this version. Valid values are non negative integers between 0 and 100. Regardless of value provided, 100% of new user installs receive the latest version. Once provided, this value can only be increased for any given release. Changes to just the deploy percentage won't trigger an additional review. |
reviewExemption | boolean | If set to true, attempts to use the expedited review process. If the draft does not qualify and this is set to true, the API call will fail. |
Authorization
This request requires authorization with the following scope.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore
The above URL is used as the scope parameter when generating an access token. For more details on API authorization and authentication, consult the OAuth 2.0 documentation.
Response
If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:
{
"kind": "chromewebstore#item",
"item_id": string,
"status": [
string
],
"statusDetail": [
string
]
}
Property name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
kind | string | Static string value is always "chromewebstore#item" . |
item_id | string | The ID of this item. |
status[] | list | The status code of this publish operation. It may contain multiple elements from the following list: OK , NOT_AUTHORIZED , INVALID_DEVELOPER , DEVELOPER_NO_OWNERSHIP , DEVELOPER_SUSPENDED , ITEM_NOT_FOUND , ITEM_PENDING_REVIEW , ITEM_TAKEN_DOWN , PUBLISHER_SUSPENDED . |
statusDetail[] | list | Detailed human-comprehensible explanation of the status code above. |
Update
Updates an existing item. The draft revision of the item will be updated but it won't be sent for review until you call publish.
This method supports an upload URI and accepts uploaded media.
HTTP request
This method provides media upload functionality through two separate URIs.
Upload URI, for media upload requests:
PUT https://www.googleapis.com/upload/chromewebstore/v1.1/items/EXTENSION_ID
Metadata URI, for metadata-only requests:
PUT https://www.googleapis.com/chromewebstore/v1.1/items/EXTENSION_ID
Parameters
Parameter name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
Path parameters | ||
itemId | string | The ID of the item to upload. |
Required query parameters | ||
uploadType | string | The type of upload request to the /upload URI. Acceptable values are: media - Simple upload. Upload the media only, without any metadata. |
Request body
In the request body, supply an Items resource as the metadata.
Authorization
This request requires authorization with the following scope.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore
The above URL is used as the scope parameter when generating an access token. For more details on API authorization and authentication, consult the OAuth 2.0 documentation.
Response
If successful, this method returns an Items resource in the response body.
Item Resource
{
"kind": "chromewebstore#item",
"id": string,
"publicKey": string,
"uploadState": string,
"itemError": [
(value)
]
}
Property name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
id | string | Unique ID of the item. |
itemError[] | list | Detail human-readable status of the operation, in English only. Same error messages are displayed when you upload your app to the Chrome Web Store. |
kind | string | Identifies this resource as an Item. Value: the fixed string "chromewebstore#item" . |
publicKey | string | Public key of this item. |
uploadState | string | Status of the most recent draft uploaded within the last 24 hours. Acceptable values are:
NOT_FOUND indicates there has not been an upload in the last 24 hours. |