CRX Extractor

Spec sheet

Purpose

CRX Extractor unpacks Chrome extension packages and provides a catalog of the access extensions declare.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Privacy

Files processed by the extractor are never uploaded, and the site says it has no accounts and stores nothing about users.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Support

Users can contact a person at [email protected] for corrections, missing pages, or extraction failures.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

License

The tool is open source under the GPL v3 license.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Maker

The About page names Vladimir Ignatev as the maker and says the tool has been online since 2016.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Advertising

The site uses Google AdSense, whose cookies are governed by Google's privacy policy.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Catalog approach

The catalog describes capabilities and context but does not score, rank, or label extensions as unsafe.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Data sources

Technical details are read from extension packages, while listing figures and metadata come from public Chrome Web Store listings.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Local extraction

The extractor processes dropped .crx files in the browser and returns a .zip of the package contents.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

No upload

Files unpacked with the tool are processed locally in the browser and are not transmitted to the site.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

No verdicts

The catalog provides facts and context without scoring, ranking, or labeling extensions as unsafe.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Notable limit

The contact page notes that non-CRX3 packages and files large enough to exhaust browser memory can be interesting extraction failure cases.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Offline use

The extractor works offline because it runs in the browser without a server involved.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Open source

The extractor is distributed under the GNU GPL v3, with its code on GitHub.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Package limitation

The contact page identifies non-CRX3 packages and packages large enough to exhaust browser memory as cases that may cause extraction problems.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Web Store lookup

Users can paste a Chrome Web Store link or extension ID to look up an extension package.Read 11 Oct 2026 · crxextractor.com

Where Specifiction places it

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