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Dev tools · August 21, 2016

CRX Extractor

Get any Chrome Extension source code. Learn and hack!

CRX Extractor launched on August 21, 2016 with 237 votes, #100 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

CRX Extractor is a tool that makes an investigation of Chrome Extensions easy. In a matter of few clicks you can downloadCRX file from the Chrome WebStore and unpack it along with all scripts source code, images and assets the extension use.

Unpack any Chrome extension

Unpack its .crx package and read the source code, or look up what it can reach in your browser before you install it. The unpacking happens in this tab — the file is never uploaded anywhere. Drop the file in and get a .zip with the manifest and every source file inside it. Chrome refuses to download a .crx from another site — it treats the file as an install and then blocks it. We serve our own copy as an ordinary file instead, which is why this goes through a download page. The catalog records what each extension declares in its manifest: the permissions it asks for, the sites it can read and change, what its package contains and which external hosts appear in its code. Facts only — no…from crxextractor.com

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