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General Question: How to publish extension publicly as a web developer #2
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Hey @inglesuniversal, For publishing the chrome extension publicly, we'll need to bundle up the extension, and then publish it to chrome Webstore. You can have a look at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/publish/ But the user needs to pay a one-time fee of 5$, which is compulsory. Users have a way to pack the chrome extension (Go to extensions > pack extension) and then share the generated |
UPDATE: I followed your detailed instructions and signed up for Google's Chrome Dev and I was able to upload your extension without any issues, just the ZIP file and all its components. Today, I got an Email from google telling me that the main reason this extension was REJECTED has to do for asking for permissions which are not required at the moment. Could you kindly take a look at the following notes originated by Google and tell me how I can address this issue in order to RE-SUBMIT the extension? Thanks Violation(s): Use of Permissions:
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Hey @inglesuniversal, actually, I had declared permissions for tabs, context menus, storage (for local caching, i.e. display recently used), and notifications. But I haven't implemented those features. The message was all about removing permissions that are not required. You can try it again. I have made the necessary changes. Kindly |
GREAT NEWS TRAVEL FAST!!!! I was not able to do the PR ... I'm quite new to Github, if you briefly show me the steps I'll help you out. Here is the best part.... THE EXTENSION WAS JUST ACCEPTED AND RELEASED ON THE CHROME STORE!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR AWESOME PROJECT here is the link |
Hey @inglesuniversal, thanks for the great work. By publishing, you have reduced the hassle of cloning and then installing the extension. It will surely help other users. Since you want to update the README -
To learn more, you could follow https://www.better.dev/create-your-first-github-pull-request or some other tutorial. |
Hello, is there a way as a web developer, to make this extension public and share a link under chrome extension website to allow people to download it and install it?
I am signed up with google dev program, do I need any special credentials?
Regards
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