Getting Installed Chrome Extensions Remotely

I was looking into whitelisting Chrome extensions via the Google Chrome Group Policy, and I needed to find out which extensions my employees were using. So, I made the following function to help with that. You need to run the function as an account with local admin group membership, since it will use the administrative shares to find the installed extensions. Also worth noting is that all of those "Apps" icons count as extension from Google perspective. Comments in the code, as usual:

################ BEGIN SCRIPT ################

#Example: Get-ChromeExtensions -Computername $Computername -Username $Username

#Define the function with computername and username
function Get-ChromeExtensions {
[CmdletBinding()]            
 Param             
   (                       
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
               Position=0,                          
               ValueFromPipeline=$true,            
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)]            
    [String[]]$ComputerName,
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
               Position=1,                          
               ValueFromPipeline=$true,            
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)]            
    [String[]]$UserName
   )#End Param

Process
{
    #Get Webpage Title
    #I ripped off this function from https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/e76a4213-cd05-4735-bf80-d5903171ae11 -Thanks Mike Pfeiffer!
    Function Get-Title { 
    param([string] $url) 
    $wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient 
    $data = $wc.downloadstring($url) 
    $title = [regex] '(?<=<title>)([\S\s]*?)(?=</title>)' 
    write-output $title.Match($data).value.trim() 
    } #End Function Get-Title

    #Build the path to the remote Chrome Extension folder
    $GoogleExtensionPath = "\\" + $ComputerName + "\C$\Users\" + $Username + "\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions"
    
    #Check that the computer is reachable
    If ((Test-Connection $Computername -Quiet -Count 1) -eq $False){
        Write-Host -foregroundcolor Red "$ComputerName is not online"
        return
    } #End If

    #Check that the path exists
    If ((Test-Path $GoogleExtensionPath) -eq $False){
        Write-Host -foregroundcolor Red "Path not Found: $GoogleExtensionPath"
        Write-Host -foregroundcolor Red "Chrome is probably not installed OR the username has no profile/is wrong" 
        return
    } #End If

    #Get the foldernames, which are the Google Play Store ID #s
    $ExtensionIDNumbers = Get-Childitem $GoogleExtensionPath *. | select name

    #Build a name for the output file
    $OutputFileName = "C:\Temp\GoogleExtensionList_" + $Computername + "_" + $Username + ".csv"

    #Create an array
    $GoogleExtensionsArray = @()

    #Cycle through each Google ID, and look up the Google Play Store Title, which is the extension name
    Foreach ($GoogleID in $ExtensionIDNumbers){
        $GoogleExtensionsArrayItem = New-Object system.object
        $ExtensionSite = "https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/" + $GoogleID.Name
        $Title = ((Get-Title $ExtensionSite).split("-"))[0]
        $GoogleExtensionsArrayItem | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name AppName -Value $Title
        $GoogleExtensionsArrayItem | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name ExtensionID -Value ($GoogleID.Name)
        $GoogleExtensionsArray += $GoogleExtensionsArrayItem
    } #End Foreach

    #Export the list of extensions
    $GoogleExtensionsArray | export-csv $OutputFileName -NoTypeInformation
    

}#Process

}#Get-ChromeExtensions

################ END SCRIPT ################

What struck me is that we really need to think of the Chrome browser as almost its own OS. You've removed the ability for your users to install applications on their computer (they don't have local admin privs, right?), but what's to stop them from installing Chrome Extensions. Solitaire and Minesweeper are bad, but Bejeweled is ok?