Publishing new extensions through API

[Rain Cao]

Hello. I am working on a project where I want to publish the chrome extensions programmatically. I found the documentation regarding the APIs here, however there isn't much explanation besides an example curl request. I am relatively new to interacting with APIs so I would really appreciate any help or guidance!

My question is, when submitting a new extension through the developer account, there are many fields such as description, store icon, category, language, etc. to fill out, but in the documentation it seems like it's only uploading the zip file and none other fields:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "x-goog-api-version: 2" -X POST
-T $FILE_NAME -v https://www.googleapis.com/upload/chromewebstore/v1.1/items

Therefore I am confused on how to publish new extensions to the chrome store programmatically? Or is there a simpler way to do this? 

[Oliver Dunk]

Hi Rain,

We don't currently support publishing new items end to end using the API. You can make a POST request to https://www.googleapis.com/upload/chromewebstore/v1.1/items to create a new item, but you will need to head to the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard to fill in certain metadata.

The most common flow people use is:

• Publish your first release manually in the UI
• Note the extension ID, and publish subsequent updates using the API
• If you need to change metadata, return to the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard

I hope that helps :)

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

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