CRX Extractor
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The facts
Each one read from CRX Extractor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Advertising
- The site uses Google AdSense, whose cookies are governed by Google's privacy policy.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Catalog details
- Catalog pages report declared permissions, sites an extension can read or change, injected pages, package contents, and external hostnames found in its files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data sources
- Technical details are read from extension packages, while listing figures and metadata come from public Chrome Web Store listings.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The tool is open source under the GPL v3 license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Local extraction
- The extractor processes dropped .crx files in the browser and returns a .zip of the package contents.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- The contact page notes that non-CRX3 packages and files large enough to exhaust browser memory can be interesting extraction failure cases.checked 11 Oct 2026
- No upload
- Files unpacked with the tool are processed locally in the browser and are not transmitted to the site.checked 11 Oct 2026
- No verdicts
- The catalog provides facts and context without scoring, ranking, or labeling extensions as unsafe.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Offline use
- The extractor works offline because it runs in the browser without a server involved.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Open source
- The extractor is distributed under the GNU GPL v3, with its code on GitHub.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Package limitation
- The contact page identifies non-CRX3 packages and packages large enough to exhaust browser memory as cases that may cause extraction problems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Files processed by the extractor are never uploaded, and the site says it has no accounts and stores nothing about users.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy and advertising
- The site says it has no accounts and stores nothing about users, and that it uses Google AdSense, whose cookies follow Google's privacy policy.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- CRX Extractor unpacks Chrome extension packages and provides a catalog of the access extensions declare.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Users can contact a person at [email protected] for corrections, missing pages, or extraction failures.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Web Store lookup
- Users can paste a Chrome Web Store link or extension ID to look up an extension package.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Catalog approach
- The catalog describes capabilities and context but does not score, rank, or label extensions as unsafe.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The About page names Vladimir Ignatev as the maker and says the tool has been online since 2016.checked 11 Oct 2026
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