ExtensionDash: tracking a browser extension from your agent
After shipping two browser extensions this year — Reverse Image Search Anywhere and Stackpeek — I still could not answer the simplest question about a listing: is it working? Both stores tell you how many people installed the thing. Neither tells you the number that decides whether anyone installs it at all: where you appear when someone searches the words they would actually type. The Chrome Web…
ExtensionDash is a new tool that tracks browser extensions from Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. The creator built it to answer the question of whether a listing is working or not. ExtensionDash scrapes both stores nightly and records installs, ratings, category rank, keyword positions, competitors, and listing copy, keeping a history of the data.
It is designed to be a first-class reader for an agent, rather than just an export button. ExtensionDash differentiates between three states: never scanned, scanned and found, and scanned but absent. It reports the depth from which each position was scanned, allowing users to ask questions about when a competitor passed them in ranking.
ExtensionDash is open-source, free to use without any paid tiers, and can be connected to an agent using the Postman CLI. Users can ask their agent about extension rankings, competitor changes, and any other questions they may have.
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