How to get CRX file of a published in Microsoft Edge Web Store (Chromium Based)

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My extension was published on the new Microsoft Edge Store. I want the CRX file of that extension. How to get that?

I don't want to use the 'pack extension' present in the browser as the CRX created like this gives security errors.

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As far as I know, for the Edge chromium extension from Edge store, we could only use the "Pack Extension" method to get the CRX file.

Please refer to the following steps to generate the CRX file, it's not showing the security error on my side (Microsoft Edge Version 81.0.416.72 (Official build) (64-bit)).

  1. Launch Edge Chromium browser
  2. Navigate to "edge://extensions/"
  3. Enable the Developer mode.
  4. click the "Pack Extension" button

  5. In the popup window, Click the Browse button to select the extension root directory.

    By default, we could find the installed extensions from the following folder (using Edge chromium stable version without profile, change the {username} to yours)

    C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Extensions

    [Note] If we are using the Microsoft Edge Beta/Dev/Can version, the extensions folder path as below (change the {username} to your account name, change {edge version} to Edge Beta or Edge Dev):

    C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\{edge version}\User Data\Default\Extensions

    [Note] If you add multiple profiles, we could visit the extension from the related Profile folder, like this (change the {username} to your account name, the {number} starting from 1):

    C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Profile {number}\Extensions

    Then, based on the extension id and the above extension folder to find the related extension root directory (it should contain the "manifest.json" file). The private key file is optional, but if we don't select a private key file, it will auto generate a private key file.

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  6. Click the "Pack extension" button to start packing the extension, after finishing, we could find the CRX file from the following folder (change the {username} and {Extension ID} to yours):

    C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Extensions\{Extension ID}

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