Where Do I Find The Update URL For Google Chrome Extensions?
I can't help you with group-policy, but each extension includes its update URL in manifest.json
.
So, for the current version of adblock (id: gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
):
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom\2.5.14_0\manifest.json
Contains:
"update_url": "http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"
The extension will query that URL for updates, as per the documentation.
We can therefore construct a URL that will return the update XML from the above URL (just change the ID as needed) - for adblock:
http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=updatecheck&x=id%3Dgighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom%26uc
The XML that is returned reads:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gupdate xmlns="http://www.google.com/update2/response" protocol="2.0" server="prod">
<daystart elapsed_seconds="49387"/>
<app appid="gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom" status="ok">
<updatecheck codebase="http://clients2.googleusercontent.com/crx/download/OAAAAFpzXu4buuGNADfzIKiz34SLARZdBLiXQ2zo50sAlzoBpEz77foH-XT3yHpPureXtHcQSYU2z4ZNstiuKJi-LD8AxlKa5VgufvySdIb5b9U333P0upRk1YPb/extension_2_5_14.crx" hash="" size="529317" status="ok" version="2.5.14"/>
</app>
</gupdate>
We are interested in the codebase
attribute of updatecheck
, which provides us the direct URL to the latest CRX file.
The accepted answer is right. To save you the hassle of searching on Linux, the folder is at
~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/