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# ExtensionCrawler
A collection of utilities for downloading and analyzing browser
extension from the Chrome Web store.
* `crawler`: A crawler for extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
* `permstats.py`: A tool for generating statistical data from the
crawled extensions.
* `crx-tool.py`: A tool for analyzing and extracting `*.crx` files
(i.e., Chrome extensions). Calling `crx-tool.py <extension>.crx`
will check the integrity of the extension.
All utilities are written in Python 3.x. The following non-standard
modules might be required:
* requests (`apt-get install python3-requests`)
* dateutil (`apt-get install python3-dateutil`)
* jsmin (`apt-get install python3-jsmin`)
## Team
* [Achim D. Brucker](http://www.brucker.ch/)
* [Michael Herzberg](http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/cgi-bin/makeperson?M.Herzberg)
## License
This project is licensed under the GPL 3.0 (or any later version).