WebExtAware depends on other command line tools and Python modules, some of which require libraries for building. You need to ensure that the following dependencies are met:
- grep
WebExtAware requires Python 3 to run. If that's what you have, you're good to go:
$ pip install [--user] webextaware
$ webextaware --help
Whether or not the --user flag is required depends on your Python installation. It is usually
not required on Macs with Homebrew while most Linux distributions can't do without it.
To use the scan sub command, you need to have a recent version of node and npm installed.
Check that they are installed and available:
$ node --version
v7.10.0
$ npm --version
4.2.0
Locally clone the repo, then cd there. Create a virtualenv and install with
virtualenv --always-copy --python=python3 venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
As long as the virtualenv is active, the webextaware command is available.
Sync all the AMO data with
webextaware sync
You may run into AMO's occasional 504s or an error about too many open files. In any case, re-run the following command until all you get are persistent 404 errors:
webextaware sync -n
Most commands accept selectors for selecting packages. Valid selectors are:
- any AMO ID like 737717
- any extension file ID (sha256 hashes) like 2c8fc1861903551dac72bdbe9ec389bff8c417ba7217f6c738ac8d968939fc30
- the keyword all for selecting everything the whole metadata set
- the keyword orphans for selecting extensions not referenced by the metadata set
- a regular expression that is matched against extension names
Get some info on the cache state with
webextaware info
Query the metadata for known hashes or IDs:
webextaware query 835644
Write CSV with stats for all the extensions to terminal with
webextaware stats
Show the manifests and paths of cache files associated with a specific AMO ID and unzip them to the /tmp folder with
webextaware manifest 728674
webextaware get 728674
webextaware unzip 728674 -o /tmp
The last command prints a list of extracted folders.
Pass -r to the manifest subcommand to dump raw manifests. Pass -t to the manifest command
to get manifests in a grep-friendly line-based format.
webextaware manifest all -t | grep /optional_permissions:
You can unzip all the extensions to a specific folder with
webextaware unzip all -o /tmp/exts
It will print a list of folders where the extensions were extracted.
Grep for a regular expression in all or specific extensions with
webextaware grep optional_permissions
webextaware grep -- -A5 optional_permissions 739662
You can pass arguments to grep after a double dash.
Scan a web extension with retire.js and scanjs with
webextaware scan 739662
The result is formatted in JSON.