Support for Chrome Webstore API

[ghost]

scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore.admin']
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('keyfile.json', scopes=scopes)

oauth2client.client.HttpAccessTokenRefreshError: invalid_scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore.admin is not a valid audience string.

[theacodes]

The scope is https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore.

[ghost]

That looks better, thanks. But is chromewebstore actually supported? I can't find it here.

Got my script working to this point:

googleapiclient.errors.UnknownApiNameOrVersion: name: chromewebstore version: v1.1

Script:

from httplib2 import Http
from apiclient.discovery import build
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials

SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chromewebstore']

credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('keyfile.json', SCOPES)
http_auth = credentials.authorize(Http())
chromewebstore = build('chromewebstore', 'v1.1', http=http_auth)

[theacodes]

Hmm, I don't see to be getting that error:

>>> from googleapiclient import discovery
>>> discovery.build('chromewebstore', 'v1.1')
<googleapiclient.discovery.Resource object at 0x10d53c190>

Can you verify which version of the library you're using?

(Also, as an aside, you no longer need to construct your own http object, you can just pass credentials=credentials into build).

[ghost]

Installed with pip, should be latest.

pip freeze | grep google
google-api-python-client==1.5.1

[theacodes]

I'm unsure why mine would work and yours wouldn't, we're on the same version.

[ghost]

I've tried again on two different machines, same result.

Installation

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-1-4 ~]$ virtualenv env
New python executable in env/bin/python2.7
Also creating executable in env/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...done.
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-1-4 ~]$ source env/bin/activate
(env)[ec2-user@ip-172-31-1-4 ~]$ pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client
Collecting google-api-python-client
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Installing collected packages: rsa, pyasn1-modules, pyasn1, simplejson, oauth2client, httplib2, uritemplate, six, google-api-python-client

  Running setup.py install for simplejson
    building 'simplejson._speedups' extension
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c simplejson/_speedups.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/simplejson/_speedups.o
    gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/simplejson/_speedups.o -L/usr/lib64 -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/simplejson/_speedups.so
  Running setup.py install for oauth2client
  Running setup.py install for httplib2
  Running setup.py install for uritemplate


Successfully installed google-api-python-client-1.5.1 httplib2-0.9.2 oauth2client-2.2.0 pyasn1-0.1.9 pyasn1-modules-0.0.8 rsa-3.4.2 simplejson-3.8.2 six-1.10.0 uritemplate-0.6

Script

(env)[ec2-user@ip-172-31-1-4 ~]$ cat python-client.py 
# from googleapiclient import discovery  # I tried both
from apiclient import discovery
discovery.build('chromewebstore', 'v1.1')

Result

(env)[ec2-user@ip-172-31-1-4 ~]$ python python-client.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "python-client.py", line 3, in <module>
    discovery.build('chromewebstore', 'v1.1')
  File "/home/ec2-user/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 135, in positional_wrapper
    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/ec2-user/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py", line 218, in build
    "name: %s  version: %s" % (serviceName, version))
googleapiclient.errors.UnknownApiNameOrVersion: name: chromewebstore  version: v1.1

[theacodes]

Very weird, can you confirm that you can access it via the API Explorer?

[ghost]

That page is empty (screenshot). It's not listed under Services either.

[theacodes]

It seems that despite there being public documentation on the webstore API, it doesn't seem to be publicly available. I'll try to investigate and see why that is.

[ghost]

Thanks! Keen to get this working.

[ghost]

Any news?

[theacodes]

Took me a while to find the right group of people. Reaching out now. Will update when I hear back.

[ghost]

Did you hear anything?

[theacodes]

Unfortunately it seems like my research didn't bear any fruit. It does not appear this API has an owner.

[ghost]

Do people push updates indeed manually to the chrome webstore?? That's hard to believe.

[theacodes]

@kevart I don't use or maintain the API so I can't really say what the usage looks like. I'm sorry we couldn't help you. :(

[Jamesargy6]

Sorry to comment on such an old issue, but has any headway been made on this in the past three years? I am running into the same issue as @kevart.

[busunkim96]

@Jamesargy6 I'll try looking around again.

Could you go to https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis and tell me if you are able to find 'chromewebstore'?

[Jamesargy6]

Thanks @busunkim96.
Unfortunately no, I do not see chromewebstore on that page, nor do I see it here.

[busunkim96]

Thanks! Could you also tell me if this page goes anywhere for you? It looks like the API isn't listed on the list, but it's possible it's still public:

https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/chromewebstore/v1.1/rest

[Jamesargy6]

It seems that it is not. Here's the response I get from that link:

// 20191030145303
// https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/chromewebstore/v1.1/rest

{
  "error": {
    "errors": [
      {
        "domain": "global",
        "reason": "notFound",
        "message": "Not Found"
      }
    ],
    "code": 404,
    "message": "Not Found"
  }
}

[busunkim96]

I've pinged someone on the Chrome Webstore Team to ask which parts of the API are meant to be public. Will update once I've gotten a response.

[busunkim96]

Opened internal issue 143879215

EDIT:
It looks like the API should be public, but currently isn't. I've filed a a bug on the Chrome Webstore Team's issue tracker.

[Jamesargy6]

Thanks @busunkim96, I appreciate your following up on this.

[vesche]

@busunkim96

Any update on this?

[busunkim96]

I pinged an engineer on the team and it looks like they are actively investigating how to make this API public. Thank you all for your patience.

[busunkim96]

Googlers see 143879215

[tcoatale]

Hi, I am also very interested in this bug fix.
Any update @busunkim96 ?

[busunkim96]

@tcoatale I don't see any updates, but I've pinged the engineer working on the internal issue. I'll let you know when I get a response.

[busunkim96]

Update: this is still being actively worked on. Thank you all for your patience and apologies for the inconvenience!

[parthea]

I've requested an update. Googlers see b/160355251.

[sureyeaah]

Is there any update on this?

[g1zyft]

@busunkim96 any luck on this issue ?