Webstore Manager

This tool simplifies automated management of extensions for Chrome and Firefox. It provides a command line interface for performing most common tasks.

Functions

Chrome

• Authentication
• Creating a new extension entry (from crx or zip archive)
• Updating an existing extension
• Publishing extensions (public/trusted)

Firefox

• Authentication
• Uploading an extension
• Downloading a processed and signed extension
  • Useful when using a private CDN channel, as Firefox requires all extensions to be signed.

Documentation

Detailed instructions can be found in the documentation.

Usage Modes

• Command-line mode - all parameters specified on command-line, invoke one command at a time.
• Scripting mode - commands invoked in a batch - as a script file.

Installation

Install webstoremgr from pypi:

python -m pip install webstoremgr

In Docker

I recommend using lightweight Alpine Linux Python3 image frolvlad/alpine-python3. Run using:

docker run -t --rm frolvlad/alpine-python3 /bin/sh -c '
    pip install pytest-runner
    pip install webstoremgr
    webstoremgr <commands>
'

Unfortunately, the lightweight image may have problems with downloading pytest-runner automatically as a dependency, so it needs to be downloaded explicitly. I am not sure what causes this yet. Full-fledged images (ubuntu etc) don't have this problem.

Building from source

To install from source, clone the repository and run python setup.py install.

Tests

Tests are written with py.test. To run them, use python setup.py test.

Alternatively, you may directly run pytest: python -m pytest in the root of the repository. In this case make sure you have all testing dependencies installed.

Recording new Betamax cassettes

• To record new cassettes, delete existing webstore_manager/tests/fixtures/cassettes/*. Make sure that folder webstore_manager/tests/fixtures/cassettes exists and is empty.

• Run tests with environment variables refresh_token, client_secret, code, client_id, app_id. You will need to get them by creating a Google account, API credentials, and running init command.

• app_id must point to an extension that is already uploaded and has language and region set.

Documentation

Documentation lives in the docs folder. To build it, run make html or make.bat html on Linux or Windows, respectively.

Uploading new version

• Bump version in VERSION
• Push a new git tag
• Travis will automatically deploy the new package