How to get the link to the latest version of firefox addon?

Question

I don't want to redirect user to firefox's store to install addon. I want to user be able to install addon immediately on my own site. I know for this I should create 'a' element with href to.xpi file. But how I can get the link to the latest version of.xpi file of the addon from the firefox store?

Answer 1

I've got it. The formula to get always the latest version of xpi file of addon:

addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/ADDON_NAME/addon-ADDON_ACCOUNT_ID-latest.xpi

• Where ADDON_NAME - name of addon in store. You can get it from the url of the page of addon in FF. For example for this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/givero/ the ADDON_NAME is givero .

• Where ADDON_ACCOUNT_ID is id of owner account of addon. You can get it from link under the title of addon.

  So for example for this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/givero/ the link to the latest version of .xpi file will looks: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/givero/addon-14479531-latest.xpi

Answer 2

According to the Firefox Policy Templates , it should be possible to simply use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/SHORT_NAME/latest.xpi , where SHORT_NAME corresponds to the add-on name. It does not seem to be necessary to extract the user ID (anymore?):

Eg, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/givero/latest.xpi for givero .