phaistonian/MyExtensions — Issue #8: rating counts do not include post-webstore-upgrade ratings
Author: hansifer
Created: 2011-11-04 02:59:32+00:00
State: open

The new web store is using new xhr requests to pull extension detail and reviews. I'm thinking the old calls (also currently leveraged by MyExtensions) are likely on the chopping block:

http://chrome.google.com/reviews/json/lookup
http://chrome.google.com/reviews/json/search

For the time being, however, non-Chrome browsers seem to be targeting the old web store, so I guess as long as that's true the calls are safe from extinction... :s

Anyway, I haven't searched exhaustively, but we could be losing the API for rating breakdowns. The current calls don't seem to carry that payload:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ajax/detail
https://chrome.google.com/reviews/components

The "detail" call, however, does carry the version #, so in theory one wouldn't have to resort to screen scrape for that.

Personally, I think the rating breakdown is useful for users, so hopefully Google decides to publish it one way or another.

Cheers,
Hans